Why does Jesus ask who touched him? It’s a bizarre question — even his disciples think he’s being goofy in asking it.
Why does Jesus ask who touched him? It’s a bizarre question — even his disciples think he’s being goofy in asking it. They are surrounded by a crowd of people pressing him to see him. Who touched Jesus? Everyone did — two or three times, probably. Of course, that leads us to wonder why this woman in particular was healed. Surely she wasn’t the only one in the crowd who was suffering from something. At least one other person must have had something that could be healed — even just an ingrown toenail.
The answer comes from Jesus: she was healed not because Jesus wanted to heal her or because she was the only one who needed healing, but rather because she had faith. As with previous instances of Jesus healing someone, it ultimately comes back to the quality of their faith which determines whether it is possible.
This suggests that while there was a crowd of people to see Jesus, maybe they didn’t all have faith in him. Perhaps they were just out to see the latest faith healer do a few tricks — not really believing in what was going on, but happy to be entertained nonetheless. The sick woman, however, did have faith and thus was she relieved of her ailments.
There was no need to perform sacrifices or rituals or obey complicated laws. In the end, being relieved of her presumed uncleanliness was just a matter of having the right sort of faith. This would be a point of contrast between Judaism and Christianity.
These quotations will strengthen your faith. Also, study hope, it is the raw material from which the house of faith is built. And finally, to learn more about faith itself go here: Scriptures on Faith & Believing and Do God’s Promises Cover What You Want?
Smith Wigglesworth - “I am not moved by what I see. I am not moved by what I feel. I am moved only by what I believe.”
Kenneth E. Hagin Sr. – “Faith begins where the will of God is known.”
Joni Erickson Tada - “Faith isn’t the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It’s simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step.”
Rex Rouis - Hope = Desire + God’s Promise Faith = Hope + God’s Witness (of the promise)
Mark 4:26-27,28-29 – Faith is like a seed; plant it in your heart. God gives the harvest at the appointed time.
Rex Rouis - “Seeing is not believing. Faith comes by hearing, and seeing comes by believing and acting on what you heard.”
Matthew Barnett - “Faith is believing that God is going to take you places before you even get there.”
Randy Furco - “You can have hope without FAITH, But you can not have FAITH without Hope!”
George Mueller - “I have joyfully dedicated my whole life to the object of exemplifying how much may be accomplished by prayer and faith.”
Mark Victor Hansen - “Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.”
Ralph Hodgson – “Some things have to be believed to be seen.”
Kamran Karimi - “The Bible is not supposed to make sense, it is supposed to make faith.”
Carrie Judd Montgomery – “You get faith by studying the Word. Study that Word until something in you “knows that you know” and that you do not just hope that you know.”
Henry Clay Trumbull – Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.
Rex Rouis - “It is faith alone, in Christ alone, which alone moves God, when you are alone.”
Smith Wigglesworth - “How can one come to possess great faith? Now listen, here is the answer to that: First, the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. Faith must grow by soil, moisture, and exercise.”
Bible in Basic English…”the words of my mouth came from the faith in my heart; in the same way, our words are the outcome of our faith;” II Corinthians 4:13
George Mueller – The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Kenneth E. Hagin Sr. – “Feed your faith and starve your doubts.” (Also, Lester Sumrall, and perhaps even one if the early disciples)
C. Nuzum – “Faith is the hand with which we take from God. When we have met all the conditions and taken what God is offering us, we must believe that we have that thing.”
Martin Luther – “Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness.”
DS Cairns – “Faith is not trustful acquiescence.”
Martin Luther - “The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.”
Rex Rouis - “Seek faith at all cost; it is the evidence of the answer of God.”
Rex Rouis - ”God is the Judge, Jesus is our Advocate, and faith is the evidence.”
Smith Wigglesworth - “Fear looks; faith jumps. Faith never fails to obtain its object. If I leave you as I found you, I am not God’s channel. I am not here to entertain you, but to get you to the place where you can laugh at the impossible.”
Dwight L. Moody - “A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.”
Gloria Copeland – “You can’t stand effectively on “blind” faith. You must have a “knowing” faith, and that comes from believing wholeheartedly what the Word promises. You know God has spoken it and declared it to be so, and you know you can depend on that.” God’s Keys to Life
Marcus Ashford - “Be like God, in that you are fully assured that what you say will happen, and will come to pass.”
Rex Rouis - “Always remember, you are just one “hearing” away from Faith, just one ‘knowing” away from Peace, and just one “action” away from total Victory.”
