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That Solitude

October 28, 2018 jakin7

In such a universe thine every thought would be
“God and I! God and I!”

 

And yet He is as near to thee as that – as near as if
in the boundless spaces there throbbed no heart but His and
thine. Practice that solitude, O my soul! Practice
the expulsion of the crowd!

Practice the stillness of thine own heart! Practice
the solemn refrain “God and I! God and I!” Let none
interpose between thee and thy wrestling angel! Thou
shalt be both condemned and pardoned when thou shalt
meet Jesus alone!          – George Matheson (1842-1906)

From Streams In The Desert Volume One by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

 

 

 

 

 

Solitude Understood

October 22, 2018 jakin7

There is fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

 

Solitude Is

October 16, 2018 jakin7

 


solitude is the place of purification.     Martin Buber (1878-1965)

In Solitude

October 10, 2018 jakin7

 

 

then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt in solitude, where we are least alone.

Lord Byron (1788-1824)

But Solitude

September 17, 2018 jakin7

conversation enriches the understanding,

                                           but solitude is the school of genius.                                           

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)

Pink Cadillac

August 31, 2018 jakin7

What a beautiful homegoing celebration today. See you on the other side.

  Aretha Louise Franklin (1942- 2018)

 

      Amazing grace how sweet the sound …

 

Butterfly Effect

August 1, 2018 jakin7

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world,

it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

Edward Norton Lorentz (1917-2008)

 

Things really do matter- even the small things-

—

Fraglen

 

Sail Out To Sea

July 4, 2018 jakin7

 

A ship in port is safe:

 

but that is not what ships are built for.

    

Sail out to sea and do new things.

Admiral Grace Hopper (1906-1992)

 

 

 

Why?

June 16, 2018 jakin7

 

Why are so many of our churches a mile wide and an inch deep spiritually?…

 

 

Quote From Tabletalk p.50 June  2018  Dr. Jon D. Payne

 

 

Deep Waters And A Flowing Brook

June 14, 2018 jakin7

The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the well-spring of wisdom as a flowing brook.  Proverbs 18:4

This sentence expresses the depth, the abundance, the  clearness, and the force of the counsels of the wise man…

When “a man has intermeddled with all wisdom,” his words are in themselves deep waters, and in their communication fruitful as a flowing brook.

His wisdom is a well-spring,’ which send up full brooks, that are ready to overflow their banks. So plentiful is he in, good discourse and wholesome counsel ! ‘…

…No blessing is more valuable than a “rich indwelling of the word,” ready to be brought out on all suitable occasions of instruction. If the wise man sometimes “spares his words,” it  is not for want of matter, but for greater edification. The  stream is ready to flow, and sometimes can scarely be restrained.

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The cold – hearted, speculative professor has his flow – sometimes a torrent of words, yet without a drop of profitable matter; chilling,even when doctrinally correct; without life, unction, or love.

 

 

 

Lord ! deliver us from this barren “talk of the lips.”

Charles Bridges (1794-1869)