Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility.
Malcolm MuggeridgeRead
People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument... He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Faith is a divine gift that connects us to God beyond reason.
In this quote, Malcolm Muggeridge emphasizes that true faith is not based on logic or proof but is a heartfelt gift from God. He argues that it is through the heart that we perceive the divine, suggesting that faith transcends rational understanding and is deeply personal and spiritual.
Themes
FaithGiftGodHeartReasonSpirituality
In practice
Example use cases
In a sermon to illustrate the importance of faith in our lives.
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