BUT A POOR REFLECTION: Ripples

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Ripples

"Don't break the silence unless you can improve it". Don't know who said that first, but I am glad somebody spoke these words (or maybe they were written down in complete silence somewhere in an isolated cell in a monastery). Picture taken in Hoofddorp, last night.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: Nice (both the photo and the quote)!; 7/15/2008 12:59 pm
Larry said...: I love that quote;
"Don't break the silence unless you can improve it"

It reminds me somewhat of the the little rabbit "Thumper" (Bambi), when he says "If you can't say something good, don't say anything at all".
Great photo also, and I see you are blessed with a beautiful family.

Take care, and God Bless. :-)); 7/16/2008 4:48 pm
Paul said...: Thanks, Larry! And yes, the best quotes can often be found in comic books and Disney films. Great sources of wisdom, ha ha. And you are right, God is good to us. Blessings, bro.; 7/16/2008 4:57 pm

God loves us

Have you ever wondered why God gives so much? We could exist on far less. He could have left the world flat and grey; we wouldn’t have known the difference. But he didn’t. He splashed orange in the sunrise and cast the sky in blue. And if you love to see geese as they gather, chances are you’ll see that too. Did he have to make the squirrel’s tail furry? Was he obliged to make the birds sing? And the funny way that chickens scurry or the majesty of thunder when it rings? Why give a flower fragrance? Why give food its taste? Could it be he loves to see that look upon your face?

Max Lucado - He Chose the Nails

Sadhu Sundar Singh

I do not condemn theologians wholesale, but it is unfortunately the fashion in Western thinking to doubt and deny everything. I protest this tendency. I never advise anyone to consult theologians, because all too often they have completely lost all sense of spiritual reality. They can explain Greek words and all that, but they spend too much time among their books and not enough time with the Master in prayer. It is not that I oppose all education, but education without life is certainly dangerous. You must stop examining spiritual truths like dry bones! You must break open the bones and take in the life-giving marrow.

Oswald Chambers

In the Bible clouds are always associated with God. Clouds are the sorrows, sufferings, or providential circumstances, within or without our personal lives, which actually seem to contradict the sovereignty of God. Yet it is through these very clouds that the Spirit of God is teaching us how to walk by faith. If there were never any clouds in our lives, we would have no faith. "The clouds are the dust of His feet" (Nahum 1:3). They are a sign that God is there. What a revelation it is to know that sorrow, bereavement, and suffering are actually the clouds that come along with God! God cannot come near us without clouds— He does not come in clear-shining brightness. (Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, July 29th)