I very much wonder where this practice has originated. This is contrary to the evangelical and apostolic discipline, in some places water is offered in the Lord’s cup. But water by itself cannot represent the blood of Christ. The Holy Spirit also is not silent in the Psalms on the sacrament of these things, when [...]
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Cyprian
Posted in Christian Life, Discipleship, God, History, Holy Spirit, Imagery, Meaning, Mystery, Sacraments, Spirituality, Worship on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Arthur Miller
Posted in Autonomy, Creator, Humanity, Identity, Judgment, Meaning on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Quentin: You know, more and more I think that for many years I looked at life like a case at law, a series of proofs. When you’re young you prove how brave you are, or smart; then, what a good lover; then a good father; finally, how wise, or powerful, or what-the-hell-ever. But underlying it [...]
Soren Kierkegaard
Posted in Blindness, Fear, Freedom, Masquerade, Meaning on May 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when everyone has thrown off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight to avoid this? Or are you terrified by it? I have seen men in real life [...]
Vincent Van Gogh
Posted in Arts, Autonomy, Happiness, Humanity, Identity, Individualism, Love, Mankind, Meaning, Pleasure, Selfishness, Westernism on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one’s love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger. Sometimes it is well to go into the world and converse with people, and at times one is obliged to do [...]
Tom Morris
Posted in Culture, Happiness, Humanity, Identity, Individualism, Knowledge, Mankind, Meaning, Pleasure, Searching, Values, Westernism on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The good life involves freedom, love, work, pleasure, challenge, friendship, community, service, and the sort of resources that can be used creatively. (Tom Morris – former professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame)
Woody Allen
Posted in Love, Meaning, Sex on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good. (Woody Allen, American Actor, Author, Screenwriter and Film Director, [b.1935])
Carl Sagan
Posted in Creation, Humanity, Mankind, Meaning, Science, Searching on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. (Carl Sagan [1934-1996], was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and [...]
G.K. Chesterton
Posted in Meaning, Pain, Pleasure, Searching, Suffering on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Meaninglessness does not come when one is weary of pain, but when one is weary of pleasure. (G.K. Chesterton [1874-1936], an influential English writer – his prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy and detective fiction.)
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