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We travel to learn; an I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
Maria Mitchell
Mark Water, The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations (Alresford, Hampshire: John Hunt Publishers Ltd, 2000), 1063.
Lord I will put to death whatever belongs to my earthly nature: Sexual immorality; impurity; lust; controlling desires; greed; idolatry; pride; hate and everything else that is against You. Help me to put on: Compassion; kindness; humility; gentleness; and patient. Help me to bear with others and forgive as You have forgiven me. Most of all help me to put on LOVE, which binds them together.
Lord, grant me the grace to put to death these my earthly vices and grant me the grace to be clothed in godliness.
(Col 3:5-7, 12-14)
In Christ name, I pray amen.
3 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
2 a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
3 a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 a time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 a time to tear, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 a time to love, and a time to hate;
a time for war, and a time for peace.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ec 3:1–8.
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
9 where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for cforty years.
10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
they have not known my ways.’
11 As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest.’ ”
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Heb 3:7–11.
Christ was God’s Son who reigned over the household of God’s people. He was superior to Moses, who was merely a servant within God’s household. Jesus’ superiority to Moses made it a more serious matter to reject Jesus than to reject Moses. Our writer referred to the experience of Israel in Numbers 14:1–35 as an illustration of the seriousness of unbelief.
Thomas D. Lea, “The General Letters,” in Holman Concise Bible Commentary (ed. David S. Dockery; Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1998), 622.
164. Every individual-personal mania is a usurper, and every mania represents the terroristic feature of the usurped power.
122. Contemporary man - and the man of any age altogether - is nothing other than an identification.
142. The one who is not able to live his life as a constant ascension, which attains its perfection in the period right before death, but from a certain age starts to descend, in reality abuses his life.
143. He who does not strive upwards, descends.
144. He who lets himself be taken by the current, is certain to follow the wrong path.
151. Most people are infantile until about the midpoint of their lives, that is until the age of thirty-six, and immediately after that from one day to another grow senile.
220. The more a creature is a creature, the frailer he is, the more he is subject to attacks, the more he is subject to circumstances, the more he lives in the realm of attractions and repulsions.
224. Man should not ensure reservations of darkness in his life.
162. In the final analysis, man is not subjected to external factors but to his inner psychological states.
163. That which manifests itself as democracy in the world, appears as automatism, whirling associations, distractions and lack of (self)control in consciousness.
164. Every individual-personal mania is a usurper, and every mania represents the terroristic feature of the usurped power.
165. The really negative thing in someone’s raving is not that he is raving, but that in fact it is not him who is raving but something/someone within him.
166. Not only he commits a crime who by losing his self-control commits something, but also he who following from his lack of self-control does nothing.
137. The case when someone ignores essentiality involves not only that the most important thing starts missing but that there can be found something else in its place.
138. Sticking to the only-human leads not to remaining in the human sphere but to becoming sub-human. For persisting in something is to loose it: to loose that which was intended to be retained.
140. If superhuman principles does not stand behind man’s intention of changing himself then he will not remain in the human state but descend to a subhuman condition.
105. The fundamental alienation, the fundamental decline is the personality itself: when I myself am alienated from myself.
305. Antitraditionality is nothing other than the creating of confusion in the relationship between the existent world and the centre of the existent world so as to make it impossible to find the way back to the centre.
653. Emotion is feeling become sick.
[scil. feeling is originally not a displaced state, because man is not the object of feeling, like that of emotion, but he is its subject.]
654. Each emotional state is a kind of obsession.
696. When man turns more and more to the quantitative world rather than himself, then he practically turns to nothing. By losing spirit man kept his soul, which still had some spiritual properties. After this he kept only the body, which still has some pneumatic properties; and slowly he will come to the nothing, which will only have some somatic properties.
707. Death inevitably pertains to life as its complement. Man experiences death to the degree he indulges himself in life, because life contains death.
708. When life is lacking what is beyond life then death, the complement of life, overcomes life.
717. If my identification tends toward the engendered world, I will pass away with the engendered world.
739. An extraneous force dominates all that has a beginning.
740. The loss of beginning is the loss of dominion, the loss of dominion is the loss of the consciousness of beginning and that of origin, i.e. the loss of my ultimate reality as a consciousness.
751. Originally, it was volition that is now instinct in man.
18. The less man has views and the more he has personal interests, the more he is inclined to regard his interests as views.
118. In the highest degree and as a first step man creates his incarnation; then - descending lower - he chooses it; descending even lower he freely accepts it; descending even lower than this he involuntarily takes notice of it: maybe he would like to but cannot avoid it; descending even lower than before he meets it; and finally he unconsciously falls into his incarnation - into that which originally was freely created by him.
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Metaphysical aphorisms by András László
www.tradicio.org/english/solumipsum.htm
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painting by Alberto Giacometti
12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called nin one body. And obe thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And swhatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Col 3:12–17.
