Maybe I am feeling dry and stagnant in my own faith or troubled by discouragements and temptations- but I found these quotes on love and passion from Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) very convicting. How much do we Christians REALLY Love God? Will ALL our hearts and minds and strength? Especially we bland, complacent, Midwestern, American, middle calss, mainstream denomination Christians. How passionate are we about our faith? So here then, are some prayers and quotes from a great Dane:
"Our Loving Father,
help us remember that it is not where we breath,
but where we love,
that we live."
"It is a great question whether those whome God cannot make mad have ever really existence for God."
"Authentic religion has to do with passion. Sadly, there are thousands who take a little something out of religion, and then dispassionately 'have religion.'"
"Our God,
we are aware that life upon this planet comes to an end for each of us. No one knows the exact hour or day. Moment by moment we come closer to the last breath. May we make each day count as though it were our last. If we have wasted days and weeks, forgive us. Let us have a sense of tremendous urgency to live today with Christian richness so that we can make up for squandered time. We remember him who in thirty precious years lived as though he was abiding eternally in time. In His name we pray."
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