Quotes About Belief

Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup.

The dividing line between the superstitions of simple uneducated people who live on high mountains, and the beliefs of sophisticated educated people who live at lesser heights, is so faint that it is difficult to determine where the one ends and the other begins.

In India, where there are no passports or identity discs, and where religion counts for so much - except among those few who have crossed the 'black water' - i believe that a man wearing a saffron robe, or carrying a beggar's bowl, or with silver crosses on his headgear and chest, could walk from Khyber Pass to Cape Comorin without once being questioned about his destination, or the object of his journey.

However much I doubted the man's ability to accomplish the task he had set himself, I could not help admiring his faith and his industry.

Their boundless faith in their philosophy, a faith strong enough to move mountains and very soothing to depressed feelings, that no human beings and no animals can die before their appointed time, and that the man-eater's time had not yet come

Passion is the work of seconds. You only have to make a god of what you most desire.

It may not seem obvious at first glance, but the way we make decisions in life tells a lot about the kind of faith we have in Jesus Christ.

I despaired at the thought that my life might slip by without seeing God show himself mightily on our behalf.

Faith never denies reality but leaves room for God to grant a new reality.

We like to control the map of our life and know everything well in advance. But faith is content just knowing that God's promise cannot fail. This, in fact, is the excitement of walking with God.

Does anyone really think that America today is lacking preachers, books, Bible translations, and neat doctrinal statements? What we really lack is the passion to call upon the Lord until he opens the heavens and shows himself powerful.

God is not dead; he really does communicate today. He's interested in every part of your life, your home, your finances, every kind of decision - and more than just the moral issues. His eye is always on you. He wants to lead you. But you have to believe that he will indeed speak to you when you wait before him in believing prayer, with a yielded heart to do his will.

How is it that Christians today will pay $20 to hear the latest Christian artist in concert, but Jesus can't draw a crowd?

When we talk to ourselves, we're not talking to anyone very smart, because our outlook is very limited. But if we talk to God, we're talking to someone who knows everything. He knows what he promised in the beginning, and he knows exactly how to fulfill those promises no matter the circumstances.

If you have been waiting for an answer to prayer for a long time, remember that long waits often occur right before the biggest mountains come down.

We are not New Testament Christians if we don't have a prayer life.

Let's stop blaming our unbelief on the pastor we once had, on our childhood, on circumstances, or on anything else. There is no excuse for us not to believe in the Lord.

Unbelief loves to paint the bleakest picture it can. It loves to get us mumbling to ourselves, I'm not going to make it. I just know this is going to turn out terrible. The future is bound to crash on me. Let me tell you that God, who began a good work in you, is not about to stop now. After sending his Son to die for your sins, after saving you at such incredible cost, why would he let you fail now?

Why are the ones who are too good to be true always being true to someone else?

you just had to be still and have faith, that was the main thing.

George W. Bush is a leader, and that's what we need in the White House. George Bush is someone you can believe and trust.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

Prayer is love-centered. It is not so much belief in God that matters, but love of God, and similarly love of others, including love of enemies.

Don't let less-than-perfect circumstances keep you from trusting God.