Quotes About Belief

As [a man] thin-keth in his heart, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7 KJV, italics added).

I often wonder what supernatural acts God would perform in our world-things He is ready, willing, eager, and able to do-if we would just approach Him and make our requests known.

You have no idea when or how God will answer your prayers, but don't stop praying.

In every situation and circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Whether we make our own money or rely on someone else, many of us would rater pretend our financial matters don't exist. Or we hope they'll just take care of themselves somehow. My ex-husband was like that. He always said, "I bank by prayer. I go to the ATM and pray that money will come out.

I often look around in a church at the utterly expressionless faces singing "Alleluia! Alleluia!" and wonder why we don't let our faces know what our lips are saying.

Only she who attempts the absurd can ever achieve the impossible.

Though everything in my life is upside down, and I don't understand a thing that You are doing, I will still hope in Your Love and faithfulness.

If we put God into a box built by our own human understanding, we'll never be able to endure the trials of our faith.

Romans 4:18, "hope against hope.

but I believed with all my heart that God was involved in some way and that He would do a "miracle." I would somehow be healed, perhaps lead many others to Christ in the hospital, and lots of "fruit" would be produced from the whole experience, etc.

Oh, that God would have made His will ours! Giving us free will was not free; there were costs to consider and balance. The reward for our choices, for our belief in ourselves and our desire to do the right thing, were great. But along the way we had to take risks. We had to try.

We have to have faith as if everything depends on God, while we work hard as if everything depends on us.

Instincts are given to us by God to guide us. It takes a strong woman to listen to those instincts and ignore what the world says to do.

It's said God won't give us more than we can handle.

For the rest of my life I'm going to trust that God is always at work in all things, and give Him thanks long before my simplest prayers are answered.

faith is based not on what we see and know, but on what we believe to be true through the reading of God's word. The

As Schaeffer once wrote, there is nothing uglier than theological orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.

Ironically, moral relativists often even pride themselves on being morally superior to others.

a mind capable of forming an argument against God's existence constitutes evidence for his existence. That is, a conscious being with the ability to reason, weigh evidence, and argue logically must come from a source that has at least the same level of cognitive ability.

Most of the early modern scientists were Christians; they believed that matter was *not* preexisting, but had come from the hand of God. Thus, it had no power to resist His will but would obey he rules He had laid down- with mathematical precision.

Religion is no longer considered the source of serious truth claims that could potentially conflict with public agendas. The private realm has been reduced to an "innocuous 'play area'", says Peter Berger, where religion is acceptable for people who need that kind of crutch- but where it won't upset any important applecarts in the larger world of politics and economics.

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.