Martin Luther - “Faith alone, plus nothing.” Joni Erickson Tada - “Faith isn’t the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It’s simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step.”
Eddie Zepeda - “Faith is doing God’s will when you don’t feel like it.”
Mark Victor Hansen - “Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.”
Ralph Hodgson – “Some things have to be believed to be seen.”
Kamran Karimi -“The Bible is not supposed to make sense, it is supposed to make faith.”
Carrie Judd Montgomery – “You get faith by studying the Word. Study that Word until something in you “knows that you know” and that you do not just hope that you know.”
Henry Clay Trumbull – Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.
Me – “It is faith alone, in Christ alone, which alone moves God, when you are alone.”
Bible in Basic English…”the words of my mouth came from the faith in my heart; in the same way, our words are the outcome of our faith;” II Corinthians 4:13
George Mueller – The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Kenneth E. Hagin Sr. – “Feed your faith and starve your doubts.”
Kenneth E. Hagin Sr. – “Faith begins where the will of God is known.”
C. Nuzum – “Faith is the hand with which we take from God. When we have met all the conditions and taken what God is offering us, we must believe that we have that thing.”
Martin Luther – “Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness.”
DS Cairns – “Faith is not trustful acquiescence.”
Me – “Seek faith at all cost; it is the evidence of the answer of God.”
Me - “God is the Judge, Jesus is our Advocate, and faith is the evidence.”
Dwight L. Moody - “A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.”
Gloria Copeland – “You can’t stand effectively on “blind” faith. You must have a “knowing” faith, and that comes from believing wholeheartedly what the Word promises. You know God has spoken it and declared it to be so, and you know you can depend on that.” God’s Keys to Life
Me – “Always remember, you are just one “hearing” away from Faith, just one ‘knowing” away from Peace, and just one “action” away from total Victory.”
Pastor Mirek Hufton – “Belief is a moral decision.”
John Calvin – “The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, — man’s only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered by the Gospel is apprehended by faith.”
Unknown – “When you find out what the Scripture says about a particular situation, faith can be established in your heart, this knowledge will influence your soul (your mind, your will and your emotions).” Romans 10:17 says, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
William James – “Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible”
Unknown – “Faith isn’t faith until it’s all you’re holding on to”
St. Thomas Aquinas – “To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
Martin Luther King, Jr – “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
Anselm - “I believe in order that I may understand.”
Unknown – “Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.”
Me - Faith is a heart received sanction by the Sovereign of Heaven; given the moment His will for a specific promise has been met.
Me - Faith comes alive when the Word read from the page becomes the Word heard in your heart.
William Newton Clarke – “Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see”
Mahatma Gandhi – “There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever”
C.S. Lewis – “Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods”
Kahlil Gibran – “Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”
Oswald Chambers – “Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”
Unknown – “Calmness is the way we show that we are trusting in God.”
Elizabeth Barret Browning – “Whoso loves, believes the impossible.”
Me - “Faith is the God sanctioned ability for man to trust what God can and will do.”
William Wordsworth – “Faith is a passionate intuition.”
Charles Finney – “I am speaking now of the kind of faith that ensures the blessing. Do not understand me as saying that there is nothing in prayer that is acceptable to God, or that even obtains the blessing sometimes, without this kind of faith (emphasis his).”
Smith Wigglesworth – “It is a blessed thing to learn that God’s word can never fail. Never harken to human plans. God can work mightily when you persist in believing Him in spite of discouragements from the human standpoint…I am not moved by what I see. I am moved only by what I believe. No man considers how he feels if he believes. The man who believes God has it (emphasis his).”
Me – “The hearing of faith is the sound of the Word of God coming alive in your heart.”
Smith Wigglesworth – “I can’t understand God by feelings. I can’t understand the Lord Jesus Christ by feelings. I can only understand God the Father and Jesus Christ by what the Word says about them. God is everything the Word says He is. We need to get acquainted with Him through the Word.”
