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The Bible speaks of the Word of God as added. Sometimes it's planted by the wayside, and nothing grows there. Sometimes it's sown among the thorns and represents the person who makes the decision an then goes back to his old life of bars and chasing women or whatever. A third seed is sown among the rocks. There's sand and dirt between the rocks, and when it rains you'll see a stalk of green coming up. But on the first day with sunshine it wilts because there is no room for roots. The fourth seed is planted on fertile soil, and finally it takes hold and has a chance to grow and live. That's what happened to me. ↗
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Your call is clear, cold centuries across; You bid me follow you, and take my cross, And daily lose myself, myself deny, And stern against myself shout ‘Crucify’. My stubborn nature rises to rebel Against your call. Proud choruses of hell Unite to magnify my restless hate Of servitude, lest I capitulate. The world, to see my cross, would pause and jeer. I have no choice, but still to persevere To save myself – and follow you from far, More slow than Magi-for I have no star. And yet you call me still. Your cross Eclipses mine, transforms the bitter loss I thought that I would suffer if I came To you- into immeasurable gain. I kneel before you, Jesus, crucified, My cross is shouldered and my self denied; I’ll follow daily, closely, not refuse For love of you and man myself to lose. ↗
Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths. ↗
Maria, deitada de costas, estava acordada e atenta, olhava fixamente um ponto em frente, e parecia esperar. Sem pronunciar palavra, José aproximou-se e afastou devagar o lençol que a cobria. Ela desviou os olhos, soergueu um pouco a parte inferior da túnica, mas só acabou de puxá-la mais para cima, à altura do ventre, quando ele já se vinha debruçando e procedia do mesmo modo com a sua própria túnica, e Maria, entretanto, abrira as pernas, ou as tinha aberto durante o sonho e desta maneira as deixara ficar, fosse por inusitada indolência matinal ou pressentimento de mulher casada que conhece os seus deveres. Deus, que está em toda a parte, estava ali, mas sendo aquilo que é, um puro espírito, não podia ver como a pele de um tocava a pele do outro, como a carne dele penetrou a carne dela, criadas uma e outra para isso mesmo, e, provavelmente, já nem lá se encontraria quando a semente sagrada de José se derramou no sagrado interior de Maria, sagrados ambos por serem a fonte e a taça da vida, em verdade há coisas que o próprio Deus não entende, embora as tivesse criado. Tendo pois saído para o pátio, Deus não pôde ouvir o som agónico, como um estertor, que saiu da boca do varão no instante da crise, e menos ainda o levíssimo gemido que a mulher não foi capaz de reprimir. ↗
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance. ↗
