Lo, the full, final sacrificeOn which all figures fix’d their eyes,The ransom’d Isaac, and his ram;The Manna, and the Paschal lamb.Jesu Master, just and true!Our Food, and faithful Shepherd too! O let that love which thus makes theeMix with our low Mortality,Lift our lean Souls, and set us upConvictors of thine own full cup,Coheirs ofContinue reading “Lo, the full, final sacrifice”
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Saints out of Sinners
“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure. But he does what is still more wonderful: He makes saints out of sinners.” Soren Kierkegaard
Every Man Has a Right…
Every man has a right to say what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. Samuel Johnson
Robin Hood or John the Baptist
When I was growing up, I always wanted to be Robin Hood, or John the Baptist. Bear Grylls
Lowliest Prostration of the Soul
Worship is the highest elevation of the spirit, and yet the lowliest prostration of the soul. – Charles H. Spurgeon
Everybody Worships
Here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thingContinue reading “Everybody Worships”
To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God. – William Temple
Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Death and Mourning
“Nothing can make up for the absence of someone whom we love, and it would be wrong to try to find a substitute; we must simply hold out and see it through. That sounds very hard at first, but at the same time it is a great consolation, for the gap, as long as itContinue reading “Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Death and Mourning”
Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature. Peter Kreeft
John Donne, Holy Sonnets
Death, be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrowDie not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,And soonest our best men with thee doContinue reading “John Donne, Holy Sonnets”
Locus Communis 