music :: worship :: life
There may be many shapes of mystery,
And many things God makes to be,
Past hope or fear.
And the end men looked for cometh not,
And a path is there where no man thought.
So hath it fallen here.
—Euripides, The Bacchae
The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of rules and regulations; it is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting His way with us.
—Oswald Chambers
Music’s only purpose should be the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.
—Johann Sebastian Bach
We begin by trusting our ignorance and calling it innocence, by trusting our innocence and calling it purity; and when we hear these rugged statements of Our Lord’s, we shrink and say—But I never felt any of those awful things in my heart. We resent what Jesus Christ reveals.
—Oswald Chambers
You have used up the years and they have used up you,
and still, and still, you have not written the poem.
—Jorge Luis Borges
To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God’s word, or in the book of God’s works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both.
—Sir Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning
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