April 2012
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Talk and act as if your faith was invincible.
– Ellen G. White, Christ’s Object Lessons
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I remember this being an issue in undergrad. And five-minute existential crises are still quite common even out of school. [[MORE]]
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I have had this dream. Not necessarily to be fastest, but to be a finisher.[[MORE]]
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This is the extended quote, from the chapter “The Pearl,” in Christ’s Object Lessons, regarding the parable in Matthew 13:45, 46. [[MORE]]
There are some who seem to be always seeking for the heavenly pearl. But they do not make an entire surrender of their wrong habits. They do not die to self that Christ may live in them. Therefore they do not find the precious pearl. They...
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Almost but not wholly saved, means to be not almost but wholly lost.
– Ellen G. White, Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 118
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Interesting infographic on taking notes and studying. (via StumbleUpon)[[MORE]]
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John Milton's "At a Solemn Music"
A poem for Easter day from the great John Milton (1608-1674), whose wish that we “keep in tune with heaven” was most certainly a religious one, but is equally valid as a poetic desire.
- Knopf Poetry Team
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At a Solemn Music
Blest pair of sirens, pledges of heaven’s joy, Sphere-born harmonious sisters, Voice and Verse, Wed your divine sounds, and mixed power employ, Dead things with...
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Suffering is Suffering[[MORE]]
A short segment from The Aquarium, by Alexsandar Hemon, from the The New Yorker:
“One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling—that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation. Isabel’s suffering and death did nothing for her, or us, or the world. We learned no lessons worth learning; we acquired no...
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