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It is not at all an easy task to discover the one virtue that surpasses all others and to give it the scepter and palm, just as it is not easy in a meadow fragrant with many blossoms to find the most fragrant and beautiful. After considering many of the Christian virtues, he concludes that
Confusion has made understanding difficult for him/her, and he/she is physically worn down. Lord, we know that You provide the peace that surpasses all understanding. Wash over him/her with Your ...
Catholics use images, such as the crucifix, the cross, in religious life and pray using depictions of saints. They also venerate images and liturgical objects by kissing, bowing, and making the sign of the cross. They point to the Old Testament patterns of worship followed by the Hebrew people as examples of how certain places and things used ...
The Baháʼí Faith believes in a single, imperishable god, the creator of all things, including all the creatures and forces in the universe. [17] In the Baháʼí tradition, god is described as "a personal god, unknowable, inaccessible, the source of all Revelation, eternal, omniscient, omnipresent, and almighty."
the ten stages of faith (shixin 十信): 1. the stage of faith (xinxin 信心), 2. the stage of mindfulness (nianxin 念心), 3. the stage of endeavor (jingjin xin 精進心), 4. the stage of mental stability (dingxin 定心), 5. the stage of the wisdom of understanding emptiness (huixin 慧心), 6. the stage of pure self-restraint (jiexin ...
Absolute faith and its consequence, the courage that takes the radical doubt, the doubt about God, into itself, transcends the theistic idea of God. [ 6 ] Martin Buber criticized Tillich's "transtheistic position" as a reduction of God to the impersonal, "necessary being" of Thomas Aquinas .
This mystery of blessed communion with God and all who are in Christ is beyond all understanding and description. Scripture speaks of it in images: life, light, peace, wedding feast, wine of the kingdom, the Father's house, the New Jerusalem , paradise: 'no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for ...
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