Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, December 17, 2012
Monday, November 5, 2012
Monday, August 20, 2012
If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead
bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped
about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, let
it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go
unwarned and unprayed for.
-Charles Spurgeon
bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped
about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, let
it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go
unwarned and unprayed for.
-Charles Spurgeon
I want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is
unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves
like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign
tongue. Do not now seek the answers which cannot be given you because
you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live
everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually,
without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
Resolve to be always beginning—to be a beginner!
-Rainer Maria Rilke
unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves
like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign
tongue. Do not now seek the answers which cannot be given you because
you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live
everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually,
without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
Resolve to be always beginning—to be a beginner!
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Friday, July 20, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Who can measure the long-term effects of nurturing helpless infants, supervising wandering toddlers, discipling self-willed children, and counseling self-absorbed adolescents? Of family outings planned, traditions built, memories made, books read, songs sung, Scripture taught? That's why motherhood belongs under the heading, 'Engage the World'; no one shapes generations or fashions cultures more than mothers.
-Jeff Purswell, Worldliness, (edited by C.J. Mahaney, p. 159).
Friday, May 4, 2012
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
But the biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this.
I did not live in the moment enough.
This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only
in photographs. There is one picture of the three of them sitting in
the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day,
ages 6, 4 and 1. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we
talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they
slept that night.
I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing:
dinner, bath, book, bed.
I wish I had treasured the doinga little more and the getting it done
a little less."
-Anna Quindlen
I did not live in the moment enough.
This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only
in photographs. There is one picture of the three of them sitting in
the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day,
ages 6, 4 and 1. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we
talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they
slept that night.
I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing:
dinner, bath, book, bed.
I wish I had treasured the doinga little more and the getting it done
a little less."
-Anna Quindlen
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