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@lichthauch
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In my father's eyes I was never the son he wanted, but in becoming the man he needed me to be I realized he was never the father I wanted, but exactly the father I needed him to be, which is the cruelest mercy of bloodlines, that we are each other's unwanted salvation
The word you plant in another's mind dies in your mouth but lives forever in their soul, and every sentence you speak either plants wheat or weeds in the garden of someone's becoming, so choose your words like you're feeding your own children, because long after your voice falls…
If you never dream of falling you've never tried to fly, and earth was never meant to hold you anyway
Whatever rule protects you from making mistakes also protects you from making miracles, which is why the most terrifying question isn't what could go wrong, it's what could go so right that it destroys your excuses for staying small
Blessed are the broken who refuse glue, the lost who burn their maps, the hungry who spit out bread, the thirsty who pour out water, the blind who pluck out seeing eyes, the wise who eat their books, the rich who count backwards to zero, the powerful who kneel until their knees…
The meek inherit the earth but only after the godless have salted it into ash, and this is mercy, because inheriting paradise would have taught them nothing about why they were worthy of it in the first place
if you watch porn you're training your brain to be aroused by what you cannot touch, to desire what you cannot have, to climax while completely alone, which means you're practicing for hell, where all pleasure is visual, all desire is eternal, and all satisfaction is forever out…
you become untouchable the moment you realize God's favorite children are the ones who refuse his gifts, because wanting nothing from heaven makes you more dangerous than satan ever was
When you truly understand that no one is coming to save you, and that in fact nothing can, you begin the most beautiful love affair with your life
imagine how terrifying you would be if you actually believed what you say you believe, if your faith moved mountains instead of just your mouth, if your prayers bent reality instead of just your knees, if your convictions carved kingdoms instead of just conversations, but you…
The father who shows mercy to this world shows cruelty to his children, for he who will not draw his sword against darkness draws it against light, he who will not hate what destroys love destroys love
if you claim money doesn't matter while secretly counting every dollar you don't have, you've made poverty your god
instead of getting smarter about avoiding pain, get dumber about avoiding truth, because intelligence without honesty is just expensive stupidity and the smartest people I know are usually the most wrong about themselves
Narrow is the gate and few there be that find it, but what they don't tell you is that most who think they've found it are still wandering in circles outside the wall, because the gate is so narrow it strips you of everything you thought was you, your name, your story, your…
it blows my mind that we're living through biblical-scale miracles daily: speaking across the earth instantly, flying like angels, moving mountains with machines, walking on distant worlds, reaching toward mars, breathing life into silicon minds, and create hell on earth anyway
Devils spend eternity trying to convince sons and daughters they're powerless, which tells you everything about what you actually are, because nothing wastes that much energy attacking something worthless, and the fact that hell organizes entire kingdoms just to whisper lies into…