Armchair Anecdotes – Part Two


IN SEARCH OF WISDOM

Man searcheth, but where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? Few knoweth its place nor its price, for it is priceless and its place is not where men look.


WISDOM COMETH BY FAITH

Wisdom never rests, though she may indeed forever, or for a time, withhold her knowledge in the hidden place… if the journey from darkness to light begins not by faith.


WISDOM EVERYWHERE

The height of understanding is the depth of wisdom; the width thereof is knowledge.


WISDOM

I bargained with life the wages I’ve made, whatever I negotiated life paid.


WISDOM

As my eyes decrease in light, my vision increases by hindsight, foresight, and insight.


DOCTRINE

The reverence of the Lord (Christ) is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of God (the Father) is understanding. For by learning doctrine (teaching ministry of the Holy Spirit) thy days shall be multiplied and the years of thy life shall be increased (excerpts from Proverbs, chapter 9).


FAITH

The eye of faith is a perfect view of God.

The image of existence reflecting God.

Faith did not invent God, it saw Him.


DIVINE LAWS – HEAVENLY MOVEMENT

Circuits strike weighted clouds releasing competent power; The sun and moon keep their tabernacle; the planets and stars, void but beautiful, fail not their assignment.


CREATION’S HARMONY

The mountains kiss the sky as the clouds embrace round about them; the wind whistles and the hills echo it down to the valleys where clear waters pass in rhythm; bees humming their tune – the flowers receive them; the birds sing their glorious songs; the trees of the forest clap their hands – all creation is harmony, but, who is listening.


DESTINY

All things work together for good by invincible necessity.


THE BIBLE

All Scripture is God-breathed, and refreshing in the lungs of the soul.


TEN COMMANDMENTS:

The Magna Carta of Human Freedom and Perpetuation – not the mechanics of salvation.


WISDOM SPEAKING

The Lord possessed me in a beginning that was not a beginning. In eternity past, before His works of old (the creation of anything), I was set up from everlasting to everlasting, and when He prepared the heavens, I was there (Excerpt from Proverbs, chapter 8).


THE WORD

In the beginning (that was not a beginning – literal interpretation) was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:1 & 14a).


BONDAGE

All creation is under the bondage of corruption, groaning for redemption.


EQUALITY

Adam was created perfect; sin made all men unequal.

Faith in Christ makes the believer one in Him, and this is the only true equality.


JUDGEMENT

Humanity is condemned – only God can redeem, man can only believe.


TRUST

Faith minus worry.


PERSONAL

The history of humanity is found in judgement; humanity’s salvation is found in Christ.


FOREVER

God is eternal, thought-infinite. The believer everlasting, love forever.


FORESHADOW

History is prophecy.


HONESTY

Truth starts with God, ends with self.

Truth crushed by deceit shall rise again. Truth will find you out.


RIGHT AND WRONG

The easy way is the hard way, and the hard way is the easy way.


COURAGE

Courage protects freedom and truth;

it is the foundation of virtue, the strength of integrity, the structure of character.


CHRISTIANITY

God does the work of salvation.


RELIGION

Man does the work of salvation.

Counterfeit to Christianity. The devil’s ace trump.


COUNTERFEITERS

All religion is a collective satanic counterfeit. Christianity is not a religion, it is a relationship to God through faith in His Son.


INTERNATIONALISM

Internationalism is satanic – it is satan’s attempt to be the world dictator, and therefore a counterfeit of Jesus Christ and His millennial kingdom.


JUDGEMENT

Human nature is the source of sin, the reason for condemnation, and the necessity of Jesus Christ.


HEREAFTER

In life we face death, in death we face life. Both Heaven and hell are full of sinners.


DEATH

Death is but a transfer from time to eternity.


WONDER

Time and eternity run simultaneous, though mutually exclusive – inseparable for a time.


LOVE

Love is powerful and vulnerable.

Love is awesome, never lonesome.

A heart that gives with innocence, how sweet, how dear its dwelling place.


