Risk

"Unless there is an element of risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith."
— Hudson Taylor

Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address

"It is no coincidence that our present troubles parallel and are proportionate to the intervention and intrusion in our lives that result from unnecessary and excessive growth of government. It is time for us to realize that we're too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We're not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline. I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing. So, with all the creative energy at our command, let us begin an era of national renewal. Let us renew our determination, our courage, and our strength. And let us renew our faith and our hope."

Ronald Reagan, Jan. 20, 1981, in his first inaugural address.

Real Faith

"This is real faith: believing and acting regardless of circumstances or contrary evidence. After all, if faith depended on visible evidence, it wouldn't be faith."

Chuck Colson

(Decision magazine, October 2007, page 32)

[Submitted by Larry and Shary Lockhart]

Faith and Works

"Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again ... until you can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other."

William Booth

Doing the Impossible

"I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done."

Hudson Taylor

Great Things

One of Christendom's most famous quotes (and rightly so):

"Attempt great things for God, expect great things from God."

William Carey

From a man who did both.

A Family's Journey of Faith

"Some of our most significant milestones in faith can occur within the day-to-day life of our families. Moments of praying together for a sick child and experiencing the joy of God’s healing, seeking guidance together for a parent’s challenges at work and witnessing God’s intervention, celebrating children’s first attempts to share God’s love with friends, learning to find strength in God and one another at the death of someone dear — all are steps in our family’s journey of faith."

Beth Grant

("Your Family Serving God" in Jesus and You: 25 Ways to Grow Your Life in Christ, compiled and edited by George O. Wood, Hal Donaldson and Ken Horn. Springfield, Mo.: Onward Books, 2006)

Feed your faith

"Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death."

Author unknown