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Maybe you feel so consumed with the pull of your desire that you wonder if there is still hope for you. Perhaps you feel so beaten down by a certain trial in your life that you don't know if you will ever have the strength to get up again. Maybe you are so exhausted from your attempt to juggle all the different idols begging for your attention that you're on the verge of collapse. If you want to have genuine faith in a God who has the power to stand with you in the fire and bring you out unharmed, then I beg you to examine your faith, as Scripture tells us to do: Examine yourselves to see if your faith is genuine. ~ Kasey Van Norman
Genuine Faith quotes by Kasey Van Norman
Genuine faith will produce genuine changes in your life. ~ Jim George
Genuine Faith quotes by Jim George
Many people in Nixon's camp had genuine faith in affirmative action. It wasn't designed to fail, but it wasn't designed to succeed, either; the intent behind it was not rooted in a desire to help black people attain equal standing in society. It was riot insurance. It was a financial incentive for blacks to stay in their own communities and out of the suburbs. (183) ~ Tanner Colby
Genuine Faith quotes by Tanner Colby
genuine faith is always seeking the Word hidden in the flesh, not using the Word simply as a way of getting at the flesh. ~ N. T. Wright
Genuine Faith quotes by N. T. Wright
Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws. ~ Adam Clarke
Genuine Faith quotes by Adam Clarke
It's a weak faith that only serves God in times of blessing. The book of Job teaches us that true faith, genuine faith, great faith is revealed only when we serve and trust God in the hard times, the times of suffering, loss, and opposition. That's the kind of faith that makes the world sit up and take notice. ~ Ray Stedman
Genuine Faith quotes by Ray Stedman
Genuine faith doesn't seek an easy-out but stands firm in the face of invasion by enemy forces. ~ Lydia Chorpening
Genuine Faith quotes by Lydia Chorpening
Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude of the contemplative experience awakens a tragic anguish and opens many questions in the depths of the heart like wounds that cannot stop bleeding. For every gain in deep certitude there is a corresponding growth of superficial "doubt." This doubt is by no means opposed to genuine faith, but it mercilessly examines and questions the spurious "faith" of everyday life, the human faith which is nothing but the passive acceptance of conventional opinion. This false "faith" which is what we often live by and which we even come to confuse with our "religion" is subjected to inexorable questioning… Hence, is it clear that genuine contemplation is incompatible with complacency and with smug acceptance of prejudiced opinions. It is not mere passive acquiescence in the status quo, as some would like to believe – for this would reduce it to the level of spiritual anesthesia. ~ Thomas Merton
Genuine Faith quotes by Thomas Merton
A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Genuine Faith quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr
Cynicism creates a numbness toward life.

Cynicism begins with a wry assurance that everyone has an angle. Behind every silver lining is a cloud. The cynic is always observing, critiquing, but never engaging, loving, and hoping.

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To be cynical is to be distant. While offering a false intimacy of being "in the know," cynicism actually destroys intimacy. It leads to bitterness that can deaden and even destroy the spirit.

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Cynicism begins, oddly enough, with too much of the wrong kind of faith, with naive optimism or foolish confidence. At first glance, genuine faith and naive optimism appear identical since both foster confidence and hope.But the similarity is only surface deep.Genuine faith comes from knowing my heavenly Father loves, enjoys, and cares for me. Naive optimism is groundless. It is childlike trust without the loving Father.

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Optimism in the goodness of people collapses when it confronts the dark side of life.

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Shattered optimism sets us up for the fall into defeated weariness and, eventually, cynicism. You'd think it would just leave us less optimistic, but we humans don't do neutral well. We go from seeing the bright side of everything to seeing the dark side of everything. We feel betrayed by life.

