41There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; indeed, star differs from star in glory. 42So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. 43It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is…

1   How lonely sits the city            that once was full of people!       How like a widow she has become,            she that was great among the nations!       She that was a princess among the provinces            has become a vassal. 2   She weeps bitterly in the night,            with tears on her cheeks;       among all her lovers            she has no…

“Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.”

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

1   LORD, you were favorable to your land;            you restored the fortunes of Jacob.  2   You forgave the iniquity of your people;            you pardoned all their sin. Selah  3   You withdrew all your wrath;            you turned from your hot anger.  4   Restore us again, O God of our salvation,            and put away your indignation toward us.  5   Will you be angry…

16“But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another,  17  ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;            we wailed, and you did not mourn.’  18For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon’; 19the Son of…

30And why are we putting ourselves in danger every hour? 31I die every day! That is as certain, brothers and sisters, as my boasting of you — a boast that I make in Christ Jesus our Lord. 32If with merely human hopes I fought with wild animals at Ephesus, what would I have gained by it? If…

1The word that came to Jeremiah for all the Judeans living in the land of Egypt, at Migdol, at Tahpanhes, at Memphis, and in the land of Pathros, 2Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: You yourselves have seen all the disaster that I have brought on Jerusalem and on all the towns…

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”

“I live my life in widening circles that reach out.”