#spirit

For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received what our Lord appointed, and receive it with a right preparation and disposition of mind, but upon the supernatural blessing that goes along with it, and makes it effectual to those spiritual ends for which it was appointed. ↗

— John Tillotson

#communion #eucharist #god #lord-s-supper #sacraments

In the seventh century, John of Damascus described the relationship of the three persons of God as perichoresis. This word literally means "the circle dance. ↗

— Tobin Wilson

#god-the-holy-spirit #god-the-son #trinity #relationship

The speculative thinker makes Christianity into theology, instead of recognizing that a living relationship to Christ involves passion, struggle, decision, personal appropriation, and inner transformation.' (Moore's summary of Kierkegaard) ↗

— Charles E. Moore

#relationship

That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking. ↗

— Peter Rollins

#religion #spirituality #religion

The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol built from the materials of our mind. ↗

— Peter Rollins

#religion #spirituality #religion

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray! ↗

— Karl Rahner

#christianity #god #lord #meditating #meditation

When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the slightest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind. ↗

— Hsin Hsin Ming

#christianity #hate #life #living #love

I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what one might call rather the psychological, inward import, of the world of nature round about us, as understood today. There's no real conflict between science and religion ... What is in conflict is the science of 2000 BC ... and the science of the 20th century AD. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#conflict #jeremy-mishlove #joseph-campbell #myth #nature

• “Every Saint has a Past and every Sinner has a future.” Don't give up. http://amzn.to/dMBLWW ↗

— Sukhraj Dhillon

#science #religion

• “Your beliefs don't make you a better person, your behavior does.” http://amzn.to/dMBLWW ↗

— Sukhraj Dhillon

#science #religion