Reflect, Resonate, Reevaluate, Respond
It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892-1950, Poet & Playwright
The full he empties, and the empty he fills.
~ Charles Spurgeon, 19th Cent. Pastor
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
~ Arthur Erickson, 1924-2009, Architect & Urban planner
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community…Let him who is not in community beware of being alone…Each by itself has profound pitfalls and perils. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation, and despair.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, from Life Together
The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don’t know where that elsewhere is.
~ Emil M. Cioran, 1911-1995, Romanian Philosopher, The Trouble With Being Born
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
~ Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Author of Voces, a book of aphorisms
God’s plan was to bring into being a host of sons and daughters whom He would indwell; through whom He would live and manifest Himself; in and through whom Christ would reign supreme. We are the beneficiaries of that plan. God, in His love and grace, has made us a part of His plan. But we are not the center of it; Christ is.
~ Dan Stone, 1971- , Author, The Rest of the Gospel