Thursday, November 19The word of God
"A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I have ever read." (Immanuel Kant)
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Friday, November 13My times are in thy hand (Psa. 31:15)
I am seeking the truth, I am not affirming it.
Confessions, Book X, Chapter XXII:
"My soul burns ardently to understand this most intricate enigma. O Lord my God, O good Father, I beseech thee through Christ, do not close off these things, both the familiar and the obscure, from my desire. Do not bar it from entering into them; but let their light dawn by thy enlightening mercy, O Lord. Of whom shall I inquire about these things? And to whom shall I confess my ignorance of them with greater profit than to thee, to whom these studies of mine (ardently longing to understand thy Scriptures) are not a bore? Give me what I love, for I do love it; and this thou hast given me. O Father, who truly knowest how to give good gifts to thy children, give this to me. Grant it, since I have undertaken to understand it, and hard labor is my lot until thou openest it. I beseech thee, through Christ and in his name, the Holy of Holies, let no man interrupt me. “For I have believed, and therefore do I speak." This is my hope; for this I live: that I may contemplate the joys of my Lord. Behold, thou hast made my days grow old, and they pass away--and how I do not know."
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Thursday, June 11To care
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. (Roosevelt)
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Tuesday, September 4
Commit your way to the LORD.
Do not fret—it leads only to evil.
Wait for the LORD and keep his way.
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Friday, September 8On Art
“Art is symbolical objectivication of certain meaning aspect of a thing subject to the law of allusivity.”
=S
Boy.. What am I out for.. >.<
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Wednesday, July 12Prayer of Fenelon
"Lord, take me, for I cannot give myself to Thee; and when Thou hast me, keep me, for I cannot keep myself; and save me in spite of myself."
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Wednesday, May 17Friendship
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." George Washington
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Tuesday, May 16Love
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."
Lao Tze
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Wednesday, April 5Being a Christian
"Not until a person has become so wretched that his only wish, his only consolation, is to die – not until then does Christianity truly begin."
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Wednesday, March 29Solitude
"Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep, and you weep alone;
For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Solitude
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Friday, March 17Pilgrim
"It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from."
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
"All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings."
"...for Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee."
"If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?"
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Saturday, March 4Unlovable and Loved
"By loving the unlovable, You made me lovable." Augustine
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Dostoevsky
"If anyone proved to me that Christ was outside the truth... then I would prefer to remain with Christ than with the truth." Dostoevsky
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Saturday, February 25In the school of trust
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Graham Green, The Ministry of Fear
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Saturday, February 4Studying, preaching and growth
I did not understand the joy that believers have in seeing any sinner to care and become interested in the things of God. Pg 15
I was growing in faith and knowledge of Jesus, but I still preferred reading religious books instead of the Scriptures. Pg 21
I prayed often and generally with sincerity. But if I had prayed more earnestly, I would have made much more rapid progress in my faith. Despite my slowness to grasp spiritual principles, God showed His great patience towards me. Pg 21
..that Holy Spirit explains the Scripture to us, and help us to preach the Word. The Lord enable me to put this aspect of the Holy Spirit to the test by laying aside my commentaries and almost every other book and simply reading the Word of God. Pg 27
Simplicity in expression and plain speech are of utmost importance. The teacher should speak so that even children and people who cannot read may be able to understand him, as far as the natural mind can comprehend the things of God. Pg 34
The expounder of truth of God speaks for God and for eternity, not to please those with literary taste. Pg 34
Neither eloquence nor depth in thought makes a truly great preacher. Only a life of prayer and mediation will render him a vessel ready for the Master’s use and fit to be employed in the conversion of sinners and in the edification of saints. Pg 35
George Muller, the Autobiography
I was growing in faith and knowledge of Jesus, but I still preferred reading religious books instead of the Scriptures. Pg 21
I prayed often and generally with sincerity. But if I had prayed more earnestly, I would have made much more rapid progress in my faith. Despite my slowness to grasp spiritual principles, God showed His great patience towards me. Pg 21
..that Holy Spirit explains the Scripture to us, and help us to preach the Word. The Lord enable me to put this aspect of the Holy Spirit to the test by laying aside my commentaries and almost every other book and simply reading the Word of God. Pg 27
Simplicity in expression and plain speech are of utmost importance. The teacher should speak so that even children and people who cannot read may be able to understand him, as far as the natural mind can comprehend the things of God. Pg 34
The expounder of truth of God speaks for God and for eternity, not to please those with literary taste. Pg 34
Neither eloquence nor depth in thought makes a truly great preacher. Only a life of prayer and mediation will render him a vessel ready for the Master’s use and fit to be employed in the conversion of sinners and in the edification of saints. Pg 35
George Muller, the Autobiography
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Resolution
"The Lord richly made up to me the little I had relinquished for His sake." pg 19
"Although I was very ignorant and weak in faith, I long to win souls for Christ. Every month I circulated about three hundred missionary papers, distributed many tracks and wrote letters to some of my former companions in sin." pg 19
"Every morning from six until eight I prayed and read the Scriptures. After the evening prayer, my communion with God was so sweet that I would continue praying until midnight. Then I would go to a brother's room, and we would pray together until one or two in the morning. Even then, I was sometimes full of joy that I could not sleep." pg 27
George Muller, Autobiography
"Although I was very ignorant and weak in faith, I long to win souls for Christ. Every month I circulated about three hundred missionary papers, distributed many tracks and wrote letters to some of my former companions in sin." pg 19
"Every morning from six until eight I prayed and read the Scriptures. After the evening prayer, my communion with God was so sweet that I would continue praying until midnight. Then I would go to a brother's room, and we would pray together until one or two in the morning. Even then, I was sometimes full of joy that I could not sleep." pg 27
George Muller, Autobiography
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Tuesday, January 31More literature
"Every time I tried to display my innermost desires – a wish to be morally good – I met with contempt and scorn, and as soon as I gave in to base desires I was praised and encouraged." Tolstoy in Confessions
"For in the end what are we, who are convinced that suicide is obligatory and yet cannot resolve to commit it, other than the weakest, the most inconsistent and, speaking frankly, the most stupid of people, making such a song and dance with our banalities?" Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
"I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry discussions, expressing my opinions tactlessly; there will be still the same wall between the holy of holies of my soul and other people, even my wife; I shall still go on scolding her for my own terror, and being remorseful for it; I shall still be as unable to understand with my reason why I pray, and I shall still go on praying; but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it." Levin in Anna Karenina
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Monday, January 23Who to be loved
"You are a dog in a manger, Cathy. You desire no one to be loved but yourself." Isabella Linton in Wuthering Heights
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Envy
"Edgar is sulky, because I'm glad of a thing that does not interest him. He affirmed that I was cruel and selfish for wishing to talk when he was so sick and sleepy. He always contrives to be sick at the least cross! I gave a few commendation to Healthcliff, and he, either for a head-ache or a pang of envy, began to cry. It is human nature. But does it not show great weakness?" Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights
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Learning
"..not exactly from seeing one set of faces, and one series of actions, from year's end to year's end, but I have gone through sharp discipline which has taught me wisdom; and then, I have read more than one could fancy." Nelly in Wuthering Heights.
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