He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage hope confidence calmness and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control that things will flow as they will and that you will flow with them to your great delight and benefit.
Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith then you are conceding that it cant be taken on its own merits.
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action. 1959
You could have an experience with the gift of the Holy Ghost today. You could begin a private prayer with thanks. You could start to count your blessings and then pause for a moment. If you exercise faith and with the gift of the Holy Ghost you will find that memories of other blessings will flood into your mind. If you begin to express gratitude for each of them your prayer may take a little longer than usual. Remembrance will come. And so will gratitude. You could try the same thing as you write an entry in your book of remembrance. The Holy Ghost has helped with that since the beginning of time. You remember in the record of Moses it says: And a book of remembrance was kept in the which was recorded in the language of Adam for it was given unto as many as called upon God to write by the spirit of inspiration. (Moses 6:5.)
Don?t let this get you down. Just remember God will make everything right and that I?ll see you all again in the hereafter…. Read Thanatopsis by Bryant if you want to know how I am taking this. My faith in God is complete so I am unafraid.
When you encounter a situation that causes you to doubt your ability to achieve your desire request the Lord?s help in maintaining an attitude of faith.
The Word of God must always be heard quite specifically and in a new way varying according to the conditions under which it is preached. Faith is not an acceptance of general abstract truths but an answer and a decision at a certain time and in a very certain place.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible … faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.
I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear and doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry my being is gasping for breath these are not my native air. But in faith and confidence I breath freely these are my native air.
He who has in his heart as much faith as a grain of mustard seed will not enter hell and he who has in his heart as much pride as a grain of mustard seed will not enter paradise.
Faith is illuminative not operative; it does not force obedience though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do however virtuous can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
If it wasnt for faith there would be no living in this world; we couldnt even eat hash with any safety.
Faith is putting all your eggs in Gods basket then counting your blessings before they hatch.
Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
To me faith means not worrying.
Reason is our Soules left hand Faith her right By these wee reach divinity….
Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring something regardless of the consequences.
He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage hope confidence calmness and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
Faith to my mind is a stiffening process a sort of mental starch.
Faith is taking the first step even when you dont see the whole staircase.
Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God.
Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.
Faith means not wanting to know what is true.
If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.
Faith and doubt both are needed – not as antagonists but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control that things will flow as they will and that you will flow with them to your great delight and benefit.
Faith is a passionate intuition.
How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith which to-day are fables to us!
In the Affairs of the World Men are saved not by Faith but by the Want of it.
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
?Tis not the dying for a faith that?s so hard Master Harryevery man of every nation has done that?tis the living up to it that is difficult.
With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men….
I may not have gone where I intended to go but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith then you are conceding that it cant be taken on its own merits.
FAITH n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge of things without parallel.
A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action. 1959
A faith-holder puts himself below his faith and lets it guide his actions. The fanatic puts himself above it and uses it as an excuse for his actions.
You could have an experience with the gift of the Holy Ghost today. You could begin a private prayer with thanks. You could start to count your blessings and then pause for a moment. If you exercise faith and with the gift of the Holy Ghost you will find that memories of other blessings will flood into your mind. If you begin to express gratitude for each of them your prayer may take a little longer than usual. Remembrance will come. And so will gratitude. You could try the same thing as you write an entry in your book of remembrance. The Holy Ghost has helped with that since the beginning of time. You remember in the record of Moses it says: And a book of remembrance was kept in the which was recorded in the language of Adam for it was given unto as many as called upon God to write by the spirit of inspiration. (Moses 6:5.)
Don?t let this get you down. Just remember God will make everything right and that I?ll see you all again in the hereafter…. Read Thanatopsis by Bryant if you want to know how I am taking this. My faith in God is complete so I am unafraid.
Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden in the Spring when it is gone.
When you encounter a situation that causes you to doubt your ability to achieve your desire request the Lord?s help in maintaining an attitude of faith.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
The Word of God must always be heard quite specifically and in a new way varying according to the conditions under which it is preached. Faith is not an acceptance of general abstract truths but an answer and a decision at a certain time and in a very certain place.
In this awfully stupendous manner at which Reason stands aghast and Faith herself is half confounded was the grace of God to man at length manifested.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible … faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.
I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear and doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry my being is gasping for breath these are not my native air. But in faith and confidence I breath freely these are my native air.
Everything we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
But Faith fanatic Faith once wedded fast To some dear falsehood hugs it to the last.
The principal part of faith is patience.
How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith which today are fables to us!
He who has in his heart as much faith as a grain of mustard seed will not enter hell and he who has in his heart as much pride as a grain of mustard seed will not enter paradise.
Faithful to the cause of Prohibition She hath done what she could.
Faith is illuminative not operative; it does not force obedience though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do however virtuous can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
Without faith a man can do nothing with it all things are possible.