
No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.

I went into the woods because I wanted to live with intention, focusing only on what was truly necessary. I wanted to understand what life could teach me, so that when I died, I would not realize that I had never really lived.

November, the crows are uttering murder Ballads, caught in the pharynx of barren trees, While seething in their starved bodies, Now the landscape is bereft Of your holy breath.

Happily lived Mankind in the peaceful Valley of Ignorance. To the north, to the south, to the west and to the east stretched the ridges of the Hills Everlasting. A little stream of Knowledge trickled slowly though a deep worn gully. It came out of Mountains of the Past. It lost itself in the Marches of the Future.

O my God, my soul is cast down within me; Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan, And from the heights of Hermon, From the Hill Mizar. Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; All your waves and billows have gone over me.