1 Guard your steps when you go to othe house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. 2 Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ec 5:1–3.
Zephaniah 3:17 (ESV)
17 The LORD your God is in your midst,
a mighty one who will save;
he will rejoice over you with gladness;
he will quiet you by his love;
he will exult over you with loud singing.
12 “For you shall go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
shall break forth into singing,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress;
instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle;
and it shall make a name for the LORD,
an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Is 55:12–13.
Isaiah 40:28–31 (ESV)
28 Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
his understanding is unsearchable.
29 He gives power to the faint,
and to him who has no might he increases strength.
30 Even youths shall faint and be weary,
and young men shall fall exhausted;
31 but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint.
17 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), 1 Jn 2:17.
If we think we are not all that bad, the idea of grace will never change us - Tim Keller
23 for fall have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 gand are justified hby his grace as a gift, ithrough the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God jput forward as ka propitiation lby his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in mhis divine forbearance he had passed over nformer sins. 26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
27 oThen what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. 28 For we hold that one is justified by faith papart from works of the law. 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, 30 since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and sthe uncircumcised through faith. 31 Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ro 3:22–31.
K2 & Kennedy Keeping Eye On Spinnaker Lane NY Home Sprinkler Line Winter Flushing - IMRAN™
When Kennedy & K2 barked standing inside the front door foyer I assumed it was another package delivery. But they stayed at the door. Looking out, I said hi to the irrigation company person flushing my neighbor’s landscaping sprinklers. Later when he came around my home on Spinnaker Lane for sprinkler line flushing both dogs kept a focused eye on the man and the mist spraying out of the ground. (See 3D at facebook.com/MyIMRAN ).
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The Parable of the Lost Coin
8 “Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it? 9 And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’ 10 Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Lk 15:8–10.
Dear Lord, nothing compares to the greatness of knowing you: Not my career; Not my family; Not my religious experience or knowledge; Not my service rendered unto You; Not my money; Not my reputation; Not my recreation; Not my friendships; All my aspirations are rubbish compared to the possibility of knowing You.
7 But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ - Php 3:6–8.
Oh Lord, help me to love you enough to never count the cost... You didn't.
You have love me countless ways:
enough to bless me,
to always be with me,
to heal my wounds,
to strengthen me,
to give Your life for me!
1 I waited patiently for the LORD;
he inclined to me and heard my cry.
2 He drew me up from the pit of destruction,
out of the miry bog,
and set my feet upon a rock,
making my steps secure.
3 He put a new song in my mouth,
a song of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear,
and put their trust in the LORD.
4 Blessed is the man who makes
the LORD his trust,
who does not turn to the proud,
to those who go astray after a lie! - Ps 40:1–4.
I pray all this in Jesus name, Amen
Proverbs 5:21
21 For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD,
and he ponders all his paths.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Pr 5:21.
What does the LORD Require?
6 “With what shall I come before the LORD,
and bow myself before God on high?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?
7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams,
with ten thousands of rivers of oil?
Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”
8 He has told you, O man, what is good;
and what does the LORD require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Mic 6:6–8.
Gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. – Galatians 5:23
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12 we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), 1 Th 2:12.
11 aTeach me your way, O LORD,
that I may bwalk in your truth;
cunite my heart to fear your name.
12 I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart,
and I will glorify your name forever.
13 For great is your steadfast love toward me;
you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ps 86:11–13.
14 Then I will make their waters clear,
and cause their rivers to run like oil,
declares the Lord GOD.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Eze 32:14.
Lamentation over Pharaoh (Ezek. 32:1–16)
This section and the one following it could be considered as one prophecy with two different divisions. The first is a lamentation while the second is a funeral dirge.
Ezekiel once more pictures Pharaoh as a dragon whose feet trouble the waters and make the rivers foul. He will be dug out and thrown on the ground. His blood will drench the land and there will be a cataclysmic shock upon nature. Babylon is again specified as the instrument of punishment and spoken of as the most terrible among the nations.
Thoughts expressed in previous prophecies are reiterated and some new details are added. Both the poetical and prose sections make it clear Egypt will be stripped of her pride. When the land is completely purified the people will recognize the Lord. Ezekiel instructs the daughters of the nations to sing this lamentation concerning Egypt and her inhabitants.
Fred M. Wood, “Ezekiel,” in The Teacher’s Bible Commentary (ed. H. Franklin Paschall and Herschel H. Hobbs; Nashville: Broadman and Holman Publishers, 1972), 513.
This [sense of spiritual abandonment] is one of the most bitter sufferings of this purgation. The soul is conscious of a profound emptiness in itself, a cruel destitution of the three kinds of goods, natural, temporal, and spiritual, which are ordained for its comfort. It sees itself in the midst of the opposite evils, miserable imperfections, dryness and emptiness of the understanding, and abandonment of the spirit in darkness.
John of the Cross
Mark Water, The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations (Alresford, Hampshire: John Hunt Publishers Ltd, 2000), 2.