My soul followeth hard after thee:

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Psalm 63:8 King James Version

8 My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholder me.

Wisdom From Fellow Pilgrims

We, Angels and Mortal’s, Believers and Non-Believers,
Look heavenward and speak the word aloud.
Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud.
Peace. We look at each other, then into ourselves
And we say without shyness or apology or hesitation.

Peace, My Brother.
Peace, My Sister.
Peace, My Soul.”  

Maya Angelou, Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem

 

 

Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of,

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Matthew 6:8 King James Version

8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

Wisdom From Fellow Pilgrims

“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”

 

 

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

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1 Corinthians 13:4 King James Version

4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

Wisdom From Fellow Pilgrims

“love is thicker than forget
more thinner than recall
more seldom than a wave is wet
more frequent than to fail”

And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven:

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Matthew 16:19 King James Version

19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Wisdom From Fellow Pilgrims

“The point of the resurrection…is that the present bodily life is not valueless just because it will die…What you do with your body in the present matters because God has a great future in store for it…What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether (as the hymn so mistakenly puts it…). They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.”

N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

 

I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you

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John 15:15 King James Version

15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you

Wisdom From Fellow Pilgrims

In John’s Gospel, Jesus expresses His unity with us as the true Vine, in whose love we are to remain. Jesus says, “I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father” (John 15:15).

 

 

God is not a man, that he should lie;

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Numbers 23:19 King James Version

19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

Wisdom From Fellow Pilgrims

“A man’s word is his bond.”

You’ve heard that before, right?

 

 

The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:

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Numbers 6:24-26 King James Version

24 The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:
25 The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
26 The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

Wisdom From Fellow Pilgrims

“there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him… there is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is.” 

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three;

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1 Corinthians 13:13 King James Version

13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Wisdom From Fellow Pilgrims

“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved, as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.” 

 

As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

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Psalm 42:1 King James Version

42 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

Wisdom From Fellow Pilgrims

“We hope in Jesus the Christ, in the goodness of God, in the manifestations of the Holy Spirit, in the knowledge that prayers are heard and answered. Because God has been faithful and kept His promises in the past, we can hope with confidence that God will keep His promises to us in the present and in the future. In times of distress, we can hold tightly to the hope that things will ‘work together for [our] good’ as we follow the counsel of God’s prophets. This type of hope in God, His goodness, and His power refreshes us with courage during difficult challenges and gives strength to those who feel threatened by enclosing walls of fear, doubt, and despair.” 

He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

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Hebrews 13:5 King James Version

5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Wisdom From Fellow Pilgrims

“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” 

―  Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People