All Quotes By Tag: Faith

“The testimony of God is true.”

“The pious heart therefore perceives a division in itself, being partly affected with delight through a knowledge of the divine goodness, partly distressed with sorrow through a sense of its own calamity; partly relying on the promise of the gospel, partly trembling at the evidence of its own iniquity; partly exulting in the knowledge of life, partly alarmed by the fear of death. This variation happens through the imperfection of faith; since we are never so happy during the present life as to be cured of all diffidence, and entirely filled and possessed by faith. Hence those conflicts, in which the diffidence which adheres to the relics of the flesh rises up in opposition to the faith formed in the heart. But if in the mind of the believer assurance be mixed with doubts, do we not always come to this point, that faith consists not in a certain and clear, but only in an obscure and perplexed knowledge of the divine will respecting us? Not at all. For if we are distracted by various thoughts, we are not therefore entirely divested of faith; neither, though harassed by the agitations of diffidence, are we therefore immerged in its abyss; nor if we be shaken, are we therefore overthrown. For the invariable issue of this contest is, that faith at length surmounts those difficulties from which, while it is encompassed with them, it appears to be in danger.”

“«Si las mujeres de nuestra generación, en vez de dedicar un tiempo precioso a bailes y a espectáculos, a modas que cambian incesantemente, a pláticas vanas y sin fruto, hubieran empleado su talento y su corazón en formar la fe en el alma de sus hijos, teniéndolos sobre sus rodilla, no veríamos en nuestro país tantos extraviados, tantos impíos, cuyo número y osadía van en continuo aumento».”

“Be still, and know that I will always love you.”

“Sometimes, in your battle with unbelief, your greatest ally will wrestle you—he might even make you limp—until you’re desperate enough to say, ‘I will not let you go unless you bless me.’ It is a great mercy to be brought to the point where you’re desperate enough to insist on what you need the most.”

“We are faith. We speak all languages of beauty and hardship.”

“It is not sin as we see it that was laid on Christ but sin as God sees it, not sin as our conscience feebly reveals it to us but sin as God beholds it in all its unmitigated malignity and unconcealed loathsomeness. Sin, in its exceeding sinfulness, Jesus has put away. But when we perceive sin, then we are to trust the blood.”

“a good man does what is right and not what is convenient, he doesn’t take a quick shortcut but takes the road that will build his character and at the end leads him to success”

“I can chart my own path.  However, I’ve yet to figure out why so many of my paths always seem to lead to the edge of some really big cliffs. Maybe I should consider charting a path out of charting my path.”

“Pray for miracles, but plant cabbages.”

“The greatest Jihad is to battle your own soul, to fight the evil within yourself.”

“It never too late to repent.”

“Religion: total submission to God as it pleases Him and not as we think it would please Him”

“Courage is simply fear that trusts in God”

“What is the Truth? Thy holy word, O God is the Truth!”