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    Author
    Bernard of Clairvaux
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    Ephesians 3:20, Job 42:2-3, John 20:29, 1 Corinthians 13:12, Romans 11:33-34, Proverbs 3:5-6
    I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

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    Author
    Alexander Pope
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    Philippians 2:3, Proverbs 3:5-6, Galatians 6:3, James 3:17, 1 Corinthians 4:5, Matthew 7:1-2
    ’Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.

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    A Map & Our Beliefs

    Author
    Gregory Koukl
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    Proverbs 3:5-6, Micah 6:8, Matthew 7:13-14, James 1:5, Romans 12:2, Jeremiah 6:16, Psalm 119:105
    A few years ago I was with my family in Washington, D.C., a wildly complex city laid out like a square wheel with broken spokes making an angular maze that is a nightmare to navigate. However, my fami...

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    John Ortberg
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    Matthew 14:31, John 20:29, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Proverbs 3:5-6, Mark 9:24, James 1:5-6
    We live in an age when belief comes hard because we’re much more afraid of being gullible (believing something that’s not true) than we are of being skeptical (not believing something that is true). W...

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    Author
    Lauren F. Winner
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    Proverbs 3:5-6, Philippians 4:6-7, 2 Corinthians 12:9, James 1:5-6, Hebrews 11:1, Ephesians 4:11-13, 1 Corinthians 12:4-6
    Maybe God has given some people belief like a pier, to stand on (and God has given those people’s steadiness to the church, to me, as a reminder, as an aid), and maybe God has given others something e...

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    Doubt is in Everyone

    Author
    John Ortberg
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    Jeremiah 29:13, Proverbs 3:5-6, Romans 8:24-25, Hebrews 11:1, John 20:27
    Writer Michael Novak says that doubt is not so much a dividing line that separates people into different camps, as it is a razor’s edge that runs through every soul. Many believers tend to think doubt...

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    Terry Tempest Williams
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    1 Corinthians 2:5, Romans 8:24-25, James 1:5-6, Romans 10:17, Isaiah 40:31, Proverbs 3:5-6
    Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact.

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    The Rope

    Author
    C. S. Lewis
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    Mark 9:14-24, Psalm 56:3-4, Proverbs 3:5-6, Hebrews 11:null, Philippians 1:21, Psalm 20:7, James 1:2-4
    You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong as long as you are merely using i...

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    Doubt over Faith?

    Author
    Lesslie Newbigin
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    Mark 9:24, Romans 10:17, John 20:27, 1 John 4:1, 1 Thessalonians 5:21, Proverbs 3:5-6
    Have you ever noticed that the phrases in our culture favor doubt over faith? The famed missionary and theologian Lesslie Newbigin pointed this out when we speak of “Honest doubts” and “blind faith”. ...

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    A Firm Conviction

    Author
    Ben Patterson
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    Scripture
    Isaiah 40:28-31, Ephesians 3:20-21, Psalm 147:5, James 1:5, Proverbs 3:5-6
    The foundation of faith is a firm conviction regarding three things about God—his perfect love, wisdom and power. Like a three-legged stool, no combination of two will do. There must be all three for ...

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    Mark Twain
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    Scripture
    Mark 9:23, John 20:29, Matthew 17:20, Proverbs 3:5-6, James 1:6, Romans 10:17
    Faith is believing what you know ain't so. (1897)Consider checking out our illustrations page on Faith.

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    Faith Requires Thought

    Author
    D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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    Hebrews 3:1, Psalm 19:1-2, Philippians 4:8, James 1:5, Romans 12:2, Proverbs 3:5-6
    Faith according to our Lord’s teaching in this paragraph is primarily thinking; and the whole trouble with a man of little faith is that he does not think. He allows circumstances to bludgeon him. . ....

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
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    James 1:5-6, 2 Corinthians 5:7, 1 Corinthians 2:5, Romans 10:17, Proverbs 3:5-6, John 20:29, Hebrews 11:1
    Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

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    Michael Gerson
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    John 20:29, Romans 8:24-25, Proverbs 3:5-6, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Hebrews 11:1
    Faith, thankfully, does not preclude doubt. It consists of staking your life on the rumor of grace.

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    Author
    Alexis de Tocqueville
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    1 Corinthians 2:9, Job 23:10, Romans 11:33, Psalm 37:5, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28, Isaiah 55:8-9, Proverbs 3:5-9
    I am ignorant of His designs, but I will not cease to believe in them because I cannot penetrate them. And I will prefer to doubt my own lights rather than His justice.

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    Author
    Flannery O'Connor
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    Psalm 46:10, John 20:29, Psalm 23:4, Proverbs 3:5-6, Isaiah 50:10, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Hebrews 11:1
    People...think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross...You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don’t expect faith to clea...

