Quotes About Belief

Confidence in the sovereignty of God in all that affects us is crucial to our trusting Him. if there is a single event in all of the universe that can occur outside of God's sovereign control, then we cannot trust Him.

God rules the world by Providence, not by miracle.

That act of the will, though, must be based on belief, and belief must be based on truth.

We must believe this and cling to this in the face of adversity and tragedy, if we are to glorify God by trusting Him.

Does God cause people to make decisions that favor us, and does God restrain people from making decisions that would harm us?

But God never explains to us what He is doing, or why. There is no indication that God ever explained to Job the reasons for all of his terrible sufferings.

The converse truth is that love gives validity to my actions and makes them acceptable to God. I

asking a demanding why of God.

Our first priority in times of adversity is to honor and glorify God by trusting Him.

we as Christians should put our trust in God, not in our nation's armaments.

God's providence clearly affirms that we can trust God.

Most of us are tempted, from time to time, to question God's love for

Satan, whose very first act toward man was to question the goodness of God, will even plant the thought in our minds that God is up in heaven mocking us in our distress.

My own experience suggests that Satan attacks us far more in the area of God's love than either His sovereignty or His wisdom.

in order to trust God in adversity we must believe that God is completely sovereign, perfect in love, and infinite in wisdom.

But God never allows people to make decisions about us that undermine His plan for us.

Our trust in God must be based, not on someone else's experience, but upon what God has told us about Himself in His Word.

I believe that human morality, rather than flagrant sin, is the greatest obstacle to the gospel today.

If God controls the circumstances of the sparrow, how much more does He control the circumstances that affect us?

We, too, if we would speak of the Lord's great faithfulness, must turn from our circumstances to the Lord.

We must learn to live by His agenda if we are to trust Him.

We must see our circumstances through God's love instead of, as we are prone to do, seeing God's love through our circumstances.

When we disobey God we defy His authority and despise His holiness. But when we fail to trust God we doubt His sovereignty and question His goodness.

Why is this such a well-kept secret? The core issue is that we don't believe we're still spiritually "bankrupt." Having come into God's kingdom by grace alone solely on the merit of Another, we're now trying to pay our own way by our performance. We declared only temporary bankruptcy; we're now trying to live by good works rather than by grace.