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You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.

The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

When a man works by faith, he works by mental exertion instead of by physical force.

Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already.

So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.

Some find it easier to bend their knees than their minds. Exciting exploration is preferred to plodding implementation; speculation seems more fun than consecration, and so is trying to soften the hard doctrines instead of submitting to them. Worse still, by not obeying, these . . . lack real knowing. Lacking real knowing, they cannot defend their faith and may become critics instead of defenders!

His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

Some relate . . . that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if they cannot look steadily on, she rejects them as spurious. We may truly try our faith by immediate intuitions of the Sun of Righteousness. Direct faith to act itself, immediately and directly on the incarnation of Christ and His mediation; and if it be not the right kind and race, it will turn its eyes aside to anything else.

We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.

Your power is in your faith. Keep it and pass it on to other bloods.

Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.

Regarding Fasting: Have the faith to bind the Lord.

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

If a person trains his mind to walk in the spirit, and brings his whole mind to bear upon its operations, and upon the principles of faith which are calculated to put him in possession of the power of God, how much greater will be his faculties for obtaining knowledge. . . .

We are not required to go through [Jesus'] trials, but we are required to be willing to go through them. To prove that we are willing to do so, we must go through our own trials and remain faithful.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Things I don't understand don't destroy my faith in the things I do understand.

If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it; A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it.

Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust.

A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground.