“The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent non-psalmic 'worship' based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who, taken to the summit of Table Mountain with the city and the ocean spread out before him, refuses to gaze at the view because he is playing with his Game Boy” WayTryingChildrenHas BeensMomentsFeelingsCultureGamesPrayerViewsCitiesBoysTakenRiskOffersMountainOceanWorshipPraiseTablesRefuseSpreadContinuingSummitJoiningSpoiledChorusPsalmsSpoiled ChildrenJoining In Author:N. T. Wright
“A very real barrier to faith is this feeling of self-sufficiency, this unrealistic idea that one can accomplish everything by his or her own self. Some people have the conviction they must do it all alone. They have no faith in others. . . they are convinced that there is no one able to do the job as well as themselves. They refuse to admit that they may need the help of friends, doctor, minister, or even God.” PeopleNeedsWellsMayIdeasRealSelfHelpingFeelingsAbleJobsFaithDoctorsRefuseConvictionAccomplishConvincedMinistersBarriersFaith In GodAll AloneSelf SufficiencySufficiency Author:Norman Vincent Peale
“As a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. As for their prophets, there are as many today as ever before, only now science refuses to let them overstep the bounds of common sense.” HelpingFeelingsTodayPerfectCommonAtheismScientistFoundationInspiredBoundsRefusePositive AtheismCommon SenseProphet Author:Luther Burbank
“people who refuse to take risks live with a feeling of dread that is far more severe than what they would feel if they took the risks necessary to make them less helpless - only they don't know it!” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsFeelingsRiskRefuseDreadHelplessSevere Author:Susan Jeffers