Through a forest wilderness

"The clearest way into the Universe is
through a forest wilderness."

~John Muir

Where there is darkness, light

"Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life."

~Francis of Assisi

Most conservative among liberals

"Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives,
and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals."
~Philip Yancey

The esteem of the world

"Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method.
The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided
that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort."
~A.W. Tozer, Pursuit of God

You've been here all along I guess?

And so You've been here all along I guess 

It's just Your ways

~Rich Mullins

The unwounded life?

"The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi."
~Brennan Manning

He watches down the road

And our Father still waits and He watches down the road

Kind words

"Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
~Blaise Pascal

Children of the living God

the last mushrooms for this year

"As He says in Hosea: ‘I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;
    and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one.”

~Romans 9:25

Behold!

"Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,"

~1 Corinthians 15:51

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 

Pointing in the right direction

"For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called

may receive the promised eternal inheritance."

~Hebrews 9:15

Glorious joy

"And even though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith,

the salvation of your souls."

~1 Peter 1:8,9

Wicked ways

"If My people who are called by My name humble themselves, and pray and
seek My face and turn from their wicked ways,
then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land."
~2 Chronicles 7:14

Pure joy

"Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds"
~James 1:2

The Lord will fight for you

"The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

~Exodus 14:14

All sufficiency

"And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times"

~2 Corinthians 9:8

What we will be

"Beloved,
we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared;

but we know that when He appears we shall be like Him,

because we shall see Him as He is."

~1 John 3:2

Desires of the flesh

"..the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions --
is not from the Father but is from the world."
~1 John 2:16

Their champion was dead

"Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it
out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it.
When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled."
~1 Samuel 17:51