Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

Faith

Faith walks by light
Bidding us come

Faith walks in dark
Fearing not

Faith guides all right
Leading through the night

Promising of sweet, sweet home

Take me by the hand
Lead me

Help me make it through

Do not allow me to run too fast
Lest I forget and leave you

Daniel Lyles

Give me strength to resist, patience to endure, consistency to persevere...

- Thomas Kempis

Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream. The serious Christian, set down for the first time in a Christian community, is likely to bring with him a very definite idea of what Christian life together should be and to try to realize it. But God’s grace speedily shatters such dreams. Just as surely as God desires to lead us to a knowledge of genuine Christian fellowship, so surely must we be overwhelmed by a great disillusionment with others, with Christians in general, and, if we are fortunate, with ourselves.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What a chimera, then, is man! What a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depository of truth, sewer of uncertainty and error, the glory and shame of the universe!

-Blaise Pascal