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Learning to trust

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1 · WEB

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Whomsoever I please or displease, I will be faithful to God, to the people, and to my own soul.
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For he is speaking of the faithful, because he adds his prayer, “that it may not be laid to their charge.
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03 / 20

The Holy Spirit not only imparts the conviction of the need of a Savior, but also imparts the faith to receive Him.
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THE Scriptures carry such a blessed beauty in them to that soul that has faith in the things contained in them, that they do take the heart and captivate the soul of him that believeth them into the love and liking of them, believing all things that are written in the law and the prophets, and having hope towards God that there shall be a resurrection of the dead both of the just and unjust.
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06 / 20

Such is the power of faith, refined faith, matured faith, that is perfected through suffering.
Source

Joni Eareckson Tada, The Joy of Suffering (transcript).

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07 / 20

Faith, saving faith, is a step into the dark onto a rock.
Source

Alan Redpath, Christian Responsibility (transcript).

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Come then, my dear brother, come by faith, and lie down in the bosom of Christ, in His Person and fullness, as made yours by infinite love.
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Anne Dutton, Lie Down in the Bosom of Christ

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If you believe God heals, get up and act like it. I refused to listen to fear. I got up on the side of faith.
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Into whatever forms, therefore, they pervert the words of James, they will extort nothing but these two truths—that a vain notion of faith cannot justify; and that the faithful, not content with such an imagination, manifest their righteousness by their good works.
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Faith regards the cross, not as the emblem of shame, but as the token of glory.
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Christ Triumphant

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Fear looks; faith jumps. Faith never fails to obtain its object.
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Only as filled with His Spirit can we hope to win men from darkness to light and to faith in Christ.
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Faith is simply man being to God what God intended man to be to God.
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Major Ian Thomas, As God Intended Man to Behave (transcript).

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Faith is the hand that lays hold of Him who does save.
Source

Harry Ironside, Full Assurance of Faith

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Faith is an action based upon a belief, supported by the confidence of a continued action that if God said it, God will do it.
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It is at once a temptation and a snare to attempt to please everybody. This can only be done by sacrificing faithfulness to the Lord Jesus Christ. There must be a daily apprehension of dying to self-will, self-pleasing, the love of popularity, and the world’s applause.
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The secret of the failure, or the poor, meager attainment, of so many lives--lies in the lack of bold faith.
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J. R. Miller, Over-Waiting for God

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