Read the following quotes and be open to what God might say to you through them.
Choose the most encouraging quote and then choose the most challenging quote for you at this time.
- In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
- Faith…comes only when the outward fact penetrates to the inner heart of man and takes possession of him there — and this is the work of the Spirit.
- When you are deluded and full of doubt, even a thousand books of scripture are not enough. When you have realized understanding; even one word is too much.
- For those with faith, no explanation is necessary. For those without, no explanation is possible.
- Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations.
- Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
- Seeking to know is only too often learning to doubt.
- Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
- It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My belief is born of a furnace of doubt.
- I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
- It is the dull person who is always sure, and the sure person who is always dull.
- Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Faith is the master, and reason is the maid-servant.
- God isn’t looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him
- Fanaticism is…overcompensation for doubt.
- Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
- Faith is the refusal to panic.
- I am not moved by what I see. I am not moved by what I feel. I am moved only by what I believe.
- Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.
- We are born believing. A person bears beliefs, as an apple tree bears apples.
- We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
- Only he/she who believes is obedient. Only he/she who is obedient, believes.
- It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
- Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.
- Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.
- Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor’s edge.
- Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.