Jesus loves me

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The life of faith is not simple and easy; rather, it is a fight. Calvin compares such a life to a person in prison who truly sees the rays of the sun, even though there is darkness on every side. Calvin understood the rough and tumble of the Christian life, saying that “faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace — at least they do not always enjoy a peaceful state. But whatever siege engines may shake them, they either rise up out the very gulf of temptations, or stand fast upon their watch.” The life of faith is difficult, but we see again that true faith endures and rises victorious in the struggle. Faith is never snuffed out entirely from the godly, but “lurk[s] as it were beneath the ashes.” Sometimes it appears that faith is dead, but we know that faith is real because it ultimately triumphs.

Matthew Barrett

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“The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love, the more pain it’s loss will bring: these are a few of the paradoxes we must hold as human beings. If we refuse to hold them in the hopes of living without doubt, despair, and pain, we also find ourselves living without faith, hope, and love.”

— Parker J. Palmer

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“Wholeness does not mean perfection; it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.”

— Parker J. Palmer

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