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Religion was supposed to be a matter of faith. Gods were not supposed to jump on your desk and snarl at you. They weren't supposed to sit in your office smoking cigarettes. God's didn't do anything. They were supposed to ignore you and let you suffer and die having never known whether your religion was a waste of time. Faith. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#inspirational #faith

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#doubt #faith #faith

The problem is, most folks these days don't have enough faith to see the magic that's all around them. These days, normal means confused, fallen, lost. ↗

— J. Gabriel Gates

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The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that's what so many fail to see. We're so dependent on what is before us that we discount our intuition. Yet if one dismisses instinct, how can one understand or believe in a world that exists beyond one's sight? ↗

— Megan Chance

#faith #instinct #intuition #spiritualism #faith

(Ezekial saw the wheel (Way up in the middle of the air -- (O Ezekial saw the wheel (Way in the middle of the air! (Now the big wheel runs by faith (And the little wheel runs by the grace of God -- (The above made up by professional hope experts, you might say, because willful, voluntary, intentional hope was the only kind they had in anything like long supply. Faith is not, contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet; it's an act, an intention, a project, something that makes you, in leaping into the future, go so far, far, far ahead that you shoot clean out of Time and right into Eternity, which is not the end of time or a whole lot of time or unending time, but timelessness, that old Eternal Now. So that you end up living not in the future ((in your intentional "act of faith")) but in the present. After all. (Courage is willful hope.) ↗

— Joanna Russ

#feminism #hope #courage

Little faith sees God's hand in great things. Established faith sees God's hand in little things. ↗

— Ralph Bouma

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To not judge is to be like a peach. We shrink our space by giving up controlling others. Instead, we focus on controlling ourselves. We set others free to be who they are. ↗

— John Kuypers

#faith #non-judgmental #relationships #spriituality #faith

You need to have faith and trust, Moira." "And a little bit of pixie dust? ↗

— Allison Brennan

#humor #faith

To question reason is to trust it. ↗

— Mitch Stokes

#kant #philosophy #reason #shot-of-faith-to-the-head #faith

One, just one, but definitely one of the great benefits of private prayer is that you can’t hide from your motives. In corporate prayer, we can sound like “all that”. We can blow Jesus smoke like nobody’s bizness in a crowd but, get alone with Him, and He won’t let you get away with the fake stuff. Try blowing Jesus smoke in your prayer closet and you’ll cough on it every time. Truth? That penetrating gaze of His hurts, but afterwards, it never fails to heal. ↗

— Shellie Rushing Tomlinson

#jesus #jesus-christ #prayer #faith