Quotes About Belief

What you believe and what you trust are always revealed in how you live and act.

Trust always reveals itself in behavior. Trust in Jesus is no exception; it involves much more than just mentally agreeing with information about him. Trusting Jesus, like trusting other things, should show up in how we actually live.

The followers of Jesus weren't immediately known as 'Christians.' Instead they were known as followers of the Way--a way of life instituted by Jesus. Following Jesus was understood not as an act of believing but primarily as a way of living.

So much of our teaching on what it means to follow Jesus depends on getting people to do 'spiritual' disciplines: Bible reading, solitude, fasting, service, prayer--these are all necessary and vitally important disciplines. But they are not the only ways we express spirituality, nor are they the only disciplines that are spiritual in nature.

Jesus never called us to be believers--he calls us to be followers who believe. It was so easy for me to be a Christian early on because I thought the whole thing was an exercise in believing. But following Jesus is an exercise in living--because we believe.

Walking with Jesus (otherwise known as discipleship) becomes not a matter of learning to do a bunch of new religious things; rather, it means doing the things I have always done but doing them differently.

Many of us are religious precisely to keep us from trusting God. We go to church, we give money, and we do all the right things--in the hope that God will never puts us in a position where we actually have to trust him.

Christ followers need not be threatened by truth outside the Bible, for all truth is a reflection of the Holy Creator God.

We may not see how our frayed, smelly imperfections can be redesigned, but God certainly can. He believes that our imperfections are the raw materials for crafting something extraordinary.

Extraordinary things can happen to ordinary people like you and me, but only if we open ourselves up enough to let them.

Many of us are living contradictions. I've done some empirical probing in my own life and have determined this to be true. We want God to speak to us, but we're petrified he'll call us to something uncomfortable, or difficult, or worse . . . something uncool.

His Call Will Not Go against His Word or His Character

All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for.

True faith is forged in the furnace, not the showroom.

Our generation has learned to hold to the standard of each other instead of the standard of God. That is the travesty: God is no longer the standard; we are.

This is a book about redemption. It's also about listening to what God has called you do to and then being all in no matter how crazy or unrealistic it seems. It's about expecting God to work it out, keeping the faith, and knowing that when God says it's time, it is time, and no one can stop Him.

I think Tim Buckley is the antichrist, and I think that miscarriage storyline was the first horseman of the Apocalypse.

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.

Dad, they used to tell Wayne Gretzky that he was to small, and that he would never make the NHL look at him now I replied

If there are real angels in the world," Michael said to his brother, "how come they're never around when we need them?

What is such a believer, whose very life depends upon the daily bread of the living Word of God, supposed to do when God is silent?

With trust, everything is possible.

you have to have faith, Dad, that's what we Mayo people do, we journey in hope, true believers

a gradual leaking away of all conviction