Exceeding Faith Quotes
Chapter 39
#3801 Worrying
is arrogant because God knows what He’s doing. Barbara Camero
#3802 Our
anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its
strengths. Charles H. Spurgeon
#3803 Worrying doesn’t
help the things we worry about. It only makes today worse, makes us fearful in
the now and saps our energy.
#3804 Faith
consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire
#3805 The mind will create
fear and ask you to justify your faith. But faith is based on knowledge and
revelation that comes from the heart (God deposits it into your heart so that
you have understanding).
#3806 My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t
dictate my happiness, my inner peace. Denzel Washington
#3807 What is happening
inside doesn’t matter. What matters is how you respond to those circumstances.
When you are centered on the inside, external circumstances can’t shake you.
#3808 God,
our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential
strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap into and develop these abilities.
#3809 There are many
talented people who haven’t fulfilled their dreams because they over thought
it, or they were too cautious and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.
James Cameron
#3810 Many
people want to be singers, filmmakers, writers etc. But they don’t follow their
hearts because of fear of failure which comes from the mind. If we take the leap
of faith, we will find that the fear was just an illusion.
#3811 Faith is not
believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God
when everything in me trembles and quakes. Beth Moore
#3812 Faith, in the sense
in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your
reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods. C.S. Lewis
#3813 Faith is to believe
what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. Saint
Augustine
#3814 Seeds of faith are
always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their
growth. Susan L. Taylor
#3815 Faith gives you an
inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life. Gregory Peck
#3816 The principle part
of faith is patience. George MacDonald
#3817 I don't think that
we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have
to have faith. Nicholas Sparks
#3818 True faith rests
upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections
of the One who cannot lie. A.W. Tozer
#3819 Faith is taking the
first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King, Jr.
#3820 We walk by faith and
not by sight. All good things come from our Father, including our faith to
believe. Trillia Newbell
#3821 Faith and prayer are
the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them. Mahalia
Jackson
#3822 Faith is about
doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe. Mitch Albom
#3823 Faith is not
contrary to reason. Sherwood Eddy
#3824 In faith there is
enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those
who don't. Blaise Pascal
#3825 You do not need to
know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you
need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present
moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope. Thomas Merton
#3826 Every single thing
He has ever or will ever say is true. The simplicity of faith is this: taking
God’s Word for it. Jackie Hill Perry
#3827 Faith is the
strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. Helen Keller
#3828 Jesus Christ is
indeed the answer to all our questions.
#3829 Faith is a state of
openness or trust. Alan Watts
#3830 Sometimes the worst
conditions can often provide the best atmosphere to act in faith. God doesn't
want our confidence regulated by our audience. If faith-discouragers can shake
our confidence badly enough to disable us, our confidence may be in ourselves
instead of God. Beth Moore
#3831 We can let go of
burdens like condemnation and worry, perfectionism and insecurity. And we can
cling desperately—even through tears—to the assurance that God knows, he cares,
and he loves us with an infinite love. We can lay our burdens at the feet of Christ
and receive what He offers instead. Sarah J. Hauser
#3832 Never be afraid to
trust an unknown future to a known God.
Corrie ten Boom
#3833 Any faith that must
be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith. A.W. Tozer
#3834 Be faithful in small
things because it is in them that your strength lies. Mother Teresa
#3835 To love means loving
the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means
believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G.K. Chesterton
#3836 All I have seen
teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3837 To have faith in
Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense
in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus, if you
have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to
obey Him. C.S. Lewis
#3838 It is a blessing for
our children to see us live out our faith—trusting in God’s good character and
provision—even when we don’t have all the answers. Marissa Bondurant
#3839 Faith is the belief
that God will do what you desire if you believe and call it into existence. It
is also the belief that God will do what is right. Max Lucado
#3840 Of all the things
the serpent could come for, it is our faith he attacks most. Jackie Hill Perry
#3841 Every tomorrow has
two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the
handle of faith. Henry Ward Beecher
#3842 The answer to our
fears is faith—real, fear-shrinking faith—in the God who loves us and gave
himself for us. Jani Ortlund
#3843 Every experience God
gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the
future that only He can see. Corrie ten Boom
#3844 If patience is worth
anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in
the midst of the blackest storm. Mahatma Gandhi
#3845 I am fundamentally
an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say.
Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's
feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was
sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That
way lays defeat and death. Nelson Mandela
#3846 To one who has
faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is
possible. Thomas Aquinas
#3847 We’re often
intimidated in battle because we are uncertain of our faith. We must remember
we don’t stand in victory because of our faith. We stand in victory because of
our God. Faith in a living, active God moves mountains. Beth Moore
#3848 The new life into
which we are baptized is lived out in days, hours, and minutes. God is forming
us into a new people. And the place of that formation is in the small moments
of today. Tish Harrison Warren
#3849 Just as love is a
verb, so is faith. Nannie Helen Burroughs
#3850 Faith
sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
Corrie Ten Boom
#3851 Faith is to believe
what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. Saint
Augustine
#3852 There are two
primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can move you to
destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate
you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself
into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever. Norman Vincent
Peale
#3853 Faith never knows
where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading. Oswald
Chambers
#3854 Don't downgrade your
dream to match your reality. Upgrade your faith to match your destiny. DeVon
Franklin
#3855 Faith moves
mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. Mason Cooley
#3856 Remember that the
smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.
Henry David Thoreau
#3857 Faith isn't the
ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It's simply taking God
at His Word and taking the next step. Joni Eareckson Tada
#3858 God answers our
prayers not because we are good, but because He is good. Aiden Wilson Tozer
#3859 Love means to commit
oneself wholeheartedly, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love
will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is
of great faith is also of great love. Erich Fromm
#3860 The beginning of
anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of
anxiety. George Muller
#3861 When you come to the
end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the
unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will
be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly. Edward Teller
#3862 If we do not fill
our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations,
resentments, and unwelcome memories. Scott Hahn
#3863 Faith is not an easy
virtue; but, in the broad world of a person's total voyage through time to
eternity, faith is not only a gracious companion, but an essential guide.
Theodore Hesburgh
#3864 The thing always
happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#3865 Faith is deliberate
confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the
time. Oswald Chambers
#3866 Faith will bring
your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul. Charles
Spurgeon
#3867 Reason is the enemy
of faith. Martin Luther
#3868 My faith helps me
understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness or my inner peace.
Denzel Washington
#3869 Faith consists in believing
what reason cannot. Voltaire
#3870 None of us knows
what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we
trust. Because we have Faith. Paulo Coelho
#3871 In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe.
#3872 Faith is the most
powerful of all forces operating in humanity and when you have it in depth
nothing can get you down. Norman Vincent Peale
#3873 The voice you
believe will determine the future you experience. Steven Furtick
#3874 Oh, how great peace
and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place
all his confidence in God. ~ Thomas a Kempis
#3875 Faith supplies
staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra
ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is
against you. Norman Vincent Peale
#3876 When God forgave me,
I figured I'd better do it too. Johnny Cash
#3877 Faith is different
from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. Blaise Pascal
#3878 God is more
concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my
comfort zones. God is more interested in inward qualities than outward
circumstances … things like refining my faith, humbling my heart, cleaning up
my thought life and strengthening my character. Joni Eareckson Tada
#3879 Faith is obedience,
not compliance. George MacDonald
#3880 Optimism is the
faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and
confidence. Helen Keller
#3881 Faith is a leap into
the light, not a step into the darkness. Reinhard Bonnke
#3882 To love means loving
the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means
believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#3883 Keep your dreams
alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself,
vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are
possible for those who believe. Gail Devers
#3884 All I have seen
teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3885 Nine requisites for
contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to
support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them.
Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil
until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your
neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith
enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears
concerning the future. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#3886 Faith is a higher
faculty than reason. H. C. Bailey
#3887 Faith makes all
things possible ... love makes all things easy. Dwight L. Moody
#3888 Never be afraid to
trust an unknown future to a known God.
Corrie Ten Boom
#3889 Faith goes up the
stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.
Charles Spurgeon
#3890 God is looking for
those with whom He can do the impossible … what a pity that we plan only the
things that we can do by ourselves. Aiden Wilson Tozer
#3891 Faith is not belief
without proof, but trust without reservation. D. Elton Trueblood
#3892 No matter what
you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you
out. Joyce Meyer
#3893 The way to see by
Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. Benjamin Franklin
#3894 Faith is the force
of life. Leo Tolstoy
#3895 Faith is not
believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. Ben Stein
#3896 Faith is the first
factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it,
nothing is impossible. Mary McLeod Bethune
#3897 You don't have to
see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Martin Luther King, Jr.
#3898 Faith is not
something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. Mahatma Gandhi
#3899 Faith is not so much
something we believe; faith is something we live. Joseph B. Wirthlin
#3900 Faith is believing
that the outcome will be good. Colette Baron-Reid
