words from the past

In the midst of packing and rearranging (and blogging during my work breaks), I've come across the journal I kept from my last semester at Westmont and my year in Hungary. Man, I was so much wiser then...

I love some of the quotes that I scribbled down (five years ago!). I can't put them all on here, 'cause y'all really don't care that much, but I put one by Francis Bacon alongside the title line of the blog, and here's another one:

"The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, said they, the name of God may be upon it. Though there was a little superstition in this, yet truly there is nothing but good religion in it, if we apply it to man.

"Trample not on any; there may be some work of grace there, that thou knowest not of. The name of God may be written upon that soul thou treadest on; it may be a soul that Christ thought so much of as to give his precious blood for it; therefore, despise it not."

--S.T. Coleridge (unfortunately, I didn't write down what work this came from)