Breakthrough Burst

Faith is not bereft of reason. - Ravi Zacharias

The proverb answers where the sermon fails. - W.G. Simms

Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God. - A.W. Tozer

If you desire faith then you have faith enough. - Robert Browning

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith. - Tolstoy

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry. - Oliver Cromwell

The only way you can fail is if you stop praying. - Mark Batterson

I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in Church. - Zig Ziglar

Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith. - Ravi Zacharias

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith. - Immanuel Kant

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. - Mahatma Gandhi

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. - Robert Brault

Never pray to win, but to do your best - for God has no favorites. - Dorothy I. Welker

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. - Mary McLeod Bethune

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. - E.M. Forster

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the Bible says love your enemy. - Frank Sinatra

To love to preach is one thing; to love to whom you preach is quite another. - D. Martin Lloyd-Jones

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right. By these we reach divinity. - John Donne

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart. - John Bunyan

I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale. - Robert H. Schuller

Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones. - William S Coffin

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it. - Josh Billings

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon. - Malcolm Muggeridge

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. - Soren Kierkegaard

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. - Zig Ziglar

It's hard for me to imagine why a church that has younger members wouldn't have a blog component. - Mark Batterson

If you really believe in the message you're preaching, you want as many people as possible to listen. - Mark Batterson

I preach as though Christ was crucified yesterday; rose again from the dead today; and is coming back tomorrow. - Martin Luther

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are the same people. - G K Chesterton

Giving is more than a responsibility - it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience - it is evidence of our faith. - William A Ward

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car. - Garrison Keillor

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie. - A.W. Tozer

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. - Unknown

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. - Mahatma Gandhi

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. - Bruce Lee

A mother's heart, a mother's faith, and a mother's steadfast love were fashioned by the angels and sent from God above. - Unknown

You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, but the consecration that doesn't reach your purse has not reached your heart. - Adrian Rogers

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. - Mohandas Gandhi

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but, 'I will do something!' - Billy Graham

Appreciation is the highest from of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts. - Samuel Johnson