December 2011
7 posts
I read this today, and thought to post it ‘cos it seemed meaningful.
Now we cannot, in that sense, discover our failure to keep God’s law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the...
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“He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters.”
– Psalm 23:2
Scripture affirms that periods of rest and leisure are part of God’s creation order. These periods of rest are to be used wisely.
http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/5386-leisure-nature-purpose/dictionary-of-bible-themes
Poeman said that a brother asked Moses, ‘How does someone die to self? Is it through his neighbor?’ He answered, ‘Unless you think in your heart that you have been shut in a tomb for three years, you cannot attain to self-loss.’
—The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks
Midnight in the Bedroom of Good and Evil, by Christopher Riordan -...
