Belief is intellectual assent and agreement with the doctrinal propositions of faith. Experience exists prior to and drives belief. Experience gives birth to belief. It's hard to "believe" in God if belief isn't naming something in our lives, something we've felt, sensed, seen, or intuited. —Richard Beck
This, then, is faith; God felt by the heart, not by reason.
Blaise Paschal
Love all of God's creation, both the whole of it and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love animals, love plants, love each thing. If you love each thing, you will perceive the mystery of God in things. Once you have perceived it, you’ll perceive more and more of it every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an entire, universal love...
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov
