http://www.ommadawn.dk/design2.php?tagid=79 http://www.ommadawn.dk/design2.php?sideid=275 http://www.ommadawn.dk/design2.php?sideid=275 <p>Tags: Spirituality<p><h2>Balance (Ecclesiastes, chapter 3, 1-8)</h2> To every thing there is a season, <br> and a time to every purpose under the heaven: <br> a time to be born, and a time to die; <br> a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; <br> a time to kill, and a time to heal; <br> a time to break down, and a time to build up; <br> a time to weep, and a time to laugh; <br> a time to mourn, and a time to dance; <br> a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; <br> a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; <br> a time to get, and a time to lose; <br> a time to keep, and a time to cast away; <br> a time to rend, and a time to sew; <br> a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; <br> a time to love, and a time to hate; <br> a time of war, and a time of peace. <p> <hr> <p> <h2>Charity/love (1st Corinthians, chapter 13)</h2> Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not <strong>charity</strong>, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.<br> And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not <strong>charity</strong>, I am nothing.<br> And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not <strong>charity</strong>, it profiteth me nothing.<br> <strong>Charity</strong> suffereth long, and is kind;<br> <strong>charity</strong> envieth not; <strong>charity</strong> vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;<br> Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;<br> Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.<br> <strong>Charity</strong> never faileth<br> but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail;<br> whether there be tongues, they shall cease;<br> whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.<br> For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.<br> But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.<br> When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child<br> but when I became a man, I put away childish things.<br> For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face<br> now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.<br> And now abideth faith, hope, <strong>charity</strong>, these three; but the greatest of these is <strong>charity</strong>. <p> <hr> <p> <p>Source: <a href="http://www.menfak.no/bibel/">Bibelsenteret</a> Thu, 08 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0100 Spirituality