Quotes About Faith

Bonhoeffer said it's not about hero worship, but intimacy with God.

While most people took family for granted, he [Father Tim] took it for grace.

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.

God is in love with you, brother. He made you for himself.

Lord, he prayed, thank You for Your continued grace. Help me fulfill Your plan for my life; give me a heart to hear Your voice. . . . And please, if You would do the same for Dooley . .

Thank you, God, for loving me, and for sending Your son to die for my sins. I sincerely repent of my sins, and receive Christ as my personal savior. Now, as Your child, I turn my entire life over to You.

We are not citizens of this world trying to make our way to heaven; we are citizens of heaven trying to make our way through this world. The Lindisfarne, via The Anglican Digest

Peggy Lambert.

At a time when he really needed to let go, he was holding on. To Lace. To his stuff. Let go, let God. Come on, man.

Peace . . . and plenty . . . graciously provided by God who created us for himself, and who loves each of us devoutly, devotedly, steadfastly, forever.

God had been merciful. He wanted to be merciful, too. He was the only one who could open the channel between his children and their grandmother. If he could do this with his head, maybe later it would move to his heart.

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

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.

I believe there's somebody like him in every pew—asking a simple question, needing a simple answer.

For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind," he read aloud from Paul's second letter to Timothy.

couldn't imagine that God would be interested in me.' 'He's more than interested in you. It's a pretty radical notion, but he actually made us for himself, for his pleasure. He wants to hear from you anytime, about anything. Try to know that.

In the Thirty-second Psalm, He says, 'I will instruct you, Dooley, and teach you in the way which you should go. I will guide you with my eye.

What God has given us," Taylor had written, "is all we need; we require nothing more. It is not a question of large supplies—it is a question of the presence of the Lord.

His sermon had been preached 24/7 on the floor of The Local for more than three and a half decades.

God will use this loss for good. I promise.

Love God, be strong, be safe, be happy.

She was thinking about the future too, though most times it appeared in her mind as a complete blank. 'That's the way the future should appear,' Olivia once said. 'We're asked not to fret about the future and to take no thought for tomorrow. We must try to live in the present or we shall miss it entirely.' Living in the present was exactly what she'd been trying to do.

I've found that if we keep our eyes on Christians, we can be disappointed in a major way. The important thing is to keep our eyes on Christ….

The terrible timing of it . . . but no, it wasn't terrible timing, it was God's timing and it was perfect, God knew everything there was to know . . . . She needed to remember this every step of the way, one step at a time.