Smith Wigglesworth - “There are two kinds of faith. There is the natural faith. But the supernatural faith is the gift of God.”
Pastor Mirek Hufton – “Belief is a moral decision.”
Pastor Tim Hall - The world says, “Seeing is believing” – Faith says, “Believing is seeing”.
John Calvin – “The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, — man’s only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered by the Gospel is apprehended by faith.”
Unknown – “When you find out what the Scripture says about a particular situation, faith can be established in your heart, this knowledge will influence your soul (your mind, your will and your emotions).” Romans 10:17 says, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
Max Lucado - “Our belief in God is not blind faith. Belief is having a firm conviction something is true, not hoping it’s true.”
William James – “Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible”
Unknown – “Faith isn’t faith until it’s all you’re holding on to”
Rex Rouis - “Faith is God’s sovereign stamp of approval upon the things you are hoping for; His presence graced upon your seeking, and His witness placed upon your request.”
St. Thomas Aquinas – “To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
Martin Luther King, Jr – “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
Anselm - “I believe in order that I may understand.”
Unknown – “Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.”
Rex Rouis - Faith is a heart received sanction by the Sovereign of Heaven; given the moment His will for a specific promise has been met.
Carroll - “Faith is putting all your eggs in God’s basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.”
Rex Rouis - Faith comes alive when the Word read from the page becomes the Word heard in your heart.
Rex Rouis - If our Christian walk was a business, faith would be our profits. It is the currency of God. Prayer is a transaction supported by faith.
William Newton Clarke – “Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see”
Mahatma Gandhi – “There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever”
C.S. Lewis – “Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods”
Kahlil Gibran – “Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”
Oswald Chambers – “Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”
Oswald Chambers – “Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led.”
Unknown – “Calmness is the way we show that we are trusting in God.”
Elizabeth Barret Browning – “Whoso loves, believes the impossible.”
Rex Rouis - ”Faith is the God sanctioned ability for man to trust what God can and will do.”
William Wordsworth – “Faith is a passionate intuition.”
Charles Finney – “I am speaking now of the kind of faith that ensures the blessing. Do not understand me as saying that there is nothing in prayer that is acceptable to God, or that even obtains the blessing sometimes, without this kind of faith (emphasis his).”
Smith Wigglesworth – “It is a blessed thing to learn that God’s word can never fail. Never harken to human plans. God can work mightily when you persist in believing Him in spite of discouragements from the human standpoint…I am not moved by what I see. I am moved only by what I believe. No man considers how he feels if he believes. The man who believes God has it (emphasis his).”
Rex Rouis - “The hearing of faith is the sound of the Word of God coming alive in your heart.”
Smith Wigglesworth – “I can’t understand God by feelings. I can’t understand the Lord Jesus Christ by feelings. I can only understand God the Father and Jesus Christ by what the Word says about them. God is everything the Word says He is. We need to get acquainted with Him through the Word.”
Andrew Murray – “Every exhibition of the power of faith was the fruit of a special revelation from God. . . . Our spiritual power depends on God Himself speaking those promises to us.”
Martin Luther (Preface to the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans) – “O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do…”
Billy Bray - “He has made me glad and no one can make me sad. He makes me shout and no one can make me doubt…”
Dietrich Bonheoffer – “only the believer is obedient and only the obedient believe.”
Jerome – “Ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ”
Rex Rouis - ”Nothing can stop the individual who firmly believes that the wind in his sails comes directly from God.”
Saint Augustine – “Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.”
Saint Augustine – “If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.”
Saint Augustine – “Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
Saint Augustine – “He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.”
Scandinavian Saying – “Faith is like a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark.”
Carter Lindberg – “Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. – “Everything we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.”
Martin Luther – “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
Martin Luther – “Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.”
Rex Rouis - ”Faith is a happy peaceful narrow road.”
Norman Vincent Peale – “Frequently remind yourself that God is with you, that He will never fail you, that you can count upon him. Say these words, “God is with me, helping me.”
James E. Faust – “Believing requires action.”
Robert Louis Stevenson – “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
Rex Rouis - ”Corresponding action to the nature of God is called holiness. Corresponding action to the commandments of God is called obedience. Corresponding action to the promises of God is called believing.”
Henry Ward Beecher – “Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”
Blaise Pascal – “I know whom I have believed.” (Latin – Scio cui credidi)
Blaise Pascal – “In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.”
