Fluorite - Okoruso Mine, Otjiwarongo District, Namibia
(Source: e-rocks.com, via katintolerant)
Mulder and Scully: are happy, in love, and have a newborn miracle child to hold, love, and raise.
Chris Carter: LOL what if i took all that away?
Satan: bro, wtf is your problem?
Chris Carter: LOL what if i took all that away?
Satan: bro, wtf is your problem?
"I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing."
Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor (via quotes-shape-us)
"Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look."
Flannery O'Connor (via observando)
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Dear God, I cannot love Thee the way I want to. You are the slim crescent of a moon that I see and my self is the earth’s shadow that keeps me from seeing all the moon. The crescent is very beautiful and perhaps that is all one like I am should or could see; but what I am afraid of, dear God, is that my self shadow will grow so large that it blocks the whole moon, and that I will judge myself by the shadow that is nothing.
I do not know You God because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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Flannery O'Connor, from this review of her recently released prayer journal. (via beingblog)
"Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It’s there, even when he can’t see it or feel it, if he wants it to be there. You realize, I think, that it is more valuable, more mysterious, altogether more immense than anything you can learn or decide upon… It will keep you free - not free to do anything you please, but free to be formed by something larger than your own intellect or the intellects around you."
Flannery O'Connor in a letter to a young student struggling to believe (via haley-kit)