February 2012
11 posts
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“I should be much too smart for this..
My head is battling with my heart. All...”
– Sway, Bic Runga
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This one’s for the lonely
The ones that...
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“My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart
you, God,...”
– Psalm 51:17
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“I remain confident of this:
I will see the goodness of the Lord
in the land of...”
– Psalm 27:13-14
“Something TRUE will LAST”
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January 2012
32 posts
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A Grief Observed
C.S. Lewis explored his grief on the death of his wife through this book. Excerpt:
Meanwhile, where is God? This is one of the most disquieting symptoms. When you are happy, so happy that you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be—or so it...
“Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am...”
– Isaiah 41:10
Distraction of Destiny →
- It is often true that you can’t see your destiny through your circumstances. Your circumstances are often a poor indication of your destiny.
- Perseverance is better than enthusiasm. Do not give in to a victim mentality.
- Life is not about getting God to bless your plans, but rather, about getting into the plans that God has already blessed and prepared for you
- Even the bloodstained coat...
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Blessing And Burden
All of the scientists I’ve known have at least one more quality in common: they do what they do because they love it, and because they cannot imagine doing anything else. In a sense, this is the real reason a scientist does science. Because the scientist must.
Such a compulsion is both blessing and burden.
A blessing because the creative life, in any endeavour, is a gift filled with...
Someday
What?
How?
When?
Most especially, why?
Someday I’ll know. Someday I’ll live into the answers. But right now I’d have to be content with the flickering light of a candle in the distance as my sole illumination in this darkness.
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On Feelings & Weather: A Letter from Stephen Fry
Actor Stephen Fry sends this inspiring letter to a lady named Crystal Nunn who wrote to him during her bouts of depression.
Transcript:
April 10, 2006 Dear Crystal, I’m so sorry to hear that life is getting you down at the moment. Goodness knows, it can be so tough when nothing seems to fit and little seems to be fulfilling. I’m not sure there’s any specific advice I can...
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The Great Sin
There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves.
I have heard people admit that they are bad-tempered, or that they cannot keep their heads about girls or drink, or even that they are cowards. I do not think I have ever heard...
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“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Haruki Murakami, What I talk About When I Talk About Running
“When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched...”
– E.M. Bounds
Wuthering Heights
Cathy: Perhaps your fortune has changed you.
Heathcliff: Oh, my fortune has changed me in every regard. Except one. And if I could change that too, I would do so.
“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are...”
– Fernando Pessoa
Stella. →
Ate Sunny and I singing random words. ^_^
free will
“If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”
- C.S. Lewis
December 2011
5 posts
“So you know what I mean when I say that I don’t think anyone who falls in love...”
– Jodi Picoult
Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary
and increases the power of the weak.
Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
but those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
Isaiah 40:28-31
“There’s always going to be bad stuff out there. But here’s the amazing thing —...”
– Jodi Picoult
November 2011
12 posts
Yes. Guilty. Listening to Christmas music in...