[Knowing God].. call it love, yes, only that can sound too emotional, or call it faith, and that can sound too cerebral. And what is it? Both, and neither.. [its] the decision to be faithful, the patient refusal of easy gratifications.. of Jesus' prayer in Gethsemane and on the cross, that bloody crown of love and faith. That is how I learn finally of a God who will not be fitted into my catergories and expectations.. the living truth too great for me to see, trusting that He will see and judge and yet not turn me away.. That is the mercy which will never give us, or even let us be content with less than itself and less than the truth.. we have seen the truth enacted in our own world as mercy, grace and hope, as Jesus, the only-begotten, full of grace and truth. Rowan Williams
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I am not sure that I would ever be able to say what God is like. It is like trying to describe a cloud: one cannot capture the essence of something without losing its beauty and character. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. This is something I must believe, because to me it seems that the greatest glory in living consists of rising from our failures and mistakes.

Source: Tokens Of Trust

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