Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances.
Interpretation
Faith coexists with reason, but can conflict with emotions and superficial perceptions.
This quote by Timothy Keller emphasizes that faith and reason are not inherently contradictory. Instead, faith may often challenge our emotions and the way we perceive reality, prompting us to look deeper than mere feelings and appearances to understand truth.
In practice
In a discussion on the relationship between faith and science.
Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.
Only in Jesus Christ do we see how the untamable, infinite God can become a baby and a loving Savior. On the cross we see how both the love and the holiness of God can be fulfilled at once.
All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.
To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
God's Kingdom is "present in its beginnings, but still future in its fullness. This guards us from an under-realized eschatology (expecting no change now) and an over-realized eschatology (expecting all change now). In this stage, we embrace the reality that while we're not yet what we will be, we're also no longer what we used to be.
Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.
I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.
If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still
If somebody votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like. ... But on the other hand, if somebody says, 'I mustn't move a light switch on a Saturday,' you say, 'Fine, I respect that.'
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