The beauty that still remains

"I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains."
~Anne Frank

There is a dawn in me

"Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep."

~Henry David Thoreau

That where I am

"And if I go and prepare a place for you,

I will come again and receive you to Myself;

that where I am,

there you may be also."

~John 14:3

With all that is left

I cry the Name of the One who loves me

The Name of the One on whom I call

'Til it roars like thunder

Rolling down these canyon walls

Every breath I've ever breathed

Was sent as a gift from on high

And with all that is left of all that is me

Up to the Heavens I cry

~Rich Mullins

Give me truth

"Rather than money or fame; give me truth."

~Henry David Thoreau

Pleasure in the pathless woods

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,

   There is a rapture on the lonely shore,

There is society where none intrudes,

   By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:

   I love not Man the less, but Nature more.."

~George Gordon Byron

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods

Those things My hand has made

"Heaven is My throne,
And earth is My footstool.
Where is the house that you will build Me?
And where is the place of My rest?
For all those things My hand has made."
~Isaiah 66:1a

All the earth

"O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before Him, all the earth."

~Psalm 96:9

But God’s eternal Laws are kind

Coumeenoole Beach, Dingle Peninsula, Ireland

"And thus we rust Life’s iron chain

  Degraded and alone:

And some men curse, and some men weep,

  And some men make no moan:

But God’s eternal Laws are kind

  And break the heart of stone.

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

Filled with enduring love

"The awesome love of our invisible God has become both visible and audible

in Jesus Christ,

the glory of the only Son filled with enduring love."

~Brennan Manning

We know with Whom

"Wherever Jesus may lead us, He goes before us.

If we don’t know where we are going, we know with Whom we go."

~Charles Spurgeon, Morning and Evening