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The movement from naive optimism to cynicism is the new American journey. In naive optimism we don't need to pray because everythin ~ Paul E. Miller
Genuine Faith quotes by Paul E. Miller
. . . the symptoms and effects of the life of faith are totally unspectacular. . . .true covenant faith is expressed by concern for others. . . .this concern is expressed by loving actions that promote the next person's well-being and by verbal expressions of prayer for the next person. Block, Book of Ruth, p. 612. See also James 2:17. ~ Daniel I. Block
Genuine Faith quotes by Daniel I. Block
James condemns any form of Christianity that drifts into a sterile, actionless "orthodoxy." Faith, not what we do, is fundamental in establishing a relationship with God. But faith, James insists, must be given content. Genuine faith, he insists, always and inevitably produces evidence of its existence in a life of righteous living. ~ Douglas J. Moo
Genuine Faith quotes by Douglas J. Moo
People love for so many different reasons. Some love you for only what you can do for them. Others love you for how much money you have or various material things. Love is sometimes tossed around like throwing a bone to a dog. And, some people have love confused with lust or infatuation. Those are both temporary and artificial, not genuine. ~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Genuine Faith quotes by Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not. ~ Abraham Kuyper
Genuine Faith quotes by Abraham Kuyper
Jarrid Wilson has a passion and heart for God that is contagious. His genuine faith comes through powerfully in his teaching and writing. 30 Words points to the God of all wonder and grace in a way that will expand your faith and experience of God. ~ Jud Wilhite
Genuine Faith quotes by Jud Wilhite
For every gain in deep certitude there is a corresponding growth of superficial "doubt." This doubt is by no means opposed to genuine faith, but it mercilessly examines and questions the spurious "faith" of everyday life, the human faith which is nothing but the passive acceptance of conventional opinion. ~ Thomas Merton
Genuine Faith quotes by Thomas Merton
Genuine faith can find encouragement, even in that which is discouraging and get nearer to God. ~ T. B. Joshua
Genuine Faith quotes by T. B. Joshua
It is possible to know when, at least basically, we please God. In fact, Joseph Smith taught that one of the conditions of genuine faith is to have "an actual knowledge that the course of life which [one] is pursuing is according to [God's] will." ~ Neal A. Maxwell
Genuine Faith quotes by Neal A. Maxwell
Think about how many of us have wondered why we don't fit, why our faith doesn't stabilize us, why we seem so out of sync with most of the world. Genuine faith is the isolating force in our lives that creates tension wherever we go. To put it another way, faith is the unbalancing force in our lives that is the fruit of God's disturbing presence. ~ Mike Yaconelli
Genuine Faith quotes by Mike Yaconelli
Genuine faith is living knowledge, exact cognition, direct experience. For many centuries faith and belief have been confused, and now it takes great effort and exertion to make people understand that faith is true knowledge and not futile beliefs. ~ Samael Aun Weor
Genuine Faith quotes by Samael Aun Weor
God's plan remains God's plan despite our sin. ~ Christopher West
Genuine Faith quotes by Christopher West
If your faith doesn't remove the mountain ... Get to climbing. ~ Johnnie Dent Jr.
Genuine Faith quotes by Johnnie Dent Jr.
When you realize that God is the only One who really has any lasting reward to give, He becomes the only One whose approval you desperately need. You can rest in the fact that you have it - in full measure - because the work of God's perfect Son, Jesus, secured your acceptance the moment you placed your faith in Him. Before you ever win or lose, God has turned His face toward you. He has chosen you. And He is pleased. ~ Steven Furtick
Genuine Faith quotes by Steven Furtick
No need for apologies. ... it's good to question things, but you must have faith too. ~ Joanne Owen
Genuine Faith quotes by Joanne Owen
If you don't have the faith in principles and you don't believe in the absolutism of the truth then you won't be able achieve anything in life. ~ Sunday Adelaja
Genuine Faith quotes by Sunday Adelaja
Baptism is a sign to God, to angels, and to heaven that we do the will of God, and there is no other way beneath the heavens whereby God hath ordained for man to come to Him to be saved, and enter into the kingdom of God, except faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, and baptism for the remission of sins, and any other course is in vain; then you have the promise of the gift of the Holy Ghost. ~ Joseph Smith Jr.
