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"“The waters of the Jordan coming down…” This formulation harbors an etymological pun. The Jordan, “Yarden,” is called that because it comes down (y-r-d) from mountain heights in the north to the Dead Sea, the lowest point on the face of the earth. — Joshua 3:13" — Aug 26, 2025 07:49AM
"“The waters of the Jordan coming down…” This formulation harbors an etymological pun. The Jordan, “Yarden,” is called that because it comes down (y-r-d) from mountain heights in the north to the Dead Sea, the lowest point on the face of the earth. — Joshua 3:13" — Aug 26, 2025 07:49AM
“It’s hard to head home without succumbing to nostalgia, standing where so many versions of yourself once stood,”
― Memorial
― Memorial
“You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried to in my time to be a philosopher; but I don’t know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.”
― The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
― The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
“It is important to recognize that Blake was a troubled spirit, subject to deep psychic stresses, with what we would now call paranoid and schizoid tendencies that were sometimes overwhelming. During his life he was often accused of madness, but the artist Samuel Palmer, who knew him well, remembered him as ‘one of the sanest, if not the most thoroughly sane man I have ever known.’ And a Baptist minister replied, when asked if he thought Blake was cracked, ‘Yes, but his is a crack that lets in the light.”
― Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake
― Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake
“Jesus understood that God does not play by our rules. His God is a generous God, who not only allows the sun to shine on both the just and the unjust, but also gives us the ability to live into what should be rather than what is. The parables help us with their lessons about generosity: sharing joy, providing for others, recognizing the potential of small investments. His God wants us to be better than we are, because we have the potential to be. We are made but a little lower than the divine (Ps. 8.6; see Heb. 2.7); we should start acting in a more heavenly matter. Those who pray, “Your kingdom come,” might want to take some responsibility in the process, and so work in partnership with God. We too are to seek the lost and make every effort to find them. Indeed, we are not only to seek; we are to take notice of who might be lost, even when immediately present. The rich man ignores Lazarus at his gate, and the father of the prodigal ignored the elder son in the field. For the former, it is too late; for the latter, whether it is too late or not we do not know. But we learn from their stories. Don’t wait. Look now. Look hard. Count.”
― Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
― Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
“The primary experience that Garrison, Mill, and Mazzini had in common was that of being antislavery in an age of slavery. But they also defended democracy in an age of aristocracy, monarchy, and doubt about democracy’s future.”
― The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform
― The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform
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