Faith Quotes - Page 58

The best definition of faith that I know is that it is reason grown courageous. Moreover, that is all that Christ ever asked us for, and the reason he asked us for that was because he wants to use us. He needs our help. It is almost impossible to believe it. But God Almighty wants our help, so Christ tells us.

But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.

Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.

Sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can't read the address.

No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough.

The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, "Ma'am, I'm going to marry you one day". And 15 years later, I did.

I think there are so many books out there written on relationships and romance that women are the authors of. How can women know exactly how men think? And there are so many guys out there with relationship books who are just not telling the truth. They have shaded parts.

Transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.

God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

With each success your faith in the law will grow stronger, until you reach the point of total conviction. Then you will be invincible.

The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.

God’s faithfulness is stronger than our unfaithfulness and our infidelities.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His ignominies and sufferings.

The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.

Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.

Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.

For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.