Very often, when people first turn toward God and realize that God loves them and that everything about them matters to Him, a wave of joyful emotion overwhelms them. But actual faith is mostly the realization that, even though we don't in the least deserve it, God believes in us and finds us lovable. This is astonishing! (Philip Pare)
Faith is nothing at all tangible. It is simply believing God; and, like sight, it is nothing apart from its object. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside to see whether you have sight, as to look inside and discover if you have faith. (Hannah Whitall Smith)
Onward is faith - and leave the rest to Heaven. (Robert Southey)
Faith is reason at rest in God. (Charles Spurgeon)
As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works. (Richard Whately)
Faithfulness:
Our prayers will be most like the prayer of Christ if we do not ask God to show us what is going to be, or to make any particular thing happen, but only pray that we may be faithful in whatever happens. (Fr. Andrew)
Watch where Jesus went. The one dominant note in His life was to do His Father's will. His is not the way of wisdom or of success, but the way of faithfulness. (Oswald Chambers)
It is, however, only by fidelity in little things that a true and constant love of God can be distinguished from a passing fervor of spirit. (Francois Fenelon)
God requires a faithful fulfillment of of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called. (Francis de Sales)
Faithfulness in little things is a big thing. (John Chrysostom)
It is better to be faithful than famous. (Theodore Roosevelt)
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