Quotes About Faith

Abraham's devotion was sealed and certified because he did not withhold his son, his only son, from God. And God's love is sealed because He hath not withheld His only-begotten Son from us.

He that loves and trusts God possesses God. He that possesses God has enough for earth. He that possesses God has enough for heaven.

Whether God speaks promises, teachings of truth, or commandments, faith accepts them, because it trusts Him. Christ is revealed to us for our faith by the doctrinal statements of the New Testament. But we must grasp Himself, as so revealed, if we are to have faith which saves the soul.

There are so many things that seem doubtful because we do not bring the test of the highest motive to bear on them. Complications would fall away when we only wished to know and be like Christ.

our God is that which we think most precious, for which we are ready to make the greatest sacrifices, which draws our warmest love; which, lost, would leave us desolate; which, possessed, makes us blessed.

Worthiness or unworthiness is to be swept clean out of the field, and I am to be content to be a pauper, to owe everything to what I have done nothing to procure, and to cast myself on the sole, all-sufficient mercy of God in Jesus Christ our Lord.

Lord, I cannot walk in the narrow path. Do Thou Thyself come to me and fill my heart and keep my feet.

If a man realises God's hold on him, he feels all others relaxed.

Sometimes, I think I'm the child of the Devil. Honestly, I do believe that. I've invited the Devil in, and now I can't get him out. I've tried burning him out and cutting him out and he don't take no notice. Why should he? He doesn't want to be homeless. He's got me. Little, skinny, violent me.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth beatitude.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore,Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore.

Father of all! in every age,In every clime ador'd,By saint, by savage, and by sage,Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!

The people's voice is odd,It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Whatever is, is right.

Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.

The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.

Some who grow dull religious straight commence And gain in morals what they lose in sense.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.