"God does not require a man to have one talent, three talents, or five talents. He only requires that a man be faithful with whatever he has been given."
- Anonymous
"You cannot see faith, but you can see the footprints of the faithful. We must leave behind "faithful footprints" for others to follow."
- Dr. Dennis Anderson
"It costs to be faithful. It cost Abraham the yielding up of his only son. It cost Esther to risk her own life. It cost Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego being put into a fiery furnace. It cost Stephen death by stoning. It cost Paul his life. Does it cost you anything to be faithful to your Lord and King?"
- Anonymous
"If you do not plan to live the Christian life totally committed to knowing your God and to walking in obedience to Him, then don't begin, for this is what Christianity is all about. It is a change of
citizenship, a change of governments, a change of allegiance. If you have no intention of letting Christ rule your life, then forget Christianity; it is not for you."
- Kay Arthur
"Many Christians `stall out´ in the faith when the call to total commitment is received or viewed as something too high or too hard to acquire...or they have never been taught that total commitment is Christ's demand for all His followers."
- Chip Ingram
"Integrity is keeping a commitment even after circumstances have changed."
- David Jeremiah
"Unfaithfulness in the key relationships of life is a common failure for many people in contemporary society. This lack leads to so much misery. We who trust Christ must not allow the world to squeeze us into its mould. What wonderful blessings flow from
faithfulness in keeping our vows. Examine your life. Is it characterized by faithfulness? God is faithful. He keeps his promises to us. Keep your promises to God and to those with whom you have entered into covenant."
- Harry Buis
"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