Only when I fall

Sterrennacht boven de Rhône, 1888


"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes.
Only when I fall do I get up again."
~Vincent van Gogh

For a little time

"For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, 

and then vanisheth away."

~James 4:14

Fairy tales are more than true

"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist,

but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

~G.K. Chesterton

Suffering come upon us

"Drei Turme", Montafon, Oostenrijk, long time ago

"When pain and suffering come upon us,

we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives

but that we never were."

~Timothy Keller

Our greatest love

"Only when our greatest Love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death,
can we face all things with peace."
~Timothy Keller
Walking with God through Pain and Suffering

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

For individuals

"God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him."

~Hudson Taylor

When one is most alive

"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise.

And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive,

and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive."

~Jack London, The Call of the Wild

For what is your life?

"Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life?

It is even a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away."

~James 4:14

When I am weak

"When I am weak then am I strong, Grace is my shield and Christ my song."
~Charles Spurgeon

As water reflects

"As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart."

~Proverbs 27:19