For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
-Romans 12, KJV
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
-Romans 12, KJV
The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
-Psalm 138.
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
-2 Peter 3. (NIV)
Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?” declares the Lord. “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord.
-Jeremiah 23, New International Version
...but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
-Isaiah 40
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
-Luke 11(King James Version)
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. -Psalm 46
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. -KJV
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. -NIV
Matthew chapter 7
The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. -KJV
The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. -NIV
-Habukkuk chapter 3.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. -KJV
Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. -NIV
Psalm 90
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye,
being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all
saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to
know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be
filled with all the fulness of God. -King James Version
...so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have
power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and
long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that
surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the
fullness of God. -NIV
-from Ephesians 3.
*A love which surpasses knowledge.
*A spiritual fullness.
Thank you God.
God is good.
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
-from 1 Thessalonians.
Brotherhood is so important, community, the household of faith, and the poor, and the widows, and the downtrodden, and the otherwise forgotten, the meek, the humble.
Thine, O Lord is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
1 Chronicles 29
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. -KJV
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. -NIV
Proverbs 15
Indeed, we hold to the adage that the truth is the best course, but so often, the truth is barked in anger, intending to hurt someone; the same words, often with a different tact, have less of a hurtful result.
The truth, however hurtful, can be much less hurtful if spoken in love.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
-Revelation 21
Knowledge allows equally for pleasure, pain, gain and injury…. ( Nietzsche , the philosophic life of seekers, in his definition of humanity...