Sometimes God seemed as close as his wife or children. Sometimes he had no sense of God's presence, no faith to lean on. God is wild, you know, he wrote. We're not in charge.

Not until history has run its course will we understand how "all things work together for good." Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

That, I believe, is also what faith sometimes requires: trusting God when there is no apparent evidence of him—as Job did. Trusting in his ultimate goodness, a goodness that exists outside of time, a goodness that time has not yet caught up with.

Safe?" he said, a sudden lightness in his tone. "It may or may not be safe, but it will most definitely be worth it.

Because you believed even though you did not see, you will now have the ability to see things that the others did not believe.

Romans 14:23, which says, "Whatever is not from faith is sin".

Atheism is the last word of theism.

Those who have most powerfully and permanently influenced their generation have been "seers" -- people who have seen more and farther than others -- persons of faith, for faith is vision.

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

It is possible to be saved without assurance, but it is scarcely possible to be a healthy Christian without assurance.

We fix our attention, not on things that are seen, but on things that are unseen" (2 Corinthians 4:18 TEV). That which is unseen is the Word of God. His Word is just and accurate.