#ritual

So do not expect always to get an emotional charge or a feeling of quiet peace when you read the Bible. By the grace of God you may expect that to be a frequent experience, but often you will get no emotional response at all. Let the Word break over your heart and mind again and again as the years go by, and imperceptibly there will come great changes in your attitude and outlook and conduct. You will probably be the last to recognize these. Often you will feel very, very small, because when your eyes close for the last time in death, and never again read the Word of God in Scripture you will open them to the Word of God in the flesh, that same Jesus of the Bible whom you have known for so lng, standing before you to take you for ever to His eternal home. ↗

— Geoffrey Thomas

#attitude

Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light. ↗

— Francine Rivers

#god #mark-of-the-lion-series #religion #spirituality #voice-in-the-wind

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#flow #god #spirituality #trust #faith

Do not use your energy except for a cause more noble than yourself. Such a cause cannot be found except in Almighty God Himself: to preach the truth, to defend womanhood, to repel humiliation which your Creator has not imposed upon you, to help the oppressed. Anyone who uses his energy for the sake of the vanities of the world is like someone who exchanges gemstones for gravel. There is no nobility in anyone who lacks faith. The wise man knows that the only fitting price for his soul is a place in Paradise... ↗

— Ibn Hazm

#religion #spirituality #faith

The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless. ↗

— Eugene H. Peterson

#inspirational #run-with-the-horses #spiritual #faith

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence. ↗

— Sam Harris

#atheism #belief #ethics #humanism #religion

It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the very nature of wonder to catch us off guard, to circumvent expectations and assumptions. Wonder can’t be packaged, and it can’t be worked up. It requires some sense of being there and some sense of engagement. ↗

— Eugene H. Peterson

#god #jesus #resurrection #spirituality #faith

If you don't know that God loves you, he does. He loves his creation. And you're his creation. ↗

— Lacey Mosley

#flyleaf #hope #inspirational #jesus #love

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world. ↗

— Sam Harris

#atheism #belief #ethics #humanism #religion

Faith UP! Your purpose is GREATER than all your PROBLEMS. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#central-christian #church #inspirational #john-paul #john-paul-warren