Martin Luther (Preface to the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans) – “O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do…”
Billy Bray - “He has made me glad and no one can make me sad. He makes me shout and no one can make me doubt…”
Dietrich Bonheoffer – “only the believer is obedient and only the obedient believe.”
Jerome – “Ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ”
Saint Augustine – “Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.”
Saint Augustine – “If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.”
Saint Augustine – “Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
Saint Augustine – “He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.”
Scandinavian Saying – “Faith is like a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark.”
Carter Lindberg – “Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. – “Everything we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.”
Martin Luther – “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
Martin Luther – “Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.”
Me - “Faith is a happy peaceful narrow road.”
Norman Vincent Peale – “Frequently remind yourself that God is with you, that He will never fail you, that you can count upon him. Say these words, “God is with me, helping me.”
James E. Faust – “Believing requires action.”
Robert Louis Stevenson – “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
Henry Ward Beecher – “Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”
Blaise Pascal – “In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.”
Blaise Pascal - “Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a gift from God.”
Unknown - “If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.”
Unknown – “Weave in faith and God will find the thread.”
Unknown – “A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.”
Shoemaker, Samuel M. – “Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.”
Smith, Sydney – “It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.”
Stott, John R. – “Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.”
Teller, Edward – “When you get to the end of all the light you know and it’s time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.”
Thackeray, William M. – “Tis not the dying for a faith that’s so hard… ‘Tis the living up to it that’s difficult.”
Tocqueville, Alexis De – “Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?”
Me – “Doubt sees what currently is and no more. Hope sees what can be but is not yet. Faith sees what is and will be.”
Me – “Hope will have it sometime. Faith has it now. Believing acts on it now.”
Unknown – “As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.”
Unknown - “Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.”
Unknown – “Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.”
Unknown – “Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.”
Unknown – “Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.”
Unknown – “We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually it’s just a slow leak.”
Unknown – “Faith is like electricity. You can’t see it, but you can see the light.”
Elton Trueblood - “Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.”
Martin Luther – “Reason is the enemy of faith.”
Martin Luther – “Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.”
Martin Luther – “Peace if possible, truth at all costs.”
Unknown – Don’t believe in miracles, rely on them!
Me - “Hope is Faith in Seed Form – Faith is Hope in Final Form”
C.H. Spurgeon – “If you wish to know God, you must know his Word. If you wish to perceive His power, you must see how He works by his Word. If you wish to know His purpose before it comes to pass, you can only discover it by His Word.”
J. Hudson Taylor – Written to his wife during one difficult time in the work of the China Inland Mission, “We have twenty-five cents – and all the promises of God!”
George Mueller – “To learn strong faith is to endure great trials. I have learned my faith by standing firm amid severe testings.”
George Mueller - “If the Lord fails me at this time, it will be the first time.”
Me – “God operates in love by faith. If we do not understand His love we have no foundation for faith. If we do not understand His requirement of faith it will affect our understanding of His love.”
Me - “The reality of the word of God must first be expressed in the heart before faith can express the reality of God to the world.”
John R. Stott - “Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.”
Me – “Faith makes the power of God available. The word of God makes faith available.”
Jack Coe – “If you have worry, you don’t have faith, and if you have faith, you don’t have worry.”
Dr. T. J. McCrossan – “When unbelief kept Christ from healing the sick on earth, it will surely do so today.”
Rick Renner – “Faith is the spark that ignites the impossible and causes it to become possible. When a person’s faith is activated, it sets in motion supernatural power that enables that person to do what he normally would never be able to do!”
E. W. Kenyon – “There is no sickness problem. There is simply a problem of the believer’s coming to know his inheritance in Christ.”
Edith Edman – “Never doubt in the dark what God has shown you in the light.”
Thomas Fuller - “He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.”
Lillian B. Yeomans – “Just believe what God says that Jesus has done for you, body, soul, and spirit – think about it, talk about it, sing about it, shout about it, and the praise cure has begun.”
Charles F. Parham – “The anointing of the Holy Spirit is given to illuminate His Word, to open the Scriptures, and to place the spiritual man in direct communication with the mind of God.”
Oral Roberts – “Faith is not something you have to get. It’s something that you, as a born-again child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That’s when your healing starts!”
