Quotes About Belief

Discontent is good if it makes you long for home, but bad if it makes you doubt the One who prepares a place for you in his home.

It is important for all parents to examine the system of belief that shapes their moment-by-moment interactions with their children.

Tear up your list and throw it away—what God has planned for you is better than anything you've dreamed of for yourself.

Yes, it is true—God will remain faithful even when you're not, because his faithfulness rests on who he is, not on what you're doing.

Word problems are often interpretation problems. We do not say the right thing because we do not believe the right thing.

If God is your Father, the Son is your Savior, and the Spirit is your indwelling Helper, you have hope no matter what you're facing.

God will remain faithful even when you're not, because his faithfulness rests on who he is, not on what you're doing.

Rest will only be found as you are willing to believe that there is Someone who is controlling the details of your life, not only for his glory, but also for your good.

putting your entire existence in the hands of One whom you cannot see, touch, or hear is far from natural. This is why faith is only ever a gift of divine grace.

True biblical faith is always something that you live. If your faith does not reshape your life, it is not true faith.

You could say that the advice here is to connect everything you require of your children in behavior and belief to the story of redemption.

Many people have talked to me about God in the middle of difficulties, and after listening to them, I have been struck that, if I believed in the "God" they described, I wouldn't run to him for help either, and I'd be in a panic

Your love is never your foundation; his eternal love is. Live in this hope.

We realize that God has us just where we need to be so that his purposes for us and his promises to us may come to pass.

When we deny our difficulties in order to feel immediate peace, we are not exercising biblical faith.

Whatever functionally rules your heart will then shape the way you see life and your desires, and it will control your words and behavior.

your hope is not to be found in your willingness and ability to endure, but in God's unshakable, enduring commitment to never turn from his work of grace.

I may not understand what is happening and I may not know what is coming around the corner, but I know that God does and that he controls it all. So even when I am confused, I can have hope, because my hope does not rest on my understanding, but on God's goodness and his rule.

God justifies the ungodly. This means there really is hope for people like us.

Here's the bottom line: you and I struggle with the faithfulness of God, not because he has been unfaithful, but because we have.

Faith means you take God at his word, you never let yourself think that you're smarter than him, and you live inside his boundaries.

Denying sin makes a liar out of God and denies the message of his Word. Here's the bottom line—either God, in his Word, is true when he says that you have a problem you can't solve or you're right that you're not so bad after all. It can't be both ways.

Our hope in this life and the one to come is never to be found in our willingness to believe in and follow him, but in his willingness to endure suffering and death for us. His willingness unleashes the grace we need to be forgiven and to become more and more willing to lay down our lives for his kingdom and his glory.

All the things that disappoint you now are to remind you that this is not all there is