“You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God.”
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(Roger Steer. Hudson Taylor: Lessons in Discipleship. OMF International, 1995, 51).
“Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness.”
Call to the Nation
Context: Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness. If you have faith in all the three hundred and thirty millions of your mythological Gods, and in all the Gods which foreigners have now and again introduced into your midst, and still have no faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for you.
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James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 58).
“Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.”
Eric Hoffer book The True Believer
Section 8
The True Believer (1951), Part One: The Appeal of Mass Movements
“Faith in God includes faith in those who help God.”
Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) English theologian
Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.269
“Faith! Have Faith! God is both doctor and medicine.”
Leopold Mandić (1866–1942) Catholic priest; saint
Quoted in "Reconciliation", Capuchin Franciscans, Province of Ireland https://www.capuchinfranciscans.ie/our-work/ministries/reconciliation/.
“God's truth and faithfulness "are a great deep."”
Richard Fuller (minister) (1804–1876) United States Baptist minister
They resemble the ocean itself; always there — vast, fathomless, sublime, the same in its majesty, its inexhaustible fullness, yesterday, to-day, and forever; the same in calm and storm, by day and by night; changeless while generations come and pass; everlasting while ages are rolling away.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 261.
“What is faith? Faith is trusting God for your problems and for your life.”
John Townsend (1952) Canadian clinical psychologist and author
Where Is God (2009, Thomas Nelson publishers)