Exceeding Faith Quotes
Chapter 40
#3901 When your will is
God's will, you will receive the desires of your heart. Charles Spurgeon
#3902 Faith must trample
under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. Martin Luther
#3903 Have faith in God;
God has faith in you. Edwin Louis Cole
#3904 Without faith a man
can do nothing; with it all things are possible. William Osler
#3905 God doesn’t take
things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He
takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly. Pat
Summitt
#3906 My hope lives not
because I am perfect, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust
is that HE is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am or shall be
or feel or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is
now doing for me. Hallelujah! Charles Spurgeon
#3907 A man of courage is
also full of faith. Marcus Tullius Cicero
#3908 Faith is having a
positive attitude about what you can do and not worrying at all about what you
can't do. Joyce Meyer
#3909 Faith is a living,
daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would
stake his life on it a thousand times. Martin Luther
#3910 Love is an act of
faith. Erich Fromm
#3911 There is no such
thing as a lack of faith. We all have been given the measure of faith. It's
just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be
done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance
but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law. Eric Butterworth
#3912 When you release
your faith in uncommon ways, you’ll see God do uncommon things. Joel Osteen
#3913 The life of faith is
a life of mounting up with wings like the eagles, but also a life of walking
and not fainting. Oswald Chambers
#3914 Living a life of
faith sometimes, but not always, means never knowing where you are being led.
Oswald Chambers
#3915 Stop waiting for
others to tell you what you can do. Start putting faith into your own strengths
and talents. Instead of questioning whether you can reach your goals, move
forward with conviction and confidence. Jane Powell
#3916 Real true faith is
man's weakness leaning on God's strength. Dwight L. Moody
#3917 Believe the
incredible and you can do the impossible. Fulton J. Sheen
#3918 If we empty our
hearts of self, God will fill them with His love. Charles Spurgeon
#3919 Prayer is not trying
to twist God’s arm to make Him do something. Prayer is receiving by faith what
He has already done! Andrew Wommack
#3920 Can you imagine a
life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to
threats? Max Lucado
#3921 Gratitude, like
faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows. Alan Cohen
#3922 God is even kinder
than you think. Teresa of Avila
#3923 Faith is a knowledge
within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. Khalil Gibran
#3924 Faith is a function
of the heart.
#3925 Faith is believing
in things when common sense tells you not to. George Seaton
#3926 Faith is belief in
what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is sometimes walking face-first
and full-speed into the dark. Elizabeth Gilbert
#3927 Faith is a kind of
knowing; it is different from hope. My faith is that life is purposeful; of
that I'm sure. There is a God, there is intelligence, there is consciousness.
And behind all of this, there is incredible compassion. John Denver
#3928 Faith is the ability
to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into
reality, positive reality. Jim Rohn
#3929 God not only sees
where you are, He sees where you can be. Joyce Meyer
#3930 Faith involves using
your imagination to paint pictures on the inside of whatever you are believing
for. Henry Ward Beecher
#3931 If you desire faith,
then all you have to do is pray that God would increase your faith. We all have
been given a measure of faith, and you can develop more faith the more you
exercise your faith muscle.
