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Thursday, 21 August 2008
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"Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them." (Davies, Robertson - Genius)

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'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.
A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.
A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
According to your faith; be it done unto you.
All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
All things are possible to him who believes. [Mark 9:23]
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. [Hebrews 11:6]
As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.
As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.
As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.
At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.
Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. [Peter 3:15]
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shall find it after many days.
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?
Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.
Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.
Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.
Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.
Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
Faith is a continuation of reason.
Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
Faith is not contrary to reason
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.
Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.
Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.
Faith is the heroism of the intellect.
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Faith is the refusal to panic.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]
Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.
Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.
Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.
Faith lives in honest doubt.
Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.
Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.
Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20]
For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than