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| 9c88e68 | Joy is not the opposite of suffering. If it were, a person practiced in joy could crowd out pain because one couldn't exist with the other. Instead, joy can actually be a companion to suffering. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| cdd2667 | If you want Jesus, you must be willing to accept the honor that goes with the relationship. Your royal status--ascribed to you, not achieved--has been unveiled. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| b686f3a | If our failure to consistently worship the true God is the key feature of sin, we are sinners all. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| f46576f | Our goal is to love people more than need them. We are overflowing pitchers, not leaky cups. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 6b3add4 | I have a new philosophy. I only dread one day at a time. --Charlie Brown | Edward T. Welch | ||
| d8bf777 | 9:10). Since the fear of the Lord is the great treasure of life, Proverbs tries to woo us to it. It tries to make the fear of the Lord as attractive as possible. Those who fear the Lord will fear nothing else (19:23). The fear of the Lord adds length to life (10:27), it is a secure fortress for the one who fears and for his or her children (14:26). It is a fountain of life (15:16), it brings honor (22:4), and it should be praised when we se.. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 4027176 | One reason Christians respond positively to a needs psychology is that it takes people's pain seriously. However, this perspective can actually make pain worse. It compounds pain by suggesting that not did the sins of others hurt deeply, but they also deprived you of something--a right, something you were owed--that is necessary for life. Being deeply hurt by others is hard enough, but when we believe that their sin was a near-lethal blow t.. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| adb4c37 | Scripture is about suffering. It has given comfort to millions. It has spawned hundreds of wonderful books that highlight God's gentle care and Scripture's probing insights. You can be assured of this: God really does speak in our suffering, and we have good reason to believe that the words he says are good and powerful enough to lighten our pain. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 8d1ae5d | Have you ever thought about Jesus' physical appearance? If you think about the paintings, he was a relatively handsome Dutchman. But if you think about a prophetic description, "he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him" (Isaiah 53:2). To put it diplomatically, he didn't look like much, and sleepless nights filled with prayer vigils probably didn't help." | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 7193e06 | Imagine the presence of one who deeply loves you and is powerful enough to deal with the things you fear. It turns fear into confidence. But, like all spiritual growth, this change only comes with practice. It comes when you say, "Amen--I believe" when you hear or read the promises of God. It comes through meditation on God's words. It comes when the cross of Jesus Christ assures you that God is faithful. These words to the fearful are so i.. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 2720d66 | You will either fear God or other people. There are no other alternatives. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| d51e0e3 | Your future includes manna. It will come. There is no sense devising future scenarios now because God will do more than you anticipate. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 894757a | Therefore, to fight against hopelessness is to take action in the present. You think that checking off a to-do list is unspiritual? When done by faith, it is heroic. There are paradoxes in depression; there are also apparent paradoxes in the way God works in us. For example, if you want vitality in the present, entrust your future to the Lord. If you want to have glimpses of hope for tomorrow, trust God now. What are your dashed hopes? What.. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| db48b90 | Yet weakness--or neediness--is a valuable asset in God's community. Jesus introduced a new era in which weakness is the new strength. Anything that reminds us that we are dependent on God and other people is a good thing. Otherwise, we trick ourselves into thinking that we are self-sufficient, and arrogance is sure to follow. We need help, and God has given us his Spirit and each other to provide it. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 683076f | The fear of man is the sinful exaggeration of a normal experience. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 7ff6dc1 | The ordinary is not good enough for us; our hubris wants something grandiose. But the ordinary done in obedience to Christ is beautiful, inspired, and oftentimes heroic. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| f06c265 | People who have experienced war have learned to accept the trials and sufferings of life. Among many wise, older citizens in American society, there is no desperate flight from suffering. Instead, there is a recognition that it is a part of life that can have some benefit. Yet among those in the post-World War II generation, a wisp of happiness is the goal, and suffering must be avoided at all costs. If there are hardships in a relationship.. