Quotes About Belief

if your faith is based on your ability to fully understand your past, present, and future, then your moments of confusion will become moments of weakening faith.

hope is nothing less than a confident expectation of a guaranteed result.

The central lie of Satan to all God's suffering children comes in the form of this question: "Where is your God now?" The lie embedded in this question is that our suffering is clear evidence that we have been forsaken by God.

Faith is something that you do with your life. True biblical faith doesn't stop with thought; it radically rearranges the way that you approach everything in your life.

The minute your functional theology tells you that God is not good, it's very hard to hold on to the confessional theology that declares he is.

When you feel unprepared, alone, overburdened, and besieged, what but God is able to give you reason to hope again, to believe again, and to live again?

Our motivation to stand firm in faith, even when we are going through things that we don't understand, is found in one thing: God's declaration of his intention toward us.

If God is sovereign and his rule is complete, wise, righteous, and good, why would you fear?

The commands, principles, and case studies of Scripture will take you only so far in your quest to figure out your life. There will be moments when you simply don't understand what is going on. In fact, you will face moments when what the God who has declared himself to be good brings into your life won't seem good. It may even seem bad, very bad.

Prayer is handing God a blank sheet that you have already signed and trusting him to fill it out as he sees fit.

Faith comes to you as God's gift of grace: "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God" (Eph. 2:8). Not only is your salvation a gift of God, but the faith to embrace it is his gift as well. But here is

Prayer finds its hope not in the qualifications of the one praying, but in the character and plan of the God who is hearing.

Today you'll face things bigger than you, but you needn't be afraid because none is bigger than the One who rules them all for your sake.

No debemos ofrecer a la gente un sistema de redención, un conjunto de ideas y principios. A la gente le ofrecemos un Redentor.

Every year thousands of supposedly Christian young people go off to residential universities and forsake the faith. I would propose to you that they are not forsaking the faith at all. They never had it in the first place. They grew up under a system of control that forced the faith upon them, but when they get to college and the system vanishes, their true hearts reveal themselves.

So peace is found only in trust, trust of the One who is in careful control of all the things that tend to rob you of your peace.

Your rest is not to be found in figuring your life out, but in trusting the One who has it all figured out for your good and his glory.

If you're God's, to tell yourself you can't do what you've been called to do is to preach private heresy. You've been enabled by grace.

Many, many believers think of their church as a place to attend rather than something with which they are intimately involved.

to close the gap between your confessional theology and your functional theology, and by closing the gap, give the enemy less opportunity to do his evil work.

when we are living in the middle of difficulty, we are tempted to view it as a sign of God's unfaithfulness or inattention.

If you followed the Lord for a thousand years, you would still need the ministry of the body of Christ as much as you did the day you first believed.

Tendremos descanso en medio del caos no porque tengamos todo resuelto, sino porque sabemos quién es Él.

There will be a moment when you will ask, "Where is courage to be found to face what I am facing?" Hezekiah gives you your answer: "Look up and remember your God." As God's child, you are never left to battle on your own.