The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: miracles religious realist
The world needs more anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
Bede JarrettTags: world evil anger religious angry allow
We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.
Richard G. ScottTags: inspirational self-determination religious self-improvement
We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.
Billy GrahamTags: inspirational religion christian christian-behavior religious
With every morn my life afresh must break
The crust of self, gathered about me fresh;
That thy wind-spirit may rush in and shake
The darkness out of me, and rend the mesh
The spider-devils spin out of the flesh-
Eager to net the soul before it wake,
That it may slumberous lie, and listen to the snake.
George MacDonald
Tags: inspirational sin temptation theology religious the-fall
Anxiously you ask, 'Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threatened destruction?' The answer is a resounding yes! I counsel you: Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue. It beckons through the storms of life. It calls, 'This way to safety; this way to home.
Thomas S. MonsonTags: inspirational light religious comfort trials lighthouse rescue
The wise man will follow a star, low and large and fierce in the heavens, but the nearer he comes to it the smaller and smaller it will grow,
till he finds it the humble lantern over some little inn or stable. Not till we know the high things shall we know how lowly they are.
Tags: inspirational religious
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
AnonymousTags: strength despair religious crushed persecuted
meditation vs prayer = listening vs talking
Elizabeth GilbertTags: inspirational religious
When we attempt to clear up the mess others have made, or when we love the unlovely, we demonstrate the kind of weirdness God likes. We give the lie to the evolutionary survival of the fittest maxim...
Ann BentonTags: service religious elderly value-of-life
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