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 0a23566 | in view of God's sovereign control, God will accomplish his purposes in our lives even when we make decisions we later regret. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| f5b8b5f | with this? Do you live as if this is true? Let's keep going. The Bible isn't just about heaven and only for the by-and-by. It is gritty and real. It is about messed-up people and the way God pursues them. The Bible describes real life--with its ups and downs and our stubborn quests for independence--better than anything | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 1e8a01a | When happy, we possess something we love; when anxious, something we love is at risk; when despondent, something we love has been lost; when angry, something we love is being stolen or kept from us. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 064e6bb | It is as if we want to believe the lie. Perhaps we blame ourselves because in a strange way it helps us feel as if we have more control. If we are responsible for whatever went wrong, for whatever hurt us, we might be able to figure out how to keep it from happening again. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| e3a6ab8 | Shame is life-dominating and stubborn. Once entrenched in your heart and mind, it is a squatter that refuses to leave. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 21ad64d | Ich will meine Familie nicht verlieren. Immerhin gehore ich ja dazu. Was bin ich ohne sie? Ein Stuck? Ein Teil? Muss jeder Mensch einmal ohne Familie sein, um ein Mensch zu werden? | family | Benjamin Lebert | |
| ac6e0f7 | Which would you prefer? To be perpetually standing still or perpetually running? | Benjamin Lebert | ||
| 5ff073b | Each smallest act of kindness reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil. --This Momentous Day, H.R. White | Dean Koontz | ||
| de194a5 | Insecurity of the spirit demands completeness elsewhere. | obsession procedure ritual | Peter Ackroyd | |
| 83f3b24 | This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field without its Spirits, nor a City without its Daemons, and the Lunaticks speak Prophesies while the Wise men fall into the Pitte. | evil lunatics the-pit | Peter Ackroyd | |
| 8f96f61 | He was walking around in circles, the smell of the old furniture suddenly very distinct. There was a newspaper in his hand and he started reading it, paying particular attention to the headlines which seemed to be floating towards him so that now a band of black print encircled his forehead. He was curled upon the bed, hugging his knees, when the next horror came upon him: those who heard him last night would now have to report his theft, a.. | madness | Peter Ackroyd | |
| 836f812 | His terror became his companion. When it seemed to diminish, or grow easier to bear, he forced himself to remember the details of what he had said and done so that his fears returned, redoubled. His previous life, which had been without fear, he now dismissed as an illusion since he had come to believe that only in fear could the truth be found. When he woke from sleep without anxiety, he asked himself, What is wrong? What is missing? And t.. | fear insanity madness terror | Peter Ackroyd | |
| 67afad0 | As soon as he had left the room and walked into the air, he knew that he would never return and for the first time his fears lifted. It was a spring morning, and when he walked into Severndale Park he felt the breeze bringing back memories of a much earlier life, and he was at peace. He sat beneath a tree and looked up at its leaves in amazement - where once he might have gazed at them and sensed there only the confusion of his own thoughts.. | nature-s-beauty peace | Peter Ackroyd | |
| e45f2ed | Be informed, also, that this good and savoury Parish is the home of Hectors, Trapanners, Biters who all go under the general appelation of Rooks. Here are all the Jilts, Cracks, Prostitutes, Night-walkers, Whores, Linnen-lifters, who are like so many Jakes, Privies, Houses of Office, Ordures, Excrements, Easments and piles of Sir-reverence: the whores of Ratcliffe High-way smell of Tarpaulin and stinking Cod from their continuall Traffick w.. | crime london london-city vice | Peter Ackroyd | |
| fd03084 | We went back into the Mens Apartments where there were others raving of Ships that may fly and silvered Creatures upon the Moon: Their Stories seem to have neither Head nor Tayl to them, Sir Chris. told me, but there is a Grammar in them if I could but Puzzle it out. This is a mad Age, I replied, and there are many fitter for Bedlam than these here confin'd to a Chain or a dark Room. A sad Reflection, Nick. And what little Purpose have we t.. | bedlam insanity reason | Peter Ackroyd | |
| ce1f93f | And when the Duke of Alva ordered three hundred Citizens to be put to Death together at Antwerp, a Lady who saw the Sight was presently afterwards deliver'd of a Child without a Head. So lives the Power of Imagination even in this Rationall Age. | rationality wonders | Peter Ackroyd | |
