READ, PROCESS, LINGER…
The Gallery of Humanity contains all the portraits of time.
Theory is to the mind what food is to the body, and the Word of God to the spirit.
I want to borrow the closing conception of the closing chapters, paragraphs, or lines of fictional writers, which is to help the reader enjoy one last moment in the world of make believe.
I tried listening to the snow and the stillness of the night, as slowly the soft flakes joined to form hardened ice on the road to home, where a warm fire and never-ending love awaited my arrival.
The growing good of people toward each other is sustained by unselfish acts, unpublished and hidden from view. The same humble servants of humanity eventually sleep in unvisited tombs, awaiting resurrection morning. These are the faithful to whom God is faithful.
I had to leave that little log cabin in the valley between the mountains. I followed the trail back to the world, but left my heart to be warmed by the fireplace where love lives on. As I walked, the birds sang their tunes and shadows seemed to whisper goodbye.
God is better than life, and greater than death.
Sitting in ashes is a sign of helplessness and despair. Sackcloth is a symbol of sorrow and repentance.
If the premise is wrong, the conclusion is wrong.
Humility is that rare virtue of learning for learning’s sake, and not to receive approbation praise as you shower your knowledge where it has already rained.
A person who owes money can never have peace in their soul.
If you cannot forgive, you will be miserable.
Many women have become “the man of the house,” claiming the leadership of what they always wanted to marry.
There are things going on around you all the time that you are not even aware of because you are centered around yourself.
If each person makes a difference (of good) in the world, think how good the world would be.
Jesus apparently learned three languages — Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. He read a Hebrew scroll in Luke chapter four. He taught multitudes in Aramaic, and conversed with Pontius Pilate in Greek, according to H. L. Wilmington’s Guide to the Bible, Tyndale 1981 and 1984.
He did not utter a word of English — no “thee” or “thou” or anything we read in our King James Version of the Holy Bible — that was simply the way the English world spoke when King James ordered the Scriptures translated into English. The King James Bible was commissioned in 1604, translated between about 1604 and 1611, and first published in 1611.
The Lord has declared what is right. Why don’t we do it? The Lord speaks truth. Why do we resent it?
The Lord says, “Turn to Me and be saved from the sins that so easily beset you. Do not be put to shame.”
It is interesting that Christ is the Lamb of God that would be sacrificed for humanity. Lambs are born in stables .Christ was born in a stable (manger). At the same thought, Christ is the Good Shepherd who would give His life for the sheep (humanity). Throughout the history of the Jews, sheep were used in sacrifices and so sheep died for the shepherd (John 1:29; 10:11).
Angels were present at the creation of the world and Scripture reads, “they shouted for joy” (Job 38:7). They were present at Christ’s birth (Luke 1:14). They rejoice when we are saved (Luke 15:7). We all are lost sheep and Jesus came to find us and save us.