We could not seek God unless He were seeking us.
Thomas Merton
Saturday, April 23, 2011
"How To Fulfill Your Deepest Destiny"
We and God have business with each other; and in opening ourselves to His influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled. The universe ...takes a turn genuinely for the worse or for the better in proportion as each one of us fulfills or evades God's demands.
Williams James
Williams James
"Becoming Attached"
We attach ourselves more readily to those whom we have benefited than to our benefactors.
Napoleon
Napoleon
"Giving To God"
Nothing that I am able to give to you do I find worthy of you, and only in this way do I discover that I am a poor man. And so I give to you the only thing that I possess - myself.
Aeschines
Aeschines
"Grow Proportionately"
Enlarged material powers spell enlarged peril if there is not proportionate growth of the soul.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Louder Than Words"
Neither praise, nor dispraise thyself, thy Actions will do it enough.
Thomas Fuller
Thomas Fuller
"Healthy Detachment"
My soul preached to me and said, "Do not be delighted because of praise, and do not be distressed because of blame.
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran
"Ruffle Necessary Feathers"
Especially in an age as corrupt and ignorant as this, the good opinion of the people is a dishonor.
Montaigne
Montaigne
"Waver Not"
The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Sweet Reasonableness Of God's Law"
They were tempted, since the Lord seemed deaf, to try those appalling deities who demanded so much more and might therefore perhaps give more in return. But when a Jew in some happier hour, or a better Jew even in that hour, looked at those worships — when he thought of sacred prostitution, sacred sodomy, and the babies thrown into the fire for Moloch — his own ‘Law’ as he turned back to it must have shone with an extraordinary radiance. Sweeter than honey; or if that metaphor does not suit us who have not such a sweet tooth as all ancient peoples (partly because we have plenty of sugar), let us say like mountain water, like fresh air after a dungeon, like sanity after a nightmare.
First he thinks of the sky; day after the day, the pageantry we see there shows us the splendor of its Creator. Then he thinks of the sun, the bridal joyousness of its rising, the unimaginable speed of its daily voyage from east to west. Finally, of its heat; not of course the mild heats of our climate but the cloudless, blinding, tyrannous rays of hammering the hills, searching every cranny. The key phrase on which the whole poem depends is "there is nothing hid from the heat thereof'. It pierces everywhere with its strong, clean ardor. Then at once, in verse 7 he is talking of something else, which hardly seems to him something else because it is so like the all-piercing, all-detecting sunshine. The Law is 'undefiled', the Law gives light, it is clean and everlasting, it is 'sweet'. No one can improve on this and noting can more fully admit us to the old Jewish feeling about the Law; luminous, severe, disinfectant, exultant, One hardly needs to add that this poet is wholly free from self-righteousness and the last section is concerned with his "secret faults." As he has felt the sun, perhaps in the desert, searching him out in every nook of shade where he attempted to hide from it, so he feels the Law searching out all the hiding-places of his soul.
In so far as this idea of the Law's beauty, sweetness, or preciousness, arose from the contrast of the surrounding Paganisms, we may soon find occasion to cover it. Christians increasingly live on a spiritual island; new and rival ways of life surround it in all directions and their tides come further up the beach every time...
Some give morality a wholly new meaning which we cannot accept, some deny its possibility. Perhaps we shall all learn, sharply enough, to value the clean air and 'sweet reasonableness' of the Christian ethic which...we might have taken for granted.
C.S. Lewis
First he thinks of the sky; day after the day, the pageantry we see there shows us the splendor of its Creator. Then he thinks of the sun, the bridal joyousness of its rising, the unimaginable speed of its daily voyage from east to west. Finally, of its heat; not of course the mild heats of our climate but the cloudless, blinding, tyrannous rays of hammering the hills, searching every cranny. The key phrase on which the whole poem depends is "there is nothing hid from the heat thereof'. It pierces everywhere with its strong, clean ardor. Then at once, in verse 7 he is talking of something else, which hardly seems to him something else because it is so like the all-piercing, all-detecting sunshine. The Law is 'undefiled', the Law gives light, it is clean and everlasting, it is 'sweet'. No one can improve on this and noting can more fully admit us to the old Jewish feeling about the Law; luminous, severe, disinfectant, exultant, One hardly needs to add that this poet is wholly free from self-righteousness and the last section is concerned with his "secret faults." As he has felt the sun, perhaps in the desert, searching him out in every nook of shade where he attempted to hide from it, so he feels the Law searching out all the hiding-places of his soul.
