Faith Quotes - Page 13

We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.

In God's eyes, the greatest heroes of faith are not those who achieve prosperity, success, and power in this life, but those who treat life as a temporary assignment and serve faithfully, expecting their promised reward in eternity.

Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!

Sufering is only intolerable when nobody cares. One continually sees that faith in God and his care is made infinitely easier by faith in someone who has shown kindness and sympathy.

I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.

Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.

No earthly pleasures, no kingdoms of this world can benefit me in any way. I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire. Do not talk about Jesus Christ as long as you love this world.

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.

Ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results.

Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose.

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

The devil strains every nerve to secure the souls which belong to Christ. We should not grudge our toil in wresting them from Satan and giving them back to God.

In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it's working for my good, And it's building my testimony.

Be faithful that your authentic power is all you need to truly share your light with the world.

Did a Magdalene, a Paul, a Constantine, an Augustine become mountains of ice after their conversion? Quite the contrary. We should never have had these prodigies of conversion and marvelous holiness if they had not changed the flames of human passion into volcanoes of immense love of God.

God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive.

God doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

Walking by faith will cause all of us to recognize that as children of God we are just pilgrims and strangers down here on this earth.

My confidence is placed in God who does not need our help for accomplishing his designs. Our single endeavor should be to give ourselves to the work and to be faithful to him, and not to spoil his work by our shortcomings.

I don't doubt for a moment that the revolution will result in a nonracial society. I have just come from being a patient in Groote Schuur Hospital where they now have integrated wards. For the first time in my life, I have seen it working. The patients were mixed, the staff was mixed, and the medical officers were mixed; it was totally integrated. It was beautiful. White and black together. And it works. To me that is terribly exciting.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven.