Yesterday and today and forever

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever."

~Hebrews 13:8

Keep them

April 2018

Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo ©

"I do not ask that You take them out of the world,
but that You keep them from the evil one."

~John 17:15

Who truly see

Huis Doorn

"We have to be in trouble,

before we remember for what is essential.

Those who truly see you, are the ones you need."

~John O'Donohue

I know Who holds the future

"I don't know what the future holds, but I know Who holds the future!"
~Billy Graham

Come away

Ginkelse Heide, april 2018

"Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while."

~Mark 6:13

Tasting the coming joy

"While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys,
foreseeing the coming sorrows,
Jesus empowers people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows,
tasting the coming joy."
~Timothy Keller

Cleanse his soul

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

The Way of the Cross

"May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,

through which the world has been crucified
to me, and I to the world."

~Galatians 6:14

( hbj - 50 jaar! )

The only lesson

Hoorn

"To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life."

~Vincent van Gogh

Some good

Enkhuizen

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

~J.R.R. Tolkien

He is able

Hoorn

"Because He himself suffered when He was tempted,

He is able to help those who are being tempted."

~Hebrews 2:18