"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

15 December 2019

Becoming.

Cranach, The Elder, Martin Luther, 1533


This life, therefore, is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being, but becoming, not rest, but exercise.

We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it.  The process is not yet finished, but it is going on. This is not the end, but it is the road. 

All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified. 

Martin Luther, from “Defense and Explanation of All the Articles” 

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