The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity.
|
Isaiah 9:10:
'The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with dressed stone; the fig trees have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.'
(NIV)
The bricks have fallen, but we will build [all the better] with hewn stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put [costlier] cedars in their place.
(AMP)
The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
(KJV)
|
When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits -- all without any directing intelligence at all.
|
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
|
Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.
|
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
|
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
|
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
|
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
|
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
|
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
|