#god

Faith is ultimately a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts by the Holy Spirit ↗

— Jean Calvin

#god-s-grace #faith

We can put it this way: the man who has faith is the man who is no longer looking at himself and no longer looking to himself. He no longer looks at anything he once was. He does not look at what he is now. He does not even look at what he hopes to be as the result of his own efforts. He looks entirely to the Lord Jesus Christ and His finished work, and rests on that alone. He has ceased to say, "Ah yes, I used to commit terrible sins but I have done this and that." He stops saying that. If he goes on saying that, he has not got faith. Faith speaks in an entirely different manner and makes a man say, "Yes I have sinned grievously, I have lived a life of sin, yet I know that I am a child of God because I am not resting on any righteousness of my own; my righteousness is in Jesus Christ and God has put that to my account. ↗

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#self-absorption #faith

Why is being a servant such an important aspect of faith? It’s simple. If you cannot obey and serve someone you can see, will you really be able to obey and serve God whom you cannot? ↗

— Paul B. Heidt

#faith #god #obey #serve #faith

God put us here to go through this kind of mental gymnastics, and He certainly put us here to enjoy our sexual lives. He put us here to ask, to try and find out the best way possible to live with our neighbors. Of course, you can go through a life not asking, and that's the tragedy: so many lives lived in moral blindness. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#god #love #religion #faith

Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations. ↗

— Charles Hartshorne

#deism #faith #god #logic #pandeism

Let us gain WillPower from Hanuman,Viveka discrimination from Gan-patee the leader of men,Karuma Empathy from Shiva who is all jeevas beings.Faith from Mother Goddess all,Ability to increase the radius of self centerd ness from Vishnu and ability to unlearn the obsolete and learn new thoughts as New Sun rises each Morning ,so that we all Evolve,rise. ↗

— Upanishads Ancient Indian texts

#ganesha #goddess #hanuman #shiva #sun

Questions are disturbing, especially those which may threaten our traditions, our institutions, our security. But questions never threaten the living God, who is constantly calling us, and who affirms for us that love is stronger than hate, blessings stronger than cursing. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#god #questions #faith

We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#prayer #faith

The power of His gentleness..In the Eye of Deception - This is my story. ↗

— Nikki Rosen

#faith #god #hope #love #truth

Consecutive reading of biblical books forces everyone who wants to hear to put himself, or to allow himself to be found, where God has acted once and for all for the salvation of men. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#god-s-word #faith