#faith

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God. ↗

— John Piper

#god #intellect #mind #objectivity #truth

If everyone played their part, no one else would have to suffer, because He had suffered for all those who'd had the courage to fight for their dreams. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#courage

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#faith #great #human #misery #too

Launching a nice little war to divert national attention was a gambit no less appealing to nineteenth-century politicians than it is to their present-day counterparts. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#politics-of-the-united-states #war #faith

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

Ann: How my heart has ached. How empty I have felt. How I’ve ached to hold my two babies. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#miscarriage #pain #faith

We mustn’t live like those with “little faith” who compromise for the sake of food and clothing. What we do matters. And not every job is a good job. ↗

— Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

#faith

I have ceased to think even of barnacles!' -Charles Darwin ↗

— Deborah Heiligman

#faith

I hear Jesus telling us to stop negotiating with Him, to stop offering something we think we have in exchange for His blessings. ↗

— Larry Crabb

#shattered-dreams #dreams

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#built #certainty #distrust #doubt #enters