words of resonance
Jan. 15th, 2016 07:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thelightshineth"Do I not hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them mine enemies.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
And see if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting."
— Psalm 140
"This year will take from me
the hardened person
who I longed to be.
I am healing by mistake."
— Eliza Griswold, 'Ruins'
"It was a mistake to keep this single knife in my heart
so long, but it is my knife, and my heart, too"
— Richard Jackson, 'Basic Algebra'
“It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
"If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy."
— Deuteronomy 32:41-2
I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them mine enemies.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
And see if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting."
— Psalm 140
"This year will take from me
the hardened person
who I longed to be.
I am healing by mistake."
— Eliza Griswold, 'Ruins'
"It was a mistake to keep this single knife in my heart
so long, but it is my knife, and my heart, too"
— Richard Jackson, 'Basic Algebra'
“It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
"If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy."
— Deuteronomy 32:41-2
