Quotes About Belief

Nothing is truly lost. This is going to come back to me; this will be in one of my treasure chests Jesus will restore to me.

that's exactly what we do to find more of God—we practice belief. We exercise it.

Now, if you believed both assumptions, if they were woven into your deepest convictions about the world, you would want to learn to pray like a soldier wants to learn to use his weapon, like a smoke jumper wants to learn survival skills. We really have no idea what sort of breakthrough is actually possible until we learn to pray. Perhaps we, too, will be ending droughts and stopping wildfires.

The intellectual support for UNBELIEF is about as stable as the stock market.

Si hubiera pensado que eso era todo, que era mi corazón, me habría desanimado. Saber que mi corazón es bueno me permitió bloquear aquello en el acto.

It takes no courage to be an optimist, but it takes a great deal of courage to have hope. RABBI JONATHAN SACKS, Celebrating Life

Christianity is not a set of convictions—it is a truth. The most offensive thing imaginable.

Yet this is the world God has made—a world that requires us to live with risk. Because God wants us to live by faith.

the ability to hope and dream.

Fuzzy and unspecific prayers see fuzzy and unspecific results. God

Friend, you must be intentional about holding on to the truth.

In 'The Allure of Hope,' Jan says, Eve was convinced that God was withholding something from her. Not even the extravagance of Eden could convince her that God's heart is good.

the power of proclaiming.

God seems to be of the opinion that no one should sustain the rigors of the Christian life without very robust and concrete hopes of brazen reward.

The amount of risk you're willing to take in your life is a direct reflection of what you believe about God.

Standing in the way of the path to life—the way of the heart—is a monstrous barrier. It has stopped far too many pilgrims dead in their tracks, for far too long. There is a widespread belief among Christians today that the heart is desperately wicked—even after a person comes to Christ. It is a crippling belief. And it is untrue.

Your loyalty is not to a church or a movement, but to Jesus Christ.

Don't let your experience of God up to this point limit what you might enjoy with him in the coming years.

stop doubting and believe?" (John 20:27). Thomas had a decision to make in that moment, a decision he was quite capable of making, a decision our Lord was waiting for him to make. Thomas's experience was waiting on a choice.

respectable channels of religion. Consider this one piece of evidence: millions of people who have spent years attending church, and yet they don't know God. Their heads are filled with stuffing about Jesus, but they do not experience him, not as the boys did on the beach. There are millions more who love Jesus Christ but experience him only occasionally, more often stumbling along short of the life he promised, like Lazarus still wrapped in his graveclothes.

The old saints sang "Great Is Thy Faithfulness," both because it's true and also because they needed to declare it to be true.

By now, he was also a 'Protestant Atheist', which he remained all his life.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

When the Word of God has spoken clearly and plainly, the unbelief of men, the reasonings of the natural mind and the wisdom of the world can be safely disregarded.