My heart is overwhelmed

"From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed:

lead me to the rock that is higher than I."

~Psalm 61:2

C.S. Lewis

Amerongen

"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."
~C.S. Lewis, A grief observed

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

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

Heart of wonder

"May you experience each day as a sacred gift

woven around the heart of wonder."

~John O'Donohue

If

"If there were no God, there would be no atheists."
:-)
~G.K. Chesterton

Not a museum

"The Church is not a museum for saints, but a hospital for sinners."

~Morton Kelsey

Eternal glory in Christ

"And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ,

after you have suffered a little while,

will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.

To Him be the power for ever and ever. Amen."

~2 Peter 5:10,11

At the door of God's mercy

"A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy."

~Brennan Manning

The shelter of the Most High

"He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High

will abide in the shadow of the Almighty."

~ Psalm 91:1

The Creator - Blessed 2017

Oude Kerk, Veenendaal

"There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing,

but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus."

~Blaise Pascal

Pensées

Blessed 2017 !

Jesus has overcome the world

"Joy is based on the spiritual knowledge that,

while the world in which we live is shrouded in darkness,

Jesus has overcome the world."

~Henri Nouwen

Dare to love

"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

At the door of God's mercy

"A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy."

~Brennan Manning

Strengthened in the faith

"So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers."

~Acts 16:5

Going to church

"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore then going to 

McDonalds makes you a hamburger."

~Keith Green

Sandals on your feet

"With your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet

and your staff in your hand.

Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover."

~Exodus 12:11

My portion forever

Kölner Dom, Cologne

"My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever."
~Psalm 73:26

A strong tower

"The name of the Lord is a strong tower; The righteous run to it and are safe."

~Proverbs 18:10

 

"For where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them." :-)
―Matthew 18:20

Going to church

"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than

going to McDonald's makes you a hamburger."

~Keith Green