A fool's paradise

"It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise."

~Fjodor Dostojevski, The Idiot

Worden we nog op tijd Wakker in Europa?..!

Far better things

Muckross House

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."
~C.S. Lewis

The joy of thy salvation

Leamaneh Castle

"Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation."

~Psalms 51:11,12

What he cannot lose

Kasteel Amerongen

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
~Jim Elliot

Without the cold of winter

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."

~John Steinbeck

Everything for us

"God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust."

~A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

Capacity for beer

"When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes.

I believe and I doubt,
I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate,
I feel bad about feeling good,

I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am trusting and suspicious.

I am honest and I still play games.
Aristotle said I am a rational animal;

I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer."

~Brennan Manning

The Ragamuffin Gospel

The marriage of the Lamb is come

"Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come,

and his wife hath made herself ready."

~Revelation 19:7

Sensibility is the definition of life

"Sensibility is the definition of life."

~G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

I believe what I believe

"And I believe what I believe is what makes me what I am,

I did not make it, no it is making me."

~Rich Mullins

Three things that will remain ( Joyful 2016 )

2015  2016 --- Blíjf geloven, blíjf hopen, en blíjf liefhebben.

Want ons resten geloof, hoop en liefde; maar de grootste daarvan is de liefde.

(1 Kor. 13:13)

"If you try to have faith, you will be attacked by doubts you never knew you were capable of.

But you keep on believing, even if you fall, even if you struggle with doubts, you keep on believing.

And if you live a life that is marked by hope, by the belief that God is good, and there is goodness in the world that awaits us, you'll be disappointed. You'll be crushed, even, sometimes.

But you keep on hoping.

And if you choose to love, you will be misunderstood, you will be betrayed, you will be rejected by the people who most desperately need the love you have to offer.

We are blemished people, and in order to love anybody,
in any way, we have to expose that part of us that we'd rather keep hidden.

Our own selfishness, our own fears, our own hangups, and it's embarrassing. So humiliating.

But you keep on loving.

Many of us are obsessed with becoming rich, many of us are obsessed with becoming smart.

But all of our wisdom, all of our great insights; we see in part and we prophesy in part..

But when that which is perfect comes, that which is in part is done away with.

But There are three things that will remain: faith, and hope, and love.

Make sure you live in those."

―Rich Mullins