Tag: Life and Living
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Not Enough Time
Time is finite like the sandimprisoned in an hour glass.I cannot do all I would like;a few more grains and all is past. Too many books, so little read;too many dreams, so few fulfilled;too many melodies still unheard;too many choices – which to make? The act of choosing pierces me,like an arrow through a sparrowswiftly […]
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Change Or Be Changed
But we must begin by giving up any idea that we can bring about these healings without fundamental changes in the way we think and live. We face a choice that is starkingly simple: we must change or be changed. If we fail to change for the better, then we will be changed for the […]
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Channels for Damnation
I question whether, as channels for damnation, Satan has upon earth more apt instruments for breeding infidelity, and for causing men to regard the gospel with contempt, than those who profess to believe it, and then act as though the belief were a matter of no consequence whatsoever. – Charles Spurgeon, An All-Round Ministry, p. […]
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O Blessed Retirement
O blessed retirement, friend to life’s decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How happy he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labor with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since ‘tis hard to combat, learns to fly! – Oliver Goldsmith, from The Deserted […]
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Made for Relationships
It seems that we humans were designed to find our purpose and meaning not simply in ourselves and our own inner lives, but in one another and in the shared meanings and purposes of a family, a street, a workplace, a community, a town, a nation. – N. T. Wright, Simply Christian, p. 31
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Passion for Work
Whether well paid or not, the chief satisfactions are those that involve reaching out to others, trying to make things better… Those who develop a passion for their work gain pleasure from it, and are rewarded with satisfactions that can’t be taken away. – Derrick Bell, Ethical Ambition, p. 25
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Speech is Like Salt
Speech is like salt: too little, and we do not taste the flavour of the food; too much, and we are left with the unpleasant taste of the salt. Like salt, our lives and speech are to bring out the ‘flavour’ of Jesus Christ. Too much of ourselves – too much of our talk – […]
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Get Fed Up!
A person has to be thoroughly disgusted with the way things are to find the motivation to set out on the Christian way… A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she, acquires an appetite for the world of grace. – Eugene H. Peterson, Living the Message, […]
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Alphonsus Rodriguez
I found this post (over at Provocations) so inspiring I just had to link to it. At the age of 40 Alphonsuz Rodriguez’ life just unraveled: “His wife died in childbirth, followed shortly by the deaths of his mother and his other children, and the family business failed.” But did he turn his back on […]
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What is Man? What is Your Life?
What is man? A vessel that the slightest shaking, the slightest toss will break… A body weak and fragile, naked, in its natural state defenceless, dependent upon another’s help and exposed to all the affronts of Fortune.” (Seneca, quoted in Alan de Botton’s The Consolations of Philosophy) The New Testament says something similar; the difference […]
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