The other day when I was looking at quotes about sacrifice, I came across a great one by Elisabeth Elliot about faith... On this Monday morning, when I'm still waiting for an answer about my application to school in Sydney, I'll leave you with that one and few more about faith versus feelings.
"Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lions' den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy way things work. It is an act of will, a choice, based on the unbreakable Word of a God who cannot lie, and who showed us what love and obedience and sacrifice mean, in the person of Jesus Christ." - Elisabeth Elliot
"Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not." - CS Lewis
"You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you." - Martin Luther
"All the great temptations appear first in the region of the mind and can be fought and conquered there. We have been given the power to close the door of the mind. We can lose this power through disuse or increase it by use, by the daily discipline of the inner man in things which seem small and by reliance upon the word of the Spirit of truth. It is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure. It is as though He said, 'Learn to live in your will, not in your feelings.'" - Amy Carmichael
"But when the cross is working deeply a believer comes to know himself. He realizes how undependable are his ideas, feelings and desires." - Watchman Nee
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