In so far as this idea of the Law's beauty, sweetness, or preciousness, arose from the contrast of the surrounding Paganisms, we may soon find occasion to cover it. Christians increasingly live on a spiritual island; new and rival ways of life surround it in all directions and their tides come further up the beach every time...
Some give morality a wholly new meaning which we cannot accept, some deny its possibility. Perhaps we shall all learn, sharply enough, to value the clean air and 'sweet reasonableness' of the Christian ethic which...we might have taken for granted.
C.S. Lewis
"Do Your Part"
We should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world."
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
"Seek Out Truth In Examples And Parables"
The philosophic mind is that which habitually sees the general in the particular, and finds food for the deepest thought in the simplest objects.
Leslie Stephen
Leslie Stephen
"Griefworthy"
Do not be grieved if you do not enjoy popular favor; grieve rather that you do not live as well and carefully as befits a servant of God.
Thomas a Kempis
Thomas a Kempis
"In You Alone"
God, of your goodness, give me Yourself for You are sufficient for me. I cannot properly ask anything less, to be worthy of You. If I were to ask less, I should always be in want. In You alone do I have all.
Julian of Norwich
Julian of Norwich
"Finding Miss Right"
A woman’s heart should be so hidden in Christ, that a man should have to seek Him first to find her.
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
"The Mask"
In our own day the name of philosopher has too often been the mask for the worst vices.
Quintillian (A.D. 35-100?)
Quintillian (A.D. 35-100?)
"Popularity"
Though I prize, as I ought, the good opinion of my fellow citizens; yet, if I know myself, I would not seek or retain popularity at the expense of one social duty or moral virtue.
George Washington
George Washington
"Love Wins"
If you want to win mankind, you must make them think you love them, and the best way to make them think you love them, is to love them in reality.
Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham
"No Pain No Gain"
No pain, no balm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
William Penn
William Penn
"Good Idea? Forge Ahead."
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
Charles H. Brower
Charles H. Brower
"Love Aspires"
You are my glory,( Ps. 3:3) and the joy of my heart;(Ps. 119:111) for You are my hope, and my refuge in time of trouble.(Ps 59:16)
As yet my love is weak, and my virtue imperfect, and I have great need of Your strength and comfort. Therefore, visit me often, I pray, and instruct me in Your holy laws. Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart from all disorderly affections; that, healed and cleansed in spirit, I may grow able to love, strong to endure, and steadfast to persevere.
Love is a mighty power, a great and complete good; Love alone lightens every burden, and makes the rough places smooth. It bears every hardship as though it were nothing, and renders all bitterness sweet and acceptable. The love of Jesus is noble, and inspires us to great deeds; it moves us always to desire perfection. Love aspires to high things,and is held back by nothing base. Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill fortune cast it down. Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger, nothing higher, nothing wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller or better in heaven or earth; for love is born of God,( I John 4:7)and can rest only in God, above all created things.
Thomas 'a Kempis
As yet my love is weak, and my virtue imperfect, and I have great need of Your strength and comfort. Therefore, visit me often, I pray, and instruct me in Your holy laws. Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart from all disorderly affections; that, healed and cleansed in spirit, I may grow able to love, strong to endure, and steadfast to persevere.
Love is a mighty power, a great and complete good; Love alone lightens every burden, and makes the rough places smooth. It bears every hardship as though it were nothing, and renders all bitterness sweet and acceptable. The love of Jesus is noble, and inspires us to great deeds; it moves us always to desire perfection. Love aspires to high things,and is held back by nothing base. Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill fortune cast it down. Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger, nothing higher, nothing wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller or better in heaven or earth; for love is born of God,( I John 4:7)and can rest only in God, above all created things.
