Love endures death

 Richard Feynman's love letter to his dead wife:

 

νυνὶ δὲ μένει πίστις ἐλπίς ἀγάπη ... μείζων δὲ τούτων ἡ ἀγάπη

St. Paul repudiated the very meaning of repentance in the Synoptics

 

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

 

-- 1 Corinthians 13:3

 

Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.  

-- Luke 18:22

 

Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.  

-- Matthew 19:21

 

Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me. 

 

-- Mark 10:21

Speakers In The Tongues Of Men And Angels In Africa Don't Realize The Devil Knows Every Language

 

Superstition begets superstition.

T. M. Luhrmann in The New York Times, here:

LAST month I was in Accra, Ghana, to learn more about the African version of the new charismatic Christian churches that have become so popular in the United States and are now proliferating in sub-Saharan Africa, especially Ghana and Nigeria. What struck me was how much people spoke in tongues: language-like sounds (usually, repeated phonemes from the speaker’s own language) thought by those who use them to be a language God knows but the speaker does not.

I went to services that lasted three hours and for most of which people prayed in tongues. People I interviewed spoke about praying by themselves in tongues for similar stretches of time. They said they did so because it was the one language the devil could not understand, but what I found so striking was how happy it seemed to make them. “We love to speak in tongues,” one young Ghanaian woman told me with a laugh.

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'But even Michael, one of the mightiest of the angels, did not dare accuse the devil of blasphemy, but simply said, "The Lord rebuke you!" (This took place when Michael was arguing with the devil about Moses' body.)'

-- Jude 1:9

Will Love Come To An End, Or Not?

 

"Love never comes to an end."

-- 1 Cor. 13:8

"The love of many will grow cold."

-- Matthew 24:12

"And you will be hated by all for my name's sake."

-- Matthew 10:22

"And you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake."

-- Matthew 24:9

"And you will be hated by all for my name's sake."

-- Mark 13:13

"You will be hated by all for my name's sake."

-- Luke 21:17

"And will not God vindicate his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will vindicate them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, will he find faith on earth?"

-- Luke 18:7f.

"O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever."

-- Psalm 136:1

"The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit."

-- Psalm 34:18