The Difference Between Faith and Hope

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FAITH AND HOPE

When the prayer made in faith is not answered, and the healing for which many have sought does not come, we are not to look for someone to accuse of failure in faith. Rather we are to remember that besides faith there is hope. Hope has to do with God's promises that are still future and hidden, just as faith has to do with God's promises that are here and now. To the person who has believed for today but has not seen the answer come today, there comes the call to hope. Hope says, "Tomorrow also is God's. Enough has happened already to assure you that the rest is on the way."

--Thomas Smail

QUOTES ON FAITH

Real works are the natural products of faith taking its next step. -- Paul Goodman

Men with faith can face martyrdom while men without it feel stricken when they are not invited to dinner. -- Walter Lippman

Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway. -- Frederick Buechner

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it. --Stanley Baldwin

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief. --Thomas Fuller

Little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to your soul. —Anonymous.

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods. —C.S. Lewis

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. —St. Augustine

Don't get the idea that if you can only muster up faith, you will be effective in prayer. Faith is not some mysterious commodity to be sought after. You do not need more faith; you need to learn how to appropriate the faith you already have. —John Bisagno

Faith is to believe what we do not see. The reward of faith is to see what we believe. —St. Augustine

I am totally dependent on God for help in everything I do. Otherwise I honestly believe I would start to fall apart in months. —Wallace Johnson, founder of Holiday Inn.