Genuine Faith quotes by Joseph Smith Jr.
Following Jesus doesn't mean believing outdated creeds or literal understandings of scripture or turning my back on science. I respect my childhood church. But God is so much bigger. I believe God is alive and as real as my next breath. God wants me to grow and explore new ideas. Now I realize that faith is a journey and not a destination, and God is with me with in all my questions and doubts. God's love includes everyone, including people who ask questions and have doubts! ~ Bruce G. Epperly
Genuine Faith quotes by Bruce G. Epperly
Julian Singh, he said, extending his hand. No one (a) introduces himself and then (b) extends his hand to be shaken while (c) wearing shorts and (d) knee socks and (e) holding a genuine leather book bag on (f) the first day of school. ~ E.L. Konigsburg
Genuine Faith quotes by E.L. Konigsburg
I can live a life anticipating beginnings or survive a life dreading endings. So maybe I should begin ending the dreading. ~ Craig D Lounsbrough
Genuine Faith quotes by Craig D Lounsbrough
There are no atheists in the foxhole. ~ Ernie Pyle
Genuine Faith quotes by Ernie Pyle
Faith will help put us together on the same direction. Faith is building a relationship with God where he is in control. It is about believing although we do not always see. Do we love God with all our heart, mind, and soul? Can we follow his voice? ~ Phil Mitchell
Genuine Faith quotes by Phil Mitchell
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. ~ Simone Weil
Genuine Faith quotes by Simone Weil
Life is rather like a long train ride; you may encounter a great many people, but looking out from your own small compartment of self you catch only a glimpse of other people's joy or despair. ~ Faith Baldwin
Genuine Faith quotes by Faith Baldwin
I realized how little I knew of what makes a true missionary statesman; of a faith that never staggers at the promise of God, no matter how incredible to the natural man its fulfilment seems; of a trust in the Unchanging One, Who keeps the heart at rest and unperturbed in a changing world; of a burning love that counts not life dear unto itself, but is expendable for God; and of a vision that is never dimmed. ~ Darlene Deibler Rose
Genuine Faith quotes by Darlene Deibler Rose
People can be tough as hell. They can go through some really heavy stuff... with a genuine smile... ~ Adam Scythe
Genuine Faith quotes by Adam Scythe
When we pray, we pray according God's word which helps us to grow in faith. ~ Euginia Herlihy
Genuine Faith quotes by Euginia Herlihy
Like a fountain of refreshing water in the dusty, dry desert streets, a heart God fills with His love ministers life and health. ~ Elizabeth George
Genuine Faith quotes by Elizabeth George
Youth without faith is a day without sun. ~ Ouida
Genuine Faith quotes by Ouida
[Faith] sees in the resurrection of Christ not the eternity of heaven, but the future of the very earth on which his cross stands. It sees in him the future of the very humanity for which he died. That is why it finds the cross the hope of the earth. ~ Jurgen Moltmann
Genuine Faith quotes by Jurgen Moltmann
The Storms of This Life
Watching the distant clouds building and growing forevermore
The harsh wind begins rushing thru the leaves with the branches bending to and fro
In the attempts to not give in again I'm standing firm on all that I know
And extending out my hand reaching beyond the heavens above
Grasping for His strength to hold on, along with the endurance to make it thru
Praying that the ground beneath me will not erode nor engulf all that I love ~ Christine Upton
Genuine Faith quotes by Christine Upton
You may lose a partner, a friend,
But you must never lose yourself.
You may miss the next train, or trend,
And yet it won't put you on the shelf.
Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Without carrying a heavy load.