LOVE’S LAST WORDS

All is the same as before, my love – only sleep!


MY SOUL TO KEEP

Do not stand at my grave and weep

I am not there, I do not sleep

Only my body is buried deep

Heaven my spirit and soul do keep.


LOVE NEEDS NO LANGUAGE

Hush! Be still – cheek to cheek.


 LOVE ME NOW – TELL ME HOW

If you haven’t sweet thoughts about me, tell me now,

If you have sweet thoughts about me, tell me how;

If you can live without me, tell me how,

If you can’t live without me, tell me now; If you’re never going to love me, tell me now;

If you’re ever going to love me, tell me how,

If you’re ever going to love me, love me now.


LOVE NEVER DIES

You are my love, from deep inside; my love always, ’cause love never dies.


TWO EYES

Darkness of night has only two eyes

that look upon my lover as she lies,

in beautiful passion time flies.


WINDOW SEAT

I like the welcome of my window seat, where I can sit to read or lie and sleep.


WIND AND TREES

The winds caress the trees,

the trees embrace the wind,

and both are cleansed.


FREEDOM

Liberty must know limitation, freedom must be protected,

laws, authority, and individual rights respected,

each generation must learn these principles at home,

or makes slaves of the next.


ADDICTION

Habit leads to destruction or deliverance.


MATH

Love is multiplied, never divided,

when hate and prejudice are subtracted.


VOLITION

Life can be good or bad – attitude makes the choice.


ARROGANCE

Human nature defined.


DEFINITION OF LIBERALISM AND PROGRESSIVISM

Evil!

All is lawful and nothing unlawful.


PARANOIA

He who buries his treasure

has no pleasure.


THE UNKNOWN

Man feareth death as a child feareth darkness,

both without light.


SELFISHNESS

Perpetuation of self.


LIVING HELL

Without norms and standards, there can be no conscience,

and if no conscience, no remorse – and if no remorse, only evil and chaos.


THEORY

Throw theory into a fire, it causes no flame, makes no ash;

To hell with evolution.


SCIENCE

The observation, experimentation, and classification

of divine laws in creation.


LAW

We must embrace the reason for laws

or lose the right to reason.


CHANGE

Yesterday is unchangeable;

today and tomorrow controllable.


TIME

Time is unstoppable, uncatchable, undeniable, and perpetual.

Each second of time is sent from eternity to embrace all creation, and returns whence it cometh sixty times a minute.


CONSCIOUSNESS

If we can be unconscious and live,

then we can die and be conscious.


LIFE AND DEATH

We shall never know all there is to life

until we have experienced death.


 MUTUAL RESPECT

The lust patterns of human nature must be restrained if man is to co-exist. The rights, privacy, and property of individuals must be respected. Respect must be taught by parents. Freedom does not mean free to steal, ravish, and kill. Freedom means mutual respect. Mutual respect is the safeguard for the perpetuation of the human race. There is only respect or arrogance. The sum of self discipline is respect; the sum of liberty – respect.


NO AUTHORITY

Children telling parents what to do is rejection of divine and parental authority; human nature unrestrained and rebellious – indicative of degeneration in family values and society; the result of liberalism, and a straight shortcut to national- and self-destruction.


CHRISTIAN CHILDREN

If you really want to be a good daughter or son

just be the daughter or son your parents think you are.


BUREAUCRACY

Bureaucracy is mediocrity, and mediocracy strangles free enterprise.

Bureaucracy is socialism, and it is regimenting American industry out of business.


INDUSTRY

Industry provides opportunity – opportunity employs America.


FREE NATION

There has never been in history a free nation that did not have to fight for freedom, either to gain it or preserve it.

It is better to die on the battlefield of honor preserving freedom than to be a slave under tyranny.


GUNS AND THE MILITARY

If law-abiding citizens are disarmed, and the military neutralized, that nation will lose its sovereignty and its citizens to slavery.

 

– C. S. Craig February and March 1996

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