Markisms
“I may not like God all the time, but I sure do use Him a lot.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Ignorant is a situation – Stupid is a choice.” Mark A. Cornelius
“The more I know I know, the more I know I don’t know” Mark A. Cornelius
“It doesn’t matter whose fault it is, it’s what we do about it.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Fault is one thing, remedy is another.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Where great expectations exist, great results prevail.” Mark A. Cornelius
“You can’t park two cars in a one car garage.” Mark A. Cornelius
“I try too hard to be. I am anyway.” Mark A. Cornelius
“My accomplishments are in spite of me, not because of me.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Man doesn’t define God. God defines man. Science doesn’t solve God. God solves science. The universe doesn’t explain God. God explains the universe.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Can’t solve the mystery without the history.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Everyone, no matter how intelligent, articulate or well positioned, has a deep crippling void within them. They may or may not acknowledge it; they may or may not share its presence with others. Still it exists as truth and there's only one way to fill that void, replacing its darkness with light.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Maybe is just a path to yes or no.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Idolatry is simply inventing a god that meets my needs.” Mark A. Cornelius
“There are two kinds of children in the world, those hungry for agreement and those hungry for argument. PS We are all children.” Mark A. Cornelius
“There are two kinds of seekers in the world, those seeking proof and those seeking disproof. PS we are all seekers.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Just because you can’t see another’s heart doesn’t mean you can’t listen to their heart. Just because you can’t see another’s heart doesn’t mean you can’t share your own heart.”
Mark A. Cornelius
“Our job is to prepare the heart. The Spirit’s job is to change it.” Mark A. Cornelius
“If someone digs a well to find water and instead discovers gold, does the digger not rejoice in his prosperity, then use his blessing to facilitate his original quest?” Mark A. Cornelius
“Aiyn ad mizrach: Eyes on the sunrise” Mark A. Cornelius
“Don't praise me for my faith in God, praise God for his faith in me.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Common Ground: Right people taking right responsibility together for right resolution.” Mark A. Cornelius
“I teeter on the threshold of joy and frustration, realizing God has gifted me with boundless knowledge to be had and heavenly wisdom to be received. Meanwhile I’ve been provided with a brain too feeble to comprehend and appreciate these blessings in their entirety.” Mark A. Cornelius
“I can’t not write.” Mark A. Cornelius
“There is a rut in the middle of every truth.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Faith is just a word for doubt, turned inside-out.” Mark Al Cornelius
“I can’t explain why faith exists. I can only experience that it does exist.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Life is brutal—it destroys anything that gets in its way.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Life is brutal—it destroys anything that gets in its way.” ―Mark A. Cornelius
“Do not dismiss something because you do not understand it. God did not give you your marvelous brain and amazing heart so that you might say, “I don’t know”. They are his gifts to you, that you will be convicted to say, “I hunger to know.”
―Mark A. Cornelius
“What if the existence of God is not dependent on my belief?” ―Mark A. Cornelius
“Answers provide no canvas without questions. Questions reveal no color without answers.” ―Mark A. Cornelius
"I am a pianist trapped in a guitarist's body." ―Mark A. Cornelius
“Money is no object because I haven’t any.” ―Mark A. Cornelius
“What color is grey?” ―Mark A. Cornelius
“God has two eternal thoughts:
First, that His faith in His creation is relational
The second is that what His creation has faith in is consequential
With the breath of these two thoughts, God loves.” ―Mark A. Cornelius
“I'm not writing about tomorrow, each day has enough writing of its own.” ―Mark A. Cornelius with apologies to my Lord and Savior.
“Just because we can do a thing, doesn’t me the thing wants to be done.” ―Mark A. Cornelius with apologies to Bill Shakespeare.
“Show me in Scripture:
The religion called Judaism
The religion called Christianity
There is no religion mentioned in the Bible, only relationship
God with people
People with God
Messiah with God and people
Life is not easier because of this:
Relationship is a difficult thing -
a covenant thing - an eternal thing.”
―Mark A. Cornelius
“It’s difficult to perceive Biblical Prophecy unfolding when you are living in the prophecy’s time.
It’s like standing on the pages in the middle of a giant book and trying to comprehend the book’s beginning and its ending
We need insight from the book’s readers of the past and the vision of the Spirit to help us through.” ―Mark A. Cornelius
Do I approach others in humility, or to humiliate?
One suggests that we are equals, seeking truth together, caring for one another, all others.
The other suggests that I am better somehow, and so my needs are the priority.
I am no better, no worse.
There is only One better.
He, not we, created
We, not He, are the created
In these thoughts and recognitions, I am humbled, unworthy of the Creator’s love, yet astounded at its receiving.
―Mark A. Cornelius
Why shout at a wall? The only thing you will receive is the echoes of your own beliefs.
―Mark A. Cornelius
There appear to be a great many egos in this world. I’m just trying daily to diminish one of them.
―Mark A. Cornelius
The promise of a healthy tree is in the proper planting and nurturing, not in the chopping down of someone else’s tree.
