Past tears

Dieppe, Normandy

"Past tears are present strength."

~George MacDonald

Hospital for sinners

Noordwijk aan Zee

"The Church is not a museum for saints ..

but a hospital for sinners."

~Morton Kelsey

Rivers in the desert

De Blauwe Kamer, Rhenen, 14 jan 2018

"I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert."
~Psalm 43:19

Get enough

"There are two ways to get enough.

One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less."

~G.K. Chesterton

It is by loving

Katwijk, Holland

"It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come

nearest to the soul of another."

~George MacDonald

Sacred gift

Reuzenberenklauw, Amerongen 

"May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder."

~John O'Donohue


―  vader 75 jaar  ―

Truth that goes beyond

"The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence

and tenderness and sex and betrayal that benefits mankind.

It is not the collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious little church mice --

it does not so much nibble at our shoe leather as it cuts to the heart and splits the marrow from the bone.

It does not give us answers fitted to our small-minded questions,

but truth that goes beyond what we even know to ask."

~Rich Mullins

Om wat Ik deed

"Je bent niet gered om wat jij doet of laat, maar om wat Ik deed."
~OnderOns

Deepest awareness

"My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ
and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it."
~Brennan Manning

The sunset shout for joy

"They who dwell in the ends of the earth stand in awe of Your signs;

You make the dawn and the sunset shout for joy."

~Psalm 65:8

The pain that gnaws

"Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do."

~Philip Yancey

"The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest."

~Job 30:17

"Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe,

and, I believe,

the only hope for our twisted, violent planet."

~Philip Yancey

He shatters it Himself

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

He shatters it Himself."

~C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

The heavenly calling

"Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus,

whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest."

~Hebrews 3:1

My portion forever

"My flesh and my heart may fail,
    but God is the strength of my heart
    and my portion forever."

~Psalm 73:26

Den Haag-Scheveningen

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

He remembers that we are dust

"As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear Him.

For he knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust."

~Psalm 103:13,14

Two ways to get enough..

"There are two ways to get enough.

One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less."

~G.K. Chesterton

The sun and the moon and the stars

"And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see

the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away

and bow down to them and serve them"

~Deuteronomy 4:19

My Deliverer is coming

He will never break His promise though the stars should break faith with the sky,

My Deliverer is coming ― my Deliverer is standing by 

~Rich Mullins

Whom I have believed

"But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that He is able

to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me."

~2 Timothy 1:12