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    Is Faith Blind?

    Author
    John Piper
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    Psalm 19:1-2, 2 Timothy 1:12, John 14:11, Proverbs 3:5-6, James 2:18, Romans 1:20, 1 Peter 3:15
    In his book, A Peculiar Glory , John Piper provides an illustration of the kind of faith we are called to. This is no “blind faith,” in which we are supposed to simply believe without using our minds...

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    Author
    Krister Stendahl
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    Scripture
    Proverbs 3:5-6, Proverbs 16:18, Proverbs 26:12, Matthew 23:12, Luke 18:9-14, 1 Corinthians 8:2-3
    Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

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    Martin Luther
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    Matthew 17:20, Psalm 34:8, Isaiah 26:3-4, Jeremiah 17:7-8, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Romans 8:24-25, Proverbs 3:5-6
    Faith is a free surrender and a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

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    The Blue Pill or the Red Pill

    Author
    Mark Batterson
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    Scripture
    Philippians 3:14, John 20:29, James 1:5-6, Romans 10:17, Matthew 17:20, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Proverbs 3:5-6
    There is an iconic scene in the cult classic The Matrix that makes for a great metaphor. Morpheus gives Neo a choice between two pills: You can take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake up in y...

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    Faith Like a Journey

    Author
    Samuel Rodriguez
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    Isaiah 40:31, Acts 20:24, Hebrews 12:1-2, James 1:2-4, Proverbs 3:5-6, Psalm 37:23-24, Philippians 3:13-14
    While global flights and online booking have made travel easier in many ways, other aspects, often related to safety and security, still create challenges. As often as I fly, I could tell you plenty o...

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    Author
    Stanley Baldwin
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    Mark 11:22-24, Ephesians 2:8-9, Isaiah 26:3-4, Proverbs 3:5-6, Psalm 56:3-4, Romans 1:17, 2 Corinthians 5:7
    I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

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    One False Assumption

    Author
    Simon Sinek
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    Scripture
    Exodus 32:null, 1 Timothy 4:16, 1 John 4:1-4, 2 Corinthians 11:14-15, Proverbs 3:5-6, Matthew 7:1-2, James 1:19
    On a cold January day, a forty-three-year-old man was sworn in as the chief executive of his country. By his side stood his predecessor, a famous general who, fifteen years earlier, had commanded his ...

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    Author
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Matthew 21:21, Romans 10:17, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Proverbs 3:5-6, Mark 9:24
    The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are to subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

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    Let us Trust Our Own Moments of Vision

    Author
    Prince
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    1 Peter 1:8-9, Romans 8:24-25, John 20:29, Proverbs 3:5-6, Isaiah 40:31, Hebrews 11:1, 2 Corinthians 5:7
    I remember once near Interlaken waiting for days to see the Jungfrau which was hidden in mists. People told me it was there, and I should have been a fool to doubt their word, for those who told me li...

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    All: Gracious God, you promise that

    Author
    Laura B. Murray
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    John 8:12, John 1:, Psalm 27:, Isaiah 9:2, Psalm 119:105, 2 Corinthians 4:6, Proverbs 3:5-6, Isaiah 60:1, Matthew 5:14-16
    All: Gracious God, you promise that your light drowns out darkness, yet the darkness is so persistent. We cannot see in front of us, so we look to our own knowledge and ways. Forgive us for turning to...

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    Author
    Oswald Chambers
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    Hebrews 11:8, Proverbs 3:5-6, Psalm 32:8, Jeremiah 29:11, Isaiah 42:16, John 10:28-28, Romans 8:28
    Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

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    Following Jesus Requires Real Commitment

    Author
    Bradley Long
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    Proverbs 3:5-8, Matthew 22:37, Romans 12:1-2, Luke 14:26-27, Deuteronomy 6:5, Luke 16:13, Mark 12:30, John 14:15, Matthew 16:24-26, Luke 9:59-62, Matthew 6:24, Hebrews 11:13-16, Hebrews 10:38-39, Matthew 6:33-34, Matthew 10:37-39
    What are you willing to do for love? An instructor for the Perspectives on the World Christian Movement course shared with a class the major hang-up he had to get over before asking his wife to ma...

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    Inspired by Proverbs 3:5-8

    Author
    Chip Hardwick
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    Proverbs 3:5-8
    Leader: God says, "Trust in Me with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding." People: If in all our ways we acknowledge You, Lord, You will make our paths straight. We ar...

  • Quote

    Author
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    Isaiah 41:10, Philippians 4:13, James 2:17, Psalm 37:23-24, Isaiah 30:21, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Proverbs 3:5-6
    Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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