#religious

Krister Stendhal, a Lutheran minister and Harvard University Dean gave these rules of Religious understanding for reporters to use when they are reporting on a religion. Stendahl’s Three Rules of Religious Understanding (1) When you are trying to understand another religion, you should ask the adherents of that religion and not its enemies. (2) Don’t compare your best to their worst. (3) Leave room for “holy envy.” (By this Stendahl meant that you should be willing to recognize elements in the other religious tradition or faith that you admire and wish could, in some way, be reflected in your own religious tradition or faith.) ↗

— Kristner Stendhal

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Amida's unimpeded light is the sun of wisdom that destroys the mind of darkness. (Preface in Teaching, Practice, Faith, Enlightenment) ↗

— Kentetsu Takamori

#inspiration #religious #faith

Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#religious #trust #faith

Eternity is not just looking to the future and our place with God in Heaven, but it is looking at our Eternity as if it were only moments away. ↗

— Beth Nimmo

#believe #inspiration #inspirational #jesus #jesus-christ

If God himself can't save this world without sacrifice... how can we? ↗

— Matthew Tysz

#religious-faith #sacrifice #faith

Should one continue to follow the faith of a group that's cast him out? Shouldn't it stand to reason that if he was true to that faith that the group should have been true to him? Is it unreasonable to ask forgiveness of one who is all-forgiving? ↗

— T.A. Miles

#exile #faith #knight #religion #religious-order

Don't let anyone look down on you because you're young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith, and in purity. ↗

— 1 Timothy 4:12

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Тогава си счел всички земни придобивки за нищо. И сега недей да милееш за нищо. Имай готовност, като захвърлиш всичко, да останеш гол. ↗

— Святитель Феофан Затворник

#philosophy #religious #spirtual #faith

The difference between going where you are needed and going where you are called is purely based upon diligent prayer and the leading of the Holy Spirit. ↗

— M.J. Stoddard

#inspirational #m-j-stoddard-quotes #religious-faith #faith

Who should we be trying to make the most proud? Our family? Our friends? Our teachers or bosses? What about the one who molded us out of the earth itself, who formed us like clay, and instilled within us the very breath of life that shaped the universe? ↗

— James D. Maxon

#inspirational #motivational #religious #family