#nit

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

If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#critical-thinking #faith #reason #religion #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

Comparing yourself to others does nothing for you. Society has conditioned us to value people who fit a secular mold of perfection". ↗

— Michele Woolley

#faith #favor #self-help #faith

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#mysticism #poetry #reason #serenity #faith

A guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul.' - Bread & Wine (day 5) ↗

— Edna Hong

#faith #grace #guilt #lent #soul

He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity. ↗

— J.I. Packer

#sin #faith

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it. ↗

— John R.W. Stott

#conservatism #faith #radicalism #faith