Life is only a long and bitter suicide and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
Look at the Afghans during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world yet they were sustained by their faith in God and God alone.
Offspring the due performance on religious rites faithful service highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself depend on one's wife alone.
Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone with the knowledge that only God is watching him and play his ball where it lies is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
Bid then the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
Faith mighty faith the promise sees And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities And cries it shall be done.
Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk rejection or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation they check to see which way their friends are going.
Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ accepting receiving resting upon Him alone for justification sanctification and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.
In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.
God tolerates even our stammering and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as indeed without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.