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All things are only transitory
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
All that is, at all,
Lasts ever. past recall;
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
Lasts ever. past recall;
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
Rabbi ben Ezra
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
And God fulfills himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me?
I have lived my life, and that which I have done
May he within himself make pure! but thou,
If thou shouldst never see my face again,
Pray for my soul...
And God fulfills himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me?
I have lived my life, and that which I have done
May he within himself make pure! but thou,
If thou shouldst never see my face again,
Pray for my soul...
Idylls of the King. The Passing of Arthur
. . . More things are wrought by prayer
Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice
Rise like a fountain for me night and day.
For what are men better than sheeps or goats
That nourish a blind life within the brain,
If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer
Not only for themselves but for those who call them friend?
For so this whole round earth is every way
Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice
Rise like a fountain for me night and day.
For what are men better than sheeps or goats
That nourish a blind life within the brain,
If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer
Not only for themselves but for those who call them friend?
For so this whole round earth is every way
Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
The Idylls of the King, The Passing of Arthur
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