―Mark A. Cornelius
Lyzdexic Prosetry
“I merember wha-si-tit.” Mark A.Cornelius
“Who but could, could not should they not could.” (If you have the ability to do something and don’t do it, nothing happens). Mark A. Cornelius
“Ignorant is a situation – Stupid is a choice.” Mark A. Cornelius
“The more I know I know, the more I know I don’t know” Mark A. Cornelius
“It doesn’t matter whose fault it is, it’s what we do about it.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Fault is one thing, remedy is another.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Where great expectations exist, great results prevail.” Mark A. Cornelius
“You can’t park two cars in a one car garage.” Mark A. Cornelius
“I try too hard to be. I am anyway.” Mark A. Cornelius
“My accomplishments are in spite of me, not because of me.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Man doesn’t define God. God defines man. Science doesn’t solve God. God solves science. The universe doesn’t explain God. God explains the universe.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Can’t solve the mystery without the history.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Everyone, no matter how intelligent, articulate or well positioned, has a deep crippling void within them. They may or may not acknowledge it; they may or may not share its presence with others. Still it exists as truth and there's only one way to fill that void, replacing its darkness with light.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Maybe is just a path to yes or no.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Idolatry is simply inventing a god that meets my needs.” Mark A. Cornelius
“There are two kinds of children in the world, those hungry for agreement and those hungry for argument. PS We are all children.” Mark A. Cornelius
“There are two kinds of seekers in the world, those seeking proof and those seeking disproof. PS we are all seekers.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Just because you can’t see another’s heart doesn’t mean you can’t listen to their heart. Just because you can’t see another’s heart doesn’t mean you can’t share your own heart.”
Mark A. Cornelius
“Our job is to prepare the heart. The Spirit’s job is to change it.” Mark A. Cornelius
“If someone digs a well to find water and instead discovers gold, does the digger not rejoice in his prosperity, then use his blessing to facilitate his original quest?” Mark A. Cornelius
“Aiyn ad mizrach: Eyes on the sunrise” Mark A. Cornelius
“Don't praise me for my faith in God, praise God for his faith in me.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Common Ground: Right people taking right responsibility together for right resolution.” Mark A. Cornelius
“I teeter on the threshold of joy and frustration, realizing God has gifted me with boundless knowledge to be had and heavenly wisdom to be received. Meanwhile I’ve been provided with a brain too feeble to comprehend and appreciate these blessings in their entirety.” Mark A. Cornelius
“I can’t not write.” Mark A. Cornelius
“There is a rut in the middle of every truth.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Faith is just a word for doubt, turned inside-out.” Mark Al Cornelius
“I can’t explain why faith exists. I can only experience that it does exist.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Life is brutal—it destroys anything that gets in its way.” Mark A. Cornelius
“Life is brutal—it destroys anything that gets in its way.” ―Mark A. Cornelius
“Do not dismiss something because you do not understand it. God did not give you your marvelous brain and amazing heart so that you might say, “I don’t know”. They are his gifts to you, that you will be convicted to say, “I hunger to know.”
―Mark A. Cornelius
“What if the existence of God is not dependent on my belief?” ―Mark A. Cornelius
“Answers provide no canvas without questions. Questions reveal no color without answers.” ―Mark A. Cornelius
"I am a pianist trapped in a guitarist's body." ―Mark A. Cornelius
“Money is no object because I haven’t any.” ―Mark A. Cornelius
“What color is grey?” ―Mark A. Cornelius
“God has two eternal thoughts:
First, that His faith in His creation is relational
The second is that what His creation has faith in is consequential
With the breath of these two thoughts, God loves.” ―Mark A. Cornelius
“I'm not writing about tomorrow, each day has enough writing of its own.” ―Mark A. Cornelius with apologies to my Lord and Savior.
“Just because we can do a thing, doesn’t me the thing wants to be done.” ―Mark A. Cornelius with apologies to Bill Shakespeare.
“Show me in Scripture:
The religion called Judaism
The religion called Christianity
There is no religion mentioned in the Bible, only relationship
God with people
People with God
Messiah with God and people
Life is not easier because of this:
Relationship is a difficult thing -
a covenant thing - an eternal thing.”
―Mark A. Cornelius
“It’s difficult to perceive Biblical Prophecy unfolding when you are living in the prophecy’s time.
It’s like standing on the pages in the middle of a giant book and trying to comprehend the book’s beginning and its ending
We need insight from the book’s readers of the past and the vision of the Spirit to help us through.” ―Mark A. Cornelius
Do I approach others in humility, or to humiliate?
One suggests that we are equals, seeking truth together, caring for one another, all others.
The other suggests that I am better somehow, and so my needs are the priority.
I am no better, no worse.
There is only One better.
He, not we, created
We, not He, are the created
In these thoughts and recognitions, I am humbled, unworthy of the Creator’s love, yet astounded at its receiving.
―Mark A. Cornelius
Why shout at a wall? The only thing you will receive is the echoes of your own beliefs.
―Mark A. Cornelius
There appear to be a great many egos in this world. I’m just trying daily to diminish one of them.
―Mark A. Cornelius
The promise of a healthy tree is in the proper planting and nurturing, not in the chopping down of someone else’s tree.
―Mark A. Cornelius
Lyzdexic Prosetry
“I merember wha-si-tit.” Mark A.Cornelius
“Who but could, could not should they not could.” (If you have the ability to do something and don’t do it, nothing happens). Mark A. Cornelius