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Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
- Oswald Chambers
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Leave the broken, irreversible past in God's hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.
- Oswald Chambers
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Long-lasting victory can never be separated from a long-lasting stand on the foundation of the cross.
- Watchman Nee
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Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
- Corrie Ten Boom
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The safest place in all the world is in the will of God, and the safest protection in all the world is the name of God.
- Warren Wiersbe
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God can make the very worst things that ever happened in your life to work for your very best, if you have faith.
- Zac Poonen
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Faith as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
- A. W. Tozer
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The word hope I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.
- John Calvin
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Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf, unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine, and a table in the wilderness. In the greatest danger, faith says, "I have a great God." When outward strength is broken, faith rests on the promises. In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.
- Richard Cecil
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God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
- Jim Elliot
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David was the last one we would have chosen to fight the giant, but he was chosen of God.
- Dwight L. Moody
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Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord; that chastisements are a token of His love; that the season, measure, and continuance of his sufferings, are appointed by Infinite Wisdom, and designed to work for his everlasting good; and that grace and strength shall be afforded him, according to his need.
- John Newton
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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
- Blaise Pascal
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Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises
- John Piper
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Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. Faith is the belief that God will do what is right.
- Max Lucado
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Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.
- Martin Luther
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Those that God used in the past were just ordinary people with an extraordinary Master. They were not all champions of great faith, but little people who saw their own need, and put their small faith in a great God.
- Winkie Pratney
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Faith is this extraordinary principle which links man to God; faith is this thing that keeps a man from hell and puts him in heaven; it is the connection between this world and the world to come; faith is this mystic astounding thing that can take a man dead in trespasses and sins and make him live as a new being, a new man in Christ Jesus.
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.
- Martin Luther
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I believe the promises of God enough to venture an eternity on them.
- Isaac Watts
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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.
- Philip Yancey
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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What I had was heart and faith and I said I'm going to do this for every convict alive and I'm going to make sure the world knows just because we fell one time doesn't mean we can't get up and let our light shine.
- Duane Chapman
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Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is something beyond mere reason'.
- Alister McGrath
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Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
- Augustine
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The beautiful thing about this adventure called faith is that we can count on Him never to lead us astray.
- Chuck Swindoll
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One often sees a call only in retrospect. This too is God's design. God often reinforces our faith after we trust him, not before.
- Ravi Zacharias
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He calls us to trust him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.
- Francis Chan
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Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God. Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.
- C.S. Lewis
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Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength.
- Dwight L. Moody
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When God gives a promise, He always tries our faith. Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind, so faith takes a firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.
- Robert Murray McCheyne
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Trials should not surprise us, or cause us to doubt God's faithfulness. Rather, we should actually be glad for them. God sends trials to strengthen our trust in him so that our faith will not fail. Our trials keep us trusting; they burn away our self confidence and drive us to our Savior.
- Edmund Clowney
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Beloved, I say, let your fears go, lest they make you fainthearted. Stop inspiring fear in those around you and now take your stand in faith. God has been good and He will continue to manifest His goodness. Let us approach these days expecting to see the goodness of the Lord manifest. Let us be strong and of good courage, for the Lord will fight for us if we stand in faith.
- Francis Frangipane
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Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
- Thomas Aquinas
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Faith comes through God's Word and through praise. Faith grows as you praise the Lord.
- Wesley L. Duewel
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Faith...involves trusting in the future promises of God and waiting for their fulfillment.
- R. C. Sproul
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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
- Watchman Nee
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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.
- John Wesley
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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.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
- Rick Warren
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Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
- Helen Keller
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
- Augustine
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
- G.K. Chesterton
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When a truth is unfolded by God it most naturally becomes a power in man, who then finds himself able to believe.
- Watchman Nee
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"Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith.
- A. W. Tozer
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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.
- Alexander MacLaren
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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.
- A. W. Tozer
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Faith, without trouble or fighting, is a suspicious faith; for true faith is a fighting, wrestling faith.
- Ralph Erskine
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"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.
- Hudson Taylor
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The steps of faith fall on the seeming void, but find the rock beneath.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
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I'm not doubting. I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God. It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
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If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
- A. W. Tozer
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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.
- Alexander MacLaren
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John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets.
- Leonard Ravenhill
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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.
- George Macdonald
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Because of the favor of God, we can have peace in the midst of chaos.
- Crystal McDowell
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Faith is like radar that sees through the fog-the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
- Corrie Ten Boom
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The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in.
- R. C. Sproul
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Men are God's method. The church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
- E.M. Bounds
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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.
- Andrew Murray
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A person who wholly follows the Lord is one who believes that the promises of God are trustworthy, that He is with His people, and that they are well able to overcome.
- Watchman Nee
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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.
- Leonard Ravenhill
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Our responsibility is simply to make our witness faithful; it is God's responsibility alone to make it effective.
- John MacArthur
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A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antibodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent to ask the hard questions about why they believe as they do will find themselves defenseless against either the experience of tragedy or the probing questions of a smart skeptic. A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.
- Tim Keller
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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."
- Hudson Taylor
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Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.
- George Whitefield
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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.
- Hudson Taylor
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To learn strong faith is to endure great trials. I have learned my faith by standing firm amid severe testings.
