The bible is the greatest literary paradox the world has ever seen. It is the deepest and yet the clearest of all books. Its greatest profundities have come from the simplest of men. It is most needed when it is least wanted. It dismisses a sentence and entire nation to give us the message of a farmer. It ignores a king to tell us a story of a shepherd.
It begins in a garden; it ends in a city. It begins with darkness; it ends in glory. It begins with a serpent and ends with a Lamb.
You can get along with other books; this one you ignore at your peril. It is a book of warning. Do not add to it or take from it. It is older than most nations of today, yet it is fresher than tomorrow's dew. It is a rock for stability; a seed for growth, a sword for defense, and a spring for satisfaction. It literature is ancient but prophetically modern.
The Bible tells the story of the past in terms of the future.
-- Will H. Houghton
About Me
- Wayne Hinton
- ******My main blog is meant to be my "thought of the day". It may or may not be original, but it is intended to be helpful in some way. ***********The recipes I post are mine alone. They may have been originated by someone else, but I don't post unless I have modified them to suit the my taste and my wife's taste. If I post a recipe that I follow in all details from another source, I will give credit to that source. Unless otherwise specified, all of my recipes use organic vegetables and/or fruit, virgin olive oil and coarse sea salt. *********The jokes that I post are not original at all, and I will give credit if I have it available. I have accumulated many over the past years and just want to share them. ********The poems I post are mine alone - I wrote them - good, bad or indifferent - I own them. I do, however, hope you like some of them. When I post a poem that I did not write, I will give the proper credit.
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