November 5, 2013 1 Corinthians 1-10 By Nancy Baird

Audio November 5, 2013 Lesson 9

1 Corinthians 1-10

QUOTES

On the importance of the written word.. by Steve Rushin, Sports Illustrated

The Sound of a Newspaper

“Our choices in every sphere tend either to reveal or conceal things as they really are.” Catherine Thomas, Light in the Wilderness, 72.

Perception in a mirror can be distorted

“All perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe.  And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.”
Francis Bacon, Novum Organum (1620), Book 1, Aphorism 41.

“How difficult it is to teach the natural man, who comprehends nothing more than that which he sees with the natural eye!…Talk to him about angels, heavens, God, immortality…and it is like sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal to his ears;  it has no music to him…”
Brigham Young, Discourses of Brigham Young, 260.

The Sound of Tinkling of Cymbols  Windchimes Tinkling of Cymbols  Gong and Windchime

 

 

 

 

 

 

“In the sixteenth century the great Kabbalistic rabbi Isaac Luria offered a profoundly beautiful cosmology of the world… In the beginning there is the Ein Sof, pure being…Absolute Source of the world…The world…begins with…an emanation of light from the Source.. [There is] an accident of cosmic proportions:  the vessel holding the Or Ein Sof shattered and broke open, and the light of God was scattered throughout the universe into an infinite number of holy sparks.  These countless sparks of holiness are hidden deep in everyone and everything…

The purpose of human life is to uncover these sparks of light and restore the world to its original wholeness.  Everyone and everything we encounter is a shell or container for a hidden spark of holiness.  It is up to us to help free the hidden holiness in everything and everyone.”
Rachel Naomi Remen, My Grandfather’s Blessings, 326.

“It is the Deity within us that causes increase…Yes.  He is in every person upon the face of the earth.  The elements that every individual is made of and lives in, posses the Godhead.  This you cannot understand, but you will hereafter.  The Deity within us is the great principle that causes us to increase, and to grow in grace and truth…”
Brigham Young,  Journal of Discourses, I:93.

“The eventual death of your mortal body is essential to God’s great plan of happiness.  Why?  Because death will allow your spirit to return home to Him.”
Russell M. Nelson, October 2013 Conference

How do you even describe the waves Tintoretto

The painter Tintoretto  threw his brushes down in despair, and declared:
“The sea grows always greater, nobody can paint it.”
Nancy Baird, private files

Resources

The New English Bible

New English Bible

October 22, 2013 – 1 & 2 Thessalonians By Nancy Baird

 Audio October 22, 2013 1 & 2 Thessalonians

1 & 2 Thessalonians

Quotes

Nancy Baird Writing Desk

St Paul at his Writing Desk by Rembrandt

“There was a man who dwelt in the east centuries ago.  And now I cannot look at a sheep or a sparrow, a lily or a cornfield, a raven or a sunset, a vineyard or a mountain, without thinking of him.  If this be not to be divine, what is it?
G.K. Chesterton, British writer, poet, Christian theologian  (writing about Jesus Christ)

Description of Paul from the 6th century, written by “John of Antioch”:
“Paul was in person round-shouldered , with a sprinkling of grey on his head and beard, with an aquiline nose, greyish eyes, meeting eyebrows, with a mixture of pale and red in his complexion and an ample beard.  With a genial expression of countenance, he was sensible, earnest, easily accessible, sweet, and inspired with the Holy Spirit.”
In Farrar, The Life and Work of St. Paul, 896.

“The mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“You look at me as though I’m weird,” the justice told Jennifer Senior…Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the Devil?  I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the Devil!  It’s in the Gospels!  You travel in circles that are so, SO removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the Devil!  Most of mankind has believed in the Devil, for all of history.  Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the Devil.”
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Question and Answer session at Tufts University, responding to a reporter who asked him if he believed in the devil.
Deseret News, Oct. 8, 2013.

“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you.  If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”
Gospel of Thomas (Aprocrypha). David Remnick, “The Evil Problem,”
The New Yorker, April 3, 1995, 59.

“The last day is hidden that all days may be observed.”
Augustine

“Do not be too anxious for the Lord to hasten this work.  Let our anxiety be centered upon this one thing, the sanctification of our own hearts, the purifying of our own affections, the preparing of ourselves for the approach of the events that are hastening upon us.  This should be our concern, this should be our study, this should be our daily prayer…”
Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, 9:3.