Blaise Pascal - “Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a gift from God.”
Unknown - “If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.”
Unknown – “Weave in faith and God will find the thread.”
Unknown – “A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.”
Shoemaker, Samuel M. – “Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.”
Smith, Sydney – “It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.”
Stott, John R. – “Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.”
Teller, Edward – “When you get to the end of all the light you know and it’s time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.”
Thackeray, William M. – “Tis not the dying for a faith that’s so hard… ‘Tis the living up to it that’s difficult.”
Tocqueville, Alexis De – “Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?”
Rex Rouis - ”Doubt sees what currently is and no more. Hope sees what can be but is not yet. Faith sees what is and will be.”
Rex Rouis - ”Hope will have it sometime. Faith has it now. Believing acts on it now.”
Rex Rouis - ”In the same way that salt without taste is worthless, and a lamp that is hidden is useless, faith without actions is lifeless.”
Unknown – “As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.”
Unknown - “Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.”
Unknown – “Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.”
Unknown – “Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.”
Unknown – “Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.”
Unknown – “We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually it’s just a slow leak.”
Unknown – “Faith is like electricity. You can’t see it, but you can see the light.”
Henrietta Mears - “Faith is caught rather than taught.”
Elton Trueblood - “Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.”
Martin Luther – “Reason is the enemy of faith.”
Martin Luther – “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 – “Peace if possible, truth at all costs.”
Unknown – Don’t believe in miracles, rely on them!
Rex Rouis - ”Hope is Faith in Seed Form – Faith is Hope in Final Form”
C.H. Spurgeon – “If you wish to know God, you must know his Word. If you wish to perceive His power, you must see how He works by his Word. If you wish to know His purpose before it comes to pass, you can only discover it by His Word.”
J. Hudson Taylor – Written to his wife during one difficult time in the work of the China Inland Mission, “We have twenty-five cents – and all the promises of God!”
Eddie Zepeda - “Faith is doing God’s will when you don’t feel like it.”
Eddie Zepeda - “Say what you heard so you can see what you said.” Or – “Say what you heard so you can see what you heard.”
George Mueller – “To learn strong faith is to endure great trials. I have learned my faith by standing firm amid severe testings.”
George Mueller - “If the Lord fails me at this time, it will be the first time.”
Rex Rouis - ”God operates in love by faith. If we do not understand His love we have no foundation for faith. If we do not understand His requirement of faith it will affect our understanding of His love.”
Rex Rouis - ”The reality of the word of God must first be expressed in the heart before faith can express the reality of God to the world.”
John R. Stott - “Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.”
Rex Rouis - “The Word of God makes faith available. Faith makes the Word of God available. The Word of God made available through faith releases the power of God.”
Jack Coe – “If you have worry, you don’t have faith, and if you have faith, you don’t have worry.”
Dr. T. J. McCrossan – “When unbelief kept Christ from healing the sick on earth, it will surely do so today.”
Rick Renner – “Faith is the spark that ignites the impossible and causes it to become possible. When a person’s faith is activated, it sets in motion supernatural power that enables that person to do what he normally would never be able to do!”
E. W. Kenyon – “There is no sickness problem. There is simply a problem of the believer’s coming to know his inheritance in Christ.”
Edith Edman – “Never doubt in the dark what God has shown you in the light.”
Thomas Fuller - “He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.”
Smith Wigglesworth - “Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.”
Smith Wigglesworth - “I cannot understand how God can give to any of His children glory and virtue, but it nevertheless is true that He does…. There is something about believing in God, that makes God willing to pass over a million people just to anoint you. I believe God will always turn out to meet you on a special line if you dare to believe Him.”
Lillian B. Yeomans – “Just believe what God says that Jesus has done for you, body, soul, and spirit – think about it, talk about it, sing about it, shout about it, and the praise cure has begun.”
Charles F. Parham – “The anointing of the Holy Spirit is given to illuminate His Word, to open the Scriptures, and to place the spiritual man in direct communication with the mind of God.”
Oral Roberts – “Faith is not something you have to get. It’s something that you, as a born-again child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That’s when your healing starts!”
Rex Rouis - ”Believing is simply acting consistent with a knowing from God.”
John Osteen – “Believe you receive in the faith realm, and you shall have it in the natural realm.”
Corrie Ten Boom – “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
Kenneth Copeland – “Fear tolerated is faith contaminated.”
Gordon Lindsay – “Never dig up in unbelief what you have sown in faith.”
