Quotes About Faith

If we won't be serious about dealing with our sin,we cannot expect to grow in our faith. If you want to move to a new level with God,take an inventory of what God has told you about your sin and consider what you've been doing about it.

diga lo que piensa y crea en lo que dice"; de preferencia, dígalo con pocas y bien escogidas palabras.

Most principles are limp until they are tested.

We can only believe what we have evidence enough to prove.

Prayer is not a tool of faith by which we control His control over our lives. Rather, it is the conversation God began with us when He established a relationship with us in Baptism.

To pray rightly 'Thy will be done' is to trust that God's intentions toward us are good and gracious. To pray for the will of God might be to ask ultimately for the opposite fo what we want and to trust that the unknown quantity of His intention is tempered by love for us.

And long after the history of all the big things that make the front pages are forgotten, what God has done through you and a few people will be history.

However, though belief on faith alone may be comforting, it is wholly arbitrary and thus does nothing to ensure that you are more correct than anyone else. So it cannot properly be described as knowledge, but rather as a mere wish, a desire that something be true or false, or else it is a naive trust in guesswork or hearsay.

So, too, I and countless others have chosen to give God a fair hearing—if only he would speak. I would listen to him even now, at this very moment. Yet he remains silent.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength." ? Corrie ten Boom

Believe you can and you're halfway there." ? Theodore Roosevelt

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Divinity students always fought in these peaked caps, as a scar would terminate their careers.

The conscious water saw its God, and blushed.

Two went to pray? Oh, rather sayOne went to brag, the other to pray.

By all the eagle in thee, all the dove.

Of all men, Christians should work especially hard, giving more than an honest day's work for a day's wage.

Believing in Christ is the world's great need, and our great obligation is to tell all people that they need to do so.

Christian men who are not yet called into formal church office should never complain that they have nothing to do. We all have much to do in our own hearts and lives, and the requirement for well-qualified men to serve as leaders in the church is always urgent and vital.

any Christian man who wants to serve the Lord, in any role and at any level, must begin by devoting himself to God's Word. A man who is weak in the Word of God will be of little use for service, for we cannot truly serve God effectively in our own knowledge and strength. But God's Word stirs up in us the faith and spiritual strength needed to serve Him.

We are not called to give lifestyle tips or the self-help plumbing that today's worldly men and women crave. The Bible says the gospel is the "power of God for salvation to everyone who believes." (Romans 1:16b), so we must proclaim it.

John Calvin said: "It is the nature of faith that we want to bring others to share eternal life with us when we have become partakers of it. The knowledge of God cannot lie buried and inactive in our hearts and not be made known to men."6 We

It is not sufficient for fathers to send their children to church, Sunday school, Christian camp, or private Christian school. You must read the Bible to your children yourself. Obviously, our children must see some correspondence between the Bible and our lives. But even as we work out our own Christian growth, we must read God's Word to and with our children.

But we should always emphasize the actual teaching of the Bible in our witness, because it is the Word of God that brings people to faith. Peter