| Ten Thousand Faults |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|11:41 pm] |
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He who grows in grace remembers that he is but dust, and he therefore does not expect his fellow Christians to be anything more. He overlooks ten thousand of their faults, because he knows his God overlooks twenty thousand in his own case. He does not expect perfection in the creature, and therefore, he is not disappointed when he does not find it.
-Charles Spurgeon |
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| Give me this mountain |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|10:59 pm] |
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Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
Your perfect love is casting out fear
And even when I'm caught in the middle of the storms of this life
I won't turn back I know You are near
And I will fear no evil
For my God is with me
And if my God is with me
Whom then shall I fear?
Whom then shall I fear?
Oh no, You never let go
Through the calm and through the storm
Oh no, You never let go
In every high and every low
Oh no, You never let go
Lord, You never let go of me |
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| King of the broken |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|12:03 pm] |
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 Let us never forget
what is important. |
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| Wherever You go |
[Oct. 29th, 2009|02:54 pm] |
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 But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness
and all these things will be given to you as well.Matt 6:33 |
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| Incubation |
[Oct. 12th, 2009|03:32 pm] |
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| El Shaddai |
[Oct. 2nd, 2009|11:32 pm] |
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It is precisely on the moonless seas that You are my light
There is no contradiction between sadness and joy. Just because you choose to be joyful - which is not to be happy, because you cannot choose to be happy - doesn't mean that the sad feelings go away. It's just that some things are more important than feelings.
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[Sep. 29th, 2009|05:46 pm] |
"You are seeking your own will, my daughter. You are seeking some good other than the law you are bound to obey. But how will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne, and flows by the path of obedience. I say again, man cannot choose his duties. You may choose to forsake your duties, and choose not to have the sorrow they bring. But you will go forth, and what will you find, my daughter? Sorrow without duty--bitter herbs, and no bread with them."
- from Romola, George Eliot
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| Ragged Wood |
[Sep. 27th, 2009|05:50 pm] |
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Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safely in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
- C. S. Lewis
Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.
- Prov 4:23
Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy,
it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects,
always trusts,
always hopes,
always perseveres.
- 1 Cor 13: 4-7
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[Sep. 20th, 2009|09:25 pm] |
Divisible
by Cyril Wong
Who says I cannot compartmentalise heartbreak?
Break it open to employ its parts.
Fold my grief and leave it in my soul’s deep pocket with other
unsent letters.
Letters to inspire memories and tragic poems.
My anger to be stored and recycled for future storms.
Hopelessness turned into warning signs around a bed of
quicksand.
Ah but what should I do with resignation?
How to use it and what is it good for? |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 18th, 2009|10:01 am] |
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The true test of trusting is trusting without testing |
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[Sep. 15th, 2009|10:59 am] |
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| My Same |
[Sep. 4th, 2009|11:13 pm] |
O Lord
Who am I, who am nothing, to question You, who are everything?
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 3rd, 2009|10:51 pm] |
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary.
To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
-St Thomas Aquinas |
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| Persuasion |
[May. 30th, 2009|11:04 pm] |
"Oh!" cried Anne eagerly, "I hope I do justice to all that is felt by you, and by those who resemble you. God forbid that I should undervalue the warm and faithful feelings of any of my fellow-creatures. I should deserve utter contempt if I dared to suppose that true attachment and constancy are known only by woman. No, I believe you capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone."
- Anne Elliot in Persuasion, Jane Austen |
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[Jan. 6th, 2009|10:20 pm] |
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“No one seems to want (and no one can find) a place for quiet, because when you are quiet, you have to face reality. But many in the present generation dare not do this because on their own basis reality leads them to meaninglessness; so they fill their lives with entertainment, even if it is only noise.”
- Francis Schaeffer
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