#3932 No matter how long
it's been, no matter how impossible it looks, if you'll stay in faith, your
time is coming. Joel Osteen
#3933 The whole being of
any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings
the person to minister to other people. Martin Luther
#3934 One of the ways to learn
strong faith is to endure great trials and come out victorious. George Muller
#3935 My faith runs so
very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say,
'God is, was and ever shall be'. Mahatma Gandhi
#3936 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
#3937 Vision looks upward
and becomes faith. Stephen Samuel Wise
#3938 Some things have to
be believed before they are seen. Ralph Hodgson
#3939 Faith, mighty faith,
the promise sees, and looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries
it shall be done. Charles Wesley
#3940 Our prayers are
heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are
when we are not praying. Joyce Meyer
#3941 For what is faith
unless it is to believe what you do not see? Saint Augustine
#3942 Understanding
sometimes is not enough to explain something. Only faith is sufficient. Robert
Ley
#3943 The "door of
faith" (Acts 14:27) is always open for us, ushering us into the life of
communion with God and offering entry into his Church. It is possible to cross
that threshold when the Word of God is proclaimed and the heart allows itself
to be shaped by transforming grace. To enter through that door is to set out on
a journey that lasts a lifetime. Pope Benedict XVI
#3944 The faith which you
keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by
obeying it. Phillips Brooks
#3945 All He asks is that
we trust Him, that we stand before Him in integrity and faith. God is just
waiting for us to trust Him. Charles R. Swindoll
#3946 When you have a
spirit of excellence, you do the right thing not because somebody is watching
or making you do it; you do it because it's the right thing to do. Joel Osteen
#3947 When things are
difficult, smile by faith. Don't wait until you feel better. Joel Osteen
#3948 Works without faith
are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A
building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good
action is as a stone laid. Owen Feltham
#3949 A faith is a
necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. Victor Hugo
#3950 I do not believe in
a God who would set up rules and commandments only to wait for us to fail so He
could punish us. I believe in a Heavenly Father who is loving and caring and
who rejoices in our every effort to stand tall and walk toward Him. Even when
we stumble, He urges us not to be discouraged-never to give up or flee our
allotted field of service-but to take courage, find our faith, and keep trying.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#3951 Words are the most
powerful thing in the universe ... words are containers. They contain faith, or
fear, and they produce after their kind. Charles Capps
#3952 Talk unbelief, and
you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to
the seed sown will be the harvest. Ellen G. White
#3953 Patience is tied
very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly
impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best—better than does God.
Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His. We can
grow in faith only if we are willing to wait patiently for God's purposes and
patterns to unfold in our lives, on His timetable. Neal A. Maxwell
#3954 I have no right to
say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye. Oswald
Chambers
#3955 Faith is like
electricity. You can't see it, but you can see its light shining on you. Antoni
Zygmund
#3956 The purpose of
prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every
condition. Oswald Chambers
#3957 A man with a grain
of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate
triumph of Truth. Mahatma Gandhi
#3958 “Let God be true but
every man a liar" is the language of true faith. Aiden Wilson Tozer
#3959 Have you forgotten
God? Even if you have, He has not forgotten you.
#3960 Give Him your mess
and let it become your message. Joyce Meyer
#3961 If weak in prayer we
are weak everywhere. Leonard Ravenhill
#3962 You just have to
have a simple faith. Jimmy Carter
#3963 At this very moment,
God’s working behind the scenes in your life, arranging things in your favor.
Stay in faith! Joel Osteen
#3964 We don’t need
self-confidence we need God-confidence. Joyce Meyer
#3965 Each time, before
you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He
can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think
of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things! Andrew Murray
#3966 Sometimes you have
to smile by faith. If you'll smile by faith, soon the joy will follow. Joel
Osteen
#3967 Your faithfulness
makes you trustworthy to God. Edwin Louis Cole
#3968 A man of faith does
not bargain or stipulate with God. Mahatma Gandhi
#3969 Your belief
determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you
have to believe. Mark Victor Hansen
#3970 Faith, in order to
be genuine and of any real value, must be the offspring of that divine love
which Jesus manifested when He prayed for His enemies on the cross. Hosea
Ballou
#3971 Faith is about
doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe. Mitch Albom
#3972 To me faith means
not worrying. John Dewey
#3973 If you think you can
win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. William Hazlitt
#3974 Frequently remind
yourself that God is with you, that He will never fail you, that you can count
upon him. Say these words, "God is with me, helping me." Norman
Vincent Peale
#3975 Only he who believes
is obedient and only he who is obedient believes. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#3976 If fear is
cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve
mastery. John Paul Jones
#3977 We're all capable if
we have faith and passion.