You may not find a wizard at last,
Stilll you may learn from the past. ~ Ana Claudia Antunes
Genuine Faith quotes by Ana Claudia Antunes
No man can bear a child's cross. ~ Francois Mauriac
Genuine Faith quotes by Francois Mauriac
Sometimes God remains silent to see if we'll remain faithful. The stillness exposed our intentions. ~ Alisa Hope Wagner
Genuine Faith quotes by Alisa Hope Wagner
God has put enough into the world to make faith in Him a most reasonable thing. But He has left enough out to make it impossible to live by sheer reason or observation alone. ~ Ravi Zacharias
Genuine Faith quotes by Ravi Zacharias
Your humans slaughter each other because of the color of your skin, or your faith or your plitics
or for no reason at all
too many of you hate as easily as you draw breath. - Magneto ~ Stan Lee
Genuine Faith quotes by Stan Lee
God of our fathers, you chose Abraham and his descendants to bring your name to the nations: We are deeply saddened by the behaviour of those who in the course of history have caused these children of yours to suffer, and, asking your forgiveness, we wish to commit ourselves to genuine brotherhood with the people of the covenant. ~ Pope John Paul II
Genuine Faith quotes by Pope John Paul II
It is not uncommon in the church for us to urge each other to witness to our faith and sometimes we do so as though it were easy to do. It is not. Our faith is so profoundly intimate and important that we draw our breath in pain to tell the story of our faith in God. And to find the appropriate word to speak even to a receptive mind is difficult. Especially if the opportunity that presents itself comes as a total surprise. ~ Fred B. Craddock
Genuine Faith quotes by Fred B. Craddock
Sometimes that's all you need my love – another woman's faith in you. ~ Joy McCullough
Genuine Faith quotes by Joy McCullough
Faith Alone is what really matters. ~ Nichiren
Genuine Faith quotes by Nichiren
But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has been kept. ~ Sheila Walsh
Genuine Faith quotes by Sheila Walsh
Because we cannot repair the loss of years away, homecomings are almost always conflicted. We are not longer at "home" in our former familiar place. And we do not live between two or more cultures, but rather in both. We are neither fully away, nor fully home.

In the pain of this tension, there is a strange blessing, a nudge that helps us to realise the fundamental sojourner status of our human existence. Life moves towards death. And for the Christian, there is the sense that this world as it is now is not our final home. Having made the return, our pilgrim status in the journey of faith becomes even more evident. This reminds us that in some strange way we are too early for heaven and too late for this world. ~ Charles Ringma
Genuine Faith quotes by Charles Ringma
Exemplar, n.
It's always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done.
You love my parents, I know. But you never get too close. You never truly believe there aren't bad secrets underneath. ~ David Levithan
Genuine Faith quotes by David Levithan
If you are standing in one place waiting for something to change, you may be there for a while. You've got to move. Step up and take a swing. Make something happen ~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Genuine Faith quotes by Amaka Imani Nkosazana
No spiritual exercise is such a blending of complexity and simplicity. It is the simplest form of speech that infant lips can try, yet the sublimest strains that reach the Majesty on high. It is as appropriate to the aged philosopher as to the little child. It is the ejaculation of a moment and the attitude of a lifetime. It is the expression of the rest of faith and of the fight of faith. It is an agony and an ecstasy. It is submissive and yet importunate. In the one moment it lays hold of God and binds the devil. It can be focused on a single objective and it can roam the world. It can be abject confession and rapt adoration. ~ John F. MacArthur Jr.
Genuine Faith quotes by John F. MacArthur Jr.
One of the most terrible losses man endures in his lifetime is not even noticed by most people, much less mourned. Which is astonishing, because what we lose is in many ways one of the essential qualities that sets us apart from other creatures. I'm talking about the loss of the sense of wonder that is such an integral part of our world when we are children. However, as we grow older, that sense of wonder shrinks from cosmic to microscopic by the time we are adults. Kids say "Wow!" all the time. Opening their mouths fully, their eyes light up with genuine awe and glee. The word emanates not so much from a voice box as from an astonished soul that has once again been shown that the world is full of amazing unexpected things.
When was the last time you let fly a loud, truly heartfelt "WOW?"
