I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life faith is oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear and doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry my being is gasping for breath these are not my native air. But in faith and confidence I breath freely these are my native air.
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A Johns Hopkins doctor says that 'we do not know why it is that the worriers die sooner than the non-worriers, but that is a fact.' But I, who am simple of mind, think I know we are inwardly constructed, in nerve and tissue and brain cell and soul, for faith and not for fear. God made us that way. Therefore, the need of faith is not something imposed on us dogmatically, but it is written in us intrinsically. We cannot live without it. To live by worry is to live against Reality.Eli Stanley Jones
Very often when I havent faith in my faith, I have to have faith in His faith. He makes me believe in myself and my possibilities, when I simply cant. I have to rise to His faith in me. A woman who was inwardly collapsed said to me, 'Well, I have no fai.
Eli Stanley Jones
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