Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
Nothing can separate you from God's love, absolutely nothing. God is enough for time, God is enough for eternity. God is enough!
I find that every soul that has travelled on this highway of holiness for any length of time, has invariably cut loose from its old moorings.
How often we say about our earthly friends, "I really would like to have a good quiet settled talk with them so that I can really get to know them. " And shouldn't we feel the same about our Heavenly Friend, that we may really get to know Him? These thoughts have taught me the importance of the children of God taking time to commune daily with their Father, so that they may get to know His mind and to understand better what His will is.
Our God is so wonderfully good, and lovely, and blessed in every way that the mere fact of belonging to Him is enough for an untellable fullness of joy!
When all else is gone, God is left, and nothing changes Him.
If we will only surrender ourselves utterly to the Lord, and will trust Him perfectly, we shall find our souls "mounting up with wings as eagles" to the "heavenly places" in Christ Jesus, where earthly annoyances or sorrows have no power to disturb us.
Vincent Van Gogh, who said to the hat salesman, I like it, but it keeps sliding over my ear. Never got a dinner!
. . . the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where the shoe pinches. . . Physical conceptions are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.
It [MDMA] takes away the feelings of self-hatred and condemnation, which are the biggest obstacles to insight. . . For reasons we don't understand, MDMA allows people to do this, typically in one [psychotherapeutic] session.