#ritual

We have very little faith in the Lord, very little trust. If we trusted the Lord as much as we trust a friend when we ask him to do something for us, neither we as individuals nor our whole country would suffer so much. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#eastern-orthodoxy #faith #jesus-christ #political #self-help

The most important lesson that we're supposed to be learning right now is how completely lost we are without God. If we don't learn this lesson, then our lives are going to have zero meaning. (Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality) ↗

— Brian "Head" Welch

#god #jesus #lessons #life #love

Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself. They do not do this because it sounds edifying, but because this is the way that human nature seems to work. We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#experience

You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything that they cannot touch or measure, and anyone who happens to see a thing that is invisible to most people is immediately branded a lunatic. ↗

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

#belief #childhood #faith #religion #spirituality

You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#convince #faith #honesty #people #persuading

One should measure their life by the faith they embrace and the relationships they cherish ↗

— John Paul Warren

#central-christian-church #john-paul-warren #leadership #motivational #sozo-life

Since living is believing, no one can be completely lacking in faith. ↗

— Kentetsu Takamori

#buddhism #faith #life #religion #spirituality

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#compassion #faith #god #jesus #salvation

Let us keep in mind that we do not have to go to the scriptures inorder to approach God. We do not have to find the right scripture inorder to talk to God". ↗

— Thurman L. Faison

#emerging-church #faith #god #kingdom-of-god #new-thought

Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#faith #ivan-karamazov #life #logic #meaning-of-life