| 536335a | This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field without its Spirits, nor a City without its Daemons, and the Lunaticks speak Prophesies while the Wise men fall into the Pitte. We are all in the Dark, one with another. And, as the Inke stains the Paper on which it is spilt and slowly spreads to Blot out the Characters, so the Contagion of darkness and malefaction grows apace until all becomes .. | corruption darkness malefaction morality occult occult-philosophy occultism rationality witch witch-trials witches | Peter Ackroyd | |
| 059593b | There are those who say further that these are meer Dreames and no true Relations, but I say back to them: look upon my Churches in the Spittle-fields, in Limehouse, and now in the Parish of Wapping Stepney, and do you not wonder why they lead you into a darker World which on Reflection you know to be your own? Every Patch of Ground by them has its Hypochondriack Distemper and Disorder; every Stone of them bears the marks of Scorching by wh.. | occult-architecture occult-philosophy occultism | Peter Ackroyd | |
| 73f37d9 | I need to know when,' he said, 'In this case when is more important than how. Do you have a time-table?' For although images of this murder now surrounded him, and the parts of the body had become emblems of pursuit, violence and flight, they were as broken and indistinct as the sounds of a quarrel in a locked room. | pathology | Peter Ackroyd | |
| 0cce537 | She went downstairs slowly and sat in front of the fire, rocking herself to and fro as she imagined all of the harm he might have suffered: she could see him enticed into a car by a stranger, she could see him knocked down by a lorry in the road, she could see him falling into the Thames and being carried away by the tide. It was her instinctive belief, however, that if she dwelled upon such scenes in sufficient detail she could prevent the.. | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| bba2a0e | So now I lye by Day and toss or rave by Night, since the ratling and perpetual Hum of the Town deny me rest: just as Madness and Phrensy are the vapours which rise from the lower Faculties, so the Chaos of the Streets reaches up even to the very Closet here and I am whirl'd about by cries of Knives to Grind and Here are your Mouse-Traps. I was last night about to enter the Shaddowe of Rest when a Watch-man, half-drunken, thumps at the Door .. | city-streets noise noisy | Peter Ackroyd | |
| 58e3df6 | The rest I omit, for many a bitter Pill can be swallowed under a golden Cover: I make no Mencion that in each of my Churches I put a Signe so that he who sees the Fabrick may see also the Shaddowe of the Reality of which it is the Pattern or Figure. Thus, in the church of Lime-house, the nineteen Pillars in the Aisles will represent the Names of Baal-Berith, the seven Pillars of the Chappell will signify the Chapters of his Covenant. All th.. | occult-architecture occultism psychogeography | Peter Ackroyd | |
| 0a07a66 | Less violent diversions can also be cited. An inspection of the pupils of Magdalen College, Oxford, in the very early years of the sixteenth century, revealed that 'Stokes was unchaste with the wife of a tailor ... Stokysley baptised a cat and practised witchcraft ... Gregory climbed the great gate by the tower and brought a Stranger into College ... Pots and cups are very seldom washed but are kept in such a dirty state that one shudders t.. | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| 0bb1f92 | I have had so many Dwellings, Nat, that I know these Streets as well as a strowling Beggar: I was born in this Nest of Death and Contagion and now, as they say, I have learned to feather it. When first I was with Sir Chris. I found lodgings in Phenix Street off Hogg Lane, close by St Giles and Tottenham Fields, and then in later times I was lodged at the corner of Queen Street and Thames Street, next to the Blew Posts in Cheapside. (It is s.. | capitalism london london-city money | Peter Ackroyd | |
| f0543c9 | and when the Assembly arrived at Dusk I hasten'd into the Streets and made my self a child of Hazard. There was a Band of little Vagabonds who met by moon-light in the Moorfields, and for a time I wandred with them; most of them had been left as Orphans in the Plague and, out of the sight of Constable or Watch, would call out to Passers-by Lord Bless you give us a Penny or Bestow a half penny on us: I still hear their Voices in my Head when.. | london orphan urchins | Peter Ackroyd | |
| dea4495 | Sir it did not belong to me to examine the matter, since I knew full well that I should not be a judge of the matter for it belongs only to a judge to study illam Sacre Scripture clausam where Holy Job says "Causam quam nesciebam diligentissime investigabam".' So men were inclined, and able, to break into Latin when addressing one another. Latin was also used for the ruder moments. Of two men in close alliance it was written that singuli ca.. | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| 7f35a20 | that Figure so impressd it self upon my Mind that I have been in a manner walking towards it all my Life. Then I peered into Wendel Dietterlin his Architectura, and there were unveiled to me the several Orders: of the Tuscan, which is now mine own, I was then mov'd by its Strangeness and Awefulness; the obscured Shapes, the Shaddowes and the massie Openings so in-chanted my Spirit that when looking on them I imagined my self to be lock'd in.. | occult-architecture occultism | Peter Ackroyd |