#ible

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer ↗

— Eric Metaxas

#christianity #theology #theology

Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them. ↗

— J.I. Packer

#feelings #judging #prayer #wisdom #persistence

I used to be scared of women. When I was very young they terrified me, but discovering the female universe was incredible and still is to this day, as you never stop learning about them. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#day #discovering #female #i #incredible

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#apartheid #attention #because #crucial #did

Galatians 5:22-23 describes the fruit of the Spirit, which is "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control." Notice the verse does not say the "fruits" of the Spirit, but fruit. The fruit, or result, of the Spirit working in our lives is that we become not just some but all of these things: more loving, more patient, more faithful, and so forth. This verse is not a to-do list for us to work through, but a description of the transformation that occurs when God's Spirit begins to work in us. ↗

— Keri Wyatt Kent

#christian #faith #holy-spirit #religion #virtues

As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.' ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#bible #calls #century #into #move

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. ↗

— David Viscott

#between #faith #life #man #merely

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. ↗

— Mark Twain

#bother #i #i do #me #parts

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#main #main purpose #make #many #market

I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life. ↗

— Shania Twain

#always #best #desperate #dictate #feel