If the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way.
Among the people is he whose speech about the worldly life impresses you, and he calls God to witness what is in his heart, while he is the most hostile of adversaries. When he gains power, he strives to spread corruption on earth, destroying properties and lives. God does not like corruption. And when he is told, “Beware of God,” his pride leads him to more sin.
Great graces are in store for you, but to receive them you must be very little, like children who have a limitless confidence in the love of their papa. When you seek to reason out everything, to know everything ahead of time, to control everything by human means, you keep Me from acting as the God of love that I am. I ask neither for ability nor for great preparations on your part; I ask only for confidence, your confidence in Me, in the love of My open Heart for each one of you.
And Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
The very fact that they were caring and loving would be the millstone that weighed them down.
You might as well argue with the mirror as argue with each other. After all aren’t we all really the same person?
Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn’t have to do the work.
Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy.
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
What is desirable in a man is his kindness.
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way. 24. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.
PSA30.5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s.
In a typical passage Hippocrates wrote: ‘Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine things.
ACT5.41 And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
Lack thereof needn’t be from a grudge. Ignorance isn’t bliss.
He never did let anyone touch him in that way. Not even a kiss. Too humble. Too accustomed to the hand of violence, to the word of violence. He is machined. Pop. Now the mirror turns grey.