August 2010
29 posts
“[I]t is a poor thing to strike our colours to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up “our own” when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud, He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown we prefer everything else to Him, and come to...
“In my life, there are times when I catch in the silence, the sigh of a faraway...”
– H. Kretzmer
“[Music] brings us near to the infinite.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Pooh [after rolling in mud]: “There, now. Isn’t this a clever disguise?”
Christopher Robin: “What are you supposed to be?”
Pooh: “I’m a little, black rain cloud, of course.”
-A. A. Milne
Some time when the river is ice ask me Mistakes I have made. Ask me whether What I have done is my life. Others Have come in their slow way into My thought, and some have tried to help Or to hurt: ask me what difference Their strongest love or hate has made. I will listen to what you say. You and I can turn and look At the silent river and wait. We know The current is there, hidden; and there Are...
Chopin, you amaze me. So, so beautiful…
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“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire (and live by love though the stars walk...”
– E. E. Cummings
“I’m tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that glorious...”
– Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights) (via loveadinfinitum, mustlove)
Therefore my trust is in the Lord, And not in mine own merit; On Him my soul shall rest, His word Upholds my fainting spirit; His promised mercy is my fort, My comfort and my sweet support;
I wait for it with patience (Wait for it with patience) I wait for it with patience (Wait for it with patience)
What though I wait the live-long night, And ’til the dawn appeareth, My heart still trusteth...
“this is wanting something, this is reaching for it.
this is wishing that a...”
– adam guettel, the beauty is (via livethelife)
My prayer this school year:
“And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ - to the glory and praise of God.” -Phil. 1:9-11
Mold me, Lord. Please. I’m a...
“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses...”
– T.E. Lawrence- “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom”
If I could, I would perform as an actress every night. Ah, what a life. :) Your will be done, God. Your will be done in my life…
