No man deserves to die at the hands of another man. Many men deserve death, and worse, but to be slain by a mere man is beneath his position – in his heart he knows only God, Himself, as Judge, Jury, and Executioner.
mjg/12
There are agonizing periods in a man’s life when he feels he is walking himself up to a wall, literally dragging his own legs around, and painfully directing his own eyes to stare down the rifle barrels of a firing squad, face to face with the man behind each gun, himself. Such is the power of that most deliriously desirous of prey. Such is the beautifully disastrous allure of she with whom, in love, he has fallen. Such is the curious tomfoolery of the Creator who forged this love that defies all sense, and defies all odds.
mjg/12
The bible doesn’t teach give money, get more money. It’s better than that. The bible teaches be a blessing, get WAY more blessed!
mjg/11
God created you with body, mind, and soul, that you would be equipped to reflect glory on the Creator when you, His Created, overcome mighty challenges by the very gifts that He granted. So, then, when the mountains stand against you, do all that you can do, and pray to God and trust He will do what only He can do, and your mountains shall be moved and your path will be made straight.
mjg/11
Simplify. Or it’s going to get complicated.
mjg/11
Don’t hope. Trust. In so far as our hope is only an all-suffusing, indefinite expectation of future good, we are lost. In so far as all creation groans in futility until the day all things are made new, and we hope in abstract, we gain only vanity. If, however, you trust, then you trust in someone or something with specific expectations for your future hopes, by definition. It is trust in One who has promised plans for you, Who can and will deliver good and plenty, that grants to hope life and being, form and shape. Where there is trust, there also is the silent confidence which hope alone can never satisfy. We must, then, not hope to desperation, but instead break open the fountain of eternal hope which is trust.
mjg/11
The passing of a prominent public figure may carry widely variant degrees of personal experience. Some may realize a strong, empathetic emotion even though they never knew the person. Still others may have an antithetical experience, unable to see the gravity of the situation as their peers’ see it. In the end, however, it behooves us all, when death occurs, that we reconsider again our own mortality in order that we might gain a clearer perspective of our own lives, and thereby more truly live.
mjg/11
If, when you rest weary eyes and bow a tired head, your mind involuntarily glimpses words, phrases and moments of past prayer, then you’re on a good path, walk in it.
mjg/11
A hard mind and hard heart tends to unrelenting ruthlessness, yet a soft mind and soft heart tends to wayward wandering. A soft mind and hard heart tends to flappable foolishness, but a hard mind and soft heart is the chosen clay of which the crafter says, “Of this refuse will I make something beautiful and of this frailty will I make a strong vessel.”
mjg/11
Be wary offering your admiration to those who achieve worldly success, by worldly means, from worldly views. As He said, “they have received their reward,” and, again, “your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”
mjg/11
Wisdom can be gotten
but understanding has no price.
mjg/11
Think of time as a sequence of individual moments, one moment leading another, each a three-dimensional cube. You, and friends, family and acquaintances, in each moment, as subject. You hover over your life-line. You can look down from above and see the entirety of your moment-picture life. From this vantage point, you grasp ownership of the choices, made in the now, that affect subsequent moments and people in time not yet present. This is God’s view: Your entire life laid out before Him, outside of time, readily accessible, and infinitely searchable. The one who grasps this view of his own life, he it is who increases wisdom, and he it is who approaches understanding.
mjg/11
Et tu, Matthew?
mjg/11
Francis Bacon once said hope was a good breakfast but a bad supper. I, for one, am glad that I should still be eating.
mjg/11
People change. People change again. And He who made them at the beginning, who made them male and female, He is mighty to save.
mjg/11
Lord, please make me humble before I need to be humbled.
mjg/11
1 Corinthians 1:25, “For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.” Your role, Christian, is to live in God’s foolishness, appearing the fool to all. In doing this, you take on the weakness of God, allowing the foolishness of God to overturn the strength and wisdom of men, that the world turned up-side down may see its reflection not merely mirrored but turned right-side up.
mjg/11
Come back unto me, oh please,
and I’ll tend to your ease;
soothe again with your sweet song,
I will sing well along;
long have I longed unto you,
o’er nights never a few;
vicious is this vile space,
e’ermore long I your face;
your fair words make me as dumb,
or your absence as numb;
under these long years return, oh please, and I’ll tend to your ease.