NOt recently I bet. Because generally speaking wonder belongs to kids, with the rare exception of falling madly in love with another person, which invariably leads to a rebirth of wonder. As adults, we are not supposed to say or feel Wow, or wonder, or even true surprise because those things make us sound goofy, ingenuous, and childlike. How can you run the world if you are in constant awe of it?...
The human heart has a long memory though and remembers what it was like to live through days where it was constantly surprised and delighted by the world around it. ~ Jonathan Carroll
Genuine Faith quotes by Jonathan Carroll
There is no universally valid idea from which man has not woven a rope to bind his own feet, and if possible, the feet of others as well, so that the free product of his creativity becomes a punitive power over him; no true, genuine relationship between people which they have not turned into mutual enslavement. Love, friendship, tribal loyalty, and finally even love of freedom have served as inexhaustible sources of moral oppression and servitude.... Humans are eternally on their knees before one or the other - the golden calf or duty imposed from outside.... It doesn't enter their heads that there is also something within them worthy of respect. ~ Alexander Herzen
Genuine Faith quotes by Alexander Herzen
He wouldn't just be facing her, he thought with genuine, back-sweating fear, but all of them. The four of them, with Mrs. Grady for backup.
They'd roast his balls. ~ Nora Roberts
Genuine Faith quotes by Nora Roberts
So your theory would seem to be that lying to yourself is no lie at all because you haven't deceived any third party. And if you then convince yourself of those lies, you'll believe them enough to repeat them to other with the genuine conviction that they're true."
"Something like that," I conceded uneasily. ~ Zack Love
Genuine Faith quotes by Zack Love
The essence of Christian faith has come to us in story form, the story of a God who will go to any lengths to get his family back. The Bible tells of flawed people
people just like me
who make shockingly bad choices and yet still find themselves pursued by God. As they receive grace and forgiveness, naturally they want to give it to others, and a thread of hope and transformation weaves its way throughout the Bible's accounts. ~ Philip Yancey
Genuine Faith quotes by Philip Yancey
You ask if there is no doctrine of sorrow in my philosophy. Of acute sorrow I suppose that I know comparatively little. My saddestand most genuine sorrows are apt to be but transient regrets. The place of sorrow is supplied, perchance, by a certain hard and proportionately barren indifference. I am of kin to the sod, and partake of its dull patience,
in winter expecting the sun of spring. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Genuine Faith quotes by Henry David Thoreau
Many can only say of Jesus that they hope they love him; they trust they love him; but only a poor and shallow experience will be content to stay here. No one ought to give any rest to his spirit till he feels quite sure about a matter of such vital importance. We ought not to be satisfied with a superficial hope that Jesus loves us, and with a bare trust that we love him. The old saints did not generally speak with "buts," and "ifs," and "hopes," and "trusts," but they spoke positively and plainly. "I know whom I have believed," saith Paul. "I know that my Redeemer liveth," saith Job. Get positive knowledge of your love of Jesus, and be not satisfied till you can speak of your interest in him as a reality, which you have made sure by having received the witness of the Holy Spirit, and his seal upon your soul by faith. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Genuine Faith quotes by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
What are we to do when we seem to grow out of God? Or at least the understanding of God that we grew up with? ~ Brandan Roberston
Genuine Faith quotes by Brandan Roberston
Elizabeth just made her confession of faith, and Jesus wasn't even born yet. ~ Liz Curtis Higgs
Genuine Faith quotes by Liz Curtis Higgs
Whatever had made the Dean take such a fancy to him, a cowardly, selfish, obstinate, ugly old fellow like him? He would never understand it. He took the piece of paper out of his pocket and looked at that too. Faith in God. God. A word he had always refused. But the Dean had said, put the word love in its place. ~ Elizabeth Goudge
Genuine Faith quotes by Elizabeth Goudge
Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't. ~ Faith Popcorn
Genuine Faith quotes by Faith Popcorn
For that genuine smile on your face, find the lost confidence and then that's it! ~ Somya Kedia
Genuine Faith quotes by Somya Kedia
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