"...these are the same people who believed so verily that the earth was flat, and that the stars and the sun went around it."
-internal thoughts on why i should always trust my conscience over worldly reasoning.
some of life's problems are solved just by outliving them
"Orville Wright did not have a pilot's license."
-seen on a billboard
"compared in strength to God, all things are as a broken reed."
"broken reed" is at 2 Kings 18:21 and Isiah 36:6 but i think i thought of this while reading Jeremiah 42:10-22.
the book of Habacuc
prophet to God: where is your righteousness, when you would punish our wickness by delivering us into the hands of those even more wicked than we have been?
God answers prophet: rest assured, they will get theirs too.
"If they did not believe Moses and the prophets they will not believe one risen from the dead."
Luke 16:31
"And thus consider through all generations that none that trust in him fail in strength."
1 Machabees 2:61
the fire already lighted
"I come to start a fire on the earth, and what more is there for me to wish if it has already been lighted?" Luke 12:49