March 2012
25 posts
February 2012
21 posts
“My heart breaks to think of people who reject Christianity because of encounters with people who claim Christ as their savior, but live as if he’s dead.”
—Me (via churchjanitor)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
“It is a period I remember vividly, not only because I was beginning to accomplish something at last, but also because of the delight I felt in being completely by myself. For those who love to be alone with nature I need add nothing further; for those who do not, no words of mine could ever convey, even in part, the almost mystical awareness of beauty and eternity that accompanies certain treasured moments. And, though the beauty was always there, those moments came upon me unaware: when I was watching
the pale flush preceding dawn; or looking up through the rustling leaves of some giant forest tree into the greens and browns and black shadows that occasionally ensnared a bright fleck of the blue sky; or when I stood, as darkness fell, with one hand on the still-warm trunk of a tree and looked at the sparkling of an early moon on the never still, sighing water of the lake.” —Jane Goodall, In the Shadow of Man (via fernsandmoss)
the pale flush preceding dawn; or looking up through the rustling leaves of some giant forest tree into the greens and browns and black shadows that occasionally ensnared a bright fleck of the blue sky; or when I stood, as darkness fell, with one hand on the still-warm trunk of a tree and looked at the sparkling of an early moon on the never still, sighing water of the lake.” —Jane Goodall, In the Shadow of Man (via fernsandmoss)
“Live a life that can be explained only by the existence of a God who is infinitely great.”
—Sun Stand Still by Steven Furtick (via sapphiraadi)
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Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you.
Amen.
” —Thomas Aquinas (via churchjanitor)