Tasting the coming joy

"While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys,
foreseeing the coming sorrows,
Jesus empowers people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows,
tasting the coming joy."
~Timothy Keller

Cleanse his soul

Ah! Happy they whose hearts can break

And peace of pardon win!

How else may man make straight his plan

And cleanse his soul from Sin?

How else but through a broken heart

May Lord Christ enter in?"

~Oscar Wilde

from Ballad of Reading Gaol

The Way of the Cross

"May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,

through which the world has been crucified
to me, and I to the world."

~Galatians 6:14

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The only lesson

Hoorn

"To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life."

~Vincent van Gogh

Some good

Enkhuizen

"There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."

~J.R.R. Tolkien

He is able

Hoorn

"Because He himself suffered when He was tempted,

He is able to help those who are being tempted."

~Hebrews 2:18

Love never fails

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"Love is always supportive,

loyal, hopeful,

and trusting.

Love never fails."

~1 Cor. 13:7,8a

Spirit and life

"It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all.

The words that I have spoken to you,

are spirit and life."

~John 6:63

You'll bet beat up real bad

"So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get beat up real bad. 

But, in a little while after you're dead, you'll be rotted away anyway.

It's not gonna matter if you have a few scars.

It will matter if you didn't Live."

~Rich Mullins

Come to Me to have life

Plansee, Tirol

"You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life.

These are the very Scriptures that testify about Me,

yet you refuse to come to me to have life."

~John 5:39

Every house is built by someone

"For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything."

~Hebrews 3:4