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.
Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.
Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.
Let us never forget that authentic power is service, which has its radiant culmination on the Cross.
I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the essence of things if you believe that you see firm land anywhere in the ocean of Becoming and Passing. You need names for things, just as if they had a rigid permanence, but the very river in which you bathe a second time is no longer the same one which you entered before
where are the snowdens of yesteryear?
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