Quotes About Belief

Therefore men are deceived in false gods, that they may depend on the true God only.

All our hopes and joys take their rise from him who is the author of our salvation.

It is Christ living in the soul by faith that makes the body a living sacrifice

We become the stories we listen to. But perhaps the more important question is, what stories do you listen to? What stories are forming your life?

God never goes back; he always moves forward. ... God always wants our future to be bigger than our past, and God always moves forward.

When our children know more about teen pop idols than they do about Jesus Christ, isn't it time for us to reassess the place and priority our faith has in our lives?

God always wants our future to be bigger than our past.

The first problem is we don't believe holiness is possible. The second problem is we don't believe we can change the world.

A priest once asked Mother Teresa if she would pray that God would give him clarity in a choice he had to make. She told him, "God may never give you clarity. All you can do is trust.

What prevents you from surrendering yourself completely to God?

Living holy lives is the goal of the Christian life and our essential purpose.

The world has written us off. Lots of our own Christian brothers and sisters have given up on us. But I have not given up. Not even close. And not only have I not given up, I can see the path back.

Because the actions of your life are determined by your most dominant thought.

People do stupid things because they mistakenly believe those stupid things will make them happy.

If you desire to be a person of hope, a person who has the will that what is good might be reality, you must be a person of two things: meaning and action.

We are afraid because we don't know how things are going to work out, but things are going to work out.

You could fill whole libraries with the lies that have been told about Christians and Christianity. The world lies about this subject more than anything else.

Lies are always swirling around Christianity. Other common lies today include: Christians hate all non-Christians; Christians think everyone else is going to hell; smart people are not Christian; Christianity is dying and won't be around for much longer.

catch so many fish that their nets begin to tear and they need help from fishermen in other boats to haul in the catch. Over and over in life, God challenges us to abandon our doubts and fears and cast our nets into the deep waters of the spiritual life. It is never convenient, it is almost always difficult, and it is sometimes quite painful, but if we heed the Lord's direction we will always bring in a huge catch. Don't be afraid of the deep places.

Hope is not merely a wish that something good might happen—it is the firm confidence and desire that the promises of God will be fulfilled.

Resistance will tell you that the problems are too many and that you will never make a difference. Ignore it. Resistance is a liar.

Joan of Arc wrote, "I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and yet they give their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it and then it's gone. But to surrender what you are and to live without belief is more terrible than dying—even more terrible than dying young.

God wants us to be people of possibility, and people of

Fully engaged people believe the future can be bigger than the past, and they believe they can directly influence that bigger future. That's our No. 1 job as leaders, to convince people of those two things.