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“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”

— William Styron, Conversations with William Styron (via books-n-quotes)

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It’s wild but, it’s no coincidence that life gets harder for you when you’re doing the right thing. Keep going.

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“But I don’t hate anybody. I have a tenderness for the world…”

— Tennessee Williams, Notebooks (via books-n-quotes)

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all you need to know about me as a person is that when i pick up a hardcover book i automatically flip open its flap to see if its pretty underneath the paper cover

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“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.”

— Markus Zusak, I Am The Messenger

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So one thing I’ve noticed about pro-homosexuality Christian posts and arguments is that the passages referring to homosexuality as a sin don’t really mean what we read.  They argue that in places like Leviticus, it’s supposed to mean two men aren’t supposed to sleep in a woman’s bed, or that the word we translate to homosexuality that Paul uses doesn’t necessarily mean what we think it means.

I know there are arguments against this.  I know this isn’t much more than clutching at straws.  However, pointing out the passages where homosexuality is a sin is only half the argument.

Every time advice is given for a godly marriage, it’s given to wives and husbands.  Consider Corinthians and Ephesians.  “A wife must not separate from her husband.  A husband must not divorce his wife.  Wives submit to your husbands.  Husbands, love your wives.  This idea is reiterated in 1 Peter.  The marriage advice given out leaves little room for any other kind of marriage beyond one man and one woman.  If homosexual relationships were accepted by the new church as some have suggested, wouldn’t it stand to reason that Paul and Peter would have worded their letters so that such relationships are included?  Instead, it’s rather exclusive.

Furthermore, the relationship between Christ and the Church is described as a marriage.  Christ is the groom and the Church is a bride.  What would the point of this analogy be if all kinds of marriages are recognized and accepted by God?  Wouldn’t it have been better to say that the relationship was like a marriage and leave it at that?  Because within even a cultural standpoint, there doesn’t seem to be room to show acceptance for another kind of marriage.  It’s exclusionary from the start.  And Christianity was radical from the beginning; they did many counter-cultural things.  Accepting a homosexual marriage if it was really God’s plan would not have been an issue for them.  Instead, when marriage is talked about it, whether by advice or analogy, it is a heterosexual and a heterosexual marriage only.

Not only does the Bible state homosexuality a sin, but when talking about marriage, it excludes any other possibility.

In the end, however, the issue goes much deeper than this.  The deeper seated issue is one of pride.  I haven’t experienced same sex attraction nor will I pretend that I have.  I do know, however, what it’s like to struggle with pride.  It’s the pride that makes people throw doubt on what passages really mean in the Bible.  It’s pride that says to stubbornly stick to a sin and feel attacked when the sin isn’t accepted as okay.  It’s pride that refuses to even bring the problem to God and instead insist that it’s okay.  It’s pride that doesn’t want to admit wrong.  It’s all pride.  And to let go of the defensiveness surrounding making homosexuality would require one to lay down their pride.  From experience, letting go of pride is extremely difficult.  But God makes it possible.

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On bad days.

“I’m caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it.”

— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being A Wallflower

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Sigh God, give me something easy instead of complicated once in awhile please.

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“If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.”

— Oswald Chambers

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I am Beautiful and so much more than what it is.

-PetrinnaK

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Proverbs 4:23

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This should be said more often

“Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.”

— C.S. Lewis (via quotemadness)

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You expect too much,

yet you give so little.

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