“The chief difficulty is that God demands of us that we live by faith: faith in God, God's sovereignty over the future, God's sufficiency for the present; while, on the other hand, the various other gods whom we can serve appeal to us in terms of the things which we can see and the forces which we can calculate. The choice between the life of faith and the life of sight is a choice between a God whom only faith can apprehend and gods whom one has only to see to understand.” HandsChoicesForceTermSeeingDemandSightDifficultyVariousInvisibleChiefsAppealsVisibleLive ByFaith In GodSovereigntySufficiency Author:Daniel Thambyrajah Niles
“How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.” ChoicesPathFeetFlowRiversInvisibleObedienceThrones Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Through our science we have created magnificent spacecrafts and telescopes to explore the night and the light and the half light. We have made visible things that are invisible to the unaided eye. We have brought the dreamy heavens down to Earth, held them in the mind's eye. Our explorations have produced a vast archive of remarkable astronomical images... The riches are too many for choices, the revelations beautiful and dreadful. Who can look at these images and not be transformed? The heavens declare God's glory.” MindLooksMadeLightEyeEarthBeautifulNightChoicesHeavenHalfGloryRichesInvisibleVisibleRevelationsRemarkableExplorationTransformedMagnificentTelescopesDown To EarthDreamyArchivesSpacecraft Author:Chet Raymo
“Being fat is the absolute nadir of the misfit. You're a misfit because nothing fits. You don't fit in. You're not fit. You're fat. Fat doesn't have the poetic cachet of alcohol, the whiff of danger in the drug of choice. You're just fat. Being fat is so un-American, so unattractive, unerotic, unfashionable, undisciplined, unthinkable, uncool. It makes you invisible. It makes you conspicuous.” ChoicesDangerFitDrugWeightAbsolutesAlcoholInvisibleFatsPoeticUnthinkableUnattractiveMisfitsUndisciplinedUncoolNadirBeing Fat Author:Claudia Shear
“Poems offer us counter-knowledges. They let us see what is invisible to ordinary looking, and to find in overlooked corners the opulence of our actual lives. Similarly, we usually spend our waking hours trying to be sure of things - of our decisions, our ideas, our choices. We so want to be right. But we walk by right foot and left foot.” WantTryingIdeasChoicesLeftHoursDecisionWalksFeetOffersOrdinaryCornersInvisibleWakingOverlookedOur ChoicesOpulenceActual Life Author:Jane Hirshfield