It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of faith in the very Word of God. Feeling follows faith, and faith follows fact, and the facts are contained in the Word of God.
– J. Edwin Orr –
from Full Surrender
Faith
Will you trust God in this? – Elisabeth Elliot
In every experience of life, the Lord is standing at the door and knocking and saying “Will you trust Me in this?”
– Elisabeth Elliot –
Quickening Faith – AC Dixon
We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.
– AC Dixon –
Seeing Faith – Dennis Anderson
You cannot see faith, but you can see the footprints of the faithful. We must leave behind “faithful footprints” for others to follow.
– Dennis Anderson –
Unbelief – John Flavel
There are two things that unbelief stumbles at in God: His power and His willingness to help.
– John Flavel –
from The Mystery of Providence, 1678
The fruit of God’s love – John Owen
Faith, love, trust, joy and obedience are the saints’ responses to the Father’s loving acts shown to them.
– John Owen –
Believe, don’t fear – Lottie Moon
Only believe, don’t fear. Our Master, Jesus, always watches over us, and no matter what the persecution, Jesus will surely overcome it.
– Lottie Moon –
The ordinary people of the Bible – Brother Andrew
The Bible is full of ordinary people who went to impossible places and did wondrous things simply because they decided to obey God.
– Brother Andrew –
Faith destroyed by suffering – Richard Wurmbrand
A faith that can be destroyed by suffering is not faith.
– Richard Wurmbrand –