What does it profit, my brethren,
if someone says he has faith but does not have works?
Can faith save him?
- James 2:14
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want.
It is the belief that God will do what is right.
- Max Lucado
Trust in God's goodness.
Be wary of what humans do in God's name.
Not everyone who claims to speak for God is righteous.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person who is fanatic in matters of religion,
and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe,
becomes a person who has no faith at all.
- Alan Watts
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
To know a person's religion
we need not listen to his profession of faith
but must find his brand of intolerance.
- Eric Hoffer
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Further reading: Where there is Great Love
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Heaven on Earth
Thank You Prayer
Welcome to my Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote. See today's daily inspirational quotes below.
May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thursday, September 7, 2023
True Faith does Not Make Demands
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