#3978 We are a long time
in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God. David Brainerd
#3979 Ye children of
promise who are awaiting your call to glory, take possession of the inheritance
that now is yours. By faith take the promises. Live upon them, not upon
emotions. Remember, feeling is not faith. Faith grasps and clings to the
promises. Faith says, "I am certain, not because feeling testifies to it,
but because God says it." Bernard de Mandeville
#3980 Faith means being
sure of what we hope for now. It means knowing something is real, this moment,
all around you, even when you don't see it. Joni Eareckson Tada
#3981 Faith is caught
rather than taught. Henrietta Mears
#3982 True faith always
produces real conformity to Christ. R. C. Sproul
#3983 Heaven is a
wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world! Billy
Graham
#3984 God will never give
you anything you can't handle, so don't stress. Kelly Clarkson
#3985 Failure is a great
teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you
treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to
share. Steve Harvey
#3986 God is with me,
helping me. Norman Vincent Peale
#3987 When you look ahead
and darkness is all you see, faith and determination will pull you through.
Drake
#3988 You must determine that regardless of what happens in
your life, you will live by the Word.
#3989 Faith
is not a movement. Faith is not how God operates and lives it’s how He wants
you to live.
#3990 Once
you truly see that the very Spirit and power of Jesus resides on the inside of
you, nothing – no amount of debt, no disease, no problem of any kind – will be
able to defeat you.
#3991 Fully
arm yourself with the Word of God. Be prepared to win and you will.
#3992 Dream
big, talk big, and turn your faith loose!
#3993 Fear
tolerated is faith contaminated.
#3994 The
Word tells us that God meets our needs according to His riches in glory by
Christ Jesus. Begin to talk and act as though it is true!
#3995 God
will dare to do the impossible in your life if you dare to step across the
faith line.
#3996 Don’t
let fear or past disappointments hold you back.
#3997 When
you get free on the inside, nobody can keep you in bondage on the outside.
#3998 When
you decide to walk by faith, you don’t get rid of trials. You learn to overcome
them.
#3999 Never
base your faith on your feelings. Base it on God’s Word.
#4000 The
seeds you are harvesting today were planted by the words of your mouth
yesterday.
#4001 You
can foul up the devil’s whole strategy by taking charge of your thoughts and
bringing them in line with the Word of God.
#4002 Don’t
fool yourself by thinking you can talk ugly about somebody and then act
lovingly toward them. You can’t. Your actions are going to fall right in line
with your words. That’s a biblical principle.
#4003 Words
are what created our world. Words are what keep it going.
#4004
Believe it in your heart, say it with your mouth and do it!
#4005
Whatever you’re believing for, don’t go into battle without being well armed
with the Word.
#4006
Charity is God’s unselfish love – ready to give and to distribute.
#4007 If you
stand up for God, he will stand up for you.
#4008 He’s
put us on the throne with Christ Jesus and given us authority to reign with
Him. That’s the whole reason Jesus come to the earth.
#4009 God
wants you to have more than enough; to pay your bills, to live debt free, and
to bless others. George Pearsons
#4010 We no
longer speak the language of this world. We speak the language of faith! George
Pearsons
#4011 Have a
zero tolerance level where any fear is concerned. But it takes spiritual
development. George Pearsons
#4012 You
may not feel able in yourself, but the greater one lives in you. Gloria
Copeland
#4013 You
have to get single-minded about whatever it is that the devil is trying to
steal from you. George Pearsons
#4014 Say
this: “My faith is getting strong and is getting stronger every day.” George
Pearsons
#4015 Immerse
yourself in the healing Word of God. George Pearsons
#4016 The Holy Spirit specifically said that those who: Stay
in faith … Stay in peace … Stay in love … Stay in fellowship … Keep sowing seed
for the sake of eternity … Will experience a supernatural power that will cause
them to be Unmoved … Unshaken … Well provided for … And they will have a
much-needed: Divine assurance … Divine peace … Divine power … Divine and supernatural victory.
