Men will fight for a superstition quite so quickly as a living truth—often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it.
She herself was later killed by a mob incited by the religious leaders of her day.
Our real reality is beyond the five senses.
Faith is a belief in things that your senses have not experienced and your mind does not understand, but you have touched them in other ways and have accepted them. It is easy for one to speak of faith; it is another thing to live it.
We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.
We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.
You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel.
You don't have to be a Christian to recognize that materialism does not match reality. Materialism is not true to universal human experience - what we all know about ourselves.
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.