Something beautiful in your heart

  Kasteel Amerongen, my second home...

"In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart."

~Blaise Pascal

Keep love in your heart

Zandenplas, Nunspeet

"Keep love in your heart.
A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."
~Oscar Wilde

We know with Whom we go

Wijk bij Duurstede

"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

Hope

"Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances

which we know to be desperate."

~G.K. Chesterton

Rather be in the Mountains

Some good

"There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."

~J.R.R. Tolkien

What You want to give me

"Dear God,

I am so afraid to open my clenched fists!

Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to?

Who will I be when I stand before you with empty hands?

Please help me to gradually open my hands

and to discover that I am not what I own,

but what You want to give me."

~Henri Nouwen

My favorite spot in Amsterdam

Prinsengracht with Westerkerk and Westertoren

Trying to have a bright day

"Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to 

have a bright day without the sun."

~A.W. Tozer

At the door of God's mercy

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

~Brennan Manning

Little things

"Little things comfort us because little things distress us."

~Blaise Pascal

The shelter of the Most High

"He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High

will abide in the shadow of the Almighty."

~ Psalm 91:1