Sunday, June 10, 2018

DISAPPOINTMENT



The witty, brilliant, sophisticated Irish essayist & lecturer, Bernard Shaw, sums up the hopelessness of his own barren life & philosophy in the epigram:

"There are 2 tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it."

Shaw is talking about the desire of the heart of the natural man who does not know God.

He speaks truly when he says that, when such a man has got his heart's desire, he finds it only disappointment, empty & unsatisfying.

That is why so many today, both old people & young people, having won their heart's desires, commit suicide.

- Sunday School Times. (moreillustrations.com)

“No soul can be really at rest until it has given up all dependence on everything else and has been forced to depend on the Lord alone. As long as our expectation is from other things, nothing but disappointment awaits us.” -  Hannah Whitall Smith.

Rom 10:11 (TLB): “For the Scriptures tell us that no one who believes in Christ will ever be disappointed."

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