Will lead you closer

"Dare to love and to be a real friend.

The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer

to God as well as those whom God has given you to love."

~Henri Nouwen

Go together

Achter het Oude Stadhuis, Marktplein, Amersfoort

"Beauty and sadness always go together."

~George MacDonald

And He knew us

Rouen

"God loves us completely.

And He knew us at our worst before He ever began to love us at all."

~Rich Mullins

Our feelings come and go

"The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not."

~C.S. Lewis

My nature

Köln

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.

I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."

~Jane Austen

Our hells and our heavens

Rijskmuseum - Amsterdam
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"We are frail, we are fearfully and wonderfully made 
Forged in the fires of human passion 
Choking on the fumes of selfish rage 
And with these our hells and our heavens 
So few inches apart 
We must be awfully small 
And not as strong as we think we are."
~Rich Mullins

United States of Europe?

Statue George Washington in The Rotunda, U.S. Capitol, Washington D.C. sept. 2004

"If there had been no God,
mankind would have been obliged to imagine one."

~George Washington

He also said:
"Some day, following the example of the United States of America,
there will be a United States of Europe."

(ehhmmm)

Den Haag-Scheveningen

"What kind of house will you build to me?"
~Isaiah 66:1

Build a tower

"For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost,

whether he has enough to complete it?"

~Luke 14:28

Count the cost

"For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost,
whether he has enough to complete it?"
~Luke 14:28