Category Archives: Lit by Lightning
Axis
”Compassionate love is the axis of the Christian moral revolution and the only sign ever given by Jesus by which a disciple would be recognized” “So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I … Continue reading
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Laws of Nature
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” ~Frederick Douglass .
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Got Dirt?
“You Christians are glad when someone else does what you know must be done, but it seems that somehow you are unwilling to get your own hands dirty and do it.” ~Emmi Delbruck-Bonhoeffer to her brother-in-law, Dietrich, a pastor … Continue reading
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Thaw
“I am getting to know people, at any rate their circumstances, and sometimes one is able to see through their stories into themselves — and at the same time one thing continues to impress me: here I meet people … Continue reading
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When Day is Night
“The curse of a godless man can sound more pleasant in God’s ears than the Hallelujah of the pious.” ~Martin Luther [Published on Black Friday 2010.] .
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Ageless Summer
“No one has yet believed in God and the kingdom of God, no one has yet heard about the realm of the resurrected, and not been homesick from that hour, waiting and looking forward joyfully to being released from bodily … Continue reading
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Descent
“The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility.” ~Unknown
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Out of the Chrysalis
So spake the wise man in his mind, where he sat apart in counsel. Good is he who keeps his faith, And a warrior must never speak his grief of his breast too quickly, unless he already knows the remedy- … Continue reading
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To Go East
“Don’t let yesterday eat up too much of today.” ~Will Rogers [Thanks, Richard.]
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When We Are Thunder
“People are defeated or go mad or die in many, many ways, some in the silence of that valley, where I couldn’t hear nobody pray and many in the public, sounding horror where no cry or lament or song or … Continue reading
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Under The Clouds
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. The world in arms is not spending … Continue reading
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Lost In The Desert
You remember when Jesus was about twelve years old, there was the custom of the feast. Jesus’s parents took him up to Jerusalem. That was an annual occasion, the feast of the Passover…And they left Jerusalem going on back to … Continue reading
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Welcome to the Jungle
“If you grow up in the South Bronx or south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburg or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there’s no will in this society to bring you back into … Continue reading
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The Naturalist
“The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.” ~Henry David Thoreau
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Alone. In The Rain.
Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has enough trouble of its own. Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, … Continue reading
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