To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
— G. K. Chesterton
Pioneering Faithfulness quotations
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing.
It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief;
but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.
Make your faith larger than your fears and your dreams larger than your doubts.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.
The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it
I am not moved by what I see. I am moved only by what I believe.
This life is the only hell believers will ever know.
But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven.
Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.
People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.
I trust that you will so live today as to realize that you are masters of your own destiny, masters of your fate; if there is anything you want in this world, it is for you to strike out with confidence and faith in self and reach for it.
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.
It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
The secret is to believe in your dreams;
in your potential that you can be like your star, keep searching, keep believing and don’t lose faith in yourself.
Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road.
Go forth without fear, for he who created you has made you holy, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother. Blessed be you, my God, for having created me.
If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.
Great faith is the product of great fights.
Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.
God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
We walk by faith, not by sight.
The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going.
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service.
Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Come hell or high water you will never take me back to the place I was before.
I have been through too much to let life whoop me again. My faith is stronger than it's ever been, my mind is more tenacious than it's ever been, my soul is more absolute.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Focus on big things.
Never lose faith in yourself; you can do anything in the universe.
I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors;
where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.
When you do business with people you need money.
When you do business with God you need faith. Faith is the currency of the Kingdom of God.
Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.
If you want to give birth to your true self, you are going to have to dig deep down into that body of yours and let your soul howl. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and trust that if you turn off your head, your feet will take you where you need to go.
Face your fear, empty yourself, trust your own voice, let go of control, have faith in outcomes, connect with a larger purpose, derive meaning from the struggle.
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.