Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
God is more concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my comfort zones. God is more interested in inward qualities than outward circumstances - things like refining my faith, humbling my heart, cleaning up my thought life and strengthening my character.
Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.
We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give and devote ourselves to righteousness, we not only revolt from our Creator with wicked perfidy, but we also abjure our Savior Himself.
The fact that they let me in a movie with Gene Hackman has left me with no faith in show buisness.
Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously. . . He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.
There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.
Love, desire, ambition, faith. Without them life's so simple, believe me.
Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations.
Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.
Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.
It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.
The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.
