You are in your own prison.
Lailah Gifty Akita.
“Your sacred contribution in the world is the service to humanity.”
“Guide us in the path of peace, O Lord!”
“Work while you have strength.”
“Do all the work you can while you still have strength.”
“Do all the work you can, while there is grace of strength.”
“Thank God for the strength to work.”
“For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.”
“In Christ, my chains are broken.”
“My chains are broken. I am free in Christ.”
“Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said."Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”
“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don...”
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”