Encouragements To Faith Quotes & Sayings

I saw an e-mail from one guy who's about 23 to one of peers. His parting sign-off was 'Don't let the bedbugs bite.' Now that's really poetic. — Letitia Baldrige

Faith is not merely "feeling good about God" but a conscious choice, even in the utter absence of feelings or external encouragements to obey His word when He says, "Trust Me." This choice has nothing to do with mood but is a deliberate act of laying hold of the character of God whom circumstances never change. — Elisabeth Elliot

Louis Agassiz, the Swiss naturalist who became the most outspoken advocate of the idea that much of Earth had once been covered in ice, but alienated many in the process. — Bill Bryson

You cannot repress anger or love, or avoid feeling them, and you should not try. — Robert Greene

Remember that the key to the Discipline of study is not reading many books, but experiencing what we do read. — Richard J. Foster

To eat communion bread will be to taste the world's indifference, and to immerse myself in nothingness. — Clarice Lispector

Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning. — Nathalie Sarraute

Masai and elephants. The rest is dust. — Alastair Reynolds

Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile. — Magic Johnson

In evangelical circles we typically think of preaching as teaching and exhorting. Of course, Scripture informs, instructs, explains, asserts, and commands. Yet for the Reformers, the preaching of the Word is more than a preacher's thoughts, encouragements, advice, and impassioned pleas. Through the lips of a sinful preacher, the triune God is actually judging, justifying, reconciling, renewing, and conforming sinners to Christ's image. God created the world by the words of his mouth and by his speech also brings a new creation into being. In other words, through the proclamation of his Word, God is not just speaking about what might happen if we bring it about but is actually speaking it into being. Hence, Calvin calls preaching the sacramental word: the word as a means of grace. Faith comes by hearing the Word - specifically, the gospel (Rom. 10:17). Thus, the church is the creation of the Word (creatura verbi). — Michael S. Horton

He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Anyone who wants to join the GLEE CLUB, gets to join. — Will Shuster