Posted on 11/23/2005 8:42:58 AM PST by HangnJudge
When you arrive in the land I am giving you and you harvest your first crops, bring the priest some grain from the first portion of your grain harvest. On the first day after the Sabbath, the priest will lift it up before the Lord so it may be accepted on your behalf. ... This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed wherever you live. —Leviticus 23:9-11, 14 (NLT)
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. —Cicero, Pro Plancio, 54 B.C.
As our skepticism about God has increased, the world has grown smaller. What I mean is that our imagination no longer thinks to visit that jeweled city with streets of gold where a glorious being lives, attended by hosts of angels. We have put aside such childishness. We are no longer awed by the one who created somethingness from nothingness, life from dust, hot consciousness from the cold void of space. We know better.
By writing God out of the narrative of life, the narrative itself has withered like a tree deprived of water. We now have a story without a plot, a song with no melody. Life without the awesome majesty of God the Everlasting is lackluster and pointless.
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etenim, iudices, cum omnibus virtutibus me adfectum esse cupio, tum nihil est quod malim quam me et esse gratum et videri. haec enim est una virtus non solum maxima sed etiam mater virtutum omnium reliquarum.
Cicero in Pro Plancio 80
In truth, O judges, while I wish to be adorned with every virtue, yet there is nothing which I can esteem more highly than the being and appearing grateful. For this one virtue is not only the greatest, but is also the parent of all the other virtues.
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