"He tends his flock like a shepherd:
He gathers the lambs in his arms
and carries them close to his heart;
he gently leads those that have young." -- Isaiah 40:11
"Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away." Song of Solomon 8:6-7
"Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith [but] they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ." -- C.S. Lewis
"Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not." -- C.S. Lewis
"This is true love. You think this happens everyday?"--Westley- (Princess Bride)
"Love is not love, which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark, that looks on tempests and is never shaken..."-- Shakespeare
"To be alive is to be broken." --Brennan Manning
"He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young." -- Isaiah 40:11
"For I am the LORD, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you."-- Isaiah 41:13
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.-- St. Augustine
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