Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.
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.
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them.
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.