Faith in the Unseen Quotes

Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.

Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness.

Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through.

Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.

I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.

Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death.

Pray; and as you pray, surrender; and as you surrender, believe.

Heaven plants a special seed, and we must have faith.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.

My mother told me one day I walked in to her and said, 'Mom, I'm not going to be sick anymore,' and she said 'Why?' and I said 'Because an angel told me so.' Now, I don't remember saying it; that's just what she told me.

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion

God may not explain Himself, but He will reveal Himself.

There's an angel that's watching right over you All your trials have not been in vain Won't you lift your head up to the starry night Finding strength in the things that remain.

To hope is to see with the eye of the heart.

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You.

Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith-the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen!

Live as if you have faith,” she said, “and faith shall be given to you.

You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.

Stop trying, stop struggling; begin to be calm, to trust in the higher laws of life, even though you do not see them; they are still there.

I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.