Your talent will open the door but only your character can keep you there.
Christine CaineRead
Even though I only just found out that I was adopted, God has always known, and he has always loved me. And since that has never changed, therefore nothing has essentially changed. I may not be who I thought I was, but I still am who he says I am. I am more. I am loved. I am his.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the profound love of God and the enduring identity that comes from being loved and accepted.
In this quote, Christine Caine reflects on the experience of discovering her adoption, highlighting that despite this life-altering revelation, the fundamental truth of her worth and God's love for her has remained unchanged. She emphasizes that her identity is not defined by human circumstances but by divine love, affirming that her true essence comes from being loved by God, which transcends any external circumstances.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-acceptance and faith.
And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away.
Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and weary,dragging home food, arms cut and scarred, that you saw yellow flowers and, not knowing what you did, picked them because I love you? In the fossil record of our existence, there is no trace of love. You cannot find it held in the earth's crust, waiting to be discovered. The long bones of our ancestors show nothing of their hearts.
During the night, while Bull and Lucy slept, Edward, with ever-open eyes, stared up at the constellations. He said their names, and then he said the names of the people who loved him. He started with Abilene, and then went on to Nellie and Lawrence and from there to Bull and Lucy, and then he ended again with Abilene: Abilene, Nellie, Lawrence, Bull, Lucy, Abilene. See? Edward told Pellegrina. I am not like the princess. I know about love.
Dorothy was in that state human beings passed through at the beginning of a love affair, in which they desire to say anything and everything to the beloved, to the alter ego, before they have learned what the real Other can and can't understand, can and can't accept.
Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He desires to reproduce in us.
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