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This is a church of tenderness and arrogance, of sparkling differences and human failings. There is no unmixing the two. ↗

— Joanna Brooks

#lds #faith

You see that? That big messy spiral of people, moving, trying to find God? I ask them, as the exodus unfolds once again on screen. That right there is Zion. Get there however you can. ↗

— Joanna Brooks

#zion #faith

Maybe the best thing we can do for our spouses is give them permission to forgive themselves. ↗

— Justin Davis

#faith #forgiveness #marriage #faith

Food and eating often mask our pain, our inner longing for God, for acceptance. It is key to know our motivation for eating as well as for other actions. Why do I eat? Am I tired, am I bored, am I stressed and tired? A good practice is to live in the present moment, aware of the reality in which I am immersed. ↗

— Mary DeTurris Poust

#faith #food #god #mindfulness #trust

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots. Let me explain what I mean by this. If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots. Let's take this a step further. Robots do not love. God created us with the capacity to love. Love is based upon one's right to choose to love. We cannot force others to love us. We can make them serve us or obey us. But true love is founded upon one's freedom to choose to respond. ↗

— Billy Graham

#freedom #god #good #love #moral-freedom

The greatest gift that God has given you next to your very life is the right to choose—your agency. He will guide you, inspire you, but He will never manipulate or coerce you. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#faith

Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah ... ↗

— Paul Bowles

#faith #faith

It is man´s faith to live either on agonies of fear and turmoil or in the prostration of boredom. ↗

— Voltaire

#voltaire #faith

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand. ↗

— Dan Brown

#dan-brown #faith #religion #science #spirituality

The spiritual energy of our time, as I've come to understand it, is not a rejection of the rational disciplines by which we've ordered our common life for many decades - law, politics, economics, science. It is, rather, a realization that these disciplines have a limited scope. They can't ask ultimate questions...they don't begin to tell us how to order our astonishments, what matters in life, what matters in a death, how to love, how we can be of service to each other. These are the kinds of questions religion arose to address and religions traditions are keepers of conversation across generations about them. ↗

— Krista Tippett

#love #questioning #questions #religion #service