"Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief." ― Edwin Louis Cole Topic(s): Faith More From Edwin Louis Cole "Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity." "Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It’s not your neighbor right or left – and it’s not God or the devil – it’s you." "Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better." More In Faith "To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love."― Hans Urs von Balthasar "The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."― James Russell Lowell "It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs."― Miguel de Unamuno