Lord, guide me through this life

Our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it’s awkward. When it’s uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another and to meet each other in our questions.

—Jamie Tworkowski (via pressure-the-hinges)

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Before His gaze all falsehood melts away. This encounter with Him, as it burns us, transforms and frees us, allowing us to become truly ourselves… His gaze, the touch of His heart heals us through an undeniably painful transformation “as through fire”. But it is a blessed pain, in which the holy power of His love sears through us like a flame, enabling us to become totally ourselves and thus totally of God.

—Pope Benedict XVI (via setthiscaptivefree)

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Violence of the tongue is very real —sharper than any knife, wounding and creating bitterness that only the grace of God can heal.

—Mother Teresa (via meghanrachaelfrancis)

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kristopherpistole:

This is true. 

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Priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus. When you see a priest, think of our Lord Jesus Christ.

—St. John Vianney (via eternallyadoring)

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Let us acknowledge our neediness, our beautiful desperation. Yes, our unanswerable, aching, longing poverty is a prerequisite for the balm of salvation. We, the people—the failures, the losers, the outsiders—we have found our King. Christ, the King of the fools; the Lord of the sick, broken souls like us. Let us remain in continual awe of the love we have been shown. And let us love! Let us celebrate the reckless love of the one who risked all that we might be loved. And let us follow in the path of a God who loves us. The tax collectors and the rabbis. The prostitutes and the Sadducees. In the bars and in the churches. Yes, God even loves Christians.

—Jon Foreman  (via zachzook)

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Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.

—Oswald Chambers (via rachaeldeleon)

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