All Quotes By Tag: Faith
“To love God is to love your neighbour.”
“God is a consuming fire.”
“We must seek the inner self, the power within.”
“If we fix our eyes on Jesus Christ, He will perfect our faith in God.”
“A man told me a while ago he could not believe a thing he had never seen. I said, “Man, did you ever see your brain?”
“Reading the recipe of your grandma’s chicken soup will never compare to the taste. Seeing a magnificent sunset will never compare to somebody else’s description of that same sunset. Feeling the electrifying sensation of a passionate kiss will never compare to a second-hand account. Nothing replaces experience. If experience is at the heart of every religion, then theology points the way, practice gives us the vehicle, but we must take the steps if we want to personally explore our faith and reap experiences rather than rely solely on second-hand accounts.”
“In an ideal world, both experifaith and storyfaith would provide spiritual aspirants of all faiths with guidance. Storyfaith would preserve tradition and teach morals through parables and examples. Experifaith would provide the blueprint for a personal path to follow. In the context of chocolate, storyfaith is a lecture about chocolate, including information about origins and fables about positive attributes, while experifaith is the literal act of tasting the chocolate.”
“Monogamy is faith in the faithless”
“The sweet pleasure of prayer, the grace of the soul.”
“The greatest power is the power of pray.”
“May the grace of faith, keep you going in the forward motion to reach the ultimate goal.”
“The deepest wounds of the soul are healed only by compassion… People do not merely need to be clothed, they need to be embraced with love. A love that enters into their own fears and frailty, a love that suffers with them and stays with them through their darkest hour.”
“Experifaith is distinctly different from storyfaith. It does not provide answers to life’s big questions. Rather, it proposes a path of discovery through practice, where a person can come to his or her own conclusions. As such, it has more in common with the modern scientific method than storyfaith does, and, when practiced properly, experifaith is mostly verifiable within a community of practitioners.”
“Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God!”
“Grace is the fullness of God.”