Sunday, August 30, 2009

By scripture alone

"The Bible, more often than many would like to believe, is often just that: metaphor. This does not make it any less true. I believe the Bible is absolutely 100% true. Some of it even actually happened." -- Vaughn Roste

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Pendulum swings

From Christian fundamentalist to Christian skeptic:
There was a point in time when I thought atheism might prevail but I just could not bring myself into that line of thinking. I am not the average Christian and I find it odd that others think, or assume, I should be. People’s minds are different. Not everybody processes information in the same way. I hope my more conservative Christian brothers/sisters can understand when I say "I can not process information in the same way you can." My mind thirsts for intellectualism while simultaneously thirsting for God. To abandon one for the other - in my mind - would be a waste of my life, as these are things that I look forward to thinking on day-in and day-out.

What light

"Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief." -- C.S. Lewis

We're all laughing with God

Broken

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow