Sometimes our faith is great. Sometimes it is small. There are times for most believers when they wonder if it is there at all. But faith tests true (or not) over time. We can grow in faith only when we recognize that our faith is imperfect.43 Our faith is perfected only in Christ, not in ourselves or our understanding: “We may speak of the virtue of faith but only if we finish it by saying ‘is Christ.’ He must be the virtue of faith because he is the object of faith. There is nothing intrinsic to faith that makes it powerful. . . . It isn’t even the act of believing itself. Christ and nothing
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