The Gravitation Of Sin
This, then, is the law I find—that when I want to do right, it is easier for me to do wrong! At heart I delight in the Law of God; but throughout my body I see a different law, one which is in conflict with the law accepted by my reason, and which makes me a prisoner—a prisoner to that law of sin which exists throughout my body. What a miserable man I am! Who will deliver me from this body which is drawing me down to death? Thank God, deliverance has come through Jesus Christ, our Lord!
—Paul to the Romans.
Flower In The Crannied Wall
Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the cranny—
Hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower—but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.
—Alfred Tennyson.
If Man Could Make A Rose
If a man could make a single rose we would give him an empire; yet flowers no less beautiful are scattered in profusion over the world, and no one regards them.
—Martin Luther.
“Home—the center of affection, round which our heart’s best wishes twine.”