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

Not an adventurer

"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."

~Vincent van Gogh

What is unsayable

"Often secrets are not revealed in words,

they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth

of what is unsayable between two people."

~John O'Donohue

His own mercy

"He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness,

but according to His own mercy."

~Titus 3:5

Save me

"You, Lord, are my protector;

you are all I want in this life.

Listen to my cry for help,

for I am sunk in despair.

Save me from my enemies;

they are too strong for me.

Set me free from my distress."

~Psalm 142:5-7b

Have a bright day

"Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to 
have a bright day without the sun."
~A.W. Tozer

Without listening speaking no longer heals

"Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning,
that without listening speaking no longer heals, and
that without distance closeness cannot cure."
~Henri Nouwen

Boats up on shore

"So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed Him."
~Luke 5:11

The marks of His presence

"My idea of God is a not divine idea. It has to be shattered from time to time.

He shatters it Himself.

He is the great iconoclast.

Could we not almost say that this shattering is one of the marks of His presence?"

~C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

Retraite

Fishers

"And He said to them, "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men."

~Matthew 4:19

Treasures in heaven

"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves

break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven."

~Matthew 6:19

What is right

"For I do not understand my own actions.

For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out..."

~Romans 7

Never again

"Build a boat for yourself out of good timber.."

~Genesis 6:14a

"Then the Lord shut the door behind Noah. The flood continued for forty days,

and the water became deep enough for the boat to float."

~Genesis 7:16,17

Hòld me Jesus

"Never again will I destroy all living beings, as I have done this time.

As long as the world exists, there will be a time for planting and a time for harvest.

There will always be cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night."

~Genesis 8:21b,22 

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"He will again have compassion on us; He will tread our iniquities underfoot.
You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea"
~Micah 7:19