#faith

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work. ↗

— Faith Evans

#god #his #nor #reason #sense

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God. ↗

— David Brainerd

#god #learning #long #long time #our

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others. ↗

— David Brainerd

#being #better #business #commands #desire

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws. ↗

— David Brainerd

#articles #authorized #errors #established #extravagant

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can. ↗

— David Brainerd

#always #design #faithfully #glorify #god

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man? ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#another man #her #husband #loves #man

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. ↗

— Dan Brown

#be true #cannot #definition #faith #imagine

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world. ↗

— Gordon Brown

#attention #believe #capacity #commands #communicate

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#passion #reason #rebel

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#faith #mere #only #philosophy #possibilities