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    E. M. Bounds
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    Trust is faith that has become absolute, approved, and accomplished. When all is said and done, there is a sort of risk in faith and its exercise. But trust is firm belief; it is faith in full bloom. ...

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    Helen Keller
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    Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near e...

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    Tim Muehlhoff & Richard Langer
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    Joshua 24:14-15, Daniel 1:8-21 , Exodus 1:15-21, Romans 14:5-6, Acts 4:18-20 , Psalm 15:1-2
    We might say that convictions are firmly held moral or religious beliefs that guide our beliefs, actions, or choices.

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    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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    George MacDonald
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    James 1:22, Titus 3:8, Philippians 2:13, Romans 12:2, John 14:15
    To hold to a doctrine or an opinion with the intellect alone is not to believe it. A man’s real belief is that which he lives by.

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    William James
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    Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

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    Stanley Hauerwas
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    John 15:4-5, 1 John 3:18-19, Matthew 7:21, Romans 10:9-10, Hebrews 11:1, Galatians 2:20
    I do not put much stock in "believing in God." The grammar of "belief" invites a far too rationalistic account of what it means to be a Christian. "Belief" implies propos...

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    Miguel de Unamuno
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    Romans 8:26, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, Luke 22:44, Habakkuk 1:2, Jeremiah 20:7-9, Job 3:11
    Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation...

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    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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    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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    I believe in Christ and confess him not like some child; my hosanna has passed through an enormous furnace of doubt.

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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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    Eugene Peterson
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    All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.

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    John Calvin
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    1 John 5:13, Galatians 3:14, Titus 3:5-7, John 14:26, Romans 8:16
    We shall now have a full definition of faith if we say that it is a firm and sure knowledge of the divine favor toward us, founded on the truth of a free promise in Christ, and revealed to our minds, ...

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    John Newton
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    Assurance grows by repeated conflict. . . . When we have been brought very low and helped, sorely wounded and healed, cast down and raised again . . . and when these things have been repeated to us an...

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    Basil the Great
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    Proverbs 12:15, Proverbs 15:22, Proverbs 19:20, Proverbs 16:18-19, Proverbs 28:26
    To believe one does not need counsel is great pride.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Philippians 4:13, 1 Peter 2:9, Colossians 3:10, Hebrews 11:1, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Galatians 2:20, Romans 10:9
    We are what we believe we are.

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    Luke Norsworthy
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    1 Peter 2:2, Colossians 2:6-7, Philippians 3:12-14, Ephesians 4:15, Galatians 5:1, 2 Corinthians 3:17, Romans 12:2
    For some, faith begins with a hard shell, a rigid set of answers and platitudes that keep them safe but eventually prevent them from growing into who they could be. The system that was initially prote...

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    Mark Twain
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    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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    Source Unknown
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    Everyone should believe in something. I believe I will have another coffee.

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    George Müller
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    To learn strong faith is to endure great trials. I have learned my faith by standing firm amid severe testings.

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    Robert Oxton Bolt
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    Matthew 22:37, Ephesians 4:23-24, Isaiah 26:3, Hebrews 11:1, Colossians 3:2, Philippians 2:5
    A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

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    Timothy Keller
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    A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antibodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent to ask the hard questions about why they believe as they do will ...

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    Thomas Carlyle
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    A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.

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    Paul E. Little
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    James 1:5, 1 Corinthians 13:12, Hebrews 11:1, Romans 1:20, Isaiah 55:8-9, 1 Corinthians 2:14, John 8:32
    Belief doesn’t create truth. Unbelief doesn’t destroy truth. Christian faith goes beyond reason but not against reason.

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    Timothy Keller
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    Galatians 3:28, John 8:32, 1 Peter 3:15, Deuteronomy 6:6-7, Acts 17:11, Colossians 2:8, Proverbs 22:6
    It is always crucial to remember that our beliefs are formed not only through reason and argument but also through social conditioning.

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    A. W. Tozer
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    Psalm 37:5, Jeremiah 17:7, 2 Corinthians 5:7, 1 Corinthians 16:13, Hebrews 11:6
    The man of pseudo-faith will fight for his verbal creed but refuse flatly to allow himself to get in a predicament where his future must depend upon that creed being true. He always provides himself w...

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    Author
    Madeleine L'Engle
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    Romans 8:26, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, Luke 22:44, Jeremiah 20:7-9, Job 13:15, Habakkuk 1:2, Psalm 42:11
    Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God,...

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    A. W. Tozer
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    Philippians 4:6-7, Isaiah 26:3-4, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Matthew 6:33, Psalm 37:5
    The man of pseudo faith will fight for his verbal creed but refuse flatly to allow himself to get into a predicament where his future must depend upon that creed being true. He always provides himself...

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    Alvin Plantinga
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    Hebrews 11:1, Ephesians 2:8-9, Romans 10:17, 1 Corinthians 2:12-14, John 14:26
    Now faith is not just a cognitive affair: its being “sealed upon our hearts” is a matter of will and affect; it is a repair of the madness of the will that is at the heart of sin. Still, it is at leas...

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    Isaac Watts
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    I believe the promises of God enough to venture an eternity on them.
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