The blog is meant to be a bit of a side chapel - a place to slip into and still and encounter… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Our Lord Jesus Christ added nothing to God in His essential being and glory, either by what He did or suffered. True,… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Indeed, when God's glory dwells in me, there is nothing too far away, nothing too painful, nothing too strange or too familiar… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I find one vast garden spread out all over the universe. All plants, all human beings, all higher mind bodies are about… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
It's a blessed thing to die daily. For what is there in this world to be accounted of! The best men according… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
For all its rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here; it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
To multitudes of sufferers on beds of pain and languishing, Jesus has been the great physician to-day; in many a weeping circle… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
and even when I was broken the way sometimes one can be broken, and even though I had fallen, I found upon… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
... the Apostle says, 'he that says he abides in Christ ought himself also to walk as He walked' (I Jn. 2:6).… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
My family dumplings are sleek and seductive, yet stout and masculine. They taste of meat, yet of flour. They are wet, yet… — Robert P. T. Coffin Copy Share Image
“Muhammad introduced the concept of such Glorious and Omnipotent God in Whose eyes all worldly systems are pieces of straw. Islamic equality… — Dr. Mawde Royden Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one.… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I will go forward... I will smile at the rage of the tempest, and ride fearlessly and triumphantly across the boisterous ocean… — Eliza R. Snow Copy Share Image
It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Trauma really does confront you with the best and the worst. You see the horrendous things that people do to each other,… — Bessel van der Kolk Copy Share Image
The appointment of Jesus to be the Savior of the world was contested by one of the other sons of God. He… — Milton R. Hunter Copy Share Image
When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Name none of the fallen, for they stand in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We are consumed by safety. Obsessed with it, actually. Now, I’m not saying it is wrong to pray for God’s protection, but… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Macbeth's deed is done in horror, and without the faintest desire or sense of glory- done, one may almost say, as if… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Oh for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
Writing is a vocation and, as in any other calling, a writer should develop his talents for the greater glory of God.… — Piers Paul Read Copy Share Image
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
When I was going out and trying to fully give glory to God, in my setting, I feared that people would be… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
That's what I call meditation. You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
...What is more like love than the ocean? You can play in it, drown in it...it can be clear and bright enough… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made… — Sallust Copy Share Image
When later he [St. Joseph] carried the Child in his arms, acts of loving faith welled up constantly in his heart. It… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
It is because God is infinitely great and good that his glory is the end of all things; and his good pleasure… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Let us not imagine that we obscure the glory of the Son by the great praise we lavish on the Mother; for… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
![“When later he [St. Joseph] carried the Child in his arms, acts of loving faith welled up constantly in his heart. It was a worship that pleased our Lord more than that which he receives in heaven. Picture to yourself Saint Joseph, adoring the little Child in his arms as his God. He tells of his…” quote by Peter Julian Eymard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/feb/peter-julian-eymard-11275_arms_when-later-he-st-joseph-carried-the-chil_1125715.jpg)
