#valis

How can a person have a sense of something if he does not have the germ of it within himself. What I am to understand must develop organically within me--and what I seem to learn is only nourishment--stimulation of the organism. ↗

— Novalis

#learning #novalis #education

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization. ↗

— William Morris

#beauty

Fear cannot stay in the same house as Jesus Christ. ↗

— Jack Coe

#fear #god #jesus #love #revivalist

I am familiar with the modern world – of thirty years ago. Since then, I have stayed modern and the world has accelerated into the dark ages. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #medievalism #modernity #old-fashioned

If economic catastrophe does come, will it be a time that draws Christians together to share every resource we have, or will it drive us apart to hide in our own basements or mountain retreats, guarding at gunpoint our private stores from others? If we faithfully use our assets for his kingdom now, rather than hoarding them, can't we trust our faithful God to provide for us then? ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#economic-catastrophe #faith #fiscal-cliff #gunpoint #hoarding

Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#jesus-christ #preachers #puritans #revivalist #nature

Academia: a contemporary version of medieval scholasticism that updates the scholarship while retaining the fanaticism of the dark ages. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #medievalism #age

The person I am now, compared with the person in the dream, has been baffled and defeated and only supposes he enjoys a full life. In the dreams, I see what a full life really consists of, and it is not what I really have. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#valis #dreams

Ohne die Träume würden wir gewiss früher alt. ↗

— Novalis

#novalis #traum #träume #dreams

We are not to be occupied with our feelings or symptoms, or our faith or lack of faith, but only with what God has said ↗

— Gordon Lindsay

#faith #god #healing #jesus #revivalist