...they needed someone to explain, to spin, the parts of the tale that couldn't be suppressed. Someone reputable and educated. Someone brilliant yet absolutely committed to the faith. Someone like my father.
Martha N. BeckTag: faith mormonism leaving controversial abuse leaving-the-saints mormons nibley
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 RohrTag: god faith trust spirituality flow
God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
John Ortberg Jr.Tag: love freedom god faith spirituality coercion
The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God.
Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.
Tag: god faith joy jesus spirituality prayer presence
We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
John Ortberg Jr.Tag: power god faith mind spirituality prayer worry problems
Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.
John Ortberg Jr.Tag: self-esteem god faith self-worth sin spirituality worth repentance
I've got a theory, it could be bunnies...
I've got a theor-
Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes
They've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses.
And what's with all the carrots-?
What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?
Bunnies, bunnies it must be bunnies!
...or maybe midgets...
Tag: humor music courage faith harmony buffy-the-vampire-slayer
I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
Elisabeth ElliotTag: christianity faith
As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe the possibility exists.
William SalterMy faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on the truth of—a proposition that I don't understand. So far, my faith is not unlike religious faith, but I am not in the slightest bit motivated to go to my death rather than recant the formulas of physics. Watch: E doesn't equal mc2, it doesn't, it doesn't! I was lying, so there!
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