Andrea

“People often think faith consists of forcing oneself to accept something that one does not and cannot understand. Often we call people believers if they just accept what others tell them. Some seek faith by denying reason and forcing themselves into something that has not yet become a personal experience. God requires a different faith, though. He is content if you believe what you can experience. Be faithful and hold on to what you have, not to what you do not have.”
― Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt

“Cast all your troubles and woes aside, and seek God in whatever situation you are in. This is how the Savior lived on earth. He did not recoil from the world--not even the wicked world, not even his enemies. He found God the Father even in what was bad: "Thank God! The Almighty is in the world. Now I know why my Father sent me into the world--it contains treasure!”
― Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, Everyone Belongs to God: Discovering the Hidden Christ

“Effective parenting centers around love: love that is not permissive, love that doesn’t tolerate disrespect, but also love that is powerful enough to allow kids to make mistakes and permit them to live with the consequences of those mistakes.”
― Foster W. Cline, Parenting with Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility

“God's love strides unswerving through everything, like a hero, and will not be insulted, despised, it rejected; it matches through the world with the helmet of hope on its head.”
― Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, Everyone Belongs to God: Discovering the Hidden Christ