Quotes on Faith

In my heart was peace, but I did not know how to exercise faith as I should.

In the beginning of the faith-life, faith is struggling; but as long as faith is struggling, faith has not attained its strength.

The part of faith is always to lay hold on just that which appears impossible or strange to human eyes.

The only means by which this unseen enemy can be conquered is faith.

Faith in Jesus is the secret of a holy life: all holy conduct, all really holy deeds, are the fruit of faith in Jesus as our holiness.

It is the New Life that is the holy life: the full apprehension of it in faith, the full surrender to it in conduct, will be the highway of holiness.

Faith seeks the glory that comes from God, and it only comes where God is all.

Christ longs to reveal Himself, but He cannot on account of our unbelief.

Every believer has the right and calling, to stand in direct communication with God.

Blessed the man who is not staggered by God’s delay, or silence, or apparent refusal, but is strong in faith, giving glory to God.

It was by obedience Christ as Vine honored the Father as Husbandman; it is by obedience the believer as branch honors Christ as Vine.

The one thing by which man can honour and enjoy his God is faith.

In one aspect there must be faith before there can be prayer; in another the faith is the outcome and the growth of prayer.

Faith in the promise is the fruit of faith in the promiser: the prayer of faith is rooted in the life of faith.

A heart full of God has power for the prayer of faith.

Faith can only live by feeding on what is Divine, on God Himself.

Faith is obedience at home and looking to the Master: obedience is faith going out to do His will.

In these two you have those three graces exemplified: faith believes, hope and love pray.

The fact that we do not see either what we believe or what we hope for, is all that is common to faith and hope.

No one, of course, is to be condemned as a liar who says what is false, believing it to be true, because such an one does not consciously deceive, but rather is himself deceived.

For when there is a question as to whether a man is good, one does not ask what he believes, or what he hopes, but what he loves.

Now we love even our neighbor by faith; for we who are ourselves mortal know not the hearts of mortal men.

We love God now by faith, then we shall love Him through sight.

The righteousness of faith is not the moral excellence of faith, but the righteousness of Jesus Christ which faith grasps and appropriates.

The Lord's salvation can come to us though we have only faith as a grain of mustard seed.

Faith which refuses to obey the commands of the Saviour is a mere pretence, and will never save the soul.

Faith is as much the gift of God as is the Saviour upon whom that faith relies.

Christ and the believing sinner are in the same boat: unless Jesus sinks, the believer will never drown.

Faith saves us because it makes us cling to Christ Jesus, and he is one with God, and thus brings us into connection with God.

Come by faith to Jesus, for without him you perish for ever.

Faith is the linen which binds the plaster of Christ's reconciliation to the sore of our sin.

Faith was Peter's life-buoy—it kept him up; but unbelief sent him down.

We are saved by faith, and not by feeling; yet there is a relation between holy faith and hallowed feeling like that between the root and the flower.

Little-faith was bought with the blood of Christ; ay, and he cost as much as Great-faith.

Little faith will get very great mercies, but great faith still greater.

Christ in the heart, means Christ believed in, Christ beloved, Christ trusted, Christ espoused, Christ communed with, Christ as our daily food, and ourselves as the temple and palace wherein Jesus Christ daily walks.

The believer enjoys, in favored seasons, such an intimacy with the Lord Jesus, as fills his heart with an overflowing peace.

Believers are not only to be with Christ, and to behold His glory, but they are to be like Christ, and to be glorified with Him.

Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you, even you, will be saved.

Whether faith is large or small, whether you can do much or little for Christ, salvation depends not on what you are but on what Jesus Christ is.

Salvation does not come from the preacher’s authority, but through the hearer’s personal conviction, personal faith, and personal love.

Come to Jesus, by quitting every other hope, by thinking of Him, believing God's testimony about Him, and trusting everything with Him.

Our faithful God will never run back from His word, nor will He leave it unfulfilled; yet He loves to be enquired of by His people, and put in mind of His promise.

Not for confession, nor for reformation, but in connection with them we find pardon by faith in the blood of Jesus.

Christ Jesus is the only escape for a sinner pursued by the fiery wrath of God, and we would have the believer remember this.

