“Truth is sprung out of the earth: and justice hath looked down from heaven” (Psalm 85:11). Truth, eternally existing in the bosom of the Father, has sprung from the earth so that He might exist also in the bosom of a mother. Truth, holding the world in place, has sprung from the earth so that He might be carried in the hands of a woman. Truth, incorruptibly nourishing the happiness of the angels, has sprung from the earth in order to be fed by human milk. Truth, whom the heavens cannot contain, has sprung from the earth so that He might be placed in a manger. (Augustine)

Revelation 1

Augustine, praying to God: “This is the happy life, and this alone: to rejoice in you, about you and because of you. This is the life of happiness, and it is not to be found anywhere else.” TRUE

"So that is the outline of the official story – the tale of the time when God was the under-dog and got beaten, when he submitted to the conditions he had laid down and became a man like the men he had made, and the men he had made broke him and killed him. This is the dogma we find so dull – this terrifying drama of which God is the victim and hero. If this is dull, then what, in Heaven’s name, is worthy to be called exciting?" -- Dorothy Sayers

“Our business is to deliver our message and in our happier moments to water it with our prayers and tears.” John Newton

Mark 8

Mark 5

Matthew 27

Vern Poythress:

My new hero

Hannah, the mother of Samuel: 

“Those who were hungry have ceased to hunger.” (1 Samuel 2:5)

 Mary, the Mother of Jesus: “He has filled the hungry with good things.” (Luke 1:53)

There is nothing new under the sun: “Junk mail is one of the many media through which modern Americans are inundated with news—much of it bad. Television, newspapers and newsletters, and radio talk shows bombard us with information—much of it depressing. We have to absorb the bad news of the underclass, unrest in the Persian Gulf, the drug trade, abortion, militant homosexual advocacy, and the general decay of Christian standards.” Peter Leithart writing in 1993