Quotes About Belief

We serve a prayer-hearing and a prayer-answering God, a wonder-working God!" he loved to say. "And answered prayer is one of the ways we experience him.

Other believers had suffered in this country. Others had died at these hands, and hands like them. Jesus had suffered far worse. He had suffered and bled and died for her. For her sins. To set her free. To adopt her as a child into His family. To bring her into His Kingdom. Forever. How could she not be willing to suffer and bleed and die for Him? If that's what He asked, she would do it. With the strength He gave her. By the grace He provided. And maybe she would see Him soon, face-to-face.

God always knows what we need, and if we'll just trust him, he'll provide from the most unlikely of sources.

My grandmother taught it to me when I was a little girl," Morris said as she blew down the desolate country road at more than eighty miles per hour. "She used to say, 'Jenny, God always knows what we need, and if we'll just trust him, he'll provide from the most unlikely of sources.

The common thread with these people is that they each refused to rely on the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. God will use who you are to minister to many people. Trust in Him and watch Him do great things through you.

This is what drives me crazy whenever I hear people say things like, "Ask the universe for what you want, and you'll get it," why I fucking hated that Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist that everybody was reading int he late nineties. Whenever I saw the book in anybody's hands on the subway I always wanted to say, "So the reason a million Tustis were just slaughtered in Rwanda is that they didn't ask the universe not to kill them ?

Mostly, though, I prefer to believe that God has no grace to give. Because the alternative is that He gives grace capriciously or, even worse, that He plays favorites. Some desolate valleys become places of springs, and others wither until they are sere beyond hope, and if God is the one who chooses which is which then I would rather live in a universe lucky enough to have escaped His notice.

The great classical city almost everywhere was both suffused with religion and instructed by it. "Cities did not ask if the institutions which they adopted were useful," noted the classical historian Fustel de Coulanges. "These institutions were adopted because religion had wished it thus."54

The religious upbringing that most people go through, and its association with Western religion, is all based on lies. At some point you either wake up and realise [that] they are lies, or you continue in a fog. I realised I had been lied to and wanted to know the truth.

Why would they follow me?" I asked Swedish. "It doesn't make sense." "They're made of trash and Fog," he said. "You think they make sense?

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

To me, we're marketing hope.

God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.

I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

I have always believed in God.

Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.