Joie de vivre

[expressions-of-nature]

by Paul Lichtblau

[vangoghcore]

by lianamodonova

[set-apart-path]

I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud

and your sins like mist;

return to me, for I have redeemed you.

Isaiah 44:22

[religiousextremist]

“As health comes from bitter medicine, so too does salvation of souls come from bitter experience.”

“So in every tribulation, let us say, ‘Thank you, my God, because this was needed for my salvation.’”

+ St. Paisios the Athonite

[religiousextremist]

For love to grow, it must be given. A person who does not give even the little love that he has is like a foolish farmer who clenches a handful of seeds, unwilling to sow them, and yet expects a harvest.

☦︎ Saint Paisios of Mount Athos

[religiousextremist]

"He who asks for humility from God, but does not accept the person God sends him to humble him, does not know what he is asking for, because virtues are not bought by shopping at the grocery store, but God sends us people to test us, to work, to acquire it and to be crowned.”

St. Paisios the Athonite

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[artandthebible]

Landscape with the Voyage of Jacob

Artist: Claude Lorrain (French, 1604/1605–1682)

Date: 1677

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States

[allthingseurope]

Barcelona, Spain

[uroko]

장소: 연희동 Yeonhui-dong, Seoul

[classicalcanvas]

A Walk in the Woods (1870) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

[anastpaul]

(via One Minute Reflection – 30 April – ‘ … Keep going, persevere, bear and accept this delay and you have carried His Cross!’ … – (Matthew 25:10))

[artandthebible]

Jesus Carrying the Cross

Artist: Charles Le Brun (French, 1619-1690)

Date: 1688

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Description

Le Brun indeed depicts the moment when Christ collapses under the weight of the Cross, while the executioners point to Simon of Cyrene, in the foreground on the left, to carry the Cross in its place. The procession has just left Jerusalem, one of whose gates is depicted on the right, and is heading towards Mount Golgotha ​on the left. Le Brun closes the composition with the monumental arch of an aqueduct and a rocky prominence. Le Brun paints the climax of the drama, the fall of Christ.

[sahlesummerhill]

[unfxded]

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[cuties-in-codices]

noah's ark / the burning bush / allegorical image of the virgin mary as the enclosed garden and paradise of all delights

full-page miniatures from a manuscript originally created in east anglia, c. 1190-1200, containing a picture cycle of the life of christ. the book was transformed in northern england, c. 1480-90, when a second cycle of images and texts (rosary prayers and others) was integrated into the earlier cycle. the miniatures above make part of these late medieval additions.

source: Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 101, ff. 10r, 13r, 79r

[dionyssos]

Vincent Van Gogh King Fischer Year 1886

[04k96]