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

“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

“The best solution to any problem lies within the skin of the person who rightfully owns the problem.”
― Foster W. Cline, Parenting with Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility

“If Jesus experienced all that humankind would suffer, then our own suffering and the suffering of those with whom we stand in solidarity must by necessity also help us come to know and understand him--and by extension, God --better.”
― Ryan D. Ward, And There Was No Poor Among Them: Liberation, Salvation, and the Meaning of the Restoration