Unus Veritas: Reflections, Thoughts, & Inquiries into all matters related to Truth: My-way vs. Yah-weh

Books of Varying Interest

A Return to Modesty by Wendy Shalit
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
Blue Planet in Green Shackles by Vaclav Klaus
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Christianity & Western Though by Colin Brown
Great Western Indian Fights: The Defining Battles
Ideas of the Great Philosophers by William S. Sahakian
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Christian Tradition by Jaroslav Pelikan
The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Fathers of the Church by Mike Aquilina
The History of Christian Thought by Jonathan Hill
The Intellectual Life by A.G. Sertillanges
The Most Evil Pirates In History by Shelley Klein
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
The Story of Christianity by Justo L. Gonzalez
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Quotes Worth Pondering Concerning Truth

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare. -- VOLTAIRE
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. -- JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at? -- LORD BYRON
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. -- SAMUEL JOHNSON
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. -- JOHN LOCKE
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. -- SAMUEL JOHNSON
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well. -- HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

My-way vs. Yah-weh

I have come to realize that spiritual desires and needs are spurned in us by God and they are only capable of being fulfilled by God.

For example, we all recognize that there is a need for prayer in our walk with the LORD. If my prayer life is lacking, I often feel a need to pray more. Yet, this desire to pray more can only be fulfilled by God.

In other words, instead of saying to myself "I need to pray more", I ought to say "God, give me the desire to pray more". Then, when we obtain our desire to pray more, it is a result of God's grace and blessing--which is long lasting as opposed to attempting to achieve it on one's own, which is short lived at best.