Archive for the 'Quotes' Category
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The Conscience of Busybodies
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good […]
Published by the tattooed poet on May 11th, 2008 tagged Quotes | Comment now »
Lord of the Loving Heart, May Mine be Loving too
A friend recently sent me this….
“Many of the obstacles to the life of thought and love which is meditation come from the fact that people insist on walling themselves up inside themselves in order to cherish their own thoughts and their own experiences as a kind of private treasure. […]
Published by the tattooed poet on April 22nd, 2008 tagged Spiritual Formation, Quotes | Comment now »
For All Who Are Thirsty
Exodus 17:1-7
John 4:5-42
“If you are thirsty, you may drink.”
For a second she stared here and there, wondering who had spoken. Then the voice said again, “If you are thirsty, come and drink,”
…she realised that it was the lion speaking. …The voice was not like a man’s. It was deeper, wilder, and stronger; a sort […]
Published by the tattooed poet on February 22nd, 2008 tagged Worship, Spiritual Formation, Lyrics, Quotes, Lent | Comment now »
Ordinary and Mortal?
“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as […]
Published by the tattooed poet on February 11th, 2008 tagged Spiritual Formation, Quotes | Comment now »
Ash Wednesday
Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn
Desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope
I no longer strive to strive towards such things
(Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?)
Why should I mourn
The vanished power of the usual reign?Because I […]
Published by the tattooed poet on February 6th, 2008 tagged Spiritual Formation, Poetry, Quotes | Comment now »
Love and Desire
If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love. You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is […]
Published by AP on February 3rd, 2008 tagged Love, Spiritual Formation, Quotes, Abundant Life | 2 Comments »
The Road Not Taken
I don’t think there has ever been a time in my life when I identified more with a piece of literature than I do with this poem right now. Every line has special meaning…
Robert Frost (1874–1963). Mountain Interval. 1920.
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long […]
Published by the tattooed poet on January 20th, 2008 tagged Poetry, Quotes, Discipleship | 2 Comments »
Here, O Potter, is Thy Making Stuff!
Tis that I am not good - that is enough
I pry no farther - that is not the way.
Here, O Potter, is thy making stuff!
Set thy wheel going; let it whir and play.
The chips in me, the stones, the straws, the sand,
Cast them out with fine separating hand,
And make a vessel of thy yielding clay.
Stanza […]
Published by the tattooed poet on January 18th, 2008 tagged Spiritual Formation, Poetry, Quotes | Comment now »
Lewis on Originality…
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. …an author should never conceive himself as […]
Published by the tattooed poet on January 17th, 2008 tagged Blogging, Quotes | Comment now »
Being Ourselves…
“The more we get what we now call ‘ourselves’ out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become. The more I resist Him and try to live on my own the more I become dominated by my own heredity and upbringing and surroundings and natural desires. In fact, […]