Our first business has not to do with faith, but with Christ.

Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.

Faith in Christ is the basis of all working, and of all praying.

Christ holds Himself ready to supply exactly, and fully, all the demands of faith and prayer.

Faith is not an aimless act of the soul, but a looking to God and a resting upon His promises.

Faith is not believing just anything; it is believing God, resting in Him, trusting His Word.

The one prominent characteristic of the experience into which believers are brought through prayer, is not a life of works, but of faith.

The difficulty in prayer is not with faith, but with obedience, which is faith's foundation.

The last prayer of Jesus for all who would come to believe Him, is that we may be ONE.

Jesus pointed out to them that it was faith they needed, not belief.

Faith is an attribute of the heart and is evidenced in obedience.

The faith that pleases God is not evidenced in the obedience of fear, but in the obedience of love and willingness.

God has not called us to be famous or successful; He has called us to be faithful.

The end of the journey for all who walk in faith, is that they shall be with their Saviour, glorified in His presence.

Faith does not deliver us from the chisel or hammer of the Divine sculptor.

Faith does not need a man to understand and believe; it needs anyone who will obey, even when he does not understand or believe!

Wherever God has given faith, it is given, among other reasons, for the very purpose of being tried.

The answer is, believe in the Lord Jesus, trust in Him, depend upon Him alone as it regards the salvation of your soul.

Not to believe Him is to make Him both a liar and a perjurer.

We are straitened in ourselves, and suppose that we are straitened in God.

As the increase of faith is a good gift, it must come from God, and therefore he ought to be asked for this blessing.

At first, our faith will be tried very little in comparison with what it may be afterwards; for God never lays more upon us than he is willing to enable us to bear.

Faith has to do with the word of God,—rests upon the written word of God; but there is no promise that he will pay our debts.

If the work in which we are engaged is indeed the work of God, then he whose work it is is surely able and willing to provide the means for it.

In all simplicity have we to tell out our heart before God, and then we have to believe that he will give to us according to our need.

How true that word that those that trust in the Lord shall not be confounded!

The burnt-offering tells us of the perfect and accepted righteousness of Christ, in virtue of which the imperfect believer and his imperfect service are accepted by God.

Many a believer to whom Christ has left peace, knows little of it; but those who are filled with the Spirit are filled with peace.

As the Spirit reveals Christ, so does Christ bestow the Spirit; and by faith in Christ and in His Word we appropriate the gift.

Every true minister of God, every true missionary, every true Sunday-school teacher and Christian worker is a faith-worker.

The habit of coming in faith to Him is incompatible with unmet hunger and thirst.

The pure love of our neighbour, springing from the love of God, thinketh no evil, believeth and hopeth all things.

The foundation is faith, purifying the heart; the end love, preserving a good conscience.

Believe in the Lord Jesus; and thou, even thou, art reconciled to God.

God gives this faith; in that moment we are accepted of God; and yet, not for the sake of that faith, but of what Christ has done and suffered for us.

Faith is the condition, and the only condition, of sanctification, exactly as it is of justification.

Reason, however cultivated and improved, cannot produce the love of God; which is plain from hence: It cannot produce either faith or hope; from which alone this love can flow.

The root of all religion is faith, without which it is impossible to please God.

Faith worketh by love; faith overcometh the world; faith purifieth the heart; faith, in the smallest measure, removeth mountains.

Persons may seem to have love to God and Christ, yea, to have very strong and violent affections of this nature, and yet have no grace.

A natural principle of self-love may be the foundation of great affections towards God and Christ, without seeing anything of the beauty and glory of the divine nature.

It is God that gives us faith whereby we close with Christ.

Faith abases men and exalts God, it gives all the glory of redemption to God alone.

There is not only a rational belief that God is holy and that holiness is a good thing, but there is a sense of the loveliness of God’s holiness.

He does not merely rationally believe that God is glorious, but he has a sense of the gloriousness of God in his heart.

Jesus Christ must be loved alone with a special love for He alone, of all friends, is good and faithful.

Faith is required of you, and a sincere life, not a lofty intellect nor a delving into the mysteries of God.