"Faith, without trouble or fighting, is a suspicious faith; for true faith is a fighting, wrestling faith."
- Ralph Erskine
"Do not strive in your own strength... Strive in prayer; let faith fill your heart-so will you be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might."
- Andrew Murray
"David was the last one we would have chosen to fight the giant, but he was chosen of God."
- Dwight L. Moody
"His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness."
- Charles Stanley
"Uncertainty as to our relationship with God is one of the most enfeebling and dispiriting of things. It makes a man heartless. It takes the pith out of him. He cannot fight; he cannot run. He is easily dismayed and gives way. He can do nothing for God.
But when we know that we are of God, we are vigorous, brave, invincible. There is no more quickening truth than this of assurance."
- Horatius Bonar
"Prayer is work... It is also warfare, for it is one of the weapons in fighting the enemy. However, only prayer in the spirit is genuinely effectual."
- Watchman Nee
"Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf, unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine, and a table in the wilderness. In the greatest danger, faith says, "I
have a great God."
When outward strength is broken, faith rests on the promises.
In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of
every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction."
- Richard Cecil
"If we are to better the future we must disturb the present."
- Catherine Booth
"12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:"
- Apostle Paul, Ephesians 1