Quotes About Belief

Discipleship is commitment to Christ. Because Christ exists, he must be followed.

You are disobedient, you are trying to keep some part of your life under your own control. That is what is preventing you from listening to Christ and believing in his grace. You cannot hear Christ because you are willfully disobedient. Somewhere in your heart you are refusing to listen to his call. Your difficult is your sins.

Had Levi stayed at his post, Jesus might have been his present help in trouble, but not the Lord of his whole life. In other words Levi would never have learnt to believe.

They believe that a good intention already means a new beginning; they believe that on their own they can make a new start whenever they want. But that is an evil illusion: only God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God.

The cross is the sign that stands in judgment on all the false security in our lives and restores faith in God alone.

So look to Christ when you are afraid, think of Christ, keep him before your eyes, call upon Christ and pray to him, believe that he is with you now, helping you . . . Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ.

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God

The source of their faith lies in the once-and-for-allness of Christ's death, which they have experienced in their baptism.

Bethge's addendum: "Because I must practice so that I can stand alone before God, for I alone will stand in judgment before God, I alone will be accountable, and I alone will say: I trust in Christ.

it was Dietrich Bonhoeffer who more than anybody else realized that nothing less than a return to the Christian faith could save Germany.

It hurts body and soul that no day passes without the name of God being doubted and blasphemed.

do not believe in people or in the good in people that ultimately must triumph; they also do not believe in the church in its human power. Rather, believers believe solely in God

I believe that God is not timeless fate, but that he waits for and answers sincere prayers and responsible deeds.

All we can do is to live in assurance and faith – you out there with the soldiers, and I in my cell.

All we can do is to live in assurance and faith – you out there with the soldiers, and I in my cell. – I've just come across this in the Imitation of Christ: Custodi diligenter cellam tuam, et custodiet te ('Take good care of your cell, and it will take care of you'). – May God keep us in faith.

We say that religion is a matter of mood: we must wait until the mood strikes us. And then we often wait for years —perhaps until the end of our life—until we are once again in the mood to be religious. This idea is based on a great illusion. It is alll well and good to let religion be a matter of mood, but God is not a matter of mood. He is still present even when we are not in the mood to meet with him.

Aus einem Brief an die Finkenwalder Brüder Groß-Schlönwitz, 20. Dezember 1937 Gott will nicht tote Christen, sondern Christen, die ihrem Herrn leben. Hören wir dieses Wort nicht, so ist Weihnachten an uns vorübergegangen.

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.

A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol

An individual's reality model can be right or wrong, complete or incomplete. As a rule it will be both incomplete and wrong...

The stronger our devotion, the greater the blessings. But to have no devotion is like hiding oneself in a house with all the doors and shutters closed. The sunlight will never get in.

Our response to temptation reveals the substance of our faith.

We may not understand why certain things occur in our lives, but we understand who to run to when they do.

The world tells us to find the power within ourselves. God's Word teaches otherwise. It is the Lord's power that gives the ability to overcome.