While the great cathedrals were emptying out, new waves of Christian vitality were filling new churches. For example, the Embassy for the Blessed Kingdom of God for All Nations in Kiev, Ukraine, started in 1993 by Nigerian pastor Sunday Adelaja, became a global movement with more than one thousand affiliate churches around the world. Christian leadership in Europe was slowly being transferred to Congolese, Brazilians, Filipinos, and others. They brought, in many cases, a strong Pentecostal flavor to their ministries, and many of these churches were far more multiethnic than American churches tended to be.
See, that tree is dead, but it waves in the wind with the others. And so it seems to me that if I die I’ll still be part of life, one way or another.
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“remember two things: i. that everything has always been the same, and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, or in an infinite period; ii. that the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. the present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have you cannot lose.”
“what we do now echoes in eternity.”
"thou must be like a promontory of the sea, against which though the waves beat continually, yet it both itself stands, and about it are those swelling waves stilled and quieted."
“the blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.”
“the first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. the second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
“reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
“your days are numbered. use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. if you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.”
“whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: what fault of mine most nearly resembles the one i am about to criticize?”
“death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.”
"within a very little while, thou wilt be either ashes, or a sceletum; and a name perchance; and perchance, not so much as a name. and what is that but an empty sound, and a rebounding echo? those things which in this life are dearest but vain, putrid, contemptible. tho most weighty and serious, if rightly esteemed, but as puppies, biting one another: or untoward children, now laughing and then crying. as for
"Water that never moves," I say to him. "It's fine for a little while. You can drink from it and it'll sustain you. But if it sits too long it goes bad. It grows stale. It becomes toxic." I shake my head. "I need waves. I need waterfalls. I want rushing currents."
They are there
I am here, I am with you.
A queen had said that to him. In their secret, silent language. During
the unspeakable hours of torment, they had said that to each other.
Not alone.
He had not been alone then, and neither had she.
The veranda in Doranelle and bloodied snows outside Orynth blended
and flashed.
I am here, I am with you.
Maeve stood there. Before Aelin and Rowan, burning with power.
Before Lorcan, his dark gifts a shadow around him. Fae—so many Fae
and wolves, some riding them—pouring on to the battlefield through
holes in the air.
It had worked, then. Their mad plan, to be enacted when all went to
hell, when they had nothing left.
Yet Maeve’s power swelled.
Aelin’s eyes remained upon him, anchoring him. Pulling him from
that bloodied veranda. To a body trembling in pain. A face that burned
and throbbed.
I am here, I am with you.
And Fenrys found himself blinking back. Just once.
Yes.
And when Aelin’s eyes moved again, he understood.
Aelin looked to Rowan. Found her mate already smiling at her. Aware of
what likely awaited them. “Together,” she said quietly. Rowan’s thumb
brushed against hers. In love and farewell.
And then they erupted.
Flame, white-hot and blinding, roared toward Maeve.
But the dark queen had been waiting. Twin waves of darkness arched
and cascaded for them.
Only to be halted by a shield of black wind. Beaten aside.
No one could have imagined how events unfolded last Sunday. It was like drinking warm water every day, so habitual that you never questioned the nature of the liquid. There was no need to cautiously stick out your tongue to test the temperature. Who would ever suspect that the routines of an orderly life might quietly conceal an invisible poison? One day, scalding white steam curled from your cup. But still, no one noticed. The water slid past your lips, waves of searing heat engulfing the soft flesh of your mouth. Before you could react, the pain had scorched every inch of its tender surface. It was too late to spit it out. Your entire respiratory tract was ablaze. Everything was on fire.
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