Martin Luther – “I believe that I cannot by my own reason or strength believe in Jesus Christ, my Lord, or come to Him; but the Holy Ghost has called me by the Gospel, enlightened me with His gifts, sanctified and kept me in the true faith…” The Small Catechism
The answer comes from Jesus: she was healed not because Jesus wanted to heal her or because she was the only one who needed healing, but rather because she had faith. As with previous instances of Jesus healing someone, it ultimately comes back to the quality of their faith which determines whether it is possible.
This suggests that while there was a crowd of people to see Jesus, maybe they didn’t all have faith in him. Perhaps they were just out to see the latest faith healer do a few tricks — not really believing in what was going on, but happy to be entertained nonetheless. The sick woman, however, did have faith and thus was she relieved of her ailments.
There was no need to perform sacrifices or rituals or obey complicated laws. In the end, being relieved of her presumed uncleanliness was just a matter of having the right sort of faith. This would be a point of contrast between Judaism and Christianity.
These quotations will strengthen your faith. Also, study hope, it is the raw material from which the house of faith is built. And finally, to learn more about faith itself go here: Scriptures on Faith & Believing and Do God’s Promises Cover What You Want?
Smith Wigglesworth - “I am not moved by what I see. I am not moved by what I feel. I am moved only by what I believe.”
Kenneth E. Hagin Sr. – “Faith begins where the will of God is known.”
Joni Erickson Tada - “Faith isn’t the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It’s simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step.”
Rex Rouis - Hope = Desire + God’s Promise Faith = Hope + God’s Witness (of the promise)
Mark 4:26-27,28-29 – Faith is like a seed; plant it in your heart. God gives the harvest at the appointed time.
Rex Rouis - “Seeing is not believing. Faith comes by hearing, and seeing comes by believing and acting on what you heard.”
Matthew Barnett - “Faith is believing that God is going to take you places before you even get there.”
Randy Furco - “You can have hope without FAITH, But you can not have FAITH without Hope!”
George Mueller - “I have joyfully dedicated my whole life to the object of exemplifying how much may be accomplished by prayer and faith.”
Mark Victor Hansen - “Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.”
Ralph Hodgson – “Some things have to be believed to be seen.”
Kamran Karimi - “The Bible is not supposed to make sense, it is supposed to make faith.”
Carrie Judd Montgomery – “You get faith by studying the Word. Study that Word until something in you “knows that you know” and that you do not just hope that you know.”
Henry Clay Trumbull – Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.
Rex Rouis - “It is faith alone, in Christ alone, which alone moves God, when you are alone.”
Smith Wigglesworth - “How can one come to possess great faith? Now listen, here is the answer to that: First, the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. Faith must grow by soil, moisture, and exercise.”
Bible in Basic English…”the words of my mouth came from the faith in my heart; in the same way, our words are the outcome of our faith;” II Corinthians 4:13
George Mueller – The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Kenneth E. Hagin Sr. – “Feed your faith and starve your doubts.” (Also, Lester Sumrall, and perhaps even one if the early disciples)
C. Nuzum – “Faith is the hand with which we take from God. When we have met all the conditions and taken what God is offering us, we must believe that we have that thing.”
Martin Luther – “Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness.”
DS Cairns – “Faith is not trustful acquiescence.”
Martin Luther - “The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.”
Rex Rouis - “Seek faith at all cost; it is the evidence of the answer of God.”
Rex Rouis - ”God is the Judge, Jesus is our Advocate, and faith is the evidence.”
Smith Wigglesworth - “Fear looks; faith jumps. Faith never fails to obtain its object. If I leave you as I found you, I am not God’s channel. I am not here to entertain you, but to get you to the place where you can laugh at the impossible.”
Dwight L. Moody - “A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.”
Gloria Copeland – “You can’t stand effectively on “blind” faith. You must have a “knowing” faith, and that comes from believing wholeheartedly what the Word promises. You know God has spoken it and declared it to be so, and you know you can depend on that.” God’s Keys to Life
Marcus Ashford - “Be like God, in that you are fully assured that what you say will happen, and will come to pass.”
Rex Rouis - “Always remember, you are just one “hearing” away from Faith, just one ‘knowing” away from Peace, and just one “action” away from total Victory.”
Smith Wigglesworth - “There are two kinds of faith. There is the natural faith. But the supernatural faith is the gift of God.”
Pastor Mirek Hufton – “Belief is a moral decision.”
