Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes

Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.

When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.

And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.

The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.

Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.

The hardest thing to do is to trust people.

God only knows just how much I'm going to do, or not going to do.

There are times when God leaves huge question marks as tools in our lives to stretch our our faith.

I'd rather have all my questions unanswered and walk with God than not walk with God and have all my questions answered.

It's not easy to sit and trust that in solitude God will speak to you - not as a magical voice but that God will let you know something gradually over the years. And in that word from God you will find the inner place from which to live your life. Solitude is where spiritual ministry begins. That's where Jesus listened to God. That's where we listen to God.

A committed heart does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why? Because conditions are never exactly right. Indecision limits The Almighty and His ability to perform miracles in your life. He has put the vision in you - proceed! To wait, to wonder, to doubt, to be indecisive is to disobey God.

God isn't afraid of our doubts; He's way more concerned when we fake it.

If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.

Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.

Faith is the readiness to reveal whatever is concealed. You don't have to conceal doubts by putting on patches of self-confirmation. The readiness to be exposed seems to make the difference between ego's approach to spirituality and an enlightened one.

We all have in our hearts some areas of unbelief. Let us say to the Lord: I believe! Help my unbelief.

Where there is fear there is no religion.

Have faith in your faith-and doubt your doubts.

Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.

When we read of the great Biblical leaders, we see that it was not uncommon for God to ask them to wait, not just a day or two, but for years, until God was ready for them to act.

A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.

This is my prayer for all of us — 'Lord, increase our faith.' Increase our faith to bridge the chasms of uncertainty and doubt. Grant us faith to look beyond the problems of the moment to the miracles of the future. Give us faith to do what is right and let the consequence follow.