Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.