“Most people, if they had really learned to look into their
own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that
cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that
offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.
“At present we are on the outside… the wrong side of the
door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us
fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the pleasures we see. But all the pages
of the New Testament are rustling with the rumor that it will not always be so.
Someday, God willing, we shall get “in”… We will put on glory… that greater
glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.
We do not want to merely “see” beauty–though, God knows,
even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into
words–to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into
ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.
Quotes on Old Age
- The old are in a second childhood.
- The last of life, for which the first was made.
-When we're young we have faith in what is seen, but when
we're old we know that what is seen is traced in air and built on water.
- Old men’s prayers for death are laying prayers, in which
they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one
is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.
- There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer
pressure.
-All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever
taught me how to grow old.
Think it Over…
Knowledge
Knowledge is a fruit; wisdom is NOT putting it in a Fruit
Salad.
Encourage.
Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already.
Thoughts
Broken things become useful in God’s hands.
Sooner or later you’ll have to face God.
Have faith in God - not faith in faith.
Christ is the reason for the season.
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