Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is a power in God's gospel beyond all description.
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.
I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.
All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother.
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.