Category Archives: philosophy

This Week’s Picks: July 7, 2013

Hiiiiii. My day was made today when I spoke to Dilip and got an update from my favorite guys on the planet. This weekend has been a bit crazy, a bit fun, a bit awkward, a bit unexpected but restful. I had a feast of a lunch for Sabbath lunch, and then passed out andContinue reading “This Week’s Picks: July 7, 2013”

Love Motto

Love to man is the earthward manifestation of the love of God. It was to implant this love, to make us children of one family, that the King of glory became one with us. And when His parting words are fulfilled, “Love one another, as I have loved you” (John 15:12); when we love theContinue reading “Love Motto”

A God-given faith

By: Ellen G. White To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit. 1 Corinthians 12:9. – {YRP 195.1} Faith, too, is the gift of God. Faith is the assent of man’s understanding to God’s words, that binds the heart to God’s service. And whose is man’sContinue reading “A God-given faith”

Giving your all

Paraphrase from Ravi Zacharaias: There was a little boy who had many marbles, and a girl who had candy. The little girl told him she would give him all of the candy if he gave her all of his marbles. The little boy went and took his finest marble and stuffed it under his pillow.Continue reading “Giving your all”

The artist bets his life by: Adam Gopnik

From the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik about Vincent Van Gogh: “Some stories in history we want to have neatly finished; some we like to have always in play. We accept without too much trouble the ambiguity of the old and new stories because they add up to something similar in the end. Van Gogh’s earContinue reading “The artist bets his life by: Adam Gopnik”

I can never be lost from you

Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father whoContinue reading “I can never be lost from you”