#christian

When Jesus tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is 'acquainted with Grief', we listen, for that also is an Acquaintance of our own. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#god #grief #jesus #religion #sorrow

All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we're told, and back then I was. ↗

— Diet Eman

#prayer #prison #diet

Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation. ↗

— Horatius Bonar

#faith #faith

we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#compassion #feelings #god #love #attitude

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal. ↗

— William Jay

#creature #death #desired #dislike #dissolution

The best way to get rid of the negative thoughts is to crowd them out with something else bigger and more beautiful: worship of the One who holds everything in His powerful and capable hands. ↗

— Jocelyn Green

#inspirational #negative-thoughts #worry #beauty

If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show. ↗

— St. François de Sales

#humility #hypocrisy #pride #anger

When you make the dream of your heart a treasure of heaven, it holds an eternal value. ↗

— Deborah Brodie

#inspirational-quotes #dreams

I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques. ↗

— Ted Lange

#believe #christianity #churches #i #i believe

Love and forgive. ↗

— Japanese proverb.

#forgiveness