The document contains a collection of quotes related to faith. It discusses how faith is needed to accept what Christ has done without fully understanding it. It also discusses how faith is strengthened rather than weakened during difficult times and emergencies. Another quote suggests that the greatest proof of faith is how far someone is willing to stake their life on their beliefs, not how well they can logically explain their reasons for believing.

1. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works; indeed, he certainly won't know how it works until he's accepted it. C.S. Lewis

2. Beware of worshiping Jesus as the Son of God and professing your faith in him as the Savior of the world, while you blaspheme him by the complete evidence in your daily life that he is powerless to do anything in and through you. Oswald Chambers

3. Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys. Madeleine l’Engle

4. Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire? Corrie ten Boom

5. Faith is not anti-intellectual. It is an act of man that reaches beyond the limits of our five senses. Billy Graham

6. Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings to greet the dawn while it is still dark. Author Unknown

7. The acid test of our faith in the promises of God is never found in the easy-going, comfortable ways of life, but in the great emergencies, the times of storm and of stress, the days of adversity, when all human aid fails. Ethel Bell

8. Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith. Henry Ward Beecher

9. It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey. Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

10. A weak faith is weakened by predicaments and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them. Victor Frankl

11. The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief. T.S. Eliot

12. “ How dare you! You seek refuge in this house of the Lord when it serves your purpose. Then when it's no longer convenient, you desecrate it by pointing a deadly weapon at another human being. Private, a faith of convenience is a hollow faith.” “ Father Mulcahy”, MASH

13. Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life. Thomas Dreier

14. A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. Arthur C. Clarke

15. If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. Saint Augustine of Hippo

16. We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided. Phillips Brooks