Second time around

Two roads diverged in the middle of my life,

I heard a wise man say

I took the road less travelled by

And that’s made the difference every night and day.

Larry Norman (with apologies to Robert Frost.)

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Paul Tournier

The soul is healed by being with children.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Sadness is a wall between two gardens.

Kahlil Gibran

We routinely disqualify testimony that would plead for extenuation. That is, we are so persuaded of the rightness of our judgement as to invalidate evidence that does not con firm us in it. Nothing that deserves to be called truth could ever be arrived at by such means.

Marilynne Robinson, The Death of Adam

No matter what God’s power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on a human level and limits himself.

Jacques Ellul Anarchy and Christianity

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

C.S. Lewis

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

Author Unknown

Even if we find another Eden, we should not be fit to enjoy it perfectly not stay in it for ever.

Henry Van Dyke

New world- big horizon

Open your eyes and see it’s true

New world- across the frightening

Waves of blue.

David Wilcox

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein

Oh my soul…be prepared for him

who knows how to ask questions.

T.S.Eliot

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully

as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

Once abolish the God and the government becomes the God

G.K. Chesterton

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations,

but truth has only one mode of being.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

God is a verb.

Buckminster Fuller

You can kiss your family good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you

Frederick Buechner - Telling the Truth

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children.

He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

A.W.Tozer

Earth has no sorrow that

Heaven cannot heal.

Author Unknown.

Faith never knows where it is being led,

But it knows and loves the One who is leading.

Oswald Chambers

Earth’s crammed with heaven,

And every common bush afire with God,

But only he who sees takes off his shoes;

The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Waiting for delivery of three new books I decide to re-read The Shack by William Paul Young to see how it stood up to a second reading. This time I noted the quotes with a relevance to each chapter they headed. As they seemed fitting for an Easter weekend I decided to share them with you.