Keep OutWith the leaves of decay all around us
it may be tempting to enter
that cabin of want and desire.
“Man-like is it to fall into sin,
“Man-like is it to fall into sin,
Fiend-like is it to dwell therein,
Christ-like is it for sin to grieve,
God-like is it all sin to leave.”
- Friedrich von Logau
“All sins tend to be addictive,
“All sins tend to be addictive,
and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.”
- W. H. Auden
“And lead us not into temptation,
“And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil:
For thine is the kingdom, and the power,
and the glory, for ever.
Amen.”
- Matthew 6: 13 KJV
“… in hope that the creation itself
“… in hope that the creation itself
will be liberated from its bondage to decay
and brought into the glorious freedom
of the children of God.”
- Romans 8: 20,21 NIV
“For the wages of sin is death,
“For the wages of sin is death,
but the gift of God is eternal life
in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
- Romans 6:23 NIV
“To open the blind eyes,
to bring out the prisoners from the prison,
and them that sit in darkness
out of the prison house.”
- Isaiah 42:7 KJV
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