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Faith...involves trusting in the future promises of God and waiting for their fulfillment.

The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.

When a truth is unfolded by God it most naturally becomes a power in man, who then finds himself able to believe.

I'm not doubting. I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God. It's religion I'm doubting.

A Methodist (Christian) is one who loves the Lord his God with all his heart, with all his soul, with all his mind, and with all his strength. God is the joy of his heart, and the desire of his soul, which is continually crying, 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth whom I desire besides thee.' My God and my all! 'Thou art the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.' He is therefore happy in God; yea, always happy, as having in him a well of water springing up unto everlasting life, and over-flowing his soul with peace and joy. Perfect love living now cast out fear, he rejoices evermore. Yea, his joy is full, and all his bones cry out, 'Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten me again unto a living hope of an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, reserved in heaven for me.

Faith does not grasp a doctrine, but a heart. The trust which Christ requires is the bond that unites souls with Him; and the very life of it is entire committal of myself to Him in all my relations and for all my needs, and absolute utter confidence in Him as all sufficient for everything that I can require.

Faith, without trouble or fighting, is a suspicious faith; for true faith is a fighting, wrestling faith.

"The Lord is my shepherd," is on Sunday, is on Monday, and is through every day of the week; is in January, is in December, and every month of the year; is at home, and is in China; is in peace, and, is in war; in abundance, and in penury.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

This strife increases as the days go by. If the believers will proceed faithfully without giving in to despair, they will incur fiercer conflict until such time as they are delivered.

No faith is required to do the possible; actually only a morsel of this atom-powered stuff is needed to do the impossible, for a piece as large as a mustard seed will do more than we have ever dreamed of.

If God gave us the strength in the past, He will supply what we need for future challenges.

God's thoughts, his will, his love, his judgments are all man's home. To think his thoughts, to choose his will, to love his loves, to judge his judgments, and thus to know that he is in us, is to be at home.

Many Christians estimate difficulty in the light of their own resources, and thus they attempt very little and they always fail. All giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His power and presence to be with them.

Faith looks not at what happens to him but at Him Whom he believes.

Faith is trust or commitment to what you think is true.

Logically, faith comes first, and love next; but in life they will spring up together in the soul; the interval which separates them is impalpable, and in every act of trust, love is present; and fundamental to every emotion of love to Christ is trust in Christ.

See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.

Faith comes through God's Word and through praise. Faith grows as you praise the Lord.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Never try to arouse faith from within. You cannot stir up faith from the depths of your heart. Leave your heart, and look into the face of Christ.

If the Christian faith gets too identified with a party, it reduces Christianity to a political position

There is no more blessed way of living, than the life of faith based upon a covenant-keeping God - to know that we have no care, for He cares for us; that we need have no fear, except to fear Him; that we need have no troubles, because we have cast our burdens upon the Lord, and are conscience that He will sustain us.

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie. It is enough that God has said it.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.

Faith does not grasp a doctrine, but a heart. The trust which Christ requires is the bond that unites souls with Him; and the very life of it is entire committal of myself to Him in all my relations and for all my needs, and absolute utter confidence in Him as all sufficient for everything that I can require.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which so many dislike, which requires faith in God, since it makes one feel weak and poorly, is really a Divinely appointed means of grace. Perhaps the greatest hindrance to our work is our own imagined strength; and in fasting we learn what poor, weak creatures we are-dependent on a meal of meat for the little strength which we are so apt to lean upon."

The act of faith, which separates us from all men, unites us for the first time in real brotherhood; and they who, one by one, come to Jesus and meet Him alone, next find that they are come to the city of God "and to an innumerable company."

In vain I have searched the Bible, looking for examples of early believers whose lives were marked by rigidity, predictability, inhibition, dullness, and caution. Fortunately, grim, frowning, joyless saints in Scriptures are conspicuous by their absence. Instead, the examples I find are of adventurous, risk-taking, enthusiastic, and authentic believers whose joy was contagious even in times of full trial. Their vision was broad even when death drew near. Rules were few and changes were welcome. The contrast between then and now is staggering.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets.

"Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith.

I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.

A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil.

God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.

Faith, which is trust, and fear are opposite poles. If a man has the one, he can scarcely have the other in vigorous operation. He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog-the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in.

