Quotes of the Week

Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zig-zags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.
George Eliot

Do not extenuate death to me, glorious Odysseus. I would rather wish just to be as a field serf in service to another, Even to a man without allotment who had not much to live on, Than to be lord over all the dead that have utterly perished.
(Homer's) Achilles

No one has successfully gotten this Jesus. The question is always whether or not Jesus' rare ethos has gotten hold of us.
David Dark

Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me and bend
Your force, to break, blow, burn and make me new...
Take me to you, imprison me, for I
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
John Donne

Omit needless words.
Strunk and White

Our challenge is to live with absolute certainty in the trustworthiness of God as God calls us to a life filled with uncertainty.
Erwin Raphael McManus

We are lonesome animals. We spend all of our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say - and to feel - ‘Yes, that is the way it is, or at least that is the way I feel it.’ You’re not as alone as you thought.
John Steinbeck

Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised.
Job