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23 Feb 2023 03:23

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23 Feb 2023 00:23

Ezra 8:23

"So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer."

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22 Feb 2023 21:23

Psalm 51:10

"Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me."

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22 Feb 2023 18:23

Psalm 51:1-4

1 "Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest."

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22 Feb 2023 04:46

Studies for the Christ Child with a Lamb, 1503-1506.

~Leonardo da Vinci

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22 Feb 2023 01:46

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21 Feb 2023 22:46

"No philosopher would be willing to accept the idea of philosophy as a way of escape, but might there not be a question of the philosopher being in duty bound to refuse to accept a world, like our real world here, of disorder and crime where the values of the mind and spirit can no longer find a home?"

~Gabriel Marcel, Man Against Mass Society

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21 Feb 2023 19:46

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21 Feb 2023 06:17

"The highest use of the great masters of literature is not literary; it is apart from their superb style and even from their emotional inspiration. The first use of good literature is that it prevents a man from being merely modern. To be merely modern is to condemn oneself to an ultimate narrowness; just as to spend one’s last earthly money on the newest hat is to condemn oneself to the old-fashioned. The road of the ancient centuries is strewn with dead moderns. Literature, classic and enduring literature, does its best work in reminding us perpetually of the whole round of truth and balancing other and older ideas against the ideas to which we might for a moment be prone."

~G.K. Chesterton

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21 Feb 2023 03:17

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20 Feb 2023 21:17

The Accolade.

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20 Feb 2023 18:17

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth."

~William Faulkner

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18 Feb 2023 05:36

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of the intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the beauty in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you lived here. This is to have succeeded."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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18 Feb 2023 03:35

"The groans of earth shall be surpassed by the songs of heaven, and the woes of time shall be swallowed up in the hallelujahs of eternity."

C. H. Spurgeon

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23 Feb 2023 01:53

The Fight Between Carnaval And Lent, 1559.

~Pieter Brueghel

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22 Feb 2023 22:53

Ash Wednesday is a poem written and narrated by T. S. Eliot after his 1927 conversion. Published in 1930, this poem deals with the struggle that ensues when one who has lacked faith in the past strives to move towards God.

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22 Feb 2023 19:53

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22 Feb 2023 06:16

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."

~Mark Twain

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22 Feb 2023 03:16

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22 Feb 2023 00:16

Trip On the Seine & Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1920s.

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21 Feb 2023 21:16

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21 Feb 2023 18:16

"I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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21 Feb 2023 04:47

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18 Feb 2023 07:06

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18 Feb 2023 02:04

“Instead of a river God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not to rest in our blessings, but in the Blesser Himself. Yet is it not at this very point that we so often fail-our hearts being far more occupied with the gifts than with the Giver? Is not this just the reason why the Lord will not trust us with a river?-because it would unconsciously take His place in our hearts. "Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: you are waxen fat, you are grown thick, you are covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation" (Deuteronomy 32:15). And the same evil tendency exists within us, We sometimes feel that we are being harshly dealt with because God gives us a brook rather than a river, but this is because we are so little acquainted with our own hearts. God loves His own too well to place dangerous knives in the hands of infants.”

- Arthur Pink ‘The Life of Elijah’