Quotes on Faith
Faith:
Makes the outlook calm,
the uplook constant,
the inlook accurate.

Faith:
Makes yesterday a stepping stone,
today a new beginning
tomorrow a limitless possibility.
--Anonymous--


"All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all that I have not seen."
--Unknown --

"If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his resolve. Feelings of futility foster vulnerability. Self-pity is such a busy stagehand, rearranging the scenery to help sin make its entrance. No wonder the prophets say that without faith in the Lord, there is no hope."

"Repentance takes care of the past, faith the future, and the Holy Ghost helps us with today."

--Elder Neal A. Maxwell--


"The easiest way to destroy a man's faith is to destroy his morality."

--Melvin J. Ballard--



"Walk to the edge of the light, and perhaps a few steps into the darkness, and you will find that the light will appear and move ahead of you."

--Jack Goaslind--

"Undaunted faith can stop the mouths of lions, make ineffective the fiery flames, make dry corridors through beds of rivers and seas. Unwavering faith can protect against deluge, terminate droughts, heal the sick, and bring heavenly manifestations. Indomitable faith can help us live the commandments and thereby bring blessings unnumbered with peace, perfection, and exaltation in the kingdom of God."

--Spencer W. Kimball--

"Faith is a gift of God bestowed as a reward for personal righteousness. It is always given when righteousness is present, and the greater the measure of obedience to God's laws the greater will be the endowment of faith."

--Bruce R. McConkie--

" He who loses money, loses much;
He who loses a friend, loses more;
He who loses faith, loses all."

--- Author Unknown ---

"In relation to events that will yet take place, the kind of trials, troubles, and sufferings which we shall have to cope with, it is to me a matter of very little moment; these things are in the hands of God, he dictates the affairs of the human family, and directs and controls our affairs; and the great thing that we, as a people, have to do is to seek after and cleave unto our God, to be in close affinity with him, and to seek for his guidance, and his blessing and Holy Spirit to lead and guide us in the right path. Then it matters not what it is nor who it is that we have to contend with, God will give us strength
according to our day."

--John Taylor--

"Faith precedes the miracle. It has ever been so and shall ever be. It was not raining when Noah was commanded to build an ark. There was no visible ram in the thicket when Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac. Two heavenly personages were not yet seen when Joseph knelt and prayed. First came the test of faith--and then the miracle.

"Remember that faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other. Cast out doubt. Cultivate faith."

--Thomas S. Monson--

Stories on Faith
*~*The Missing Day*~*

For all scientists and students who have hard time convincing people regarding the truth of the Bible is not a myth. Mr Harold Hill. President of Curtis Engine Company, Baltimore, MD and a sonsultant in the space program, relates the following development.

I think one of the most amazing things that God has done for us happened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at Green Belt, MD. They were checking the position of the sun, moon, and planets where they would be 100 years and 1,000 years from now. We have to know this so we won't send a satellite up and have it bump into something later in orbits. We have to lay out the orbits in terms of the life of the satellite, and where the planets will be so the whole thing will not bog down. They ran the computer measurement back and forth over the centuries and the computer stopped; there was something wrong either with the information fed into it or with the results that compared to the standards. They called in the service department to check it out and found there is a day missing in space in slapsed time. There was no answer. Finally, a Christian man on the team said, "you know, one time I was in Sunday school and they talked about the sun standing still." He got a Bible and went back to the book of Joshua (chapter 10 verses 8, 12, and 13). There they found the Lord saying to Joshua, "Fear them not, I have delivered them into thy hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee." Joshua was concerned because the enemy surrounded him and if darkness fell, they would overpower them. So, Joshua asked the Lord to make the sun stand still! 'The sun stood still and the moon stayed--and hasted not to go down about a day!' They checked the computers going vack into the time it was written and found it was close, but not close enough. The elapsed time that was missing back in Joshua's day was 23 hous and 20 minutes--not a whole day. They read the Bible again and there it was 'about a day'. Three little words in the Bible are important, but they were still in trouble because if you cannot account for 40 minutes , you will still be in trouble 1,000 years from now. Forty minutes had to be found because it can be multiplied many times over in orbits. The Christian employee remembered reading in the Bible where it said the sun went backwards. They read in 2 Kings 20:9-11,'Hezekiah, on his death-bed, was visited by the prophet Isaidah who told him that he was not going to die'. Hezekiah asked for a sign as proof. Isaiah said, 'Do you want the sun to go ahead 10 degrees?' Hezekiah said, 'It is nothing for the sun to go ahead 10 degrees, but let the shadow return backwards 10 degrees..' Isaiah spoke to the Lord and the Lord brought the shadow ten degrees backward! Ten degrees is exactly 40 minutes! Twenty-three hours and 20 minutes in Joshua, plus 40 minutes in Second Kings make the missing day in the universe! GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!


*~*Stand Up For Your Faith!*~*

A professor of philosophy at USC was a deeply committed atheist. His primary goal for one required class was to spend the entire semester attempting to prove that God couldn't exist. His students were always afraid to argue with him because of his impeccable logic. For twenty years, he had taught this class and no one had ever had the courage to go against him. Sure, some had argued in class at times, but no one had ever 'really gone against him' (you'll see what I mean later).

Nobody would go against him because he had a reputation. At the end of every semester, on the last day, he would say to his class of 300 students, "If there anyone here who still believes in Jesus, stand up!" In twenty years, no one had ever stood up. They knew what he was going to do next. He would say, "because anyone who does believe in God is a fool. If God existed, he could stop this piece of chalk from hitting the ground and breaking. Such a simple task to prove that he is God, and yet he can't do it." And every year, he would drop the chalk onto the tile floor of the classroom and it would shatter into a hundred pieces. All of the students could do nothing but stop and stare. Most of the students were convinced that God couldn't exist. Certainly, a number of Christians had slipped through, but for 20 years, they had been too afraid to stand up.

Well, a few years ago, there was a freshman who happened to enroll in the class. He was a Christian, and he had heard the stories about this professor. He had to take the class because it was one of the required classes for his major. and he was afraid. But for 3 months that semester, he prayed every morning that he would have the courage to stand up no matter what the professor said or what the class thought. Nothing they said or did could ever shatter his faith, he hoped.

Finally the day came. The professor said, "If there is anyone here who still believes in God, stand up!" The professor and the class of 300 people looked at him, shocked, as he stood up at the back of the classroom. The professor shouted, "You FOOL!! If God existed, he could keep this piece of chalk from breaking when it hit the floor!" He proceeded to drop the chalk, but as he did, it slipped out of his fingers, off his shirt cuff, onto the pleats of his pants, down his leg, and off his shoe. As it hit the floor it simply rolled away, unbroken. The professor's jaw dropped as he stared at the chalk. He looked up at the young man and then ran out of the lecture hall. The young man who had stood up proceeded to walk to the front of the room and shared his faith in Jesus for the next half hour. 300 students stayed and listened as he told of God's love for them and of his power through Jesus.

Author Unknown