| i saw this quote at a museum exhibition for a fashion designer and i thought it was both poetic and sad:
“The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven’t had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.” yves saint laurent
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| December 5, 2008 Grandma borrowed one of my cousin’s shirts. Bearing in mind she can’t read English… 
from mymomisafob.com
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| From D. A. Carson's Basics for Believers: An Exposition of Philippians:
I would like to buy about three dollars worth of gospel, please.
Not too much – just enough to make me happy, but not so much that I get addicted.
I don’t want so much gospel that I learn to really hate covetousness and lust.
I
certainly don’t want so much that I start to love my enemies, cherish
self-denial, and contemplate missionary service in some alien culture.
I want ecstasy, not repentance;
I want transcendence, not transformation.
I
would like to be cherished by some nice, forgiving, broad-minded
people, but I myself don’t want to love those from different races –
especially if they smell.
I would like enough gospel to make my
family secure and my children well behaved, but not so much that I find
my ambitions redirected or my giving too greatly enlarged.
I would like about three dollars worth of the gospel, please. (pp. 12-13) Ray Van Neste comments:This
is piercing application. I am cut to the quick. I know the approach to
life he is satirizing not simply by looking out at others but by
looking within. I need to hear this word again. And, how we need this
word in our churches! All too easily we warp the gospel into a way for
securing the ‘good life’ for ourselves. . . . Brothers, we must preach
this searching point. Many will be entirely content for us to “do our
sermon”, but when you begin to press the call of the gospel to shape
our lives, rebuke our sin, calling for repentance many will rebel. But
without this we have failed to discharge our ministries (Col 4:17).
Without this we are mere hirelings awaiting rebuke from the Master on
the final day. There is no discount version of the Gospel. It is all or
nothing. Let us wield the searching sword of the Spirit (Heb 4:12) as
those who have first been pierced by it. |
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