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The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship possible: faith. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#faith #god #faith

We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future. ↗

— John Piper

#faith #experience

with man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26"). ↗

— Michele Woolley

#faith #favor #hope #love #self-esteem

Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#secrets #thrills #faith

The size of a challenge should never be measured by what we have to offer. It will never be enough. Furthermore, provision is God's responsibility, not ours. We are merely called to commit what we have - even if it's no more than a sack lunch. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#christianity #faith #god #provision #faith

I think that churches would be places of greater intimacy and growth in Christ if people stopped lying about what we need, what we fear, where we fail, and how we sin. ↗

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

#churches #faith

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#faith #good #good-and-evil #inspiration #uniqueness

Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#faith #humanity #faith

I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.' And he replied, 'Go into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way! ↗

— Minnie Louise Haskins

#christianity #faith #fear #fear-of-failure #fear-unknown

Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#grief #religious #faith