Greek Theologian Rick Renner
#4017 One
of the purposes of prophecy is to wage a good warfare using the sure words of
God that you receive from Him. Paul told Timothy, “This charge I commit unto
thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that
thou by them mightest war a good warfare” (1 Timothy 1:18). So as Paul told
Timothy, we need to pay attention to what the Holy Spirit has prophetically
spoken to us and wage a good warfare with it. Greek Theologian Rick Renner
#4018 I
want to expound from Scripture about what it means to stay in faith … stay
in peace … stay in love … stay in fellowship … and keep sowing seed for
the sake of eternity. But today we will begin with what it means
to stay in faith. The King James Version of Hebrews 11:1 says,
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not
seen.” Greek Theologian Rick Renner
#4019 First,
the word “faith” in Hebrews 11:1 is translated from the Greek word pistis,
a well-known word that comes from a root that means to persuade, to
trust, or to believe. It also pictures a “divine
spark” given by God that enables you to believe. In ancient times, the
word pistis referred to a guarantee or warranty of
something that was sure. Greek Theologian Rick Renner
#4020 Importantly,
the Greek word pistis also depicts something moving forward,
like a force that is propelled forward and is moving toward a
goal. Faith is like a bullet shot from a gun — once it has been released,
it moves forward and never stops until it reaches its goal. To be clear, that
means real faith is never in retreat. So if you are in retreat, you are not
moving in faith! Greek Theologian Rick Renner
#4021 Second,
let’s look at the word “substance” in Hebrews 11:1 — a word that is derived
from the Greek word hupostasis, a compound
of hupo and histimi. The word hupo means by, and
the word histimi means to stand. Literally, it means to
stand by something. It refers to the attitude and actions of one who has
determined to stand by something promised and refuses to budge from it. It
pictures a fixed decision that one has made to be unmoving and to stay or
stand by the promise that he is believing will come to pass. Greek Theologian
Rick Renner
#4022 You
might say the meaning of the word “substance” is a lot like a bulldog that has
found the bone of its dreams and has locked its jaws around it, refusing to let
go. It doesn’t matter how hard anyone pulls on the bone or tries to retrieve
it, that dog is not going to let it loose. In the same way, when you’re in
faith, you relentlessly stand by what God has said in His Word, and like a
bulldog clutching its bone, you continue to tenaciously hold on to His promises
until they become a reality in your life. Greek Theologian Rick Renner
#4023 As an
example, let’s say you have been standing by God’s promises for
healing and have chosen you’ll never let go until your healing is manifested.
Or let’s say you’ve been standing by God’s promise for financial
provision or the restoration of your relationships. And just like a bulldog who
refused to let go of his bone, you are holding on to and standing
by God’s promise! In other words, you have decided that you will NEVER let
go of that promise until it is manifested in your life! THAT, my friend, is an
example of what the word “substance” means in Hebrews 11:1. Greek Theologian
Rick Renner
#4024 Third,
let’s look at the words “hoped for” in Hebrews 11:1. These words are translated
from a form of the Greek word elpidzo, which DOES NOT picture a “hope-so”
kind of hope, but rather pictures a confident expectation of
something. In other words, it does not mean, “I hope this will
happen,” but, instead, it means, “I confidently expect this to
happen!” Although it has not happened yet, there is an active expectation
that it will take place. The tense of the word elpidzo here
is continuous. Hence, it is something continuously being hoped for,
even if the manifestation has not come yet. Greek Theologian Rick Renner
#4025 Fourth,
let’s look at the word “evidence,” which is translated from a form of the Greek
word elegchos, a term regularly used in a court of law. When used in a
positive sense, it means to convince someone of something. Thus, when you
are in faith, you have a very strong conviction that what God has promised is
undoubtedly going to happen. Greek Theologian Rick Renner
#4026 If
you consider all four of these Greek words in Hebrews 11:1, it tells us that: FAITH
is a “divine spark” from God to believe. FAITH is a force that propels us
forward toward a goal and it is never in retreat. FAITH stands by and never
lets go of what it is believing God for. FAITH is a strong conviction that what
God has promised is going to happen. Greek Theologian Rick Renner
