The very act of believing creates strength of its own.
The very act of believing creates strength of its own.
Faith is the vision of the heart it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.
Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.
In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion -- or a new form of Christianity -- based on faith in financial miracles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.
I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.
Faith can be defined as any man's hope that the human spirit is capable of understanding that anything actually matters in the larger universe and that understanding anything could be important outside of our own selfish whims and desire to survive....and somehow, because it is important, understanding can go on without us, waiting only to be rediscovered by the future, or at worst, pissed away, in spite of all our prayers, and work, and suffering.
Religion is like holding on to a rock in the middle of a raging river faith is learning how to swim.
Obedience without faith is possible, but not faith without obedience.
Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.
The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.
Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.
Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.
I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning.
Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.
Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.
Faith makes a Christian. Life proves a Christian. Trial confirms a Christian. Death crowns a Christian.
Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.
A friend once wrote Give me your faith, not your doubts.
Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.
Faith is dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.
Faith makes The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.
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