#ai

We gotta do much more than believe if wanna see the world change We gotta do much more than believe if we really wanna change things We gotta do much more than believe, go on try it, go on try it We gotta do much more than believe if we wanna see the world change ↗

— Dave Matthews Band

#from-belief-to-action #change

When you is precious to God, you become important to Satan. Watch your back. ↗

— Denver Moore

#faith

In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital 'S,' is not virtue - it's faith: faith in a God who draws all to himself in his resurrection. ↗

— Robert Farrar Capon

#god #jesus #sin #virtue #faith

Because I am not yet living up to what Jesus expects me to be in those red letters in the Bible, I always define myself as somebody who is saved by God's grace and is on his way to becoming a Christian. (...) Being saved is trusting in what Christ did for us, but being Christian is dependent on the way we respond to what he did for us. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#bible #christian #christianity #conversion #discipleship

The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#modernity #secularization #faith

قصرنا فغضب الله علينا، أم أنه كتب في لوحة المحفوظ سيره عذابنا قبل أن نخلق او نكون ↗

— رضوى عاشور

#mind #faith

The only sweeter than union is reunion. ↗

— Kathleen McGowan

#fiction #faith

For a moment we sit in silence. Eventually, I turn to him and say, "Do you believe in God?" His eyes narrow for a moment and he stares at me at me for a while. Stares in a rather intense way, like a doctor looking at a troubling X-ray. Then he looks out the and says in a voice like shattered glass, "Only in storms. ↗

— Rebecca Sparrow

#death #faith #god #grief #death

Repentance grows as faith grows. Do not make any mistake about it; repentance is not a thing of days and weeks, a temporary penance to be got over as fast as possible! No; it is the grace of a lifetime, like faith itself. God's little children repent, and so do the young men and the fathers. Repentance is the inseparable companion of faith. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#god #repentance #sin #faith

Why does a steward steal? He steals because he's not sure he'll always remain with his master and wants to make his future secure. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#materialism #security #stewardship #faith