There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.
Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.
All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.
Christians are made, not born.
The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.
You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'
Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition.
I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.
We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
Simply put, the promises of God are not automatic; they must be acquired by faith.