- George Mueller
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In Fellowship; alone To God, with Faith, draw near, Approach His Courts, besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer.
- Charles Wesley
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Like the doctrine of the Holy Trinity and the miraculous birth of our Savior, the truth of election must be received with simple, unquestioning faith.
- A. W. Pink
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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.
- J. C. Ryle
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Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.
- Thomas Aquinas
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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
- Helen Keller
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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.
- Watchman Nee
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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.
- Andrew Murray
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If God gave us the strength in the past, He will supply what we need for future challenges.
- Crystal McDowell
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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.
- Matthew Henry
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Faith has nothing to do with feelings or with impressions, with improbabilities or with outward experiences. If we desire to couple such things with faith, then we are no longer resting on the Word of God, because faith needs nothing of the kind. Faith rests on the naked Word of God. When we take Him at His Word, the heart is at peace.
- George Mueller
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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When you seek God first in your daily pursuits, He promises to add unto you those things which you were pursuing (as long as they are in His will). Placing Him first in your life should be your daily goal, the main pursuit in the midst of all your other pursuits.
- Paul Chappell
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Any time we open ourselves up to fear, we fall prey to his deceptions and intimidations. Yet, if we submit our hearts to God and stand in faith, we can resist those first fearful thoughts. As we yield to God we can master our reactions to fear and the enemy will soon flee.
- Francis Frangipane
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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.
- Hudson Taylor
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God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.
- William Booth
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Unless we are firmly anchored in the Rock of Ages, unless we trust in the living God, unless we are vigilant in prayer and fellowship with God, the enemy will be able to vanquish our children.
- Michael Youssef
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Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.
- Thomas a Kempis
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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.
- Alexander MacLaren
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See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.
- John Owen
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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.
- John Wesley
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If the Christian faith gets too identified with a party, it reduces Christianity to a political position
- Tim Keller
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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.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Youth, beauty, wit may recommend you to men, but only faith in Jesus Christ can recommend you to God.
- James H. Aughey
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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.
- Thomas Aquinas
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There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.
- Alexander MacLaren
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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.
- Alexander MacLaren
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Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.
- Watchman Nee
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God delights to increase the faith of His children. We ought, instead of wanting no trials before victory, no exercise for patience, to be willing to take them from God's hands as a means. Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.
- George Mueller
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Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance--he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us.
- Tim Keller
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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."
- Alexander MacLaren
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
- Blaise Pascal
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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.
- Chuck Swindoll
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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.
- Blaise Pascal
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Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God.
- John Wesley
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A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea.
- Helen Keller
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Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
- Thomas a Kempis
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Helplessness united with faith produces prayer, for without faith there can be no prayer.
- Ole Hallesby
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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.
- Hudson Taylor
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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
- Martin Luther
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When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
- Corrie Ten Boom
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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
- Thomas Aquinas
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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!
- Alexander MacLaren
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Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.
- George Macdonald
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Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.
- John Stott
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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
- Karl Barth
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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.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Faith is asking. Faith is believing. Faith is doubting. Faith is stepping out anyway.
- Jack Hyles
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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.
- Alexander MacLaren
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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.
- A. B. Simpson
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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.
- George Mueller
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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.
- Francis Frangipane
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All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
- Martin Luther
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[Faith] doth not, as doth unbelief and ignorance, show us all things out of order; putting darkness for light, and bitter for sweet; but will set everything in its proper place before our eyes; God and Christ shall be with it, the chiefest good, the most lovely and amiable; a heavenly life shall be of greater esteem, and more desirable, than all the treasures of Egypt! Righteousness and sanctification will be the thing after which it will most vehemently press; because it seeth not only death and damnation as the fruits of sin, but sin also in itself, distinct from the punishment belonging to it, a detestable, horrible, and odious thing.
- John Bunyan
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Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.
- Alexander MacLaren
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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.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.
- Alexander MacLaren
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Faith is not a leap in the dark. Faith is not a "hope so." Faith is substance and evidence - substance for a scientific mind, and evidence for a legal mind.
- J. Vernon McGee
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That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its support.
- Alexander MacLaren
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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.
- Alexander MacLaren
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To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.
- Samuel Rutherford
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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.
- Alexander MacLaren
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Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
- John Calvin
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Give me the love that leads the way, The faith that nothing can dismay, The hope no disappointments tire, The passion that will burn like fire, Let me not sink to be a clod: Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God.
- Assorted Authors
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Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling the judge of their condition. We must strive to walk by faith.
- Thomas Brooks
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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.
- Alexander MacLaren
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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.
- Jeremy Taylor
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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."
- Alexander MacLaren
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You can believe a whole lot of foolish things, but God doesn't want you to do that. He wants your faith to rest upon the Word of God.
- J. Vernon McGee
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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.
- Alexander MacLaren
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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.
- George Whitefield
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Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. The whole work is His, not ours, from first to last.
- Horatius Bonar
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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.
- William Booth
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Faith is letting down our nets into the untransparent deeps, at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall take.
- Frederick W. Faber
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The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
- George Mueller
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God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He stops giving.
- Alexander MacLaren
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Providence would seem to sleep unless faith and prayer awaken it. The disciples had but little faith in their Master's accounts, yet that little faith awakened him in a storm, and he relieved them. Unbelief doth only discourage God from showing his power in taking our parts.
