Faith - Vance Havner

By Him faith consists.  It is not the quantity or the quality but the object of our faith that matters.  Saving faith is faith in Christ, not merely believing things about Christ.  The man with the best nerves is the man least conscious of his nerves, and the man with the best faith is the man least conscious of his faith but most conscious of his Christ.  ~Vance Havner; “By Him All Things Consist”

Faith is the least self-regarding of the virtues. It is by its very nature scarcely conscious of its own existence. Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God we do not see ourselves--blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One. While he looks at Christ the very things he has so long been trying to do will be getting done within him. It will be God working in him to will and to do. ~A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led.  But it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading.  It is literally a life of faith, not of understanding and reason – a life of knowing Him who calls us to go.  Faith is rooted in the knowledge of a Person, and one of the biggest traps we fall into is the belief that if we have faith, God will surely lead us to success in the world. ~Oswald Chambers, “My Utmost For His Highest”, March 19

Oswald Chambers on Faith

Faith is not some weak and pitiful emotion, but is strong and vigorous confidence built on the fact that God is holy love. And even though you cannot see Him right now and cannot understand what He is doing, you know Him. Disaster occurs in your life when you lack the mental composure that comes from establishing yourself on the eternal truth that God is holy love. Faith is the supreme effort of your life— throwing yourself with abandon and total confidence upon God. ~Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest, May 8

Chambers on Faith - II

Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led. But it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of faith, not of understanding and reason – a life of knowing Him who calls us to go. Faith is rooted in the knowledge of a Person, and one of the biggest traps we fall into is the belief that if we have faith, God will surely lead us to success in the world. ~Oswald Chambers, “My Utmost For His Highest”, March 19

Chambers on Faith

Faith is not some weak and pitiful emotion, but is strong and vigorous confidence built on the fact that God is holy love. And even though you cannot see Him right now and cannot understand what He is doing, you know Him. Disaster occurs in your life when you lack the mental composure that comes from establishing yourself on the eternal truth that God is holy love. Faith is the supreme effort of your life— throwing yourself with abandon and total confidence upon God. ~Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest, May 8

4 Brief Chambers Quotes

The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting. ~Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, March 19 We scarcely believe what the Bible reveals—that God’s chosen way of working is through intercessory prayer. ~Oswald Chambers No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God first. ~Oswald Chambers God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is. ~Oswald Chambers, “My Utmost for His Highest, Jan 2

Oswald Chambers

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.  ~Oswald Chambers Holiness, not happiness is the chief end of man. ~Oswald Chambers It is impossible to get exhausted in the work for God.  We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.  ~Oswald Chambers Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. ~Oswald Chambers 
 The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ. ~Oswald Chambers Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One Who is leading. ~Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, March 19

Righteousness of a Nation

In America we must remember that the glory of a nation is righteousness and faith in God - and going the way God points - and in such is our security against all foes, our immunity against the ravages of time. "For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish, yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted."- Isaiah 60:12. This sober truth that only righteousness exalteth a nation -- that if ever America loses her faith in God she will have to come off her pedestal, that pallbearers that carried other nations to their graves will do work for us if we forsake God and refuse to go the way He points. ~R. G. Lee, Goodbye to Glory-Ichabod

Faith

Faith is a decision. It is not a deduction from the facts around us. We would not look at the world of today and logically conclude that God loves us. It doesn’t always look as though He does. Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling—feelings don’t help much when you’re in the lions’ den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy way things always work. It is an act of the will, a choice based on the unbreakable Word of a God who cannot lie, and who showed us what love and obedience and sacrifice mean, in the person of Jesus Christ. ~Elisabeth Elliot, “Secure in the Everlasting Arms”, p 94

John Bunyan on Prayer

Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart or soul to God, though Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Holy Spirit, for such things as God has promised, or according to the Word of God, for the good of the Church, with submission in faith to the will of God. ~John Bunyan, I Will Pray With the Spirit

Spurgeon on faith and distrust

Faith girds us with omnipotence, but unbelief makes everything hang loose and limp about us. Distrust, and thou wilt fail in everything; believe, and according to thy faith so shall it be unto thee. The Abiding of the Spirit of the Glory of the Church