Thomas 'a Kempis
"Making Intercession"
We beg you, Lord, to help and defend us. Deliver the oppressed. Pity the insignificant. Raise the fallen. Show yourself to the needy. Heal the sick. Bring back those of your people who have gone astray. Feed the hungry. Lift up the weak. Take off the prisoners’ chains. May every nation come to know that you alone are God, that Jesus is your Child, that we are your people, the sheep that you pasture. Amen.
Clement of Rome
Clement of Rome
"The Delight of Firmness"
...in the Law you find the 'real' or 'correct' or stable, well-grounded, directions for living. The law answers the question 'Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?' (119,9) It is like a lamp, a guide, (105). there are many rival directions for living, as the Pagan cultures all round us show. When the poets call the directions 'rulings' of Jahweh 'true' they are expressing the assurance thata these, and not those others, are the 'real' or 'valid' or unassailable ones; that they are based on the very nature of things and the very nature of God...the Lord (not merely obedience to the Lord) is righteous and commands righteousness because He loves it. He enjoins good because it is good, because He is good. Hence his laws have 'emeth' truth, intrinsic validity, rock-bottom reality, being rooted in His own nature, and are therefore as solid as that Nature which He has created.
Their delight in the Law is delight in having touched firmness; like the pedestrian's delight in feeling the hard road beneath his feet after a false short cut has long entangled him in muddy fields."
C.S. Lewis
Their delight in the Law is delight in having touched firmness; like the pedestrian's delight in feeling the hard road beneath his feet after a false short cut has long entangled him in muddy fields."
C.S. Lewis
"Stop Philosophizing, Start Healing"
Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
Anonymous
Anonymous
"Wish I'd Said That!"
Though old the thought and oft expressed,
'Tis his at last who says it best.
James Russell Lowell
'Tis his at last who says it best.
James Russell Lowell
"Committed Key People + Specific Tasks = Results"
What makes a plan capable of producing results is the commitment of key people to work on specific tasks.
Peter F. Drucker
Peter F. Drucker
"Springboards"
[The commander] must always think and plan two battles ahead - the one he is prepared to fight and the next one - so that success gained in one battle can be used as a springboard for the next.
Bernard Law Montgomery
Bernard Law Montgomery
"Ravished By A Moral Beauty"
The Order of the Divine Mind, embodied in the Divine Law, is beautiful. [Therefore] what should a man do but try to reproduce it, so far as possible, in his daily life? His “delight” is in those statutes (16); to study them is like finding treasure (14); they affect him like music, are his “songs” (54); they taste like honey (103); they are better than silver and gold (72). As one’s eyes are more and more opened, one sees more and more in them, and it excites wonder (18)...it is the language of a man ravished by a moral beauty.
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
"Only In You"
Let me not seek outside you what can only find in you,
O Lord,
Peace and rest, and joy and bliss
which abide only in your abiding joy,
Lift up my soul above the wearing round of harassing
thoughts to your eternal presence.
Lift up my mind to the pure, bright, serene atmosphere of
your presence,
that I may breathe freely,
there repose in your love,
there be at rest from myself
and from all things that weary me:
and thence return, arrayed in your peace, to do and to bear
whatsoever shall best please you, O blessed Lord.
E.B. Pusey
O Lord,
Peace and rest, and joy and bliss
which abide only in your abiding joy,
Lift up my soul above the wearing round of harassing
thoughts to your eternal presence.
Lift up my mind to the pure, bright, serene atmosphere of
your presence,
that I may breathe freely,
there repose in your love,
there be at rest from myself
and from all things that weary me:
and thence return, arrayed in your peace, to do and to bear
whatsoever shall best please you, O blessed Lord.
E.B. Pusey
"Bend And Dig"
The man who wants a garden fair,
Or small or very big,
With flowers growing here and there,
Must bend his back and dig.
The things are mighty few on earth
That wishes can attain.
Whate’er we want of any worth
We’ve got to work to gain.
It matters not what goals you seek,
Its secret here reposes:
You’ve got to work from week to week
To get Results or Roses.
Edgar A. Guest
Or small or very big,
With flowers growing here and there,
Must bend his back and dig.
The things are mighty few on earth
That wishes can attain.
Whate’er we want of any worth
We’ve got to work to gain.
It matters not what goals you seek,
Its secret here reposes:
You’ve got to work from week to week
To get Results or Roses.
