#ritual

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

In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#spirituality #faith

While fear depletes power, faith gives wings for the soul’s elevation. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#believe #elevation #faith #fear #power

bad days makes you stronger, those are the best days because God is talking to you. you just have to listen closely. Don't let your tears become louder than his voice. ↗

— Les Simple

#god #inspirational #pain #spiritual #strength

Addressing the concept of man made additions to the faith - “These additions- standards, practices, and allegiances supposedly created for our spiritual benefit- have had the opposite effect. ↗

— Ed Galisewski

#man-made-faith #spiritual-growth #spirituality #faith

Life with Jesus is for eternity- but it starts today. Eternity may come with Heaven, but it must start today- here on earth. Don't waste a day. ↗

— Katherine Henson

#eternity #faith #god #jesus #life

There is no meaning to fate If you don't have faith ↗

— Swetha Dhanagari

#faith

Faith-Defined beyond the confines of the mind. ↗

— Joshua Klassen

#faith #inspiration #reflective #spiritual #faith

The brother is a burden to the Christian, precisely because he is a Christian. For the pagan the other person never becomes a burden at all. He simply sidesteps every burden that others may impose upon him. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#spiritual-friendship #the-church #faith