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Just to give you a healthy appreciation of how tiny you are for the rest of the day.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4iD-9GSW-0)

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Numbers are the musical notes with which the symphony of the universe is written.

Adam Spencer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4xOFsygwr4)

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Why are people so obsessed with Mr. Darcy when Mr. Knightley exists?

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“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.”

Terry Pratchett (via sirterrypratchett)

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Is this really what Christianity has come to, that we're debating Fifty Shades of Grey and yoga pants?

Stephen Altrogge on The Happy Rant Podcast

Thank you for making the foolishness of repeated debates about these kinds of things clear. Hooray for constructive cynicism :P

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BELOVED ~ Glen Scrivener

You

beside me.

Me: beside myself with you.

Beyond myself in you,

Become myself anew,

Belongs, this self, to you.

You

behold me.

Me: behold the world in you.

Besotted with the view,

Bewitched by all you do,

Beguiled by guileless you.

We

believe this:

This bedtime tale

Though countless fail

Though pride derail

Though death curtail

We believe this.

This bliss

Beseiged by hatred’s hiss

Beset by graves’ abyss

Betrayed despite our kiss

We believe this.

But is this bliss true?

Or only for the few

And then sinks from view

Is it true?

Beneath the tale,

Before we fail,

Beside what’s frail,

Beyond death’s vale?

Is it true?

Not only for the few

And then sinks from view

Is it true?

He

Beheld me.

Me: deep held in my disgrace.

He bends now face to face,

Becomes me in His grace,

Befriends me, takes my place.

He

Betrothed me.

Me: bestowed the world for free.

Bequeathed by royal decree,

Beloved eternally,

Become as one: He with me.

This, beneath all other glories

This, beyond the bedtime stories

This, beside your marital station

This, love’s sweetest consummation.

This is true.

Never to sink from view.

Not only for the few.

This bliss is for you

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I tried to get to you

But you came to me instead

with the dawn the grave is gone

oh how you wish to be with me

Belly of the Deepest Love ~ Tow'rs

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Loved this score from the first few minutes of the film. This track is brilliance. Thanks once again, Depslat

The Imitation Game - Alexandre Desplat - The Imitation Game

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These are the great purposes for the coming of Jesus: glory ever ascending from man to God. Peace ever descending from God to man.

John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy

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In the works of creation, God is above us; in his works of providence, he is outside is; in the law, he is against us; in himself, he is invisible to us. Only in Christ is he Immanuel, God manifested in our flesh. He is God in us, God with us, and God for us. Therefore, no man ever did it ever can understand anything of God truly, that is, upon a saving account, except in and by Jesus Christ

Thomas Mallery Rejoice and be glad that at Christmas Christ took on the flesh of humanity to show us the Father!!

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Let none doubt their calling because it came not with sound of the trumpet; let them not sit down to measure their own feelings by those of other men, and because they're not precisely the same, at once conclude that they are no children of the kingdom. No two leaves upon a tree are precisely alike - variety is the rule of nature; the line of beauty runs not in one undercoating course; and in grace the same rule holds good. Do not, therefore, desire another man's repentance, or thy brother's apprehensions of wrath. Be not wishful to try the depth of the cavern of misery, but rather rejoice that thou hast a partial immunity from its glooms.

C. H. Spurgeon in 'the Saint and His Saviour'

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Take the very personal words of the apostle Paul and make them your own. “The life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me” (Gal. 2:20). This is how [Jesus] destroyed the works of the Devil and rescued us from our sin. Don’t leave Christmas in the abstract. Your sin. Your conflict with the Devil. Your victory. He came for this.

John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy

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Woah. Humans can climb walls like a gecko. Using nothing but van der Waals force. What. A. Day.  No can argue that science isn't cool.

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If we do not live all by faith, we do not live at all by faith.

Thomas Case

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.... does the Calvinistic doctrine of unconditional divine election and monergistic regeneration make God “a respecter of persons, arbitrary, and morally ambiguous”?

Or again, God is not impartial, say many Arminians, if he favors some with life but not all. He is guilty of showing partiality toward the elect.

Of course he is! That is what unconditional election is all about. But we should refrain from saying that God is “guilty” of being partial toward the elect because this kind of partiality is a virtue, not a vice. It is a divine prerogative for which God should be praised, not vilified. Let me explain what I mean....

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The Christian faith is comprised of both nouns and verbs. Maybe it would be more accurate to say that the content of the Christian faith is comprised of both nouns and verbs. Michael Horton says it well: All of our faith and practice arise out of...

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321 - The story of God, the world and you