Edgar A. Guest
"A Man Also Rich In Good Deeds"
I believe
in an all-wise and all-loving God…
and that the individual’s highest fulfillment,
greatest happiness, and widest usefulness
are to be found in living in harmony with His will.
I believe
that love is the greatest thing in the world;
that it alone can overcome hate;
that right can and will triumph over might.
I believe
that truth and justice are fundamental to an enduring social order.
I believe
that every right implies a responsibility:
every opportunity, and obligation; every possession, a duty.
I believe
that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind
and that only in the purifying fire of sacrifice
is the dross of selfishness consumed
and the greatness of the human soul set free.
I believe
in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand;
that the world owes no man a living
but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living
I believe
in the sacredness of a promise,
that a man’s word should be as good as his bond;
that character- not wealth or power or position- is of supreme worth
I believe
that thrift is essential to well-ordered living
and that economy is a prime requisite of a sound financial structure,
whether in government, business or personal affairs.
I believe
in the supreme worth of the individual
and in his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
in an all-wise and all-loving God…
and that the individual’s highest fulfillment,
greatest happiness, and widest usefulness
are to be found in living in harmony with His will.
I believe
that love is the greatest thing in the world;
that it alone can overcome hate;
that right can and will triumph over might.
I believe
that truth and justice are fundamental to an enduring social order.
I believe
that every right implies a responsibility:
every opportunity, and obligation; every possession, a duty.
I believe
that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind
and that only in the purifying fire of sacrifice
is the dross of selfishness consumed
and the greatness of the human soul set free.
I believe
in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand;
that the world owes no man a living
but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living
I believe
in the sacredness of a promise,
that a man’s word should be as good as his bond;
that character- not wealth or power or position- is of supreme worth
I believe
that thrift is essential to well-ordered living
and that economy is a prime requisite of a sound financial structure,
whether in government, business or personal affairs.
I believe
in the supreme worth of the individual
and in his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
"Beauty Regimen"
Beautiful faces are they that wear
The light of a pleasant spirit there;
Beautiful hands are they that do
Deeds that are noble, good and true;
Beautiful feet are they that go
Swiftly to lighten another's woe.
Author Unknown
The light of a pleasant spirit there;
Beautiful hands are they that do
Deeds that are noble, good and true;
Beautiful feet are they that go
Swiftly to lighten another's woe.
Author Unknown
"Manure For Christmas? Resort Hourly."
Counting all difficulties as joy
Thursday, March 10th, 2011 | 8:59 AM
“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trails of various kinds . . .” (James 1:2).
Have you ever met a person who actually, literally did what this verse says? I have. Marilyn (not her real name) phoned and told me that her husband has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, her son is recovering from multiple stab wounds inflicted by a crazed stranger in Center City, and her daughter-in-law is so weakened by some bizarre condition that she is unable to hold her newborn. And she was radiating joy.
Marilyn figured that God must be really up to something! He must be really shaking things up for a good purpose for all this to be coming down at once. This, she reasoned, must be nothing other than the “testing of faith” of verse 3 that issues in a new level of “steadfastness,” whose “full effect” makes “perfect and complete” (verse 4). Marilyn wants that “perfect and complete” thing, for herself and for her family. She wants it more than she wants their or her health.
It’s like the old joke about the optimistic kid who gets a pile of manure for Christmas and excitedly concludes that there must be a pony hiding in there somewhere. And indeed, Ray Stedman in his book Authentic Christianity cited first in his list of the marks of the authentic believer: “unquenchable optimism.”
I know that Marilyn’s counting all of her inherently difficult circumstances as joy is accompanied by a fair amount of muscular thinking and believing. Her logic seems to be this: God is love; He sends trial to build faith; He will reward tenacious faith with something wonderful that no eye can see nor ear can hear nor the heart of man can conceive. Immediately, that understanding of Marilyn’s yields a quiet hope and a joy. It turns out that God really does keep at perfect peace the heart that is steadfast, because it trusts in Him (Isaiah 26:3). Who’d have thought it?
