Posts Tagged goodness
“O taste and see that the Lord is good : blessed is the man that trusts in him.”
–Psalm 34:8
You know the feeling. The first bloom has died off. What you thought would last forever has withered away. Summer has gone on for quite a while now, and the sultry heat is starting to make you feel
08.30.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
I have a problem: I’m terribly prideful. When I sit down to consider my life, I’m filled with a sort of warm, complacent glow at the thought that I’m such a brilliant, lovely person, with such a brilliant, lovely future ahead of me. And this self-satisfaction often distresses me, because I kno
08.5.2010| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz
This issue, we've been focused on the question: where is God when people are suffering and in pain? Harvard's very own Rev. Jonathan Page provides an interesting answer for a Christian: he argues that God is still totally loving but not truly all-powerful. At first, I was rather upset with him for t
04.27.2010| The Fish Tank | Jordan Monge
Don’t give up on people.
That’s really all I want to say to you today. I don’t want to drag this post out too long; we all have too many things to do and too few hours of sleep as it is. But I think that this is important, and so I’ll say it again: don’t give up on people. Don’t throw
04.22.2010| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz
If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him." —John 7:37
I have always been depressed by the idea of being merely a "pretty good" person. Before I was a Christian, I identified myself onl
04.1.2005| Last Things, Volume 2, Issue 1 | Kirsten Nyborg