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On the Nature of Faith
“Faith is a living attribute of genuine personal religious experience.” — Paper 101:8.1
“Belief has attained the level of faith when it motivates life and shapes the mode of living.” — Paper 101:8.1
“Faith acts to release the superhuman activities of the divine spark, the immortal germ, that lives within the mind of man.” — Paper 132:3.6
“By faith recognize the inner spirit of God whose acceptance makes you a son of God.” — Paper 150:5.2
“Faith is the open door for entering into the present, perfect, and eternal love of God.” — Paper 138:8.8
On Faith and Spiritual Growth
“Man’s sole contribution to growth is the mobilization of the total powers of his personality — living faith.” — Paper 100:3.7
“The one thing of supreme value in human life is to know the will of God and to do it.” — Paper 196:0.13
“Few persons live up to the faith which they really have. Unreasoned fear is a master intellectual fraud practiced upon the evolving mortal soul.” — Paper 48:7.4
“Spiritual growth is first an awakening to needs, next a discernment of meanings, and then a discovery of values.” — Paper 100:2.2
“Faith most willingly carries reason along as far as reason can go and then goes on with wisdom to the full philosophic limit; and then it dares to launch out upon the limitless and never-ending universe journey in the sole company of TRUTH.” — Paper 103:9.7
On Faith in Action
“Faith transforms the philosophic God of probability into the saving God of certainty in the personal religious experience.” — Paper 102:6.4
“The experience of God-knowing must not be an experience of doubt, but rather one of certainty.” — Paper 102:6.5
“Jesus’ earthly life was devoted to one great purpose — doing the Father’s will, living the human life religiously and by faith.” — Paper 196:0.14
“Remember, in all your disappointments, that faith is the victory that overcomes the world.” — Paper 101:2.15
“If you have faith, you have everything worth having; if you do not have faith, nothing you might have is worth having.” — Paper 100:2.7 (paraphrased teaching)
On Faith and Fear
“The God-knowing individual is not one who is blind to the difficulties or unmindful of the obstacles which stand in the way of finding God.” — Paper 101:10.9
“In religion, Jesus advocated and followed the method of experience, even as modern science pursues the technique of experiment.” — Paper 195:5.14
“Doubt, hesitation, and indecision characterize your confused present-day philosophy. You are now standing on the threshold of a spiritual new age.” — Paper 155:6.17
“When the flood tides of human adversity, selfishness, cruelty, hate, malice, and jealousy beat about the mortal soul, you may rest in the assurance that there is one inner bastion, the citadel of the spirit, which is absolutely unassailable.” — Paper 100:2.7
“Religion inspires man to live courageously and joyfully on the face of the earth.” — Paper 99:4.1
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