- Stephen Charnock
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The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical.
- Alexander MacLaren
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God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He stops giving.
- Alexander MacLaren
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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
- Blaise Pascal
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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.
- Alexander MacLaren
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A heart-driven faith in Jesus Christ is the only sure solution. Believe it. Grasp it. And surrender to it.
- RM Harrington
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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.
- Blaise Pascal
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He must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith and more than wicked that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligation.
- George Washington
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When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence.
- Matthew Henry
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Many are called, few are chosen, but fewer still are faithful. These are the overcomers spoken of ten times in the book of Revelation. They are disciples of Jesus who have not only been accepted by God but who have been tested by Him through many circumstances and who have been approved by Him.
- Zac Poonen
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Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lions' den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy way things work. It is an act of will, a choice, based on the unbreakable Word of a God who cannot lie, and who showed us what love and obedience and sacrifice mean, in the person of Jesus Christ.
- Elisabeth Elliot
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Let God enlarge you when you are going through distress. He can do it. You can't do it, and others can't do it for you.
- Warren Wiersbe
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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.
- Richard Sibbes
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You shall by faith sustain yourself and comfort yourself in your Lord, and be strong in His power; for you are in the beaten and common way to heaven, when you are under our Lord's crosses. You have reason to rejoice in it, more than in a crown of gold; and rejoice and be glad to bear the reproaches of Christ.
- Samuel Rutherford
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How can we hope to retain our freedom through the generations if we fail to teach our young that our liberty springs from an abiding faith in our Creator?
- Jonathan Falwell
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Return to the battle again, no longer trusting in the false and insufficient human resources which so foolishly we had taken into the battle, but now trusting in the limitless resources of our risen Lord.
- Alan Redpath
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Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, and looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, and cries it shall be done.
- Charles Wesley
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Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far, but faith has no limits.
- Blaise Pascal
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Let us remember, there is One who daily records all we do for Him, and sees more beauty in His servants' work than His servants do themselves... And then shall His faithful witnesses discover, to their wonder and surprise, that there never was a word spoken on their Master's behalf, which does not receive a reward.
- J. C. Ryle
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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.
- Martin Luther
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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
- Augustine
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A strong woman of God can lead others to strength as she continues to grow in her faith.
- Crystal McDowell
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He who sows, even with tears, the precious seed of faith, hope, and love, shall doubtless come again with joy, bringing his sheaves with him, because it is the very nature of that seed to yield a joyful harvest.
- Richard Cecil
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This boundless desire had not its original from man itself; nothing would render itself restless; something above the bounds of this world implanted those desires after a higher good, and made him restless in everything else. And since the soul can only rest is something infinite, there is something infinite for it to rest in.
- Stephen Charnock
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It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark and gloomy day; but the interposition of clouds and vaporous exhalations. Neither is thy soul beyond the reach of the promise, nor does God withdraw Himself; but the vapors of thy carnal, unbelieving heart do cloud thee.
- John Owen
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It seems to me better to get the Book of books for food for your soul, for the strengthening of your faith, and the building up of your character in God, so that all the time you are being changed and made meet to walk with God.
- Smith Wigglesworth
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To believe that He will preserve us is, indeed, a means of preservation. God will certainly preserve us, and make a way of escape for us out of the temptation, should we fall. We are to pray for what God has already promised. Our requests are to be regulated by His promises and commands. Faith embraces the promises and so finds relief.
- John Owen
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Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren.
- Martin Luther
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Faith is very important to so many of us here in America, and I would never support any government effort to stifle our freedom of religion or freedom of expression or freedom of speech.
- Sarah Palin
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Faith is made up of belief and trust. Many people believe God, but they do not trust themselves into His keeping and care; consequently, they are filled with worry and fear.
- Lee Roberson
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Genuine faith must go beyond the mere intellectual assent concerning biblical doctrines. People must let the implications of these doctrines radically affect their hearts so that they respond positively to God with the obedience and works of faith.
- Daniel Fuller
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We must stress that the basis for our faith is neither experience nor emotion but the truth as God has given it in verbalized, prepositional form in the Scripture and which we first of all apprehend with our minds.
- Francis Schaeffer
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I prayed for faith and thought that some day faith would come down and strike me like lightning. But faith did not seem to come. One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God." I had up to this time closed my Bible and prayed for faith. I now opened my Bible and began to study, and faith has been growing ever since.
- Dwight L. Moody
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"But," say others, "God has elected them on the foresight of their faith." Now, God gives faith, therefore He could not have elected them on account of faith which He foresaw.
- Charles Spurgeon
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I shall never rise to the point of view which wishes to "raise" faith to knowledge. To me, the way of truth is to come through the knowledge of my ignorance to the submissiveness of faith, and then, making that my starting-place, to raise my knowledge into faith.
- Henry Drummond
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The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
- John Piper
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Faith fills a man with love for the beauty of its truth, with faith in the truth of its beauty.
- Francis de Sales
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils and penalties. He, our divine Redeemer, becomes to us the new sphere of harmony and unity with God and His law, with His life and His holiness.
