Quotes of Note

Quotes of Note

“I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.”
Ecclesiastes 1:14

“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun”
Ecclesiastes 1:9
The writer of Ecclesiastes states he has seen all things under the sun and it’s all chasing after the wind.
He makes it clear that there is nothing new under the sun that what has been will be done again.
What he says is true. Someone once told me, “we in the twenty first century are not doing anything different to those in the first century or those in the centuries before and after.
The only difference with us today is that we do it with high tech toys. Sin is sin whether done in the market square or streets of ancient civilizations or on the internet of our day and age.
Truth likewise is the same in all ages.
Thus what Ecclesiastes states is true when he says,
“Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole  duty  of man. 
For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.” 
Ecclesiastes12:13,14
Many today do not believe there is a God. They do not recognize that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that he came to earth as a sacrifice for our sins.
This proves what the apostle Paul wrote,
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.  
For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.” 
Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?  
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.  
Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom,  but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,”  
                                              1 Corinthians 1:18-23.
C. S. Lewis wrote,
“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.” 
                                                                             C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain.
Do you believe in God?
Think about it.