Faith and works are bound up in the same bundle. He that obeys God trusts God; and he that trusts God obeys God. He that is without faith is without works; and he that is without works is without faith.

Abide in Me says Jesus. Cling to Me. Stick fast to Me. Live the life of close and intimate communion with Me. Get nearer to Me. Roll every burden on Me. Cast your whole weight on Me. Never let go your hold on Me for a moment. Be, as it were, rooted and planted in Me. Do this and I will never fail you. I will ever abide in you.

Faith need not be 'big' but it must be 'real.'

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

There is no faithfulness like that which ought to be between a guide of souls and the person directed by him. They ought continually to regard each other in God, and closely to examine themselves, whether all their thoughts are pure, and all their words directed with Christian discretion. Other affairs are only the things of men; but these are peculiarly the things of God.

Faith has in it the recognition of the certainty and the justice of a judgment that is coming down crashing on every human head; and then from the midst of these fears and sorrows and the tempest of that great darkness there rises up in the night of terrors the shining of one perhaps pale, quivering, distant, but divinely given hope, "My Savior! My Savior! He is righteous; He has died; He lives! I will stay no longer; I will cast myself upon Him!

Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

A faith which works not for purification will work for putrefaction. Unless our faith makes us pine after holiness, it is no better than the faith of devils, and perhaps it is not even so good as that. A holy man is the workmanship of the Holy Spirit.

Faith is asking. Faith is believing. Faith is doubting. Faith is stepping out anyway.

If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of eternal helps and material good.

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.

Difficulties and obstacles are God's challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus.

Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends.

God is faithful even when his children are not.

The faith that relentlessly asks God, also pleases God. Now, as the fullness of the times unfolds, as the world around us clothes itself in prophetic fulfillments, let us put away fear and repent of withdrawal.

Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

An active faith can give thanks for a promise, though it be not as yet performed; knowing that God's bonds are as good as ready money.

Baptism is faith in action.

Faith is the sight of the inward eye.

Our responsibility is simply to make our witness faithful; it is God's responsibility alone to make it effective.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.

That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its support.

Oh! it irradiates all our days with lofty beauty, and it makes them all hallowed and divine, when we feel that not the apparent greatness, not the prominence nor noise with which it is done, nor the external consequences which flow from it, but the motive from which it flowed, determines the worth of our deed in God's eyes. Faithfulness is faithfulness, on whatsoever scale it be set forth.

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.

Nothing but Christian faith gives to the furthest future the solidity and definiteness which it must have if it is to be a breakwater for us against the fluctuating sea of present cares and thoughts.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Faithful people have always been in a marked minority.

If life has not made you by God's grace, through faith, holy--think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters of that narrow stream are no purifying bath in which you may wash and be clean. No! No! As you go down into them, you will come up from them.

Faith is a certain image of eternity. All things are present to it - things past, and things to come; it converses with angels, and antedates the hymns of glory. Every man that hath this grace is as certain there are glories for him, if he perseveres in duty, as if he had heard and sung the thanksgiving song for the blessed sentence of doomsday.

True faith, by a mighty effort of the will, fixes its gaze on our Divine Helper, and there finds it possible and wise to lose its fears. It is madness to say, "I will not be afraid;" it is wisdom and peace to say, "I will trust and not be afraid."

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

So for us, the condition and preparation on and by which we are sheltered by that great hand, is the faith that asks, and the asking of faith. We must forsake the earthly props, but we must also believingly desire to be upheld by the heavenly arms. We make God responsible for our safety when we abandon other defense, and commit ourselves to Him.

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.

Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again--until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God.

God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He stops giving.

The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical.

God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He stops giving.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Nothing but Christian faith gives to the furthest future the solidity and definiteness which it must have if it is to be a breakwater for us against the fluctuating sea of present cares and thoughts.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

He must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith and more than wicked that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligation.

This is a life of faith, for God will try the truth of our faith, so that the world may see that God has such servants as will depend upon His bare word.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

Faith is a gift of God.

Helplessness united with faith produces prayer, for without faith there can be no prayer.

Because of the favor of God, we can have peace in the midst of chaos.

I am so weak that I can hardly write, I cannot read my Bible, I cannot even pray, I can only lie still in God's arms like a little child, and trust.

Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far, but faith has no limits.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

The steps of faith fall on the seeming void, but find the rock beneath.