seraphim

messenger of light + beauty + words The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. John 1:5

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dead to sin, alive in God

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“It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, Dirty Hands

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A little while, and you will see me no longer. Again in a little while, and you will see me.

John 16:16

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Artist: J. Kirk Richards

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It is finished.

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My soul is sorrowful, even unto death.

Matthew 26:38

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“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.”

— Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV

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in the desert of trial and temptation

"Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God." Matthew 4:4

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“People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 489

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If I have all faith, so as to move mountains, but I have not love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:2

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“Smiling despair. No solution, but constantly exercising an authority over myself that I know is useless. The essential thing is not to lose oneself, and not to lose that part of oneself that lies sleeping in the world.”

— Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1942

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For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

Luke 2:11

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“Life is short. That’s all there is to say. Get what you can from the present — thoughtfully, justly.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (4.26)

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And behold, the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest over the place where the child was.

Matthew 2:9

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“A man cannot search either for what he knows or for what he does not know… He cannot search for what he knows — since he knows it, there is no need to search — nor for what he does not know, for he does not know what to look for.”

— Plato, Meno

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“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”

— Oscar Wilde, attr. in, The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman ed.

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She will bear a son, and you shall call him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.

Matthew 1:21

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The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand.

Mark 1:15