Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. – Henry David Thoreau from Walden or, Life in the Woods It has been …
A man of sense and sensitivity would depart the company of men without ever tasting falsehood, pretence of any kind, excess, or pomp. The next best course is at least to sicken of these things before your final breath. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 9 All that you pray to …
I have found myself genuinely at a loss for words lately. I see many things, realize many things, go through many things, and yet nevertheless the articulation is not precisely present. The experience is, but the articulation less so. I am not troubled by this per say, indeed it is …
Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment. – Jesus – John 7:24 ESV Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. – Jesus – John 13:34 ESV Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you …
The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves. – Vladimir Lenin Long indeed have the people been perplexed by the endless, topsy-turvy movement of life. Therefore, one of subtle virtue dissolves and eliminates the vicious cycle of duality. – Lao Tzu from Tao Teh Ching 58 …
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter – John Keats ; Ode on a Grecian Urn Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. …
And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh – Ezekiel 11:19 ESV Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes …
Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For …
And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with the Lord, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and it spoke to him. – Numbers 7:89 ESV So the …
And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell. Mark 9:45 ESV I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it …
