Quotes About Belief

And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.

Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and in a sense, he did receive Isaac back from death.

These were all commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.

But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?

So too, faith by itself, if it does not result in action, is dead.

But someone will say, “You have faith and I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds.

You believe that God is one. Good for you! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.

O foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is worthless?

You see that his faith was working with his actions, and his faith was perfected by what he did.

And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God.

As you can see, a man is justified by his deeds and not by faith alone.

As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.

Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,

now that you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God.

To you who believe, then, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”

Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.

Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed.

If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.

If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.

Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.

And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.