"Faith is a living and unshakable confidence. a belief in God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake."
- Martin Luther"If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!"
- D.L. Moody
"Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do."
- Andrew Murray
"God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us."
- Augustine
"Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action...What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for and do bring about as far as that power lies in us."
- John Polkinghorne
"A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting and sinking; he knows that hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory."
- Thomas Brooks
"Let this one great, gracious, glorious fact lie in your spirit until it permeates all your thoughts and makes you rejoice even though you are without strength. Rejoice that the Lord Jesus has become your strength and your song - He has become your salvation."
- Charles Spurgeon
"The sins against hope are despair, as anticipated failure, and presumption, as anticipated fulfilment. In both these cases man seeks to break out of his pilgrim existence and have his life otherwise than from the hand of God."
- Ferdinand Kerstiens
"5 And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,
6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
7 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.
8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
9 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel."
- Jesus Christ, Matthew 8