Pastor Tim Hall - The world says, “Seeing is believing” – Faith says, “Believing is seeing”.
John Calvin – “The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, — man’s only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered by the Gospel is apprehended by faith.”
Unknown – “When you find out what the Scripture says about a particular situation, faith can be established in your heart, this knowledge will influence your soul (your mind, your will and your emotions).” Romans 10:17 says, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
Max Lucado - “Our belief in God is not blind faith. Belief is having a firm conviction something is true, not hoping it’s true.”
William James – “Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible”
Unknown – “Faith isn’t faith until it’s all you’re holding on to”
Rex Rouis - “Faith is God’s sovereign stamp of approval upon the things you are hoping for; His presence graced upon your seeking, and His witness placed upon your request.”
St. Thomas Aquinas – “To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
Martin Luther King, Jr – “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
Anselm - “I believe in order that I may understand.”
Unknown – “Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.”
Rex Rouis - Faith is a heart received sanction by the Sovereign of Heaven; given the moment His will for a specific promise has been met.
Carroll - “Faith is putting all your eggs in God’s basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.”
Rex Rouis - Faith comes alive when the Word read from the page becomes the Word heard in your heart.
Rex Rouis - If our Christian walk was a business, faith would be our profits. It is the currency of God. Prayer is a transaction supported by faith.
William Newton Clarke – “Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see”
Mahatma Gandhi – “There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever”
C.S. Lewis – “Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods”
Kahlil Gibran – “Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”
Oswald Chambers – “Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”
Oswald Chambers – “Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led.”
Unknown – “Calmness is the way we show that we are trusting in God.”
Elizabeth Barret Browning – “Whoso loves, believes the impossible.”
Rex Rouis - ”Faith is the God sanctioned ability for man to trust what God can and will do.”
William Wordsworth – “Faith is a passionate intuition.”
Charles Finney – “I am speaking now of the kind of faith that ensures the blessing. Do not understand me as saying that there is nothing in prayer that is acceptable to God, or that even obtains the blessing sometimes, without this kind of faith (emphasis his).”
Smith Wigglesworth – “It is a blessed thing to learn that God’s word can never fail. Never harken to human plans. God can work mightily when you persist in believing Him in spite of discouragements from the human standpoint…I am not moved by what I see. I am moved only by what I believe. No man considers how he feels if he believes. The man who believes God has it (emphasis his).”
Rex Rouis - “The hearing of faith is the sound of the Word of God coming alive in your heart.”
Smith Wigglesworth – “I can’t understand God by feelings. I can’t understand the Lord Jesus Christ by feelings. I can only understand God the Father and Jesus Christ by what the Word says about them. God is everything the Word says He is. We need to get acquainted with Him through the Word.”
Andrew Murray – “Every exhibition of the power of faith was the fruit of a special revelation from God. . . . Our spiritual power depends on God Himself speaking those promises to us.”
Martin Luther (Preface to the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans) – “O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do…”
Billy Bray - “He has made me glad and no one can make me sad. He makes me shout and no one can make me doubt…”
Dietrich Bonheoffer – “only the believer is obedient and only the obedient believe.”
Jerome – “Ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ”
Rex Rouis - ”Nothing can stop the individual who firmly believes that the wind in his sails comes directly from God.”
Saint Augustine – “Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.”
Saint Augustine – “If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.”
Saint Augustine – “Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
Saint Augustine – “He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.”
Scandinavian Saying – “Faith is like a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark.”
Carter Lindberg – “Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. – “Everything we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.”
Martin Luther – “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
Martin Luther – “Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.”
Rex Rouis - ”Faith is a happy peaceful narrow road.”
Norman Vincent Peale – “Frequently remind yourself that God is with you, that He will never fail you, that you can count upon him. Say these words, “God is with me, helping me.”
James E. Faust – “Believing requires action.”
Robert Louis Stevenson – “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
Rex Rouis - ”Corresponding action to the nature of God is called holiness. Corresponding action to the commandments of God is called obedience. Corresponding action to the promises of God is called believing.”
Henry Ward Beecher – “Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”
Blaise Pascal – “I know whom I have believed.” (Latin – Scio cui credidi)
Blaise Pascal – “In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.”
Blaise Pascal - “Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a gift from God.”
Unknown - “If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.”
Unknown – “Weave in faith and God will find the thread.”
Unknown – “A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.”
Shoemaker, Samuel M. – “Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.”
Smith, Sydney – “It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.”
