{"id":4091,"date":"2016-08-24T23:13:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T03:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=4091"},"modified":"2016-08-24T23:13:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T03:13:15","slug":"we-need-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=4091","title":{"rendered":"We Need Faith."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To me, faith in God is a lot like marriage, which is faith in another person.  It means a rock-solid commitment to giving God the benefit of the doubt, not because God needs it (I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pretty sure God could get along without us if He had to) but because we need it.  I choose to believe in the reality of God not because logic demands it or because the arguments for it are persuasive, but because the things I do take on an additional dimension when I do.  Joys become more significant and disappointments more bearable when I do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Harold S. Kushner, <em>Nine Essential Things I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve Learned About Life<\/em>, p. 121.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To me, faith in God is a lot like marriage, which is faith in another person. It means a rock-solid commitment to giving God the benefit of the doubt, not because God needs it (I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pretty sure God could get along without us if He had to) but because we need it. I choose to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}