Tag Archives: quotes
Where?
“Where shall the world be found, where will the world resound? Not here there is not enough silence.” T.S. Elliot
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Psychotic
“We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. ‘We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like.’ We are made to feel ashamed to wear clothes or drive cars until they are worn out. The mass media has convinced us that to be out of step with fashion is to be out of step with reality. It is time we awaken to the fact that conformity to a sick society is to be sick.” Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline, Simplicty
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Our Own Devising
“God made man simple; Man’s complex problems are of his own devising.” Ecclesiastes 7:30, JB
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Serenity
This week the Daily Post has asked us to display: SERENITY
Discover other serene spots at
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/serenity/
Here are mine along with a poem I love from Emerson
The Apology
Think me not unkind and rude
That I walk alone in grove and glen;
I go to the god of the wood
To fetch his word to men.
Tax not my sloth that I
Fold my arms beside the brook;
Each cloud that floated in the sky
Writes a letter in my book.
Kylemore Abbey
Chide me not, laborious band,
For the idle flowers I brought;
Every aster in my hand
Goes home loaded with a thought.
There was never mystery
But ’tis figured in the flowers;
Was never secret history
But birds tell it in the bowers.
One harvest from thy field
Homeward brought the oxen strong;
A second crop thine acres yield,
Which I gather in a song.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Central Avenue
Prayer is the central avenue God uses to transform us. Richard Foster
God does nothing but in answer to prayer. John Wesley
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Descend
To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there to stand before the face of the Lord, ever-present, all seeing, within you.- Theophan the Recluse
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The Devil!
HURRY IS THE DEVIL- CARL JUNG
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Mending The World
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.- William Penn
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The Chosen Course
“If we ever expect to grow in grace, we must pay the price of a consciously chosen course of action which involves both individual and group life.” Richard Foster
This of course means that all those folk who say they do not need the church but can worship in the woods with the squirrels are missing out on something. What do you think?
Lillie-Put 