Faith
436 quotes: 64 by Keith Craft, 372 from other voices.
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- Feeling does not become stronger in the religious life by waiting, but by using it.
- For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ.
- For here possibilities, not finished facts, are the realities with which we have actively to deal; and to quote my friend William Salter, of the Philadelphia Ethical Society, "as the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists."
- Give thanks even in the worst of times, for it is during those times that our faith makes us whole.
- God always gives you what you would have asked for if you knew everything that He knows.
- God cannot fail, so I cannot fail.Florence Scovel ShinnSourced
- God does not ask your ability Or your inability. He asks only your availability.
- God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.
- God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.
- God doesn’t call the qualified; God qualifies the called.
- God doesn't expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him!
- God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
- God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
- God gives everyone a lane and no one can beat you in your lane. Just stay focused on Him and what you are supposed to do. And everything will be alright.
- God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.
- God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
- God helps them that help themselves.
- God is the brave man's hope and not the coward's excuse.
- God may have answered your prayer; just not the way you expected.
- God never gives strong faith without fiery trial; he will not build a strong ship, without subjecting it to very mighty storms; he will not make you a mighty warrior, if he does not intend to try your skill in battle.
- God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that he will not put up with in it, —a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers him no place.
- Good nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.
- Happiness and joy result from total acceptance of living in the present moment.
- He that has no cross will have no crown.
- He that loves Christianity better than truth will soon love his own sect or party better than Christianity.
- He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a very long head or a very short creed.
- He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.
- He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.
- He who will do faithfully needs to believe firmly.
- Heart troubles in God’s husbandry are not wounds, but the putting in of the spade before planting the seeds.
- Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.
- Heaven never helps the man that will not act.
- Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
- Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.
- Holy thoughts breed holy words and holy actions, and are hopeful evidences of a renewed heart. Who would not have them? To keep chaff out of a bushel, one sure plan is to fill it with wheat.
- Honest questions, sincere doubts, and deep hurts can draw you closer to God than you’ve ever been before.
- Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
- Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.
- Hope is the ability to hear the music of the future; faith is the courage to dance to it today.
- Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.