October 25, 2008

Keep Out

With 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,

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,

and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.”

- W. H. Auden

“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

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,

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