"Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the lover of self, even to the contempt of God; the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self." St. Augustine, DE CIVITATE DEI, Book XIV, Chapter 28
It gives you just that thrill, with a little catch at the heart, that you have when at night in the forest the silence trembles on a sudden with the low, insistent beating of a drum. You are all expectant of I know not what. If I have dwelt on the incongruity of Honolulu, i...
And trembles at His voice Chorus How great is our God Sing with me How great is our God And all will see how great How great is our God Verse 2 And age to age He stands And time is in His hands Beginning and the End Beginning and the End The Godhead three in one Father Spirit ...
And trembles, makes appeal to one who roughly earns Her thanks instead of blame (did lily only know), By thus constraining length of lily, letting snow Of cup-crown, that’s her face, look from its guardian stake, Superb on all that crawls beneath, and mutely make Defiance, with the ...
The people is the body of God. Every people is only a people so long as it has its own god and excludes all other gods on earth irreconcilably; so long as it believes that by its god it will conquer and drive out of the world all other gods. Such, from the beginning of time, ...
However God has so orchestrated the way to salvation as to bar the proud from the kingdom of God. This is the primary hinderance to being saved - one's pride. The Lord says,"This is the one I esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word."Is 66:2An...
the personal side who sneaks away from his entirely too accommodating girlfriend to spend bleary nights gambling away a fortune with a stone-faced intensity that earns him the nickname “The Iceman,” and the secret self who trembles with dread over the consequences should his massive theft be ...
When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or ...
abundance of information on which I do daily dine, (much of it banal and located entirely elsewhere), I find that I’ve grown up in a time of intense amnesia regarding the eco-mythic information of the ground that trembles beneath my feet and the waters that flow through my body and ...
and among a number of sharp ledges where many others have been wrecked; but he is a bold dare-devil sort of fellow; he believes that all will be right and he has no fear. But here is the other captain, and he says, "My motto is to keep as far away from danger as I possibly ...