John Osteen – “Believe you receive in the faith realm, and you shall have it in the natural realm.”
Corrie Ten Boom – “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
Kenneth Copeland – “Fear tolerated is faith contaminated.”
Gordon Lindsay – “Never dig up in unbelief what you have sown in faith.”
Martin Luther – “I believe that I cannot by my own reason or strength believe in Jesus Christ, my Lord, or come to Him; but the Holy Ghost has called me by the Gospel, enlightened me with His gifts, sanctified and kept me in the true faith…” The Small Catechism
General Quotes and Pithy Sayings
Kenneth Hagin – “The Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, is God’s “I Will” to every seeker for full salvation of spirit, soul and body.”
Andrew Murray – “Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things ‘above all that we ask or think.”
Oswald Chambers – “The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else.”
Principle and promise are activated by relationship and hearing.
Life without the Holy Spirit is like having a radio without the speaker, or Jesus without his voice.
Faith is the harvest of things hoped for, the reality of things not yet visible.
Don’t just acknowledge the spirit realm, move into it. Pray, in the Spirit, in the Spirit.
It’s not how you watch the game that counts. It’s knowing the score beforehand, and believing it.
Mercy by Grace through Faith. Loyalty by obedience through diligence.
A young ‘first love’ Christian doing all that they know to do usually end up doing all that they need to do. And, they do it naturally.
Repent – Baptize – Obedience. His will becomes your will; You lose yourself to find yourself, and then you go out and be yourself.
You are not fully blessed till you are a blessing. Blessings are specific gifts for a specific purpose.
Don’t lose in the dark what you gained in the light.
God does not call the qualified. He qualifies all whom He calls.
He does not make the task easier. He makes us stronger.
We must untangle the web of whys that lie in our souls.
I get into trouble when my desire to say what I want to say overshadows what God has said or wants to say.
You will not travel in miracle territory till your task exceeds your ability. The water is outside the boat. “As they went, they were healed.”
Walking in love makes the soil of our heart deep. Walking in the Spirit makes the soil of our heart clean.
We are one ‘hearing’ away from victory.
Jesus is our Hope, and the Author and Finisher of our faith.
We must make the Word whole on the inside of us before it can make us whole on the outside.
Prayer is God working through us and from us, to pull out of heaven and into earth his desires, which He placed in us, and made alive and then activated by faith. God and man, working together to get His will from heaven to earth, from the spirit to the physical.
One meaningful prayer is all that is necessary. What do you want; a lot of meaningless words or one meaningful prayer?
It seems like the more we exercise our free will in accordance to God’s stated will, the more He acts sovereignly on our behalf.
“You received without paying; give without charge.”
Martin Luther – “I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.”
Martin Luther – “I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.”
Martin Luther – “I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.”
AW Tozer – “The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.”
AW Tozer -”The Christian is a Holy rebel loose in the world with access to the throne of God. Satan never knows from where the danger will come.”
Francis Scott Key – “Nothing but Christianity will give you the victory. Until a man believes in his heart that Jesus Christ is his Lord and Master…his course through life will be neither safe nor pleasant. My only regret is that I was so long blinded by my pleasures, my vices and pursuits, and the examples of others that I was kept from seeing, admiring, and adoring the marvelous light of the gospel.”
George Mueller – “There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.”
John Wesley – “Be active. Give no place to indolence or sloth. Give no occasion for anyone to say, ‘You are idle.’”
Hudson Taylor – “I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him. I ended up by asking Him to do His work through me.”
A.W. Tozer – “Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness. Always remember this: you cannot carry a cross in company. Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart.”
Peter S. Ruckman – “The most important thing in your Christian life is fellowship with God.”
H. K. Barclay – “When walking through the “valley of shadows,” remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.”
Andrew Murray – “The whole dispensation of the Spirit, the whole economy of grace in Christ Jesus, the whole of our spiritual lives, and the whole of the health, growth, and strength of the church has been laid down, provided for, and secured in the New Covenant.”