Marilyn understands something of the mechanics of God’s trial boot camp because she has been through it before. God has a track record in her life. She is familiar with the dynamic of trials putting pressure on a person to force the issue of whom or what she is going to trust. The trial may be so severe that one must resort hourly to recommit to trusting God with it. A robust prayer life develops. The practice of praise is engendered. Marilyn is in the midst of this process, and she feels like she can taste the final outcome already.
May you have Marilyns in your life too.
Andree Seu
Thursday, March 10th, 2011 | 8:59 AM
“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trails of various kinds . . .” (James 1:2).
Have you ever met a person who actually, literally did what this verse says? I have. Marilyn (not her real name) phoned and told me that her husband has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, her son is recovering from multiple stab wounds inflicted by a crazed stranger in Center City, and her daughter-in-law is so weakened by some bizarre condition that she is unable to hold her newborn. And she was radiating joy.
Marilyn figured that God must be really up to something! He must be really shaking things up for a good purpose for all this to be coming down at once. This, she reasoned, must be nothing other than the “testing of faith” of verse 3 that issues in a new level of “steadfastness,” whose “full effect” makes “perfect and complete” (verse 4). Marilyn wants that “perfect and complete” thing, for herself and for her family. She wants it more than she wants their or her health.
It’s like the old joke about the optimistic kid who gets a pile of manure for Christmas and excitedly concludes that there must be a pony hiding in there somewhere. And indeed, Ray Stedman in his book Authentic Christianity cited first in his list of the marks of the authentic believer: “unquenchable optimism.”
I know that Marilyn’s counting all of her inherently difficult circumstances as joy is accompanied by a fair amount of muscular thinking and believing. Her logic seems to be this: God is love; He sends trial to build faith; He will reward tenacious faith with something wonderful that no eye can see nor ear can hear nor the heart of man can conceive. Immediately, that understanding of Marilyn’s yields a quiet hope and a joy. It turns out that God really does keep at perfect peace the heart that is steadfast, because it trusts in Him (Isaiah 26:3). Who’d have thought it?
Marilyn understands something of the mechanics of God’s trial boot camp because she has been through it before. God has a track record in her life. She is familiar with the dynamic of trials putting pressure on a person to force the issue of whom or what she is going to trust. The trial may be so severe that one must resort hourly to recommit to trusting God with it. A robust prayer life develops. The practice of praise is engendered. Marilyn is in the midst of this process, and she feels like she can taste the final outcome already.
May you have Marilyns in your life too.
Andree Seu
"The Holiness of Prayer"
Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in His presence.
E.W. Kenyon
E.W. Kenyon
"We Often Become What We Read"
It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance of text of my mind.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller
"It's Your Baby, Baby"
It is well to designate a general for a task and let him plan it himself...No plan originated by another will be as sympathetically handled as one's own plan."
Conrad H. Lanza
Conrad H. Lanza
"The True Spring"
The Miracles of Reversal all belong to the New Creation. It is a Miracle of Reversal when the dead are raised. Old Nature knows nothing of this process: it involves playing backward a film that we have always seen played forwards. The one or two instances of it in the Gospels are early flowers; what we call spring flowers, because they are prophetic; although they really bloom while it is still winter. And the miracles of Perfecting or of Glory, the Transfiguration, the Resurrection, and the Ascension, are even more emphatically of the New Creation. These are the true spring, or even the summer, of the world's new year. The Captain, the forerunner is already in May or June, though His followers on earth are still living in the frosts and east winds of Old Nature - for "spring comes slowly up this way."
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
"The Increase of Life By Death"
Christ's single miracle of Destruction, the withering of the fig-tree, has proved troublesome to some people, but I think its significance is plain enough. The miracle is an acted parable, a symbol of God's sentence on all that is 'fruitless' and specially, no doubt, on the official Judaism of that age. That is its moral significance. As a miracle, it again does in focus, repeats small and close, what God does constantly and throughout Nature. We have seen [...] how God, twisting Satan's weapon out of his hand, had become, since the Fall, the God even of human death. But much more, and perhaps ever since the creation, He has been the God of the death of the organisms. In both cases, though in somewhat different ways, He is the God of death because He is the God of Life: the God of human death because through it increase of life now comes--the God of merely organic death because death is part of the very mode by which organic life spreads itself out in Time and yet remains new. A forest a thousand years deep is still collectively alive because some trees are dying and others are growing up. His human face, turned with negation in its eyes upon that one fig-tree, did once what His unincarnate action does to all trees. No tree died that year in Palestine, or any year anywhere, except because God did--or rather ceased to do--something to it.
