Quotes About Faith

They are confounded because they had hoped; their arrival brings disappointment.

For now you are of no help; you see terror, and you are afraid.

Have I ever said, ëGive me something; offer me a bribe from your wealth;

deliver me from the hand of the enemy; redeem me from the grasp of the ruthlessí?

But now, please look at me. Would I lie to your face?

So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.

then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?

Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?

If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?

Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?

When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.

But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,

if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.

Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.

Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.

His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spiderís web.

He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast, but it does not endure.

Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.

Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.

He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with a shout of joy.

Then Job answered: