As a countenance is made beautiful by the soul’s shining through it, so the world is beautiful by the shining through it of God.
FRIEDRICH HEINRICH JACOBI


The highest pinnacle of the spiritual life is not happy joy in unbroken sunshine, but absolute and undoubting trust in the love of God. A.W. Thorold
1 Peter 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree; so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
Isaiah 51:16 I stretched out the heavensand laid the earth’s foundations;I say to Jerusalem, You are my people!I have given you my teaching,and I protect you with my hand.
The True Story of Christmas Luke 2:36-38 NIV 36 There was also a prophet, Anna, the daughter of Penuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old; she had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, 37 and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day,…
Though waves and storms go o’er my head, Though strength and health and friends be gone, Though joys be withered all, and dead, Though every comfort be withdrawn, On this my steadfast soul relies,— Father! Thy mercy never dies. JOHANN A. ROTHE