Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
A man who is not poor nor ill, nor about to be stoned to death, must not distress himself if he does not feel all through his life what faith Stephen had only in his last moments.
Faith, though it hath sometimes a trembling hand, it must not have a withered hand, but must stretch.
Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.
Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift.
Faith is the champion of grace, and love the nurse; but humility is the beauty of grace.
There is a grand fearlessness in faith. He who in his heart of hearts reverences the good, the true, the holy—that is, reverences God—does not tremble at the apparent success of attacks upon the outworks of faith. They may shake those who rest on those outworks—they do not move him whose soul reposes on the truth itself. He needs no prop or crutches to support his faith. Founded on a Rock, Faith can afford to gaze undismayed at the approaches of Infidelity.
