Peace, love and joy

"Power, success, happiness, as the world knows them, are his who will fight for them hard enough;

but peace, love, joy are only from God."

~Frederick Buechner

It is His joy

"No one need be downcast, for Jesus is the joy of heaven,

and it is His joy to enter into sorrowful hearts."

~A.W. Tozer

Where it cannot be found

"I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love

where it cannot be found."
~Henri Nouwen

Through a forest wilderness

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

~John Muir

All the beauty

Kasteel Prattenburg, Utrechtse Heuvelrug

"All the beauty we have looked for in art or faces or places—and all the love

we have looked for in the arms of other people—

is only fully present in God himself."

~Timothy Keller

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

Behold

"Behold, the day of the Lord comes."

~Isaiah 13:9

I went to the woods

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately..."

~Henry David Thoreau

At the door of God's mercy

"A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy."

~Brennan Manning

Small things brought together

Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, nov. 2016

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

~Vincent Van Gogh

From the ashes a fire shall be woken

 Jachthuis St. Hubertus, Hoge Veluwe

"All that is gold does not glitter,

Not all those who wander are lost;

The old that is strong does not wither,

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,

A light from the shadows shall spring;

Renewed shall be blade that was broken,

The crownless again shall be king."

~J.R.R. Tolkien