Knowledge, belief, feeling

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I know and believe, but I don’t feel like I do either. May God have mercy on my soul, for the sake of His sorrowful passion.
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Faith is not a feeling thing so much as it is the gift of knowing and believing, without knowing exactly how. That’s what makes it a gift.
 
We live by faith, not feelings, Mike.
It takes God’s grace, and your incessant seeking of Him, to produce the ‘feelings’*.

What works for me: i make a profession of faith at the beginning of prayer. I thank God for being with me, even though i sin left, right and centre and could snap at Him 5mins later. He has never abandoned or forsaken me. His presence is always available but you need to find the frequency/wavelength.
Have faith that He is within you because He wants to be, not because He’s obliged to be. You need to reinforce that truth, maybe?

*Thoughts first, actions second, thirdly feelings.
 
“What is faith? It is that which gives substance to our hopes, which convinces us of things we cannot see.”
  • Hebrews 11:1 Knox Translation
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Best advice? Go before Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. Tell Him your doubts, your fears, your struggles. Then, be as patient with Him as He has been with you. When you receive your consolation, you will be changed.
 
Live as if you had faith. Be patient and humble. Open your heart. Graces will come when you least expect them.
 
Huh, what a coincidence (but then I do not believe in coincidences) in that I recently opened a thread about the intelligent emotions: emotions that are fully in control by one’s will and are actually needed for a healthy Christian spiritual life. As Walter Farrell, O.P., wrote about them:
[Man] was given an inner sanctuary inviolable to all attacks from all creatures; a source of joy, of hope, of love and all the rest, that could and should lord it over the sensible world, using it, as it was meant to be used, as a servant for his high ends. These champing steeds of human activity in the sensible order which we call passions, could and should be a mighty force under the intelligent control of well drawn reins. There is no comfortable middle way for man in this universe; he must be on top of it or at the very bottom.
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Head over to Have You Heard of the Intelligent Emotions? and let us have a discussion.
 
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Pray, hope, don’t worry. You are in such good company, St Mother Teresa felt that way too. 😇
 
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