Quotes About Belief

We must never allow the non-Christians to think that we are prepared to accept their beliefs or to make the slightest adjustment to the Christian worldview.

if the Bible is a revelation of truth, then anything that contradicts it must be false.

The necessary result is that the person who claims to believe both divine sovereignty and human freedom believes neither.

Scientists and non-Christians may wallow in contradictions, but Christians must not tolerate them.

Any compromise in the doctrine of God generates a rippling effect that destroys the integrity of all other biblical doctrines. Once we accept a false view of God, the rest of the system cannot be Christian.

Accordingly, a person who insists that he accepts Christ because of his own free will, and not because of God's sovereign choice and direct action in his soul, cannot at the same time affirm a sovereign God.

Since the only God presented in the Bible is an absolutely sovereign God, a person who affirms human free will cannot, without contradiction, affirm belief in God.

we should never hesitate to take a decisive position regarding the nature and fate of a type of person, a belief, or an action that the Bible has addressed.

One who begins to awaken from his spiritual stupor sees that it is better to be a Christian than to wallow in sin, and that it is better to be a believer than an unbeliever.

As for those who reject the very idea that God will punish people with natural and "man-made" disasters, and kill thousands of people in the process, their problem is that they do not believe the Scripture at all,

The evil disposition of the unregenerate mind prevents a person from assenting to the gospel regardless of the preacher's persuasiveness.

Faith is belief in a person, not facts about the person.

If a person understands what the Bible says, and if he does not impose his own stupid assumptions upon it, then the Bible will never appear contradictory to him. He will never see even one apparent contradiction in the Bible. This is because the Bible never contradicts itself.

with the Spirit, even half a verse of Scripture inadvertently overheard by an unbeliever can crush his obstinacy and convert his soul.

Rather than choosing an individual because of any foreseen faith, the elect individual receives faith precisely because God has chosen him.

in our spiritually dead condition, it is impossible to have the positive spiritual disposition required to have faith in Christ.

The will of the unregenerate man cannot assent to the gospel, but a person who has been regenerated by God has also been made willing to believe in Jesus Christ; God has changed his will.

God does not "compel" a person to faith in the sense of forcing him to believe what he consciously refuses to accept, but God "compels" a change in the person's will by regeneration so that his assent to the gospel is indeed voluntary.

I am the LORD, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God….I am the LORD, and there is no other.

Without God's power to "compel" or to change the will, no one would decide to accept the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Those who claim to be Christians often do not show more respect for God and concern for worshipers than the Jews in the day of Christ.

a person who considers any portion of Scripture as fallible or errant must reject the whole of Christianity. And accordingly, we can reject his claim to be a Christian.

The influence of secular culture has become so thorough that many do not even believe in the existence of good and evil. They consider all moral standards to be based on individual preferences or societal factors.

your allegiance belongs to the God of your imagination or whether it belongs to the God of the Bible.