Will Durant's Great (?) Discovery

In my youth I stressed freedom and in my old age I stress order.  I have made the great Discovery that liberty is a product of order. 

Nature Does Not Know Extinction

 "Nature does not know extinction;  all it knows is transformation.  Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death."  (Wernher Von Braun)

HARD TO BELIEVE

 It is hard to believe that the heart beats 100,000 times in a day.  But then there are 86,400 seconds in a day.  The heart beats about 3.5 million times in a year and in an average lifetime the heart beats more than 2.5 billion times.

The Jabez Prayer--1982 Edition

 The Jabez Prayer is in First Chronicles 4:10.  The New King James version of it reads as follows: "Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that your hand would be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain."

Most translations of the Jabez Prayer are characterized by this sentiment: "that I may not experience pain"rather than that I would not cause pain.

The scholars at Thomas Nelson Publishers "assigned" a merit to Jabez that led him to find favor with God. 

When I Was One-And-Twenty by A E Housman - Poetry Reading

Left Untried

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting.  It has been found difficult, and left untried. (G.K. Chesterton) 

Never Suburban

 "The spiritual life can never be made suburban," said Howard Masey.  "It is always frontier and we who live in it must accept and even rejoice that it remains untamed."

This quote brings to mind a quote from the Gospel of John:  Chapter 8 verse 3 in the King James Version reads : "The wind bloweth where it listeth. and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is everyone that is born of the Spiritt."