The devil frequently fills our thoughts with great schemes, so that instead of putting our hands to what work we can do to serve our Lord, we may rest satisfied with wishing to perform impossibilities.
Teresa of ÁvilaTags: devil christianity satan satisfaction
There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their hearts. One of them asked, "Why on our hearts, and not in them?" The rabbi answered, "Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your heart, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.
Anne LamottTags: christianity scripture bible judaism
If you are sure that you're going to heaven when you die, you ought to make the most of today. Why live below God's standards when He has so many wonderful things planned for you?
Jose ZayasTags: christianity heaven lifestyle
What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.
David DarkTags: questioning belief christianity post-modern-christianity
And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves.
David DarkTags: questioning christianity spirituality
What I see here, what I feel here is that people in your world believe spirituality isn't distant. It's close and real. Religion seems born in the home, stays in the home. I mean, the services are even held in the home. And there's not one person in charge, one speaker set above the others. It's farmers and carpenters, and well, just average folk speaking spontaneously about the message they find in the Bible. [...] A message from the heart to the heart.
Barbara CameronTags: christianity amish a-time-to-love barbara-cameron quilts-of-lancaster-county
I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
Anne LamottTags: belief nature christianity god trinity
Tags: christianity post-modern-christianity
Feeling offended is invigorating. Feeling offended is a reassuring sensation. It's easier than asking ourselves if the redeeming love of God is evident in the way we communicate with people.
David DarkTags: christianity post-modern-christianity
Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.
Thaddeus of VitovnicaTags: inspirational love christianity spirituality sacrifice neighbor eastern-orthodoxy
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