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
"Sing When You Are Barren"
God tells Israel to sing when she is barren (Isaiah 54:1). This is not because He is cruel, but because He knows something we don’t know—that our praise is the signal He waits for to release His grace more abundantly, particularly praise forthcoming when all hope seems lost (Romans 4:18). We are a “royal priesthood” (1 Peter 2:9), and that means our warfare is of a peculiar kind that is only effective when worship goes ahead of us into battle. The restoration of the dominion of the children of God over the earth under Christ our Head is related to constancy in worship. Nothing advances without praise.
Andree Seu
Andree Seu
"Pain Can Plant The Flag"
No doubt Pain as God's megaphone is a terrible instrument; it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. But it gives the only opportunity the bad man can have for amendment. It removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul.
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
"Because It's Easily Fixible"
Being ignorant is not so much a Shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
"Desk Brooding With Passionate Devotion"
Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would certainly not come to mind had we not brooded at our desks and searched for answers with passionate devotion.
Max Weber
Max Weber
"The Spirit Intercedes"
Every minute on the clock that you are engaged in praying is a minute in heaven that the Spirit is speaking to the Father with wonderfully perfect words on your behalf.
Andre Seu
Andre Seu
"Circles of Increasing Faith"
The life of increasing faith is like a circle
that grows and grows
until everything is brought into it,
and nothing is left out of it.
Every area of your existence,
every plan you make,
every word you utter,
every argument you reason,
every mood you allow to dominate you,
every social situation you take part in,
every impression you receive,
every problem you work on,
every delight you choose,
every affection you embrace,
every thought you entertain—
is taken captive to God and His Word.
It means rigorously and consciously,
at every point,
putting the Word of God above the word of any man,
the report of any witness,
or the insistence of any emotion in your heart.
Andree Seu
that grows and grows
until everything is brought into it,
and nothing is left out of it.
Every area of your existence,
every plan you make,
every word you utter,
every argument you reason,
every mood you allow to dominate you,
every social situation you take part in,
every impression you receive,
every problem you work on,
every delight you choose,
every affection you embrace,
every thought you entertain—
is taken captive to God and His Word.
It means rigorously and consciously,
at every point,
putting the Word of God above the word of any man,
the report of any witness,
or the insistence of any emotion in your heart.
Andree Seu
"Trash Talking"
Recently I made a covenant with my mouth to stop talking trash. I know, that’s pretty broad. What I have in mind specifically is all the little ways I betray God all day by little faithless comments. I figure if Job can make a covenant with his eyes (that’s a good idea too: Job 31:1), then I can make one with my mouth.
I find it is not an easy covenant. (But then again “the gate is narrow and the way is hard. . . .”) When you first embark on it, you start to notice all the trash you talk habitually without even noticing it.
But I would like to find myself among the folks in Psalm 145:10-12. As they speak of God’s power and glory, I’ll bet He shows them even more of it.
'All your saints shall bless you! They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom and tell of your power, to make known to the children of man your mighty deeds.'"
Andree Seu
I find it is not an easy covenant. (But then again “the gate is narrow and the way is hard. . . .”) When you first embark on it, you start to notice all the trash you talk habitually without even noticing it.
But I would like to find myself among the folks in Psalm 145:10-12. As they speak of God’s power and glory, I’ll bet He shows them even more of it.
'All your saints shall bless you! They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom and tell of your power, to make known to the children of man your mighty deeds.'"
Andree Seu
"Thank You For My Life"
Honor your father and mother, even as you honor God, for all three were partners in your creation.
Zohar
Zohar
"Two Coins"
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins; cash and experience. Take experience first; the cash will come later.
Harold Geneen
Harold Geneen
"The Power of Love Overcomes"
When The
Power of Love
Overcomes The
Love of Power
The World Will
Know Peace.
Anonymous
Power of Love
Overcomes The
Love of Power
The World Will
Know Peace.
Anonymous
"True Peace"
True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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