Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shall find it after many days.
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?
Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body — the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.
Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.
Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.
Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.
Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
Faith is a continuation of reason.
Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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.
Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
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