As I know not whence I come, so I know not whither I go. I know only that, in leaving this world, I fall for ever either into annihilation or into the hands of an angry God, without knowing to which of these two states I shall be forever assigned. Such is my state, full […]

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. (John 17:17 ESV) If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would […]

“What is the chief end of man?”  Shorter Westminster Catechism “For brevity, we shall again use the convention of thinking of the individual as though it had a conscious purpose.  As before, we shall hold in the back of our mind that this is just a figure of speech.  A body is really a machine […]

“What are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them?” (Psalm 8:4 NLT) “Look around and be distressed. Look inside and be depressed.” (Corrie Ten Boom) “Existing, if this is to be understood as just any sort of existing, cannot be done without passion.” (Soren Kierkegaard) “All […]