Quotes About Faith

Every saint has a past, the sixteenth-century poet had said, and every sinner has a future.

Father, he prayed silently, thank you for sending this boy into my life. Thank you for the joy and the sorrow he brings. Be with him always, to surround him with right influences, and when tests of any kind must come, give him wisdom and strength to act according to your will. Look over his mother, also, and the other children, wherever they are. Feed and clothe them, keep them from harm, and bring them one day into a full relationship with your Son.

Stop trying to protect, to rescue, to judge, to manage the lives around you . . . remember that the lives of others are not your business. They are their business. They are God's business—even your own life is not your business. It is also God's business!' Frederick Buechner

My friend, if you keep your eyes on Christians, you will be disappointed every day of your life. Your hope is to keep your eyes on Christ.

The standing fields [ready to harvest]were the legions who hadn't filled their God-vacuum with the One who was born to fill it; the standing fields were those who waited for someone to reach out and speak the truth, and tell them how they might be saved.

Don't feel totally, personally, irrevocably responsible for everything. That's my job. Signed, God.

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

but I tell you now that it's not too late---no matter how deep the wound. (Regarding forgiveness)

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

I've forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, of course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and prosecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.

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.

In Isaiah, God said, 'I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the Lord . . .' Times of darkness can be some of the best times.

Prayer is getting into relationship with God." "Isn't it about asking for things we want, and letting God know what's what?" "No, sir. He already knows what we want and what we need. Prayer is about getting to know him, and worshipping him and trusting him, and thanking him.

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.

I came away from that time in my life with a special sense of a couple of verses in second Corinthians: "'For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.' " . . . . I try to look for the things which aren't seen.

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.

He tucked her in with a quote from Victor Hugo. '"Sleep in peace, God is awake.

We look for visions of heaven," Oswald Chambers had written, "and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us." He

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

When we receive the bread and blood, we, also, are touching God...I know you recognize that wonderous fact, dear brother, but sometimes it's good to be reminded.