Shakespeare and the Incarnation

If Shakespeare and Hamlet could ever meet, it must be Shakespeare’s doing. Hamlet could initiate nothing.. Shakespeare could, in principle, make himself appear as Author within the play, and write a dialogue between Hamlet and himself. The “Shakespeare” within the play would of course be at once Shakespeare and one of Shakespeare’s creatures. It would bear some analogy to Incarnation.

CS Lewis
Surprised by Joy

Power in Moral Events

Good deeds, even just thinking about helping others, have more willpower, more stamina and are sensitivity to discomfort, according to a new study out of Harvard. The same held true for people who perceived themselves as evil. Researchers call this the “moral transformation” effect because such deeds have the power to transform people from average to exceptional. They suggest helping others before being faced with temptation and that lending a helping hand may be a useful technique to regain control of your own life. Details are in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Stephen Goforth

Expanding & Shrinking

If you don't keep expanding your world it will shrivel on its own.

Stephen Goforth

Making Mistakes

If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.

Legalism

If you do not oppose legalism, you will be consumed by it.
Chuck Swindoll

Getting What You've God

If you continue to do what you’ve always done, you’ll continue to get what you’ve always gotten.

Dancing Skeletons

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

George Bernard Shaw

The Poem

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

David Carradine

Laughter in Heaven

If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Martin Luther

Who to Ignore

If we want to welcome God into our lives, there is no one we can safely ignore.

God is Love

If we ignore it, the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

CS Lewis

Right & True

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Marcus Aurelius

Understanding & Suffering

If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding.

Yiddish Proverb

To The Beat of a Different Drum

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

Do it Now

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show any human being, let me do it now. Let me not deter or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Stephen Grellett