God made mud. God got lonesome. So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!" "See all I've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars." And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.
We can therefore summarize Plato's overall position in words that would apply to any Nondual stance wherever it appears (as we have already seen it apply to Eckhart and Ramana): flee the Many, find the One; having found the One, embrace the Many as the One. Or, in short: Return to One, embrace Many.
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.
What makes a religion false? If any religion is right, then maybe they all have to be right. Maybe God doesn't care how you say your prayers, just as long as you say them.
When there are no conflicts in you between material wealth and spiritual life, you have found yourself.
God is real, unless declared integer.
But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
God would not give you the dream in your heart if He didn't give you the TALENT & ABILITIES to make it come true.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.