mjg/11
The world asks for a revolution but a revolution is simply the process of going in circles. What they really need is to identify the wrong way, turn about, and then head in the right way. What the world needs now is not revolution but redemption.
mjg/11
Luck is that remaining portion of effort, that divide between action and completion, which the universe dutifully throws a coin against. Those deemed luckier than others are, on the whole, simply those who endeavoured to narrow the divide in relation to their peers, be it by ever so slight a degree.
mjg/11
Christus Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank, in Him, Jesus Christ
For my redeemed and purchased soul.
In the fell-hard clutch of circumstance
I have sore-winced and cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of flagrance
My head is bloody and low-bowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the Shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
He is the captain of my soul.
Co-opted Invictus, mjg/10
Innocence is a gift despised both in youth and in age. Youth despise it to to hide the fact they do not yet see what others see. The aged despise it to hide the fact they see, all too clearly, what others see. Blessed is he who sees this bitterness, who goes and sows innocence to himself.
mjg/10
The mere knowledge of wisdom is insufficient to act upon it. A man will exhaust all folly, even to death and in the freedom of his wisdom, before he understands the heavy weights wisdom has placed upon his conscience, that he may finally know how to act wisely.
mjg/10
A man may have many passions, and, of these, many may bring him to sorrow. No man can be represented by a single dimension. He is complex. He is made in the image of God.
mjg/10
Swift as the arrow, piercing as the point is the thought before its sublime. Gone like the gazel, fleeting like the fox is the thought after its time.
mjg/10
There is only so much of others’ happiness one man can take.
mjg/10
I am become all that I have ever judged.
mjg/09
The man who can not afford time is already in debt.
mjg/09
To truly cultivate and understand those things you hold dear, you must appreciate that those things which you now hold absolute and sacred will be refitted or discarded, or rediscovered and reunderstood, by your very own children. Therefore, study again your most closely held beliefs in the light of an eternity of innumerable restudyings.
mjg/09
Try as you may to capture it, contentment will far outstrip you.
mjg/08
A man’s stature may be measured by the degree to which he allows himself to be fairly and openly challenged.
mjg/08
All existence is but opposing forces. The miracle of it all is the willed defiance of the natural order.
mjg/08
There is nothing worth having that is also not worth fighting for.
mjg/08
The only problem with democracy is apathy.
mjg/07
These thoughts are brilliance penned.
mjg/06
Money buys distractions.
mjg/05
2,142 reasons and an infinite number of monkies at an infinite number of typewriters writing an infinite number of reasons why the business rat race sucks.
mjg/03
The “doodle” is, quite possibly, the world’s most staunch and constant ally in times of need. That is, as it relates to cranium-based electron firing and grey matter stimulation.
mjg/03
The Kuro5hin Effect: Encouraging Arrogant, Self-Righteous, Pseudo-Intellectual ranting and raving since 1999!
mjg/02
While low ‘er the ground the glooms reside, far above and cloud-atop, rays of sun frolic and ride.
mjg/02
Religion is no longer the opiate of the masses. It has been clearly subjugated by the work day.
mjg/02
Better is physical pain than mental anguish.
mjg/02
It is a wise man who admits he knows little. It is, also, a foolish man who admits as much, yet does little to remedy it.
mjg/02
All learning is memory work until what is learned becomes what is experienced.
mjg/02
The price of freedom we bear in our mind,
the price of feardom we bear in our heart.
When logic and rage do not intersect,
this is where we shall be blown apart.
mjg/02
The educational system no longer portrays the desire to increase knowledge, intelligence and understanding. Rather, the system languishes in the filthy gutter of its own greed, lulled into the belief that its mandate is to populate the capitalist market with droid employees, seeking no more than they can see, for their vision has been plucked from them since birth.
mjg/01
When in the night,
we see you all bright;
Come forth hereafter, song and laughter,
for ne’er are we so close to the light.
mjg/01
Any sufficiently large gathering of males tends discussion towards the Second Law of Thermodynamics, as it relates to locker room fare.
mjg/01
Blinding light from one direction should serve only to illuminate others.
mjg/01
The censorship and restrictions on the free flow of information, across the very institutions which must necessarily implant the fundamental concepts of the liberty which our forefathers fought to bring us, is hypocritical in the highest degree. To actively assert to our youth and leaders of our mutual future, through the devices and prime concepts of their upbringing, that information is corrupt lest it be presented in a fashion becoming of the engine of our secular success, is to breach the utter trust and belief in honesty and good faith upon which our nations were founded; and certainly must reside if our fingertips are ever to gain handhold beyond mediocrity.
mjg/01
In a land without escape,
in a land without thoughtful remuneration,
in a land without mental deviation,
nor acceptance of the same,
herein lies a vile creature
loosed by inaction and lack of vigilance:
Deadly in its ferocity, unavoidable in its timeliness.
Here lies the dearth of a rage long forgotten.
mjg/01
Where have you gone, oh joy of mine eyes?
Where have you flown to, my dove of morning?
You have departed from me.
As a soul leaves its shell,
you have ripped yourself from my mind.
Why have you forsaken me so, my sister?
Have I forsaken you?
mjg/01
Whither dost thou heart sailing go,
when the snow, its life source failing slow,
shall ride upon a clear night’s dreary,
soft, sunken, unseen clearly.
mjg/01
Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things afflict them, and I am at their mercy, for the mirror does not lie.
mjg/01 (original)
The Slashdot Effect: Breeding Ignorant, Arrogant, Pompous Attitudes Since 1997!
mjg/01
With the invention of the mass media, it was made possible for the minor media to instantly become en masse players in a field, and in a philosophy, they have no authority or comprehension to be in.
mjg/01
The future is what we make of the present.
mjg/00
If I have seen further, it is by the tearing down of giants, that I may stand on their shoulders.
mjg/00
A wall, given legs, will still be wall. An obstacle to be climbed, crashed down, went around and dug under. But it is still a wall. And if a wall is to be overcome, it must necessarily retain the properties that make it a wall. For anything less would be a reproach on mankind’s self-respect.
mjg/00
It is surely a dire time when man’s sight becomes blurred, and the way free is lost in dividends of moral deception.
mjg/00
I succeed not because I fail not.
mjg/00
A woman is no longer a prize to be won. She is a prize to be won over.
mjg/00
What man amongst us holds the wisdom to find his way, when there is no light to guide him?
mjg/00
There is no true honour in having an enemy.
mjg/00
More things have occurred this day, than in all history combined.
mjg/00
If not time for mental excitation, whither dial doth err?
mjg/00
Given freedom from these bounds of institutional bettering, who would yet be a fool and swim back to dry, unmoving shores?
mjg/00
Blemished by pen, I dare death to speak it.
Yet glory beyond me presume false attire.
Wipe me clean lest I be destroyed,
make me sacrosanct that I may not be coyed.
mjg/99
Why these thoughts unbidden
although sweet hidden
contain the parts of
Heaven and Hell
my spirit wonders well
in times such as this
good outweighs evil
and envelopes me in
memories of nostalgic bliss.
mjg/99
I suppose the intellectually stimulating activity of “quote making” is a worthy activity in the face of stark and desolate periods of cranial ease.
mjg/99
A fleeting moment doth but pass
as an eternity for those with eyes of glass.
mjg/99
Such adulthood tires grey, when childness is put away.
mjg/99
I say, we do seem to have an irregular amount of non-cranially-participating-particles today, don’t we?
mjg/99
More than all things, this stands above, and below, all others: that a man be of such coarse nature, even the beasts in the field pay homage to him.
mjg/99
If the subject matter is simply a recurrence of a familiar vein, than one can clearly begin to see a revival of things left unsaid, and unthought, which are surpassingly beautiful to the subconscious mind.
mjg/99
The soul is the heart of the matter as the heart is the matter of the soul.
mjg/99
’tis ne’er a good thing to love afar, when one can love up close with arms ajar
mjg/99
Of such extravagance, I am not entirely faithful in the aspects of science and it’s children. However, I do respect those of that community and their endeavours for human kind.
mjg/99
I gain my stellar intellectual capacities from simply mind-numbing t.v..
mjg/99