I can always pray to God with confidence because my righteous state is a gift given through grace in faith on the cross by Jesus!
You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't.
The remnant of the human species must understand that faith was the narcotic that fueled the insanity of religion. Conclusion: Invisible love is wasted. Invisible evidence is worthless. Invisible God is non-existent.
Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days, I think. What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after failure ?
His plan in your life means his work in your hands, and you can be sure it is work he has chosen and gifted you to do.
Faith is only a word if there is no love at its center, so flaccid and lifeless, vague and hollow - not anything you could truly feel.
My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.
He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.
When did you grow a back bone?" Cassius stopped pacing and actually smiled a little. Kendall wasn't appeased "I borrowed Jory's
Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.
My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.
[Jesus is] saying that we could be aware of, filled with, and saved by the presence of holy beauty, rather than worship golden calves.
It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.
You will be surprised how much punishment the human body can take, if there is enough will - or faith.
God is not preparing you for anything; obedience is its own end in the purpose of God; be faithful to Him.
Knowing nature is part of knowing God. Faith directs us to the invisible God, but leads us back from God to the entire visible world.
Jesus has prayed over us that our faith in Him will not fail but rather be strengthened by the process we go through.
If you can admit that you haven't yet understood everything, faith can fill the emptiness in heart to confront the hesitation.
I didn’t know if I should put my faith in God or Satan. Was there really a difference at the end of the day, when we were all going to be dead souls anyway?
Are we safe from human exposure? I don't want the owners to find a busted-up angel and a buzzed vampire lurking in their shed and freak out.
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.