Quotes About Belief

Faith by its very nature must be tried... what God does with our faith must be something like workouts. He sees it to that our faith gets mushed and pulled, stretched and pounded, taken to it's limits so its limits can expand... If it doesn't get exercised, it becomes like a weak muscle that fails us when we need it.

Many things I have tried to grasp, and have lost. That which I have placed in God's hands I still have. - Martin Luther

We are not necessarily doubting," said C. S. Lewis, "that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be." He

There'll be times when you wonder how you can possibly thank Him for something that turns your life upside down; certainly there will be such times for me. Let us, then, at times like these, give thanks on faith alone… obedient, trusting, hoping, believing.

When I speak of God's will, it helps to know that he wants the best for us. If you can't believe he's there, pray anyway. If you feel he's cheap and withholding, thank him anyway. There will come a time when you'll thank him even for the hard places.

Pray, that's what we can do, have done, are doing, and will do. Out of our hands.

Yet in all this, she was to trust God—and more than that, yes, truly more than that, she was to thank him.

Fear knocked, faith answered. No one was there.

Her mom said they were to pray for the people her dad and his colleagues were treating, pray for his sound health and safekeeping, and trust God in everything. She knew such wisdom in her head, but complete trust was, as her mother said, 'yet to build a station in her heart and erect its flag of undisputed possession.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13

In the end, would he be able to say with Paul, I have fought a good fight! I have finished the course! I have kept the faith! Time, which tells everything, would tell that, also.

If you yield it up, God will make it enough

Charles Spurgeon had said, "Christianity rests upon the fact that Christ is risen from the dead, His sovereignty depends upon His resurrection.

thus far, and grace will lead me home . . . .

For all things work together for good . . ." he murmured, quoting from the book of Romans. "Use this for good," he prayed.

He believed in Father Brad, who conceded with Goethe that 'correction is good, but encouragement is better.

If God puts you there, He is amply sufficient.

All that I have seen," Mr. Emerson said and I say with him, "teaches me to trust the Creator for all that I have not seen.

Some have been in church all their lives and have never known this mighty, marvelous, and yet simple personal relationship. Others believe that while such a relationship may be possible, it's not for them—why would God want to bother with them, except from a very great distance? In reality, it is no bother to God at all. He wants this relationship far, far more than you and I want it, and I pray that you will ponder that marvelous truth.

His feelings of panic had passed once before; it would pass again, he told himself. He must go forward on faith, not feeling.

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives—if you win, you win all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

When I speak of God's will, it helps to know that he wants the best for us. If you can't believe he's there, pray anyway. If you feel he's cheap and withholding, thank him anyway. There will come a time when you'll thank him even for the hard places." "Perhaps somewhere I have the smallest bit of faith," she said, "something left over from my childhood. But it's almost nothing, not enough..." "If you yield it up, God will make it enough.

His style was to give the issue to God and haul it back again, ad infinitum, 'til the cows came home, until the thing finally wore itself out in him.

All your circumstances are in the hand of God," Chambers wrote, "so never think it strange concerning the circumstances you're in.