Quotes About Faith

As you open up your life to the Spirit's control, you do not get more of the Spirit, but He gets more of you.

Andrew Bonar puts it, "The Prince of the power of the air seems to bend all the force of his attack against the spirit of prayer.

Let's ask D. L. Moody." Another objected and said, "D. L. Moody does not have a monopoly of the Holy Spirit." "No, he does not," was the reply, "but the Holy Spirit has a monopoly on him.

Can you, at a minimum, objectively step back—throw out the stereotypes, ditch the conformity, set aside the religion—and ask yourself, why? Why Jesus?

When prayer is moved to the periphery of the church, it can only mean that God has, too.

But she didn't. Didn't because she couldn't. None of those people had in any way harmed her or her family. And had she tried to hurt one of them, God would have somehow intervened.

Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.

People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the water.

Eternal Father, strong to save,Whose arm doth bind the restless wave,Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deepIts own appointed limits keep,O, hear us when we cry to TheeFor those in peril on the sea!

true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude

It makes no sense to take the name of Christian and not cling to Christ. Jesus is not some magic charm to wear like a piece of jewelry we think will give us good luck. He is the Lord. His name is to be written on our hearts in such a powerful way that it creates within us a profound experience of His peace and a heart that is filled with His praise.

Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalized… because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack, even though its attackers' arguments were deeply flawed.

What a difference it would be if our system of morality were based on the Bible instead of the standards devised by cultural Christians.

Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.

Some might say that one's faith is a private matter and should not be spoken of so publicly. They might assert this in public, but what do they really think in their hearts? The fact is, those who say such things usually don't even have a concern for faith in the privacy of their interior lives.

I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician.

because they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, he gave them over to a reprobate mind

If there is no passionate love for Christ at the center of everything, we will only jingle and jangle our way across the world, merely making a noise as we go

If we seek and keep on seeking, we will find; if we ask and keep on asking, we will receive; if we knock and keep on knocking, the door to truth will be opened. How can we refuse an offer like this?

The problem with this way of thinking is that authentic faith cannot be inherited.

The result is that in the Christian world in the West, we settle for a cultural version of Christianity that is far from the real thing.

When we come to grips with the true state of our condition, we are ready to fully appreciate what God has done to rescue us from ourselves. It is imperative that we take seriously our true condition as fallen human beings.

The Bible specifically states that sin cannot be blamed on how God made us. "When tempted, no one should say 'God is tempting me' " (Jas. 1:13). God wants us to come to terms with our sin and embrace the solution He has provided that can save us from judgment.

Some things God has revealed; others remain mysteries.