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6. You teach a child that the only purpose in life is materialism and there's nothing much to life for than that, you teach a child that there's nothing ultimately behind morals except some subjective idea and then you wonder when he's selfish, you wonder why he steals from you. You reap what you sow. -
Living
5. I'm starting to think that wanting to die, yet wanting to live at the same time is what makes us human and what makes us realize, innately... the fall. -
Perfection
4. Belief in Christ does not make me perfect but makes me understand that only one man ever could be perfect - that which is fully God... which humbles me. -
Contradictions
3. I think it's amazing that we have this propensity for self destruction as well as the propensity for self preservation. I eat junk food in order to destroy myself, to kill my body because I want to. I like fast speeds because I like the risk of death. Yet self preservation inspires an irrational contradictory reaction, like the fear of ( Read more... ) -
Cardboard
2. "Life is supposed to taste like cardboard if you insist on eating the box" - what is the box? The lack of fulfillment that comes from all the hollow things in life when life is meant to be for one thing only - the joy inside the box. -
The Mundane
1. How is the mundane in your life today? Good and you? Too mundane to speak about. Then why do you speak of it? What else is life than to speak of mundane things? -
Pensees
I renamed this journal because I have been reading Pensees lately and I've really wanted to express my own thoughts - in numbered order because numbering is cool - as a journal.
Pensees by Pascal has been such a blessing to me. Here are some of my favorite thoughts:
ON MAN:
** There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves ( Read more... ) -
::new year depression::
Birthdays and New Years are somewhat depressing times for me when I realize how much time is gone by - wasted moments, wasted seconds... wasted years. I guess the solution to that is to submit to God and NOT waste years, hours, minutes but indeed that is too easy - or hard really... the paradox of Christianity itself.
Coming to Christ is the ( Read more... )