Stott, John R. – “Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.”
Teller, Edward – “When you get to the end of all the light you know and it’s time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.”
Thackeray, William M. – “Tis not the dying for a faith that’s so hard… ‘Tis the living up to it that’s difficult.”
Tocqueville, Alexis De – “Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?”
Rex Rouis - ”Doubt sees what currently is and no more. Hope sees what can be but is not yet. Faith sees what is and will be.”
Rex Rouis - ”Hope will have it sometime. Faith has it now. Believing acts on it now.”
Rex Rouis - ”In the same way that salt without taste is worthless, and a lamp that is hidden is useless, faith without actions is lifeless.”
Unknown – “As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.”
Unknown - “Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.”
Unknown – “Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.”
Unknown – “Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.”
Unknown – “Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.”
Unknown – “We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually it’s just a slow leak.”
Unknown – “Faith is like electricity. You can’t see it, but you can see the light.”
Henrietta Mears - “Faith is caught rather than taught.”
Elton Trueblood - “Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.”
Martin Luther – “Reason is the enemy of faith.”
Martin Luther – “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 – “Peace if possible, truth at all costs.”
Unknown – Don’t believe in miracles, rely on them!
Rex Rouis - ”Hope is Faith in Seed Form – Faith is Hope in Final Form”
C.H. Spurgeon – “If you wish to know God, you must know his Word. If you wish to perceive His power, you must see how He works by his Word. If you wish to know His purpose before it comes to pass, you can only discover it by His Word.”
J. Hudson Taylor – Written to his wife during one difficult time in the work of the China Inland Mission, “We have twenty-five cents – and all the promises of God!”
Eddie Zepeda - “Faith is doing God’s will when you don’t feel like it.”
Eddie Zepeda - “Say what you heard so you can see what you said.” Or – “Say what you heard so you can see what you heard.”
George Mueller – “To learn strong faith is to endure great trials. I have learned my faith by standing firm amid severe testings.”
George Mueller - “If the Lord fails me at this time, it will be the first time.”
Rex Rouis - ”God operates in love by faith. If we do not understand His love we have no foundation for faith. If we do not understand His requirement of faith it will affect our understanding of His love.”
Rex Rouis - ”The reality of the word of God must first be expressed in the heart before faith can express the reality of God to the world.”
John R. Stott - “Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.”
Rex Rouis - “The Word of God makes faith available. Faith makes the Word of God available. The Word of God made available through faith releases the power of God.”
Jack Coe – “If you have worry, you don’t have faith, and if you have faith, you don’t have worry.”
Dr. T. J. McCrossan – “When unbelief kept Christ from healing the sick on earth, it will surely do so today.”
Rick Renner – “Faith is the spark that ignites the impossible and causes it to become possible. When a person’s faith is activated, it sets in motion supernatural power that enables that person to do what he normally would never be able to do!”
E. W. Kenyon – “There is no sickness problem. There is simply a problem of the believer’s coming to know his inheritance in Christ.”
Edith Edman – “Never doubt in the dark what God has shown you in the light.”
Thomas Fuller - “He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.”
Smith Wigglesworth - “Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.”
Smith Wigglesworth - “I cannot understand how God can give to any of His children glory and virtue, but it nevertheless is true that He does…. There is something about believing in God, that makes God willing to pass over a million people just to anoint you. I believe God will always turn out to meet you on a special line if you dare to believe Him.”
Lillian B. Yeomans – “Just believe what God says that Jesus has done for you, body, soul, and spirit – think about it, talk about it, sing about it, shout about it, and the praise cure has begun.”
Charles F. Parham – “The anointing of the Holy Spirit is given to illuminate His Word, to open the Scriptures, and to place the spiritual man in direct communication with the mind of God.”
Oral Roberts – “Faith is not something you have to get. It’s something that you, as a born-again child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That’s when your healing starts!”
Rex Rouis - ”Believing is simply acting consistent with a knowing from God.”
John Osteen – “Believe you receive in the faith realm, and you shall have it in the natural realm.”
Corrie Ten Boom – “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
Kenneth Copeland – “Fear tolerated is faith contaminated.”
Gordon Lindsay – “Never dig up in unbelief what you have sown in faith.”
Martin Luther – “I believe that I cannot by my own reason or strength believe in Jesus Christ, my Lord, or come to Him; but the Holy Ghost has called me by the Gospel, enlightened me with His gifts, sanctified and kept me in the true faith…” The Small Catechism
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