True Faith Quotes

• Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Strength, Faith, God

  Dwight L Moody (1996). “The Way To God: Moody Classics Series”, p.53, Moody Publishers

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• Faith is more than thinking something is true. Faith is thinking something is true to the extent that we act on it.

  W. T. Purkiser

  Thinking

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• True faith is not a leap into the dark; it's a leap into the light

  Eric Metaxas

  Dark, Light, Leap

  Eric Metaxas (2014). “Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life”, p.14, Penguin

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• I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

  Martin Luther

  Life, God, Christian

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• What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Wise, Hope, Believe

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

  Martin Luther

  God, Faith, Prayer

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• Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

  Khalil Gibran

  Faith, Stars, Heart

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• All who call on God in true faith...will certainly be heard.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Praying, Heard

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• True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Inspiration, Mean

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.120, David C Cook

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• The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

  George Muller

  Faith, Caring, Anxiety

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• True faith begins with true repentance for whatever we have been doing that is wrong.

  Rick Joyner

  Repentance, True Repentance, Has Beens

  FaceBook post by Rick Joyner from Aug 01, 2014

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• This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Goodness, Faith In God

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• Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Religious, Jesus, Christ

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• True faith is ever connected with hope.

  John Calvin

  Faith, Christian, Connected

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On St. Paul's Epistle To The Hebrews (Annotated Edition)”, p.131, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Motivational, Running, Trying

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• I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself.

  Elizabeth Ann Seton

  Catholic, Important, Church

  Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (2000). “Elizabeth Ann Seton: A Woman of Prayer : Meditations, Reflections, Prayers, and Poems Taken from Her Writings”, University Press of Amer

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• Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.

  Billy Graham

  Selfish, Agency, People

  Billy Graham (2013). “The Reason for My Hope: Salvation”, p.105, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is "found to praise and honour and glory.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Real, Lovely, Gold

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.236

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• True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.

  Martin Luther

  Light, Giving, Sun

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• If we insist on visible proofs from God, we may well prepare the way for a permanent state of disappointment. True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will. As I searched through the Bible for models of great faith, I was struck by how few saints experienced anything like Job's dramatic encounter with God. The rest responded to the hiddenness not by demanding that he show himself, but by going ahead and believing him though he stayed hidden.

  Philip Yancey

  Faith, Religious, Jobs

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.199, Harper Collins

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• In all true faith there is complete committal to God.

  Lee Roberson

  Commitment

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• True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, Lying, Character

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• Pseudo faith always arranges a way out to serve in case God fails it. Real faith knows only one way and gladly allows itself to be stripped of any second way or makeshift substitutes. For true faith, it is either God or total collapse.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Real, Way, Pseudo

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• The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.

  Anne Lamott

  Hate, Men, Identity

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• ... true faith never comes without anguish.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Anguish

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