Quotes About Faith

Many deaths must go into us reaching that measure, many letting go's.

The believer alone will be able to hear the call. It comes from beyond ourselves, beyond our society, beyond the climate of opinion and prejudice and rebellion and skepticism in which we live, and beyond our time and taste. It draws toward the center of all things, that still place of which T.S. Eliot wrote : Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the centre of the silent Word.

Holiness presupposes constant growth through an ongoing relationship with the One who has called us to be holy.

But I can say that I know the One who knows. And I've come to see that it's through the deepest suffering that God has taught me the deepest lessons. And if we'll trust Him for it, we can come through to the unshakable assurance that He's in charge. He has a loving purpose. And He can transform something terrible into something wonderful. Suffering is never for nothing.

A Bíblia não explica tudo o que é necessário para nossa satisfação intelectual, mas explica tudo o que é necessário para nossa obediência e, portanto, para a satisfação de Deus.

Although I have not found intellectual satisfaction, I have found peace. The answer I say to you is not an explanation but a person, Jesus Christ, my Lord and my God.

How we long to point to something - anything - and say This works! This is sure! But if it is something other than God Himself we are destined for disappointment.

Pray when you feel like praying. Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you feel like praying.

God makes the assignments, and he apportions the degree of difficulty in precise measurements.

Lord, where there are interruption, it seems that the disposal of the time I had planned so well have slipped out of my hands. Help me then to remember that it has not slipped out of Yours. In Your hands, these unexpected things will be fashioned into an unexpectedly beautiful design

When you and I offer our fears, worries, and anxieties to God, we give Him the opportunity to demonstrate how marvelously caring His heart really is, and we allow God to show us how deeply He cares for us.

If God loves me, He´ll make me happy". Well, yes and no. Happy isn´t the word, really. It´s joy, a far better thing. Not a sentiment, not mere "feeling good", but something that can never be taken away.

The ways of the world exalt themselves against God. They sometimes look rational and appealing to the most ernest disciple but Christ says to us then what He said to His disciples long ago, when many of them had given u pin disgust, Do you also want to leave me? If we answer as PEter did, Lord to whom else shall we go? Your words are words of eternal life, our rebel thoughts are captured once more. The way of holiness is again visible.

We need Jesus Christ, our refuge, our fortress, the stronghold of my life. It takes desolation to teach us our need of Him.

Well, that's what faith is about, isn't it? If you really believe that somebody loves you then you trust them. The will of God is love. And love suffers. That's how we know what

Our major problems of acceptance and trust usually have to do with timing, because God's timetable is always different from ours. He wants me to wait in order to believe, in order to learn to put my faith in His timing.

A maneira como você mantém a sua casa, a maneira como você organiza seu tempo, os cuidados que você toma com sua aparência pessoal, as coisas com que você gasta o seu dinheiro, todos falam em voz alta sobre o que você acredita. A beleza da vossa paz brilha em uma vida ordenada. Uma vida desordenada fala em voz alta de desordem na alma.

My portion. My cup. My lot is secure. My heart can be at peace. My Father is in charge. How simple!

One morning I was reading the story of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of bread and two fishes. "Let me have them," said Jesus. He asked for all. He took them, said the blessing, and broke them before He gave them out. I remembered what a chapel speaker, Ruth Stull of Peru, had said: "If my life is broken when given to Jesus, it is because pieces will feed a multitude, while a loaf will satisfy only a little lad.

Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with ashes.

God will see to it that we understand as much truth as we are willing to obey.

The real question we need to face is exactly what a Christian is supposed to do when terrible things happen. There are two choices, and only two: We can trust God or we can defy Him. We believe that God is God, He's still got the whole world in His hands and knows exactly what He's doing, or we must believe that He is not God and we are at the awful mercy of mere chance.

15 Well that sounds pretty brave and strong, doesn't it? But listen to the last stanza, "But not of us this strength, O Lord, and not of us this constancy. Our trust is Thine eternal Word, Thy presence our security.

When we wonder how God will do a thing this may spring from spiritual lust: I must have an explanation! We demand an answer when we ought to pray for a deeper confidence in Him who is the Answer. A simple heart, full of love for God, will soon learn what to do. Questions will be quieted.