Posted in friends, life, love, philosophy, quotes, relationships on May 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Fredrich Neitzsche suggested that marriage is a “long conversation” urging us, therefore, to marry a friend. (Gary Thomas)
Marriage is a long walk two people take together. Sometimes the terrain is very interesting, sometimes rather dull. At times the walk is arduous, for both persons or for one. Sometimes the conversation is [...]
Posted in blood and guts, friends, life, love, philosophy, quotes, relationships on May 16, 2008 | 15 Comments »
From my favorite movie.
[When Harry Met Sally]
Harry Burns: You realize of course that we could never be friends.
Sally Albright: Why not?
Harry Burns: What I’m saying is - and this is not a come-on in any way, shape or form - is that men and women can’t be friends because the sex part always gets [...]
Posted in blood and guts, life, love, philosophy, quotes, relationships, theology on May 8, 2008 | 6 Comments »
i just want to fly
put your arms around me, baby
(sugar ray)
Hello, world.
It’s a beautiful day. :)
This morning, was reading about Jesus’ first miracle. Turning water into wine, not only wine but the best wine.
My friend, Jonolan, posted this bit…it gets into a little about our ideas of God…who He is, what He looks like…and [...]
Posted in blood and guts, life, philosophy, quotes, theology on April 3, 2008 | No Comments »
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. - C.S. Lewis
Posted in life, philosophy, quotes on April 3, 2008 | No Comments »
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted in blood and guts, life, philosophy, quotes, theology on January 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Christianity isn’t difficult - it’s impossible.
-G.K. Chesterton
Posted in blood and guts, life, love, philosophy, quotes, relationships, theology on December 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Behold the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel, which means “God with us.” (Matthew 1:23)
God with us.
What does that mean? What does that look like?
Merry Christmas. =)
Posted in blood and guts, life, love, philosophy, politics, quotes, relationships, theology on December 25, 2007 | No Comments »
He has no stately form or majesty
That we should look upon Him
Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him
He was despised and forsaken of men
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief
And like one from whom men hide their face
He was despised and we did not esteem Him.
Surely our griefs He Himself bore,
And our [...]
Posted in lessons, life, philosophy, quotes, theology on December 23, 2007 | No Comments »
A dear friend reminded me of the following:
Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely. . .think on these things.
Phillippians 4:8
He’s my beloved professor from college who is in large part the reason I got my BA in philosophy.
I miss [...]
Posted in blood and guts, lessons, life, philosophy, quotes, relationships, theology on December 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It takes time to extract joy from life. (from “Elizabethtown”)
Posted in blood and guts, life, quotes, relationships on December 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’m impossible to forget but I’m hard to remember.
-Clare (”Elizabethtown”)
Posted in life, quotes, relationships on November 8, 2007 | 10 Comments »
The difference between a lady and flower girl is not how she behaves but how she’s treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will, but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as [...]
Posted in life, quotes, relationships, theology on November 8, 2007 | No Comments »
If fascinates me how God sometimes brings people together who are so far apart, in so many ways, and merges them into that spiritual homogeneity which is marriage.
- Douglas H. Gresham
Posted in life, philosophy, quotes, theology on October 21, 2007 | No Comments »
“If a liar tells the truth, is it less true?”
- Son of Adam
Posted in life, music, philosophy, quotes on October 17, 2007 | No Comments »
All the signs of life aren’t clear and straight and always right; our ideas of perfect are so imperfect.
- Sam Philips
Posted in blood and guts, life, philosophy, quotes, relationships, theology on October 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper even than reality.
- G.K. Chesterton
Posted in education, lessons, life, philosophy, quotes on October 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I stumbled across the following quote from my mother from years back:
“Next time you’re feeling down about yourself, just remember: YOUR little sperm won.”
- Mom
Priceless.
Posted in life, philosophy, quotes, relationships, theology on October 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Faith in its true sense does not belong to the intellect alone, nor to the intellect first, but to the conscience and to the will.
- George MacDonald
Posted in life, quotes on October 12, 2007 | No Comments »
she was getting sick n’ tired
of being sick n’ tired
she’d drink three cups of coffee
and get really wired
~ phil joel
Posted in blood and guts, life, philosophy, quotes, relationships on October 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Eros will have naked bodies; friendship naked personalities.
-C.S. Lewis
Posted in friends, life, quotes, relationships on October 9, 2007 | No Comments »
“You’re the worst kind. You think you’re low maintenance but you’re really high maintenance…” (When Harry Met Sally)
Posted in life, philosophy, quotes, theology on August 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This is what comes, he says, of giving one’s heart to anything but God. All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only Beloved who will never pass away.
- C.S. Lewis, The [...]
Posted in quotes on July 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Something I never thought I’d hear:
“And then, to top it all off, a diseased pigeon landed in my salad.” - My friend Annika (who just moved to New York)
Wow.
Posted in quotes on July 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Don’t say it was “delightful”; make us say “delightful” when we’ve read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers “Please will you do the job for me.”
- C. S. Lewis
(Thought of you, Dustin, when I came across this quote and figured you’d appreciate it.)
Posted in lessons, life, quotes, relationships, theology on July 22, 2007 | No Comments »
“The reason God became flesh was so that we might know him; correspondingly, God did not create marriage just to give us a pleasant means of repopulating the world and providing a steady societal institution for the benefit of humanity. He planted marriage among humans as yet another signpost pointing to his own eternal, spiritual [...]
Posted in life, philosophy, quotes, theology on July 21, 2007 | No Comments »
“we all fail at love and that’s just the simple truth”
- jan krist
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