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11th August “And O! What transport of delight” Henry Williams Baker

30th July ‘For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.’ 1 Corinthians 11.12

21st July ‘But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes’ Numbers 11.6

23rd to 27th June 'But whoso... Seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels...' PART DEUX (1 John 3.17)

24th June “It’s only shallow people who do not judge by appearances,” Oscar Wilde; ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’

16th June ‘I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame…’ Isaiah 50.6

11th June ‘Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed." Hiraclitus

8th June Verily, verily, I say unto thee… thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.’ John 21.18

3rd June ‘Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity’. Ecclesiastes 1:2 or ‘The Cowl maketh not the monk.’

27th May: 'That kiss is as comfortless as frozen water to a starved snake’, Shakespeare’s 'Titus Andronicus'

25th May: 'In all beauty there is some strangeness of proportion,' Francis Bacon