- A.T. Pierson
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My fall was not the result of one single and consistent wrong-minded decision, but rather it was an accumulation of My fall came as a consequences to acknowledge my need for a Savior.
- RM Harrington
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I was asked three times directly in the hearing before the board of the judiciary whether or not I would continue to acknowledge God if I were to resume my position as chief justice. And I said I would.
- Judge Roy Moore
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We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take the hand he stretches out.
- Elisabeth Elliot
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Our heavenly King is pleased with all our graces: hot zeal and cool patience pleaseth Him; cheerful thankfulness and weeping repentance pleaseth Him; but none of them are welcome to Him without faith, as nothing can please Him without Christ.
- Thomas Adams
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There are three kinds of faith in Christ: 1. Struggling faith, like a man in deep water desperately swimming. 2. Clinging faith, like a man hanging to the side of a boat. 3. Resting faith, like a man safely within the boat (and able to reach out with a hand to help someone else get in).
- Dwight L. Moody
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Faith is the gift of God - not the result of the persuasion of the evangelist.
- Jerry Bridges
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The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
- Watchman Nee
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Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.
- E.M. Bounds
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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
- Assorted Authors
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How weak so ever the believer finds himself, and how powerful so ever he perceives his enemy to be, it is all one to him, he hath no more to do but to put faith on work, and to wait till God works.
- David Dickson
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Faith, whereby especially Christ rules, sets the soul so high that it looks down on all other things as far below, as having represented to it, by the Spirit of Christ, riches, honor, beauty and pleasures of a higher nature.
- Richard Sibbes
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If I cannot hear "The sound of rain' long before the rain falls, and then go out to some hilltop of the Spirit, as near to my God as I can and have faith to wait there with my face between my knees, though six times or sixty times I am told "There is nothing', till at last there arises a little cloud out of the sea, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
- Amy Carmichael
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Faith is not an insurance policy. Or as Eddie Askew suggests, maybe it is: insurance does not prevent accidents, but rather gives a secure base from which to face their consequences.
- Phillips Brooks
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I know not what He is about to do with me, but I have given myself entirely into His hands.
- Catherine Booth
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Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
- William Law
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Infidelity and Faith look both through the same perspective-glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little, diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in the distance, lost their greatness.
- Joseph Hall
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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.
- Andrew Murray
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Faith...is a steady and certain knowledge of the Divine benevolence towards us, which being founded on the truth of the gratuitous promise in Christ, is both revealed to our minds, and confirmed to our hearts, by the Holy Spirit.
- John Calvin
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Faith in a hearer relates to faithfulness in a speaker, and credits the word spoken.
- Ralph Erskine
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Faith is the fountain of prayer, and prayer should be nothing else but faith exercised.
- Thomas Manton
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It is in the deepest darkness of the starless midnight that men learn how to hold on to the hidden Hand most tightly and how that Hand holds them; that He sees where we do not, and knows the way He takes; and though the way be to us a roundabout way, it is the right way.
- A. T. Pierson
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The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have come at the very last of their days but the arch has never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with them trusting to the same support. It will bear me over as it has for them.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Faith is full of good works. It believes as if it did not work, and it works as if it did not believe.
- Thomas Watson
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Faith without evidence is, properly, not faith, but prejudice or presumption; faith beyond evidence is superstition, and faith contrary to evidence is either insanity or willful perversity of mind.
- James H. Aughey
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All hangs on Himself, whether to sustain faith or to lead forth praise.
- G.V. Wigram
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If faith produces no works, I see that faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
- Hannah More
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Do daily and hourly your duty; do it patiently and thoroughly. Do it as it presents itself; do it at the moment, and let it be its own reward. Never mind whether it is known and acknowledged or not, but do not fail to do it.
- James H. Aughey
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Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.
- E.M. Bounds
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Certainly we should be very active in seeking God, and Jesus himself called us to 'ask, seek, knock' in order to find him. Yet those who enter a relationship with God inevitably look back and recognize that God's grace had sought them out, breaking them open to new realities.
- Tim Keller
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Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.
- John Calvin
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Talk what we will of faith, if we do not trust and rely upon Him, we do not believe in Him.
- Assorted Authors
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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
- Thomas a Kempis
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It is in the deepest darkness of the starless midnight that men learn how to hold on to the hidden Hand most tightly and how that Hand holds them; that He sees where we do not, and knows the way He takes; and though the way be to us a roundabout way, it is the right way.
- A.T. Pierson
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I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
- Martin Luther
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Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.
- Joseph Hall
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Faith is to rest, not in the best of God's servants, but in His unchanging Word.
- Harry Ironside
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Nothing does so establish the mind amidst the rollings and turbulences of present things, as to look above them and beyond them - above them, to the steady and good hand by which they are ruled, and beyond them, to the sweet and beautiful end to which, by that hand, they will be brought.
- Jeremy Taylor
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When we have a controversy with the wicked we should take heed that private spleen do not rule us, but that only our interest in God's quarrel with them doth move us.
- David Dickson
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Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.
- Abraham Kuyper
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Thou canst not tell how rich a dowry sorrow gives the soul, how firm a faith and eagle sight of God.
- Henry Alford
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None have I corrupted, none have I defrauded; merchandise have I not made.
