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  • Writer's pictureJohn Stackhouse
    • Oct 20, 2014
    • 1 min read

Walt Whitman on Ecclesiastes…and Philippians 3

Hast never come to thee an hour, A sudden gleam divine, precipitating, bursting all these bubbles, fashions, wealth? These eager business aims—books, politics, art, amours, To utter nothingness?

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, #272.

[Entire book of Ecclesiastes]

But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ.

Philippians 3:7-8


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