#4027 If you put all this together, it means
Hebrews 11:1 carries this idea: “Faith belligerently stands by what it is
believing for; it continuously confidently expects it to come to pass; and it
is convinced what it is believing will happen!” Then Hebrews 11:6 goes on to
say, “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to
God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently
seek him.” Greek Theologian Rick Renner
#4028 Most
people think the words “without faith” describe an absence of faith, but the
word “without” is translated from the Greek word choris, and it
means without, as being outside of a specific place. For example, you can
be inside your house or outside your house, or you can be in the city or out of
the city — but you can’t be in both places at the same time. This
word choris — translated here as “without” — describes faith as
a location that you can be in or out of. That means faith is a place,
and you can be in faith or out of faith. Greek Theologian
Rick Renner
#4029 So
what does it mean for you to be in faith or to “stay in a place of
faith?” It means to continuously stand by and stay with the calling
or promise that God made to you. That calling or promise is your assignment —
it is the location where you need to be. You can
stay in it, or you can move out of it, but to “stay in
faith” means you have made the decision to be unmoving and that you will not
budge from the calling or promise God made. It means you are going to
belligerently stand by it until you see its manifestation! Greek Theologian
Rick Renner
#4030 To be
“without faith” means to be outside of faith — to move out of or to
leave your assignment or promise — and Hebrews 11:6 says when one abandons the
assignment or promise of God, it is impossible for him or her to please Him in
that place. Greek Theologian Rick Renner
#4031 To
stay in faith means to stick with the assignment, calling, or promise God gave
you — it is your place of faith! If you want to bring pleasure to God, you
have to stay in that place. That means you have to stay in alignment
with what God has called you to do or stick with what He has promised
you. You must be determined to stay there until you have received or fulfilled
what God has said. And Hebrews 11:6 says that when you stay in faith in this
way, you please God! Greek Theologian Rick Renner
#4032 But then Hebrews 11:6 goes on to say that God is a “rewarder” of them
that diligently seek Him. The word “rewarder” is the Greek
word misthapodotes, a word that describes money, salary, or a payment
that is due. Greek
Theologian Rick Renner
#4033 It can also
describe a recompense, reimbursement, settlement, or reparation. It
depicts being reimbursed for an expense a person has paid out of his own
pocket in order to get his job done; a full and complete recompense. In
this verse, it denotes the one who pays, rewards, or gives what one has
coming to him or a paymaster. Greek Theologian Rick Renner
#4034 This
lets us know that when you get into agreement with the promise God has given
you, and you choose to “stay in faith” — which includes staying in the place He
has assigned you to be or sticking with the promise God made to you — a moment
will finally come when God, the Great Paymaster, will richly reward you with
His rewards. And He will fully recompense and richly reimburse you for
everything you have invested along the way — as you stayed in your place of faith!
Greek Theologian Rick Renner
#4035 Wow! The
full message of Hebrews 11:1 and 6 is the following: You must believe
what God has said…You must stand by it, stick with it, and never budge from
it…You must know that a payday is coming when God will reward you for staying
in faith! Greek
Theologian Rick Renner
#4036 What is the
assignment or calling that God has given you? What is the promise of God’s Word
that you have been standing on? If you will “stay in faith” and refuse to move
away from what God has told you or promised you, His power and promise will be
released! Greek
Theologian Rick Renner
#4037 In spite of anything
going on around you, this will cause you to be unmoved, unshaken,
and well provided for. And this kind of bulldogged faith will
produce divine assurance, divine peace, divine power,
and divine and supernatural victory! Greek Theologian Rick Renner
#4038 When you begin to step out on faith, your
critics have to justify why they are still sitting in the boat! Paula
White-Cain
#4039 Faith causes a calm confidence that God is
going to work it all out. Paul White-Cain
#4040 Faith expects God to do it. Hope anticipates
when God will do it! Paula White-Cain
#4041 When you can’t trace His hand, you can
always trust His heart! Paul White-Cain
