"Faith is not about proving yourself right, but about acknowledging your need for God."
— Zhang Peiqian
Source: Pastoral Sermons
Faith, God
Views: 240
"Faith is to believe what you have not seen. You must believe first before you can understand, and the reward of faith is to see what you believe."
— Augustine
Source: City of God, Confessions
Faith, Understanding
Views: 171
"I believe in Christ as I believe the sun has risen: not only because I have seen it, but also because through it I have seen all things."
— CS·Louis
Source: "miracle"
Faith, Sun, Seeing
Views: 100
"Faith is not about finding a safe harbor, but about having a navigator to steady the ship in the storm. During my thirty years in China, I prayed countless times in times of hardship, and God's response was often not to remove the difficulties, but to give me an unwavering heart in the face of adversity."
— Dugald Christie
Source: Thirty Years of Fengtian
Faith, difficulties, heart
Views: 50
"Faith should not exclude the pursuit of knowledge (science), because discovering the laws of nature is discovering the wisdom of God."
— Francis Huberty James
Source: Academic Affairs Magazine
Faith, science, nature, law, wisdom, investigation of things
Views: 35
"Faith is not a cold doctrine or a complex set of rituals. It is more like a life force, like the spring rain in Jiujiang, silently seeping into the parched land. Only when faith is transformed into love and service to others does it truly take root in this ancient land."
— Carl Frederick Kupfer
Source: The 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the Methodist Episcopal Church in China, 1907