Quotes About Belief

To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

The truth of the matter is rather as Christ says, "He who is not with me is against me." ... He does not say "He who is not with me is not against me either, but merely neutral.

Here I stand, I can do no other, God help me. Amen!

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.

Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow.

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law...

Faith is a living, unshakable confidence in God's grace; it is so certain that someone would die a thousand times for it.

And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.

How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

If we do not love God and His Word what difference does it make if we love anything at all?

Where God builds a church, the devil builds a chapel.

Hier stehe Ich, Ich kann nicht anders." ("Here I stand, I can do no other")

Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.

He who believes God, recognizes Him as true and faithful, and himself as a liar; for he mistrusts his own thinking as false, and trusts the Word of God as being true, though it absolutely contradicts his own reasoning.

If you try to deal with sin in your conscience, let it remain there, and continue to look at it in your heart, your sins will become too strong for you. They will seem to live forever. But when you think of your sins as being on Christ and boldly believe that he conquered them through his resurrection, then they are dead and gone. Sin can't remain on Christ. His resurrection swallowed up sin.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times

Our whole life should be manly; we should fear God and put our trust in him.

If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it after before, no one could convince them that they are not God`s chosen people.

the paradox is that God must destroy in us, all illusions of righteousness before he can make us righteous