David Shepherd » faith http://daves.meintl.org Life at the Center Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:28:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 2006-2007 dave@meintl.org (David Shepherd) dave@meintl.org (David Shepherd) http://daves.meintl.org/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg David Shepherd » faith http://daves.meintl.org 144 144 Just another Ministry Essentials weblog David Shepherd David Shepherd dave@meintl.org no no Belief http://daves.meintl.org/2010/02/15/belief/ http://daves.meintl.org/2010/02/15/belief/#comments Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:28:35 +0000 Dave http://daves.meintl.org/2010/02/15/belief/ “The believer can only perfect his faith on the ocean of nihilism, temptation and doubt; he has been assigned the ocean of uncertainty as the only possible site for his faith.”

Joseph Ratzinger, Introduction to Christianity

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News, rumor, opinion:

indiscernible slush.

Twisted and turned around,

I lose my footing.

Seeing, I believe,

Dogma, shrouds doubt.

Censored questions,

Despising mystery;

Confusion and fear,

Chernobyl in my heart.

I do not wish to live

this way.

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“Faith is to believe what we don’t see…

and as a result of faith, we see what we believe.”

 

–A Christian Serbian refugee

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