{"id":145,"date":"2007-08-09T10:47:51","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T07:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2009-01-08T11:15:54","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T16:15:54","slug":"a-changeless-understanding-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/09\/a-changeless-understanding-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"A Changeless Understanding of Faith&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not having anything good to blog, I thought I&#8217;d post some quotes that my buddy Dan Ledford emailed me.<br \/>\n~Steve<\/p>\n<p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<p><em>A.B. Simpson (founder of the Christian &amp; Missionary Alliance) said, &#8220;The larger the God we know, the larger will be our faith. The secret of power in our lives is to know God and expect great things from him.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A.W. Tozer said, &#8220;Faith in faith is faith astray.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A.W. Tozer: &#8220;Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.&#8221; Tozer also said, &#8220;Without faith it is impossible to please God, but not all faith pleases God.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A.W. Tozer said, &#8220;Every man lives by faith, the nonbeliever as well as the saint; the one by faith in natural laws and the other by faith in God.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not having anything good to blog, I thought I&#8217;d post some quotes that my buddy Dan Ledford emailed me. ~Steve ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A.B. Simpson (founder of the Christian &amp; Missionary Alliance) said, &#8220;The larger the God we know, the larger will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/09\/a-changeless-understanding-of-faith\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[282,214,31,281],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-life","tag-ab-simpson","tag-faith","tag-quotes","tag-tozer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvmV-2l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}