“He was a prince of the Ming dynasty. His family was very rich and very powerful. His father and grandfather were painters and famous calligraphers, and little Zhu Da had inherited their gift. So just imagine, one day, when he wasn't even eight years old yet, he drew a flower, a simple lotus flower floating on a pond. His drawing was beautiful that his mother decided to hang it in their salon. She claimed that thanks to the drawing you could feel a fresh little breeze in the huge room and you could even smell the flower's perfume when you walked by the drawing. Can you imagine? Even the perfume! And his mother was surely not an easy person to please... With both a husband and a father who were artists, she must have seen a few things by then...” PainterChinesePrinceCalligraphyMing DynastyCalligrapher Book:Hunting and Gathering Source: Hunting and Gathering
“Tis the world (that is, Sin and the Devil) crieth out continuously, come back O sinner! But does not the Apostle Paul give this command, "...be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” Reformed FaithReformed Christianity Author:Isaac Ham
“True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and of Ourselves.” ChristianityBook QuotesBiblicalPuritanReformed Faith Author:Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin
“When you are anxious, remember that your God is guarding you with His peace.” ChristianityBook QuotesBiblicalPuritanReformed Faith Author:Overcoming Anxiety: Relief for Worried People, David Powlison
“For whenever men begin the superstitious practice of worshipping God with their own fictions, all the laws enacted for this purpose forthwith degenerate into those gross abuses.” ChristianityBook QuotesBiblicalPuritanReformed Faith Author:Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin
“Let us beware, therefore, of yielding to indulgence, seeing we are assured that the curse of God lies on every man and woman cohabiting without marriage.” ChristianityBook QuotesBiblicalPuritanReformed Faith Author:Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin
“The local church is also one of the Lord Jesus’s agents, and He gave it an authority that you and I as individual Christians do not have.” ChristianityBook QuotesBiblicalPuritanReformed Faith Author:Church Membership: How the World knows Who represents Jesus, Jonathan Leeman
“There is no school for learning contentment that can be compared with the foot of the Cross.” ChristianityBook QuotesBiblicalPuritanReformed Faith Author:The Cross, J. C. Ryle
“The love of God from which the atonement springs is not a distinctionless love; it is a love that elects and predestinates. God was pleased to set His invincible and everlasting love upon a countless multitude and it is the determinate purpose of this love that the atonement secures.” ChristianityBook QuotesBiblicalPuritanReformed Faith Author:Redemption Accomplished and Applied, John Murray
“He pocketed his phone and stood, haunted by a dark thought: he might not want trouble, but he wanted her. And they seemed to come hand in hand.” BreathtakingSo Good Book:Kings Falling Source: Kings Falling