If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.
Jesus praised faith and trust – even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart.
At the toughest times I recalled how the children and the elderly looked at me with trustful eyes. Your faith has given me strength.
I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.
Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.
To believe when all means fail is exceedingly pleasing to God and is most acceptable.
The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.
