FAITH
He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them. AM330
Brethren, I believe in that which I could not have invented. I believe that which
I cannot understand. I believe that which compels me to adore, and I thank God for
a rock that is higher than I am. AM334
Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its
possession. AP52
Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience. BA88
Faith laughs at that which fear weeps over. BA88
The grandeur of the arch of heaven would be spoiled if the sky were supported by a
single visible column, and your faith would lose its glory if it rested on anything
discernible by the carnal eye. ME488
Faith trades in marvels, and her merchandise is with wonders. SW154
We are not to look to what we have. The witness of the senses only confuses those
who would walk by faith. WCo52
Now, I hold no man’s faith to be sure faith unless he knows what he believes. 107.2
In matters relating to the body, we feel first and then believe; my hand smarts, and
therefore I believe it has been wounded. But in things relating to the soul, you
believe first and feel afterwards. 492.67
We do not walk by sight and faith, but “we walk by faith not by sight.” To let us
occasionally see would, in fact, remove us out of the realm of faith, and bring us down
from the high position of believers to the low platform of sight-seers. 1254.518
Faith is both God’s gift and man’s act. The Lord is the author of our faith, but we
ourselves believe. 1367.434
Faith receives more stabs from waverers than from avowed sceptics. 1641.54
A child needs the cup to drink out of, but it cannot drink out of an empty cup. Faith
is the cup, but Christ is the fountain. Faith is a secondary thing compared with
Christ. 1744.560
Fret and worry, hurry and haste, are all slain by the hand of faith. 1756.703
A faith which works not for purification will work for putrefaction. Unless our faith
makes us pine after holiness, and pant after conformity to God, it is no better than
the faith of devils, and perhaps it is not even so good as that. 1790.388
Untried faith is questionable faith. Is it faith at all? 1874.664
Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest. 1981.496
Faith is the linen which binds the plaster of Christ’s reconciliation to the sore of our
sin. 2000.714
Faith is the assurance of sonship, the pledge of inheritance, the grasp of boundless
possession, the perception of the invisible. Within thy faith there lies glory, even as
the oak sleeps within the acorn. 2055.649
Remember the impossibility of pleasing the Lord without faith, and do not dash your
ship upon this iron-bound coast. 2100.450
My Lord gives me unlimited credit at the Bank of Faith. 2129.95
We need faith for ploughing, for buying, for selling, for working, quite as much as for
praying, and singing, and preaching. 2147.303
Only that is true faith which believes everything that is revealed by the Holy Spirit,
whether it be joyous or distressing. 2147.303
We would be humble, and learn to believe what we cannot altogether comprehend,
and to expect what we should never have looked for, had not the Lord declared it. It
is our ambition to be great believers, rather than great thinkers; to be child-like in
faith, rather than subtle in intellect. 2147.304
Faith is the soul’s eye by which it sees the Lord. Faith is the soul’s ear by which we
hear what God the Lord will speak. Faith is the spiritual hand which touches and
grasps the things not seen as yet. Faith is the spiritual nostril which perceives the
precious perfume of our Lord’s garments, which smell of myrrh, and aloes, and
cassia. Faith also is the soul’s taste by which we perceive the sweetness of our Lord,
and enjoy it for ourselves. 2168.558
Faith is sanctified common-sense. 2297.98
Faith is, in one sense, the gift of God; but, in another sense, it is a mental act for
which we are responsible. God gives us faith, but he does not believe for us. 3008.490
Faith is a principle which hath its root deeper than feelings. We believe, whether we
see or not. We believe, whether we feel or not. 3370.423
It takes much more faith to be an unbeliever than to be a believer. 3512.237