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Plants or animals rarely behave in an unnatural manner that’s contrary to their true makeup. Human beings are also natural beings, but at the same time, we’re conscious entities. We therefore have free will and must make the choice not merely to be part of nature, but also to follow faithfully the “laws of nature. ↗

— H.E. Davey

#laws-of-nature #meditation #natural #nature #yoga

To require God to prove that He is able and willing to fulfill His promises would be proof positive that one does not trust Him. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#god #providence #faith

Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#god #faith

It's not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#faith #god #faith

Faith was a power that arose from inside you, I thought, and doubt was exogenous, a speck in your eye. A black mote from the sad world of adults. ↗

— Karen Russell

#faith

Ann: I feel like I should read verses and be comforted. But it doesn’t happen. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#miscarriage #trials #faith

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. ↗

— Anonymous

#charity #faith

Yet, Step 2 and AA spirituality is about nothing if it isn’t about faith in God. Many good reasons exist why AA makes a distinction between religion and spirituality, but a denial of God is not one of them. – p. 127 ↗

— Ray A.

#faith #religion #spirituality #faith

When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to start doing all the things they'd told me NOT to do. Their main pitch was that achievement equaled happiness, when all you had to do was study rock stars, or movie stars, or them, to see that they were mostly miserable. They were all running around in mazes like everyone else. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#happiness #truth #equality

There is bound to be variation in the population of males in their predisposition to be faithful husbands. If females could recognize such qualities in advance, they could benefit themselves by choosing males possessing them. One way for a female to do this is to play hard to get for a long time, to be coy. Any male who is not patient enough to wait until the female eventually consents to copulate is not likely to be a good bet as a faithful husband. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#faith