Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests.
Interpretation
Faith should be rooted in knowledge and understanding, not mere assumption.
This quote emphasizes that true faith is not simply an unquestioning leap into belief; rather, it requires a foundation of knowledge and understanding. To have faith, one must comprehend the reasons for their beliefs and the principles that support them, ensuring that faith is a reasoned conviction rather than blind trust.
In practice
During a motivational talk about the importance of informed beliefs.
It is because God is infinitely great and good that his glory is the end of all things; and his good pleasure the highest reason for whatever comes to pass. What is man that he should contend with God, or presume that his interests rather than God's glory should be made the final end?
The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him.
Sanctification is not a work of nature, but a work of grace. It is a transformation of character effected not by moral influences, but supernaturally by the Holy Spirit.
To be in Christ is the source of the Christian life; to be like Christ is the sum of his excellence; to be with Christ is the fullness of his joy.
If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons entirely mathematical and certain, deduce the whole conformation and figure of each of its members, and, conversely if we knew several peculiarities of this conformation, we would from those deduce the nature of its seed.
Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination to keep on conjouring and proposing alternative futures to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.
I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.
Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.
If you have not linked yourself to true emptiness, you will never understand the art of peace.
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
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