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17 Dec 2022 03:34

“Believers have found to be true Paul's saying that "all the promises of God find their yea and amen in Christ" [II Cor. 1: 20 p.], for these promises had been sealed in their hearts. [Cf. II Cor. 1:22.] Nevertheless, because he has in his flesh accomplished the whole of our salvation, this living manifestation of realities has justly won a new and singular commendation. From this derives Christ's saying: "Afterward you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man" [John 1:51 p.]. Although he seems here to allude to the ladder shown in a vision to the patriarch Jacob [Gen. 28:12], how excellent his advent is he has marked through opening by it the gate of heaven, that each one of us may enter there.”

- John Calvin ‘Institutes of the Christian Religion: Knowledge of God the Redeemer’

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17 Dec 2022 03:04

"Blessed is anyone who endures temptation. Such a one has stood the test and will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him"
(James 1:12)

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17 Dec 2022 02:37

“We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. There is nothing progressive about being pig-headed and refusing to admit a mistake. And I think if you look at the present state of the world it’s pretty plain that humanity has been making some big mistake. We’re on the wrong road. And if that is so we must go back. Going back is the quickest way on.”

~C.S. Lewis

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17 Dec 2022 02:07

"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
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16 Dec 2022 23:46

“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.”

Luke 12:32

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16 Dec 2022 22:46

Dust of Snow

The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.

Robert Frost

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16 Dec 2022 21:57

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16 Dec 2022 20:29

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16 Dec 2022 18:19

"A self, every instant it exists, is in process of becoming, for the self [potentially] does not actually exist, it is only that which it is to become. In so far as the self does not become itself, it is not its own self."

~Søren Kierkegaard

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15 Dec 2022 04:51

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15 Dec 2022 01:51

Sonnet 47

"Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,
And each doth good turns now unto the other.
When that mine eye is famished for a look,
Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother,
With my love’s picture then my eye doth feast
And to the painted banquet bids my heart.
Another time mine eye is my heart’s guest,
And in his thoughts of love doth share a part.
So either by thy picture or my love,
Thyself away are present still with me;
For thou no farther than my thoughts canst move,
And I am still with them, and they with thee;
Or if they sleep, thy picture in my sight
Awakes my heart to heart’s and eye’s delight."

~William Shakespeare

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14 Dec 2022 22:51

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14 Dec 2022 06:17

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."

~Plutarch

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17 Dec 2022 03:19

Eternal suffering for temporary pleasure

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Eternal bliss for temporary suffering

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17 Dec 2022 02:52

May our fasts, we beseech Thee, O Lord, be acceptable unto Thee, and by expiating our sins, make us worthy of Thy grace, and bring us to Thine everlasting promises. Through Our Lord Jesus Christ, Son, Thy Son, who lives and reigns in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God forever and ever. Amen.

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17 Dec 2022 02:22

“𝓘 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓷𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓫𝓮 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓼𝓮 𝓘 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝓮𝓷𝓸𝓾𝓰𝓱”
- 𝓦𝓪𝓵𝓽 𝓦𝓱𝓲𝓽𝓶𝓪𝓷

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17 Dec 2022 01:05

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent to minister for them who shall receive the inheritance of salvation?

Hebrews 1:14

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16 Dec 2022 23:31

Romans 12:18

"If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone."

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16 Dec 2022 22:20

Making a wool blanket, the old-fashioned way.

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16 Dec 2022 21:46

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16 Dec 2022 19:24

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15 Dec 2022 06:21

The Proof of Worth by Edgar Albert Guest.

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15 Dec 2022 03:21

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15 Dec 2022 00:21

Never give up!

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14 Dec 2022 21:21

Kids vs dad Snowball fight.
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14 Dec 2022 18:21

John 15:12-17

12 "My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.

13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 

14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 

15 I no longer call you servants because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 

16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name, the Father will give you. 

17 This is my command: Love each other."

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14 Dec 2022 04:47

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