Yellowstone National Park
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
"My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me."
Charles Spurgeon
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, CA
"Perseverance reveals the fruit of true, saving faith. It is both an exercise of genuine faith and evidence of it. Perseverance doesn’t save us, but it reveals that we have been saved."
Glenna Marshall
And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.
"Faith stands or falls on the truth that the future with God is more satisfying than the one promised by sin. Where this truth is embraced and God is cherished above all, the power of sin is broken."
John Piper
Southern Utah
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
"My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibility of my Savior."
Sinclair Ferguson
So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
"The weakest faith gets the same strong Christ as does the strongest faith."
Sinclair Ferguson
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;
"Faith is the evidence of new birth, not the cause of it."
John Piper
Southern Utah
And Jesus answered them, "Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' it will happen. And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith."
"...be assured, if you walk with Him and look to Him, and expect help from Him, He will never fail you."
George Müller
What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and be filled," and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
"The Master says (and the experience of His people has confirmed) that men of strong faith are men of much prayer."
Andrew Murray
"I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the one who is leading.
Oswald Chambers
Yellowstone National Park
By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.
Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.
Elisabeth Elliot
fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Yosemite National Park
We can stop pleading with God to show us the future, and start living and obeying like we are confident that He holds the future.
Kevin DeYoung
Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
Faith is not the presence of warm religious feeling. It's the knowledge that you walk before the God who hears.
Ed Welch
Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, CA
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
Faith which refuses to obey the commands of the saviour is a mere pretense and will never save the soul.
Charles Spurgeon
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith.
Yosemite National Park
Worry: glancing at God while gazing at circumstances. Trust: glancing at circumstances while gazing at God.
Matt Smethurst
"His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.'
As long as the eyes of our faith are fixed upon our troubles we will not find joy. Until our minds consciously move the Lord from our peripheral vision into the narrow corridor of our focus, joy will elude us.
Paul Tautges
Southern Utah
yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
Martin Luther
But Jesus turning and seeing her said, "Daughter, take courage; your faith has made you well." At once the woman was made well.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Christ.
John Piper
And He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace."
Faith begins where man's power ends.
George Muller
Redwoods National Park
and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him.
Your faith holds onto Christ, but the greater truth is that Christ holds onto you.
Colin Smith
A faithful man will abound with blessings, But he who makes haste to be rich will not go unpunished.
Yosemite National Park
Let your experience of God's goodness in the past feed your faith in his loving purposes for you now. While there is no promise that we shall be delivered from all our trials and troubles, by faith we shall pass safely through them.
Jonathan Stephen
And He said to them, "Because of the littleness of your faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.
If you wake up tomorrow morning still trusting in Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, it's because God has given you the gift of ongoing faith in Jesus.
Geoff Robson
Yosemite National Park
Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the result of their conduct, imitate their faith.
There are only two ways of dying. We can die in faith or we can die in our sins.
R.C. Sproul
But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
Yosemite National Park
Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
Corrie Ten Boom
Love the LORD, all you his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.
The word hope I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.
John Calvin
Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, CA
Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
Faith as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
A. W. Tozer
in addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
Yosemite National Park
Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord; that chastisements are a token of His love; that the season, measure, and continuance of his sufferings, are appointed by Infinite Wisdom, and designed to work for his everlasting good; and that grace and strength shall be afforded him, according to his need.
John Newton
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God.
Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises
John Piper
Haceta Head Lighthouse, OR
"Behold, as for the proud one, His soul is not right within him; But the righteous will live by his faith.
Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.
Martin Luther
Faith is this extraordinary principle which links man to God; faith is this thing that keeps a man from hell and puts him in heaven; it is the connection between this world and the world to come; faith is this mystic astounding thing that can take a man dead in trespasses and sins and make him live as a new being, a new man in Christ Jesus.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Eastern Sierra, CA
Those that God used in the past were just ordinary people with an extraordinary Master. They were not all champions of great faith, but little people who saw their own need, and put their small faith in a great God.
Winkie Pratney
Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is something beyond mere reason'.
Alister McGrath
Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
Augustine
Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, CA
When God gives a promise, He always tries our faith. Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind, so faith takes a firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.
Robert Murray McCheyne
Trials should not surprise us, or cause us to doubt God's faithfulness. Rather, we should actually be glad for them. God sends trials to strengthen our trust in him so that our faith will not fail. Our trials keep us trusting; they burn away our self confidence and drive us to our Savior.
