The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.

They kept on me, pushing me. They told me not to give up, to keep faith in God.

Head up, heart open. To better days!

We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.