I find that many Christians are in trouble about the future; they think they will not have grace enough to die by. It is much more important that we should have grace enough to live by. It seems to me that death is of very little importance in the meantime. When the dying hour comes, there will be dying grace; but you do not require dying grace to live by.
One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always
We should remember that bearing a heartfelt testimony is only a beginning. We need to bear testimony, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to live it. We need to both declare and live our testimonies.
Father, perfect my trust;Let my spirit feel in death,That her feet are firmly setOn the rock of a living faith!
True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ.
A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority
A lot of people can talk about their faith. When you live it every day and act on the word of God, it's pretty cool to see.
My simple point is that I judge a person's faith by how they live their life, not by the tenets of their religion. I've watched the holiest of people walk past somebody in need or treat their staff mean. To me, the beauty of faith is only seen when people live it consistently or struggle to do so.
It is not enough to say we are Christians. We must live the faith, not only with our words, but with our actions.
No man can teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ under the inspiration of the living God and with power from on high unless he is living it.
I know that I had not faith, unless the faith of a devil, the faith of Judas, that speculative, notional, airy shadow, which lives in the head, not in the heart. But what is this to the living, justifying faith, the faith that cleanses from sin?
The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it.
May the Lord be with us at all times, under all circumstances; may he bring into our lives a burning desire to uphold the Constitution, a living faith in its inspired origin, that we may always be found among those who shall support it to the last breath.
I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other than the work of the God whom they adore. But for those in whom this light is extinguished, [if we were to show them our proofs of the existence of God] nothing is more calculated to arouse their contempt. . . .
My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.
By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.
We need people who truly live their faith, represent their faith, speaking to the issues of faith through a faith prism as opposed to just having folks talking about faith when there is a crisis.
The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.
The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.
Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.
Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.