Edmund Clowney
The principle part of faith is patience.
George Macdonald
Yosemite National Park
Faith, if it is to be sure and steadfast, must lay hold upon nothing else but Christ alone, and in the conflict and terrors of conscience it has nothing else to lean on but this precious pearl Christ Jesus. So, he who apprehends Christ by faith, although he be terrified with the law and oppressed with the weight of his sins, yet he may be bold to glory that he is righteous. How? Even by that precious jewel Christ Jesus, whom he possesses by faith.
Martin Luther
The object of saving faith is not a creed, not a church, not a pastor, not a set of rituals or ceremonies. Jesus is the object of saving faith.
John Macarthur
Any simpleton can follow the narrow path in the light: faith’s rare wisdom enables us to march on in the dark with infallible accuracy, since she places her hand in that of her Great Guide.
C.H. Spurgeon
Yosemite National Park
One definition of faith might be “Obeying the revealed will of God and trusting Him for the results.”
Jerry Bridges
Faith…is a steady and certain knowledge of the Divine benevolence towards us, which being founded on the truth of the gratuitous promise in Christ, is both revealed to our minds, and confirmed to our hearts, by the Holy Spirit.
John Calvin
If my car was inoperative and I went to the mechanic for help, I would have to hand over the keys. That is my action of trust in the mechanic. It is fides vive – living faith. Without doing that, all my talk about the competency of the mechanic results in nothing. And so, without our giving the keys of life over to Christ, we have never really trusted. This is Bible belief simply stated.
Jim Elliff
Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, CA
Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling – feelings don’t help much when you’re in the lions’ den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy way things work. It is an act of will, a choice, based on the unbreakable Word of a God who cannot lie, and who showed us what love and obedience and sacrifice mean, in the person of Jesus Christ.
Elisabeth Elliot
Faith is the way in which I can look away from myself – both from my sin and my progress in sanctification – and look to Christ as my only hope.
Robert Godfrey
"Faith" is not believing the unbelievable but trusting in God’s word because of what one has come to know of God’s character. And faith always "goes public" in acts of obedience, since a "faith" that does not obey is not a true, justifying faith at all (James 2:21-26).
Scott Hafeman
Yosemite National Park
Faith, obviously, is not a mere matter of feeling. It cannot be, because one’s feelings in this kind of condition can be very changeable. A Christian is not meant to be dejected when everything goes wrong. He is told to “rejoice”. Feelings belong to happiness alone, rejoicing takes in something much bigger than feelings; and if faith were a matter of feelings only, then when things go wrong and feelings change, faith will go. But faith is not a matter of feelings only, faith takes up the whole man including his mind, his intellect and his understanding. It is response to truth.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
Martin Luther
In sharp contrast to the contemporary definition of faith, biblical faith is not an irrational “leap in the dark.” It is not a mystical encounter with the “wholly other” or the “ground of being.” Nor is it optimism, psychological self-hypnosis, or wishful thinking. True faith is a reasoned response to revealed truth in the Bible, and salvation results from an intelligent response, prompted by the Holy Spirit, to that truth.
John MacArthur
Yosemite National Park
Seeing is not believing. Seeing is seeing. Believing is being confident without seeing.
G. Campbell Morgan
Faith has nothing to do with feelings or with impressions, with improbabilities or with outward experiences. If we desire to couple such things with faith, then we are no longer resting on the Word of God, because faith needs nothing of the kind. Faith rests on the naked Word of God. When we take Him at His Word, the heart is at peace.
George Muller
Faith is knowledge passing into conviction, and it is conviction passing into confidence.
John Murray
Yellowstone National Park
I wonder how many believers today realize that faith is not merely believing that Christ died for our sins. Faith is also being confident that His way is better than sin. His will is more wise. His help is more sure. His promises more precious. And His reward more satisfying. Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises
John Piper
Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man’s power ends.
George Muller
This is why the Bible teaches that faith alone in Christ alone is the only way to salvation from sin. Faith is the anti-work. It’s the realization that there is nothing you can do but trust in what has been done for you in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Faith is the realization that God’s pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for Him. Instead, God’s pleasure in you will always be based upon Christ’s performance for you.
David Platt
Southern Utah
Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.
John Stott
Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
A.W.Tozer
