#ture

Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labour or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ``What shall we eat?'' or ``What shall we drink?'' or ``What shall we wear?'' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. - Matthew 6:25-34 ↗

— Anonymous

#humble #importance #life #scripture #value

The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven…The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book. ↗

— Dan Brown

#infallibility #irreligion #scripture #bible

Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. ↗

— Anonymous

#scripture #virtue #woman #scripture

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. ↗

— Anonymous

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We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing. ↗

— Rich Mullins

#god #scripture #scripture

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book. ↗

— Anatole France

#devil #god #scriptures #scripture

The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#scripture

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#marriage

Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religious procession - celebrants in robes and pointed hats whirling and clapping and chanting the name of some old-world prophet, 'Hari, Hari! Hari Potter!' ↗

— Philip Reeve

#harry-potter #humour #religion #religion

Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into the wilderness to find God; of course they took God with them, and the silence and detachment enabled them to hear the still, small voice of their own souls, as one hears the ticking of his own watch in the stillness of the night. ↗

— John Burroughs

#god #nature #religion #solitude #spirituality