Quotes About Belief

This is why so much of the discussion about "modernity" and "postmodernity" is just pretentious. What we call Enlightenment modernity was just the period when our public authorities fell into unbelief. Postmodernity is when they discovered that unbelief is a slippery place, and they fell into it deeper.

saving faith always looks to Christ and his promises. Saving faith does not focus on the presence or absence of saving faith. We are supposed to be looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. We are not to be looking at ourselves, trying to determine if we are believing or not. "Myself believing" is not the proper object of my faith. Christ is the object of our faith.

It is one thing to hear truth, and agree with it. Many have come to believe these things simply because they are attracted to a system which is logically consistent. Or perhaps they are repelled by the shallowness of so much of our preaching and teaching today. Or they are the studious type, and like to read books by the Puritans." Martin went on. "But it is quite another thing to be given a vision of the glory of God and to be, like Job, undone by it.

The future, like salvation, is the gift of God, and it must be apprehended by faith alone.

It turns out that, however you might wish otherwise, you eventually wind up wherever it was you were going. If you get on the plane to Chicago, and I would ask you to follow me closely here, you are going to land in Chicago. We are now arriving where a godless education must necessarily go. The public schools in America were not secular, they were godless. The public schools in America were not neutral, they were godless. The public schools in America were not even agnostic, they were godless.

Henry Van Til once noted that culture is religion externalized. Cultus (worship) lies at the heart of every culture. And the reason our culture has forgotten God is because our worship services did that first.

We tend to assume that if the existing authorities tell us to do anything short of swearing an oath to worship Satan, then we have to do it. This does not exhibit a mature theology of resistance.

How can you persuade a man whose livelihood depends upon him remaining unpersuaded?

We are not born again because we have repented and believed. Rather, we have repented and believed because God has given us the new birth. If the old heart is capable of repentance and belief, then a man does not need a new heart. He simply needs to continue to improve the old one.

Education is one of the central instruments given to us by God for the establishment and perpetuation of a culture. And if we want the culture to be believing, then the education that feeds into it must be believing.

So here is the foundational principle: Jesus is Lord and Caesar is not. Everything else in all political economy is a footnote to that profound and glorious reality. And we don't need to pray in order to make that true. It was true before any of us were born. But we should pray that God gives us the vision to see and believe that. Why should we believe that? Well, we are called believers, after all.

Never forget that God loves you. But more than this, never forget how long God has loved you.

Confronted with the gross and unbelieving history of the Jews, the baptist must say the Old Testament record of the disobedience of the Jews does not apply to our situation, and that to compare them is to compare apples and oranges. But this means he must therefore explain why the New Testament draws parallels where the baptist draws contrasts.

If there is no God, and if Christ did not come back from the dead, then the bipedal carbon unit that doesn't believe in Jesus is nothing more than 200 pounds of protoplasm with an average temperature of 98.6, and endowed by blind evolutionary processes with nothing in particular to speak of.

The Church does not create the truth, the Church supports the truth. And the Church is also described as a pillar, lifting up the truth so that all might see and honor it.

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Faith is not wishful thinking; faith apprehends the promises of God found in Scripture. "The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee" (Ps. 102:28). Faith sees a son as established, and the work of faith goes on to establish him. Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Perfectionists want static categories; they want things to be defined and to stay put. They want the kingdom of God to stay here, right where we put it, and they want the kingdom of man to stay right there, on the unbelieving shelf.

Beware of anyone who claims to be neutral, for they always have an agenda.

But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two: I hate Him.

The independence of art from worldview and worldview concerns is a myth. Every work of art is produced within a framework of worldview assumptions.

78. And there are among them (Jews) unlettered people, who know not the Book, but they trust upon false desires and they but guess.

82. And those who believe (in the Oneness of Allaah -- Islaamic Monotheism) and do righteous good deeds, they are dwellers of Paradise, they will dwell therein forever.

28. How can you disbelieve in Allaah?