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Faith In God: Quotations from Burning Words

Faith, then, generically, is confidence in a personal being. Specifically, religious faith is confidence in God, in every respect and office in which He reveals Himself. As that love of which God is the object, is religious love, so that confidence in Him as a Father, a Moral Governor, a Redeemer, a Sanctifier, in all the modes of His manifestation, by which we believe whatever He says because He says it, and commit ourselves and all our interests cheerfully and entirely into His hands, is religious faith.— MARK HOPKINS

Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall take. Faith is a grasping of Almighty power;— F. W, FABER

The hand of man laid on the arm of God; - The grand and blessed hour in which the things impossible to me Become the possible, O Lord, through Thee.— A. E. HAMILTON

Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that entrusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.— W. E. CHANNING

So for us, the condition and preparation on and by which we are sheltered by that great hand, is the faith that asks, and the asking of faith. We must forsake the earthly props, but we must also believingly desire to be upheld by the heavenly arms, We make God responsible for our safety when we abandon other defense, and commit ourselves to Him.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

Orthodoxy can be learnt from others; living faith must be a matter of personal experience.— BÜCHSEL

The last decisive energy of a rational courage which confides in the Supreme Power, is very sublime. It makes a man who intrepidly dares every thing that can oppose or attack him within the sphere of mortality - who will press toward his object while death is impending over him - who would retain his purpose unshaken amidst the ruins of the world.— BISHOP R. S. FOSTER

God does not give us ready money. He issues promissory notes, and then pays them when faith presents them at the throne. Each one of us has a check-book.— T. L. CUYLER

He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.— C. H. SPURGEON

God cannot lie; and if, fleeing for refuge, you have run to the hope set before you in the gospel - if, nestling in some invitation or promise of God's changeless word, you are resolved that Death and the Judgment shall find you there, you are safe. The way to honor God is to trust His truth, and hidden in His word you are also hidden in His love. Rest there.— JAMES HAMILTON

If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God, and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.— FENELON

The soul seeks God by faith, not by the reasonings of the mind and labored efforts, but by the drawings of love; to which inclinations God responds, and instructs the soul, which co-operates actively. God then puts the soul in a passive state where He accomplishes all, causing great progress, first by way of enjoyment, then by privation, and finally by pure love.— MADAME GUYON

If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps and material good.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

We would walk with Thee when Thou smitest us, and we would walk with Thee when Thou smilest upon us; for, smiling or smiting, it is in love. We take chastisement because we are sons, and Thou art Father. O grant that we may never feel Thy hand as Judge! Restrain us with Thy love. Wean us from our sin, and from the love of it, and bring us back to Thine own self.— H. W. BEECHER

I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing.— SIR HUMPHRY DAVY

Serve God, and God will take care of you. Submit to His will, trust in His grace, and resign yourself into His hands with the assurance that the Lord is well pleased with those "that hope in His mercy."— GARDINER SPRING

You cannot be too active as regards your own efforts; you cannot be too dependent as regards Divine grace. Do every thing as if God did nothing; depend upon God as if He did every thing.— JOHN ANGEL JAMES

Large asking and large expectation on our part honor God.— A. L. STONE

Faith ever says, "If Thou wilt," not "If Thou canst,"— MARTIN LUTHER

An active faith can give thanks for a promise even though it be not yet performed, knowing that God's bonds are as good as ready money.— MATTHEW HENRY