love

To answer the question,
"is it better to have loved and lost, than to not have loved at all?"
is mayhap impossible.

For once one has loved, to conceive of an existence without that love is incomprehensible.

we only believe what we live

"... till we aim at complete, unreserved obedience in all things, we are not really Christians at all."
~ John Henry Newman

What is the meaning of life?

love.

my better

You think of me, Ruth... as if I were a character in a book. And you make it a kind of poetical justice that I should, by some impossible means or other, come at last to marry the person that I love. But there is a higher justice than the poetical kind, my dear. I don't grieve for the impossible.
~ Tom Pinch in BBC's Martin Chuzzlewit

graffiti

With so much beauty in the world, why is the propensity of man towards ugliness?

"God is dead" is a smokescreen.
A frantic warping of the truth.

It is we who are dead.

Is the worst part of life watching what people become?

Change is inevitable.

It is almost inevitably for the worse.

Colorful language is a misnomer.

sorrowful introspection

Is the question, "What happened to me?" or, "What have I become?"

quotes from school

In one of my classes at Gutenberg, Western Civ, we read great books, or selections from them. Martin Luther, John Calvin, William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Voltaire, and Adam Smith are among the noble geniuses this term. As I read these great works, quotable jewels sometimes appear. Heed this timeless wisdom:

Indeed, as infant boys need beyond all else to be cherished in the bosoms and by the hands of maidens to keep them from perishing, yet when they are grown up their salvation is endangered if they associate with maidens...
~ Martin Luther, Freedom of a Christian

Rather let us willingly abstain from the search after knowledge, to which it is both foolish as well as perilous, and even fatal to aspire. If an unrestrained imagination urges us, our proper course is to oppose it with these words, "it is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory," (Prov. xxv.27)
~ John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion

worship

One of the biggest and most destructive problems in this day, mayhap in every age, is we have no sense of worship. We have no sensitivity to God's glory. We have forgotten, or never learned, to be reverent.

I attended a Lutheran service on Sunday. It was a first for me, the organ music, the liturgies. I wished they would continue, that they would sense the spark of reverence, of worship, that lay within their practice, and forget to do the rituals for sake of itselves, and continue onward and upward in this glorious discovery of worship, of this learning of reverence. I felt betrayed. I tasted droplets, just enough to realize my thirst, my need, this whole new world, but nowhere near enough to begin to quench, to begin to learn.

I took a walk and discovered the glory of fall. As I approached one glorious tree, I trembled to walk under the lavish display of color, it was too sacred. Leaves brushed me, and it was too much.

being

You are your decisions. I hate myself.

good and evil

"In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, in reality nothing is so ugly as evil. But in our imagination, we have reversed it. We have made good to become ugly and boring. We have made evil to be intriguing, attractive, and full of charm. Good and evil are like the positive and negative poles of an electric current, you transpose them and darkness falls, and that's why man is a stranger to himself today." - Ravi Zacharias

jekyll and hyde

We might admit a resemblance to Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. But we'd like to believe the Hyde part is an appendage, a diseased monkey super-glued on. That the words "I am unclean" refer simply to an external condition, instead of an inherent attribute.

sin

"I did such-and-such, and it didn't affect anything adversely. Therefore, it couldn't be a sin."

There is an assumption that sin makes life harder. I suggest it does the opposite.

discovery

all of life is a fairytale.

quote

If you're a praying Christian, your faith in God will carry you, if you're not a praying Christian, you will have to carry your faith, and you will get thoroughly, thoroughly exhausted.
--Ravi Zacharias

pictures

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wonderment.

Is it more ironic or sad that there might come a time that we must choose between Christ and Christianity?