Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
There is no sickness problem. There is simply a problem of the believer's coming to know his inheritance in Christ.
. . . God is pleased to communicate himself to the simple and humble and to use the smallest and lowliest to make them great and exalted. In a word, it is He Himself who has called and approved them and even inspired their humble manner of living.
It fills me with joy to realize that I can lay down my life daily for God, that I can sacrifice it willingly for Him. I may not be a martyr for the faith, but I can be a martyr of charity.
Faith like Job's cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.
Faith is that quality or power by which the things desired become the things possessed.
As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find a deep joy. It is the joy of trust, the joy of faith in the faithfulness at the heart of all things. It is the joy of gratefulness in touch with the fullness of life.
Any father…must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty for one generation to beget another when parents can secure so little for their children, so little safety, even in the best circumstances. Great faith is required to give the child up, trusting God to honor the parents’ love for him by assuring that there will indeed be angels in that wilderness.
Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies
Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.
Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma.
The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.
And another question was unfortunately not asked of Göring: 'The German people put faith in you even if they doubted Hitler because you were gentlemanly and more likable. What did you, Göring, do to justify this confidence? You have led a luxurious life and collected stolen art.
I have more faith now than I ever had before.
Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.
I am a gate for God to accomplish great things. Through me and with me, new Life enters the world.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
We put our faith in love.
When you do business with people you need money. When you do business with God you need faith. Faith is the currency of the Kingdom of God.