The only thing an old man can tell a young man is that it goes fast, real fast, and if you're not careful it's too late. Of course, the young man will never understand this truth.
- Norm Macdonald
a long time ago a friend told me that the seeds of failure in a relationship, the reasons you break up, are always present in the beginning of a relationship
it's always held true
This sentences by Van Gogh hits hard:
“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”
My mother is a good woman. Being raised by her tricked me into believing that this is how normal women behaved.
I was in for a rude awakening as an adult.
"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men."
- Jesus
Bread and circuses, bread and circuses...
The world is in turmoil and is being shaken by God- while hundreds of thousands of men stand around waiting to hear a 22 year old's name being selected for their favorite team. They chant for this player. They fight over him. And they proudly wear the names of other men across their backs.
Now you know why America and the West is the way it is...
Satan wants you to waste your life waiting around for the world to end, obsessing over end-times prophecy, and trying to predict the timeline.
God wants you to go live and serve Christ. Only he knows when everything is going to happen, and it's entirely out of our control.