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“It's a weak faith that only serves God in times of blessing. The book of Job teaches us that true faith, genuine faith, great faith is revealed only when we serve and trust God in the hard times, the times of suffering, loss, and opposition. That's the kind of faith that makes the world sit up and take notice.”
― Ray C. Stedman, Let God Be God: Life-Changing Truths from the Book of Job

“. . . the symptoms and effects of the life of faith are totally unspectacular. . . .true covenant faith is expressed by concern for others. . . .this concern is expressed by loving actions that promote the next person’s well-being and by verbal expressions of prayer for the next person. Block, Book of Ruth, p. 612. See also James 2:17.”
― Daniel I. Block, Judges, Ruth

“One cannot truthfully profess a belief in a God, without having the ability to express the same sentiments towards other people around him/her. If you are going to say that you believe in a God that you cannot see, then you ought to believe in people that you can’t see, either! So much more faith and trust is required, to believe in an essence that you will never see with your own two eyes in this lifetime, than to believe in what you actually know can existâ€� other people. One must not be a hypocrite. During the times that I didn’t believe in peopleâ€� I didn’t believe in God, either! During the times that I didn’t trust anyoneâ€� I didn’t trust God, either. The stuff of the soul, when it is genuine, will be reflected onto the way we think about, and interact with, other people! Don’t tell me you know a God who lovesâ€� if you don’t know how to love other people. Don’t tell me you have faith in a God, when you can’t have faith in another person. God is not there to show us that people can't be trusted. God is there to show us Himself, in everyone and in everything.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“It is so easy to practice a creditable degree of so seeming virtue, and so difficult to purify and direct the affections of the heart, that I feel myself in continual danger of appearing better than I am; and I verily believe it is possible to make one’s whole life a display of splendid virtue and agreeable qualities, without ever setting foot towards the narrow path, or even one’s face towards the strait gate.â€� â€� Hannah More”
― Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist

“True repentance makes us inwardly humble and visibly reformed and it indicates that our faith is genuine.”
― Prasanth Jonathan

“We are justified by faith alone, but good works prove that our faith is genuine. “By this, my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples.â€� (John 15:8.). Jesus said, “You are my friends if you do what I command.â€� (John 15:14)”
― Prasanth Jonathan