Category: 2d – Quotes That Have Influenced

Quotes That Have Influenced – I am not sure if it is quotes that influence or quotes that agree with what we think. I go with a mixture.

For the Christian, Everything Should Serve for Edification – Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard For the Christian Everything Should Serve for Edification

… it may well seem to them too rigorous to be edifying, and too edifying to be strictly scientific …. From the Christian point of view everything, indeed everything should serve for edification.… This relation of the Christian teaching to life (in contrast with a scientific aloofness from life), or this ethical side of Christianity, […]

Eight Deadly Thoughts: Diogenes Allen

" ... one of the things I found ... through all spiritual writers, that is people who are concerned with bringing to fullness, in our lives, the work of Christ, and that's the work of God the Holy Spirit....all of them agree that after we are converted we can expect ourselves to be assailed by eight deadly thoughts." Diogenese Allen

“These eight deadly thoughts are like cholesterol, they fill the arteries, so to speak, and the flow of the Spirit is not able to get through easily, and sometime, choked off all together.” These thoughts assail us unbidden – It is important to realize that the thoughts themselves are not sin. Christ was tempted, yet […]

The Interior Castle or the Mansions – Teresa of Avila – The Soul’s Union with God

St Teresa of Avila The Interior Castle IHS I think it may console you to enjoy yourselves in this interior castle which you can enter, and walk about at will, at any hour you please, without asking leave of your superiors.... When once you have learnt how to enjoy this castle, you will always find rest, however painful your trials may be, in the hope of returning to your Lord, which no one can prevent....If you find anything in the plan of this treatise which helps you to know Him better, be certain that it is sent by His Majesty to encourage you, and that whatever you find amiss in it is my own. mythoughts, thoughtsofgod, thoughts of God, David Reese

A mystic believes that people have the ability to interact with deity, the extent varies. A Christian Mystic believes that  our purpose is to have this union with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit  discloses to us  that which belongs to the Son, and the Son says, “All […]