- John Knox
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Frequently many children of God turn within themselves, that is, they look into their soul to determine whether they have peace, grace or spiritual progress. This is most harmful and is not of faith. It diverts them from gazing upon Christ to looking at themselves.
- Watchman Nee
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Were it not for an unquestioning faith, human progress would be an intolerable burden.
- James H. Aughey
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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
- Tim Keller
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We have received life, yet this life and the head are inseparable. Upon our accepting Him, we still must live in Him. Though we have received Him, we are yet to depend on Him. Accordingly, we cannot be independent in anything. The Lord alone is head, and He is the sole resource of our life.
- Watchman Nee
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How pitiful that his mind was overruled by his emotion; his reasoning, overcome by his affection. Why is it that men "did not believe the truth?" Because they "had pleasure in unrighteousness" (2 Thess. 2:12). It is not that the truth is unreasonable but that it is not loved. Hence when one truly turns to the Lord he "believes with his heart (not mind) and so is justified" (Rom. 10:10).
- Watchman Nee
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Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.
- Thomas a Kempis
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I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the Promised Land.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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Faith is the champion of grace, and love the nurse; but humility is the beauty of grace.
- Thomas Brooks
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If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.
- Tim Keller
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If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.
- E.M. Bounds
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It is more to the honor of a Christian by faith to overcome the world, than by monastical vows to retreat from it; more for the honor of Christ to serve him in the city, than to serve him in the cell.
- Matthew Henry
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Faith is the root of all blessings. Believe, and you shall be saved; believe, and you must needs be satisfied; believe, and you cannot but be comforted and happy.
- Jeremy Taylor
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The key to our lives as Christians today is how clearly we "see" by faith the resurrected Christ.
- Dave Hunt
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A person who has not done well the little is not prepared or qualified to do the big.
- Jack Hyles
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
- Assorted Authors
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Faith is like insurance. It needs to be wholly in place before there's a crisis.
- Pamela Christian
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Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground of faith, and faith, when strengthened, will make thee fervent, and such fervency ever speeds and returns with victory out of the field of prayer. The mightier any is in the Word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.
- William Gurnall
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The opposite of sight and feeling is faith. Now it is the soulish person who gains assurance by grasping the things which can be seen and felt; but the person who follows the spirit lives by faith, not by sight.
- Watchman Nee
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Therefore the Christian heart, since it has been thoroughly persuaded that all things happen by God's plan, and that nothing takes place by chance, will ever look to him as the principal causes of things, yet will give attention to the secondary causes in their proper place.
- John Calvin
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Until we know Jesus, God is merely a concept, and we can't have faith in Him. But once we hear Jesus say, "He who has seen Me has seen the Father" (John 14:9) we immediately have something that is real, and our faith is limitless.
- Oswald Chambers
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Faith is the assurance that the thing which God has said in His word is true, and that God will act according to what He has said in his word... Faith is not a matter of impressions, nor of probabilities, nor of appearances.
- George Mueller
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Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
- J. C. Ryle
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I have joyfully dedicated my whole life to the object of exemplifying how much may be accomplished by prayer and faith.
- George Mueller
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Confession, decision, and many other religious acts can never be and are not to be construed as new birth. Rational judgment, intelligent understanding, mental acceptance, or the pursuit of the good, the beautiful, and the true are merely soulical activities if the spirit is not reached and stirred.
- Watchman Nee
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What we need is faith. For faith is not a tame and spineless thing that dares nothing. Real faith dares something, something big and brawny, beyond the human. Hence it brings into life the thrill of finest romance.
- Clovis G. Chappell
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Faith is the foundation of all society. We have only to look around and see this.
- Dwight L. Moody
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It is not the will of God to give us more troubles than will bring us to live by faith on him; he loves us too well to give us a moment of uneasiness but for our good.
- Assorted Authors
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We should inquire once again as to what the life of faith is. It is one lived by believing God under any circumstance: "If he slay me," says Job, "yet would I trust in Him" (Job 13:15 Darby). That is faith.
- Watchman Nee
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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.
- Alexander MacLaren
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Faith and repentance are the same; they are not two separate decisions. One cannot trust Christ as Savior without repenting or changing his mind. The very fact that he trusts Christ for salvation shows that he has changed his mind regarding sin, salvation, and God.
- Curtis Hutson
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Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.
- Martin Luther
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He promised to never leave or forsake us, and He always keeps His promises.
- Crystal McDowell
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How many saints are there who serve purely because it is God's command? Or how many work just to produce fruits? Since God's work is eternal in nature, He demands men with faith to labor for Him.
- Watchman Nee
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I do not want merely to possess a faith; I want a faith that possesses me.
- Charles Kingsley
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Saving faith and real converting grace will always produce some conformity to the image of Jesus.
- J. C. Ryle
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If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened.
- George Mueller
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Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
- C.S. Lewis
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There are two kinds of faith. There is the natural faith. But the supernatural faith is the gift of God.
- Smith Wigglesworth
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Dependence on the Spirit does not mean inactivity, but it does mean activating our faith before we activate our wills.
- William Thrasher
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The prayer of faith is a prayer willing to believe and prevail for God's answer in a situation that is utterly impossible. Regardless of the difficulty of the situation, you require no external confirmation but believe God in spite of appearance. Your eyes are on God, not on the situation.
