Quotes

"Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identify, our own destiny. We are free beings and sons of God. This means to say that we should not passively exist, but actively participate in (God's) creative freedom, in our own lives, and in the lives of others, by choosing the truth. To put it better, we are even called to share with God the work of creating the truth of our identity."
Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

There is nothing like looking,
if you want to find something.
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

"I love my friends neither with
my heart nor with my mind.
Just in case heart might stop, mind can forget.
I love them with my soul.
Soul never stops or forgets." ~ Rumi 

"You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm." [Letter: 9 March 1843] ROBERT M'CHEYNE

Love

Love’s as hard as nails,  
          Love is nails:  
Blunt, thick, hammered through  
The medial nerves of One  
Who, having made us, knew  
The thing He had done,  
Seeing (what all that is)  
Our cross, and His. 

          C.S. Lewis
          “The Visionary Christian”

"Not to hold each other in each others eyes is, in a strange way, to cease to exist." John Hull

PSALM 133

A song of ascents. Of David.

1 How good and pleasant it is

when God’s people live together in unity!

2 It is like precious oil poured on the head,

running down on the beard,

running down on Aaron’s beard,

down on the collar of his robe.

3 It is as if the dew of Hermon

were falling on Mount Zion.

For there the LORD bestows his blessing,

even life forevermore.

Job esv

33:12-33 

for God is greater than man.

13 Why do you wcontend against him,

saying, ‘He xwill answer none of man's1 words’?2

14 For God yspeaks in one way,

zand in two, though man adoes not perceive it.

15 In ba dream, in ca vision of dthe night,

when cdeep sleep falls on men,

while they slumber on their beds,

16 then he eopens the ears of men

and terrifies them with warnings,

17 that he may turn man aside from his fdeed

and conceal pride from a man;

18 he keeps back his soul from the pit,

his life from gperishing by the sword.

19 “Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed

and with continual strife in his hbones,

20 so that his ilife loathes bread,

and his appetite jthe choicest food.

21 His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen,

and his bones that were not seen kstick out.

22 His soul draws near lthe pit,

and his life to mthose who bring death.

23 If there be for him nan angel,

oa mediator, pone of the thousand,

to declare to man what is qright for him,

24 and he is merciful to him, and says,

‘Deliver him from going down into the pit;

I have found ra ransom;

25 let his flesh sbecome fresh with youth;

let him return to the days of his youthful vigor’;

26 then man3 tprays to God, and he accepts him;

he usees his face with a shout of joy,

and he vrestores to man his righteousness.

27 He sings before men and says:

‘I wsinned and perverted what was right,

and it was not repaid to me.

28 He has redeemed my xsoul from going down yinto the pit,

and my life shall zlook upon the light.’

29 “Behold, God does all these things,

twice, athree times, with a man,

30 to bring back his soul from the pit,

that he may be lighted with bthe light of life.

31 Pay attention, O Job, listen to me;

be silent, and I will speak.

32 If you have any words, canswer me;

dspeak, for I desire to justify you.

33 If not, elisten to me;

be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”

Romans 7:18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it

Gal 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

2 Tim 2:11 This saying is trustworthy: If we died with him, we will also live with him.

1 Peter 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.

Phil 1:21 For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain.

Romans 6:6:4 Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.