Wayne Cordeiro – “Build your character. Learn to forgive, to be diligent, and to be honest. Learn to stay steady and faithful, to keep commitments, to go by what you know and not necessarily by what you feel.”
Charles Stanley – “To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God’s responses.”
Andrew Murray – “Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!”
Billy Joe Daugherty – “When someone gets healed, the Kingdom of God is revealed, for His Kingdom is a Kingdom or wholeness, of well being, and of life.”
T. L. Osborn – “Christians need never be sick, any more than they need to be sinful. It is always God’s desire to heal you.”
Gordon Lindsay – “In becoming part of the Body of Christ, sickness should have no more mastery over us than it had over the Body of Christ when He was on the earth.”
Rod Parsley – “Tradition is the thief of power. There is no area of our lives where that theft is more evident than in the area of divine healing.”
Wayne Cordeiro – “Character is the ability to follow through on a worthy decision long after the emotion of making that decision has passed.”
Gloria Copeland – “There has never been a miracle drug that could equal the Word of God. God’s medicine is the answer to every need.”
Raymond T. Richey – “Endeavor always to remember that you are in the immediate presence of God, and strive to act as you would if you saw the Savior standing by your side.”
Smith Wigglesworth – “The power of God will take you out of your own plans and put you into the plan of God.”
Dr. R.A. Torrey – “Just as one gets the first-fruits of spiritual salvation in the life that now is, so we get the first-fruits of our physical salvation in the life that now is.”
Donald Gee – “Christ within us can accomplish what we can never hope to do in our own strength; and that continuous walking with Him will change the weakest of us into His image.”
T. L. Osborn – “Both sin and sickness came into the world through the fall of the human race. Therefore, we must look for the healing of both in the savior of the human race. God is as willing to heal believers as He is to forgive unbelievers. Know this; if He was merciful enough to forgive you when you were unconverted, He is merciful enough to heal you now that you are in His family!”
Billy Graham – “Heaven is full of answers to prayers for which no one ever bothered to ask.”
Jesse Duplantis – “Keep your foot on the devil’s neck by standing on the Word of God, and you will see tremendous results!”
Joyce Meyer – “Grace is not the freedom to sin; it is the power to live a holy life.”
Andrew Murray – “Shut the world out, withdraw from all worldly thoughts and occupations, and shut yourself in alone with God, to pray to Him in secret. Let this be your chief object in prayer, to realize the presence of your heavenly Father.”
John G. Lake – “When I saw for the first time by the Word of God that sickness was not the Will of God, everything in my nature rose up to defeat the will of the devil.”
C. H. Spurgeon – “The assurance of every truth of Scripture is just the beauty of it. First, because He has promised to do it; and God’s promises are bonds that never yet were dishonored. Secondly, because Christ Jesus hath taken an oath that He will do it.”
Brian Gurney – “Never underestimate Jesus, because He will just prove you wrong.”
George Mueller – “Be assured, if you walk with Him and look to Him, and expect help from Him, He will never fail you.”
C. Nuzum – “The devil is busy trying to take from us what we take from God and so God bids us to hold fast.”
Donald Gee – “Loss of communion is the explanation of most of our failure in spiritual fruit bearing.”
Rod Parsley – “At Calvary, there was a great healing transfer where the responsibility for healing was switched from God giving it, to you receiving it.”
Corrie Ten Boom – “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.”
Dr. T. J. McCrossan – “God is still forgiving sins, and He is still healing diseases, or else He is not the same God He used to be.”
Nancy Dufresne – “When you meditate on God’s Word (to mutter to yourself, to think deeply into, to ponder), it puts you in that verse and it puts that verse in you. The Word becomes real to you; it becomes alive. Meditating on God’s Word helps you to “own” it, and you know that you can’t spend something you don’t own. Many people have learned to confess God’s Word, but sometimes with little results, because they haven’t taken the time to meditate on it first and to make it real to their own hearts.”
P. C. Nelson – “Justification is what God does for us, while sanctification is what God does in us.”
John Wesley - “Sin remains but no longer reigns”
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