- Wesley L. Duewel
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It is never on account of its formal nature as a psychic act that faith is conceived in Scripture to be saving. It is not, strictly speaking, even faith in Christ that saves, but Christ that saves through faith. The saving power resides exclusively, not in the act of faith or the attitude of faith or nature of faith, but in the object of faith.
- B.B. Warfield
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We are strengthened by this hope and His promise to turn it for our good regardless of what the situation looks like.
- Crystal McDowell
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Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me.
- Horatius Bonar
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It is the office of faith to believe what we do not see, and it shall be the reward of faith to see what we do believe.
- Thomas Adams
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If the times are indeed as bad as we say they are... if the darkness in our world is growing heavier by the moment... if we are facing spiritual battles right in our own homes and churches... then we are foolish not to turn to the One who supplies unlimited grace and power. He is our only source. We are crazy to ignore him.
- Jim Cymbala
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Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
- Oswald Chambers
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We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.
- A. C. Dixon
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As we consistently turn to Him for direction, we become more able to hear and know the right way to go.
- Crystal McDowell
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Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home - Lead Thou me on! Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see the distant scene, - one step enough for me.
- John Henry Newman
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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.
- Alexander MacLaren
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To be able to look into God's face, and know with the knowledge of faith that there is nothing between the soul and Him, is to experience the fullest peace the soul can know. Whatever else pardon may be, it is above all things admission into full fellowship with God.
- Charles H. Brent
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In religion faith does not spring out of feeling, but feeling out of faith. The less we feel the more we should trust. We cannot feel right till we have believed.
- Horatius Bonar
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He that takes his cares on himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast my cares on God; he has bidden me; they cannot burden him.
- Joseph Hall
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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."
- Alexander MacLaren
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When you have no helpers, see your helpers in God. When you have many helpers, see God in all your helpers. When you have nothing but God, see all in God. When you have everything, see God in everything. Under all conditions, stay thy heart only on the Lord.
- Charles Spurgeon
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A contemplative life has more the appearance of piety than any other; but the divine plan is to bring faith into activity and exercise.
- Richard Cecil
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My attitude was and still is like that of David, who was ashamed that the armies of Israel would tremble before Goliath. Without hesitation he stepped forward with complete confidence in the God who had proven Himself to be faithful (1 Sam 17). For David, the size of the giant was irrelevant.
- Dave Hunt
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We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.
- John Owen
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The faith by which we are justified is faith. Faith is like a channel through which the benefits of Christ flow to us. We are not justified on account of faith; we are justified through faith. It is the work of Christ, not our faith, which is the foundation of justification. Faith itself is a gift of God.
- Alister McGrath
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A firm faith is the best theology; a good life is the best philosophy; a clear conscience the best law; honesty, the best policy, and temperance the best physic.
- James H. Aughey
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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
- Daniel Webster
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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.
- Alexander MacLaren
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Return to the battle again, no longer trusting in the false and insufficient human resources which so foolishly we had taken into the battle, but now trusting in the limitless resources of our risen Lord.
- Alan Redpath
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Faith is not only necessary to salvation, it is also necessary to live a life pleasing to God. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God - but it also enables us to obey the commands of God. Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.
- Jerry Bridges
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To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.
- William Tyndale
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Without faith we are not fit to desire mercy, without humility we are not fit to receive it, without affection we are not fit to value it, without sincerity we are not fit to improve it. Times of extremity contribute to the growth and exercise of these qualifications.
- Stephen Charnock
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The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical.
- Alexander MacLaren
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I will charge my soul to believe and wait for Him, and will follow His providence, and not go before it, nor stay behind it.
- Samuel Rutherford
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Into every house where the blood was not sprinkled, the destroying angel came. But wherever the blood was on doorpost and lintel, whether they had worked much, or whether they had worked none, God passed them over.
- Dwight L. Moody
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Seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand.
- Augustine
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Had it been published by a voice from heaven, that twelve poor men, taken out of boats and creeks, without any help of learning, should conquer the world to the cross, it might have been thought an illusion against all reason of men; yet we know it was undertaken and accomplished by them.
- Stephen Charnock
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Henceforth we are dead to everything pertaining to ourselves and alive to His Spirit alone. This requires our exercising faith.
- Watchman Nee
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Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?
- Martin Luther
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It was Lord who put into my mind that fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures.
- Assorted Authors
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Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.
- Brother Lawrence
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Now we may infer from any defeat of ours that it is due either to lack of faith or failure to obey. No other reason can suffice.
- Watchman Nee
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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
- Martin Luther
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Conversion is a turning onto the right road. The next thing to do is to walk on it.
- Charles Spurgeon
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What think we of Christ? Is He altogether glorious in our eyes, and precious to our hearts? May Christ be our joy, our confidence, our all. May we daily be made more like to Him, and more devoted to His service.
- Matthew Henry
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Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his motives, in whom selfishness has been driven out by the power of a mightier love, and indolence stirred into unwearied energy.
- Alexander MacLaren
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Faith bears Fruit. It cannot help it, because it links the soul with Christ, so that the energy of His life pours into it through the artery of faith, and, as it comes in, so it must make a way for itself out.
