My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

dare avouch46 to all that know God, that the saints know not the length and largeness of the sweet earnest,47 and of the sweet green sheaves before the harvest, that might be had on this side of the water, if we should take more pains: and that we all go to heaven with less earnest and lighter purses of the hoped for sum than otherwise we might do, if we took more pains to win further in upon Christ in this pilgrimage of our absence from Him.

Excellence is a signal to God that we are going to dig our ditches but if You don't make it rain, all of this is a waste of time.

The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him.

He who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.

My administration will be more supportive of the good works done here than any administration in the history of this country because I understand the power of faith, that faith can change lives.

What's amazing when you get up and do something is what God does in your life. We just have to get up and do something.

And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life. And

Faith is not saving faith if it tries to trust Christ for the wrong things. So this makes clear that trust per se, without reference to what we trust him for, is not the essence of a saving relationship to Christ.

The extent of our sacrifice coupled with the depth of our joy displays the worth we put on the reward of God.

One way to describe this problem is to say that when these people "receive Christ," they do not receive him as supremely valuable.