Christ-likeness: Progressive Christian Living
The worldly wisest Alas! What can they teach, and not mislead, Ignorant of themselves, of God much more, And how the world began, and how man fell, Degraded by himself, on grace depending? Much of the soul they talk, but all awry; And in themselves seek virtue; and to...
Power and Wisdom But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom? Vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties; not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command. John Milton (1608-74), Samson...
Strange fondness of the human heart, Enamoured of its harm! Strange world, that costs it so much smart, And still has power to charm. Whence has the world her magic power? Why deem we Death a foe? Recoil from weary life’s best hour, And covet longer woe? ...
I say more: the just man justices; Keeps grace: that keeps his goings graces; acts in God’s eyes what in God’s eyes he is – Christ. For Christ plays in ten thousand places, lovely in limbs and lovely in eyes not his to the Father through the features of men’s faces....
Give me a look, give me a face That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free, Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art. They strike my eyes but not my heart. Ben Johnson (1573-1637).
Non nobis Domine!— Not unto us, O Lord! The Praise or Glory be Of any deed or word; For in Thy Judgment lies To crown or bring to nought All knowledge or device That Man has reached or wrought. And we confess our blame— How all too high we hold That noise which men...
Sing and dance together and be joyous But let each one of you be alone Even as the strings of a lute are alone Though they quiver with the same music. Stand together yet not too near together, For the pillars of the temple stand apart And the oak tree and the...
We never left the place where we were born, Have only lived one day, but every day, Have walked a thousand miles yet only worn The grass between our work and home away, Lonely we were, though never left alone, The solitude familiar to the poor Is feeling that the...
Mute, with signs I speak: Blind, by groping seek: Heed; yet nothing hear: Feel; find no one near. Deaf, eclipsed, and dumb, Through this gloom I come On the time-path trod Toward ungranted God. Carnal, I can claim Only his known name Dying, can but be...
There is an island there is no going to but in a small boat the way the saints went, travelling the gallery of the frightened faces of the long drowned, munching the gravel of its beaches. So I have gone up the salt lane to the building with the stone altar and the...
Oh you gotta get a glory! In the work you do, A Hallelujah chorus In the heart of you. Paint or tell a story, Sing or shovel coal, But you gotta get a glory Or the...
I am the girl of two worlds, My heart belongs to here and there, Two worlds profoundly different, United in my highest regard. Do I live in or between these two worlds? I am the girl of two worlds.