- F.B. Meyer
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Faith holds on to truth and reason from what it knows to be fact.
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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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."
- Alexander MacLaren
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We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
- Catherine Booth
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Are you weak? Weary? Confused? Troubled? Pressured? How is your relationship with God? Is it held in its place of priority? I believe the greater the pressure, the greater your need for time alone with Him.
- Kay Arthur
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Faith is seated in the understanding, as well as the will. It has an eye to see Christ, as well as a wing to fly to Christ.
- Thomas Watson
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Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
- Thomas Aquinas
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Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.
- Thomas Brooks
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We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
- C.S. Lewis
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The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, "Here comes my food!"
- Watchman Nee
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A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him.
- C.S. Lewis
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The soul is the life of the body, faith is the life of the soul, and Christ is the life of faith. Justification by faith in Christ's righteousness is the golden chain which binds the Christian world in one body.
- James H. Aughey
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There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment, but there is no such a word in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the way of God.
- John Newton
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Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
- William Gurnall
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Believe in Him and not trust in Him? You might as well say the Jews did love Him when they nailed Him to the cross.
- Assorted Authors
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Faithful continued prayer is one key to answered prayer. As James expresses it, "You do not have, because you do not ask God" (James 4:2b).
- John F. Walvoord
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It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.
- Jeremy Taylor
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Faith is not an insurance policy. Or as Eddie Askew suggests, maybe it is: insurance does not prevent accidents, but rather gives a secure base from which to face their consequences.
- Philip Yancey
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Faith follows the One believed while feeling turns on how one feels. God does not change: He is the same God in either the cloudy day or the sunny day. Hence he who lives by faith is as unchanging as is God; he expresses the same kind of life through darkness or through light. But one who dwells by feeling must pursue an up and down existence because his feeling is ever changing.
- Watchman Nee
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Genuine faith that saves the soul has for its main element - trust - absolute rest of the whole soul - on the Lord Jesus Christ to save me, whether He died in particular or in special to save me or not, and relying, as I am, wholly and alone on Him, I am saved.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
- Frederick W. Robertson
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We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his motives, in whom selfishness has been driven out by the power of a mightier love, and indolence stirred into unwearied energy.
- Alexander MacLaren
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It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays hold on God, knowing that He knows our needs before we even ask Him. That is what gives Christian prayer its boundless confidence and its joyous certainty.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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There's a pardon for every sinner on the topside of the earth, but you have to call for it by faith before it becomes yours. In other words, you have to trust Christ as your Savior.
- J. Vernon McGee
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A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she has failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.
- Tim Keller
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Few are they who by faith touch Him; multitudes are they who throng about Him.
- Augustine
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Be assured, if you walk with Him and look to Him, and expect help from Him, He will never fail you.
- George Mueller
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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!
- Alexander MacLaren
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Faith receiveth the promise, embraceth it, and comforteth the soul unspeakably with it. Faith is so great an artist in arguing and reasoning with the soul, that it will bring over the hardest heart that it hath to deal with. It will bring to my remembrance at once, both my vileness against God, and his goodness towards me; it will show me, that though I deserve not to breathe in the air, yet that God will have me an heir of glory.
- John Bunyan
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Any fool can write learned language. The vernacular is the real test. If you can't turn your faith into it, then you either don't understand it or you don't believe it.
- C.S. Lewis
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The faith which has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils. It is a "dead faith, because it is alone."
- J. C. Ryle
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To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize, and call them providences. It is well that they can; but it would be gloriously better if they could believe that the whole matter is one grand providence.
- George Macdonald
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So long as we are occupied with any other object than God Himself, there will be neither rest for the heart nor peace for the mind. But when we receive all that enters our lives as from His hand, then, no matter what may be our circumstances or surroundings--whether in a hotel or prison-dungeon, or at a martyr's stake--we shall be enabled to say, " The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places" (Ps. 16:6). But that is the language of faith, not of sight nor of sense.
- A. W. Pink
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He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; he hath bidden me; they cannot burden him.
- Joseph Hall
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Saving faith is not just believing that Jesus lived and died. Faith that saves is the confident, continuous confession of total dependence on, and trust in Jesus Christ to meet the requirements on your behalf to give you entrance into God's Eternal Kingdom. It's the surrender of your life in complete trust to Him to do what you cannot do.
- John MacArthur
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As a weak limb grows stronger by exercise, so will your faith be strengthened by the very efforts you make in stretching it out toward things unseen.
- James H. Aughey
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That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its support.
- Alexander MacLaren
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We have little control over the circumstances of life. We can't control the weather or the economy, and we can't control what other people say about or do to us. There is only one area where we have control--we can rule the kingdom inside. The heart of every problem is the problem in the heart.
- Warren Wiersbe
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I want them to know that they don't have to die in a car bomb, don't have to die in some kind of holy war to be accepted by God. But it's through faith in Jesus Christ and Christ alone.
- Franklin Graham
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Howbeit your faith seeth but the black side of Providence, yet it hath a better side, and God shall let you see it. We know that all things work together for good to them that love God; hence I infer that losses, disappointments, ill tongues, loss of friends, houses or country, are God's workmen, set on work to work out good to you, out of everything that befalleth you.
- Samuel Rutherford
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That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.
