Randy Alcorn Quotes
A nominal Christian often discovers in suffering that his faith has been in his church, denomination, or family tradition, but not Christ. As he faces evil and suffering, he may lose his faith. But that’s actually a good thing. I have sympathy for people who lose their faith, but any faith lost in suffering wasn’t a faith worth keeping.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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We talk to our partners in Silicon Valley every week, so we have a real sense of what goes on.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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A nominal Christian often discovers in suffering that his faith has been in his church, denomination, or family tradition, but not Christ. As he faces evil and suffering, he may lose his faith. But that’s actually a good thing. I have sympathy for people who lose their faith, but any faith lost in suffering wasn’t a faith worth keeping.