- E.M. Bounds
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Faith is an individual thing--it is God and myself. If God has spoken to me, I have received the word, and do it I must, whether men bear or forbear. The one who receives the word has to yield himself to God.
- G.V. Wigram
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We have no strict demonstration of anything, except mathematical truths, but by metaphysics. We can have no proof that is properly demonstrative, of any one position relating to the being and nature of God, his creation of the world, the dependence of all things on him, the nature of bodies and spirits, the nature of our own souls, or any of the great truths of morality and natural religion, but what is metaphysical.
- Jonathan Edwards
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Night and day I pondered until I saw the connection between the justice of God and the statement that 'the just shall live by his faith.' Then I grasped that the justice of God is that righteousness by which through grace and sheer mercy God justifies us through faith. Thereupon I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise.
- Martin Luther
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
- Martin Luther
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This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.
- John Newton
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Better a little faith dearly won, better launched alone on the infinite bewilderment of Truth, than perish on the splendid plenty of the richest creeds. Such Doubt is no self-willed presumption. Nor, truly exercised, will it prove itself, as much doubt does, the synonym for sorrow.
- Henry Drummond
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
- Oswald Chambers
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It is not a minister's wisdom but his conviction which imparts itself to others. Nothing gives life but life. Real flame alone kindles other flame; this was the power of the apostles: "We believe and therefore speak." Firm faith in what they spoke, that was the basis of the apostles' strength.
- Frederick W. Robertson
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When I was converted twenty years ago I felt a faith in God; but five years after I had a hundred times more faith, and five years ago I had more than eve; because I became better acquainted with Him. I have read up the Word, and I see that the Lord has done so and so, and then I have turned to where He has promised to perform it, and when I see this I have reason to believe in Him.
- Dwight L. Moody
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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.
- Alexander MacLaren
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Faith endures as seeing Him who is invisible; endures the disappointments, the hardships, and the heart-aches of life, by recognizing that all comes from the hand of Him who is too wise to err and too loving to be unkind.
- A. W. Pink
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There is no man living that can do the work that God has got for me to do. No one can do it but myself. And if the work ain't done we will have to answer for it when we stand before God's bar.
- Dwight L. Moody
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The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him.
- William Law
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Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
- John Calvin
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Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.
- Abraham Kuyper
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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.
- Alexander MacLaren
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Ye do well to remember that habitual affectionate communion with God, asking Him for all good which is needed, praising Him for all that is received, and trusting Him for future supplies, prevents anxious cares, inspires peace, calmness and composure, and furnishes a delight surpassing all finite comprehension.
- James H. Aughey
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Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.
- Charles Stanley
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The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing.
- William Law
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He that seeketh anything else but simply God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.
- Thomas a Kempis
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Faith acts upon Christ for justification, as he is a Jesus, or by receiving him as a Jesus; faith acts upon Christ for sanctification, as he is a Lord, or by receiving him as Lord.
- Ralph Erskine
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To believe is to be strong. Doubt, cramps energy. Belief is power.
- Frederick W. Robertson
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I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death, still to be a soul winner, still to be a true herald of the cross, and testify the name of Jesus to the last hour. It is only such who in the ministry shall be saved.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Monastic vows rest on the false assumption that there is a special calling, a vocation, to which superior Christians are invited to observe the counsels of perfection while ordinary Christians fulfil only the commands; but there simply is no special religious vocation since the call of God comes to each at the common tasks.
- Martin Luther
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Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
- William Gurnall
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Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: "For without faith we cannot please God;" nor can we fear what we do not believe.
- William Penn
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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
- Frederick W. Robertson
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Instead of thinking about how hard the test is, we can instead focus on asking the Lord to enlarge our understanding.
- Crystal McDowell
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Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific vision.
- George Whitefield
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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.
- Alexander MacLaren
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Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to come to the Lord for mercy; he comes, I say, in the strength of the Spirit, and crieth Father. That one word spoken in faith is better than a thousand prayers, as men call them, written and read, in a formal, cold, lukewarm way.
- John Bunyan
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Faith in the sheltering wings of God does not remove physical danger or the need for precaution against it. We cannot ignore Beirut tourist advisories, or feed wild animals on our camping trips, or jump a hot motorcycle over a row of parked cars and trust God to keep us safe. We cannot smoke cigarettes like the Marlboro man and then claim the promises of Psalm 91 as our protection against lung cancer. A person who did these things would be a foolish believer and a foolish reader of Psalm 91.
- Cornelius Plantinga
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By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils and penalties. He, our divine Redeemer, becomes to us the new sphere of harmony and unity with God and His law, with His life and His holiness.
- A. T. Pierson
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If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven't truly understood or believed in Jesus at all.
- Tim Keller
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God has His spiritual splints that He wants to put upon His children and keep them quiet and unmoved until they pass the first stage of faith.
- A. B. Simpson
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Naturally there are many reasons for not possessing greater faith, but the gravest of these is probably an evil conscience. A good conscience is inseparable from a great faith.
- Watchman Nee
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Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God.
- Thomas a Kempis
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Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love.
- Oswald Chambers
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Daily living by faith on Christ is what makes the difference between the sickly and the healthy Christian, between the defeated and the victorious saint.
- A. W. Pink
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