Quotes About Faith

If the size of your vision for your life isn't intimidating to you, there's a good chance it's insulting to God.

The Lord is coming, always coming. When you have ears to hear and eyes to see, you will recognize him at any moment of your life. Life is Advent; life is recognizing the coming of the Lord

Thug Life hit me like the Holy ghost.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

God's love shines on anyone who understands the limits of endurance, and allows forgiveness

wanted—I needed—to know that I had indeed seen him, not some apparition conjured up by the Crawler, and I clutched at anything that would help me believe that. What convinced me the most wasn't the photograph—it was the sample the anthropologist had taken from the edge of the Crawler, the sample that had proven to be human brain tissue.

Per il momento voglio crederti. Voglio crederti perché in realtà non ho scelta. Non ho una teoria migliore.

surely by now you realize that you can't trust anyone. But why not take a chance?' *

Funny how even then, as systems failed, flickered out, institutions revealed as paper thin, that so many couldn't bring themselves to believe in anything. That it helped if you didn't. Better to observe the rituals, use the catchphrases. Share your concern.

Perhaps there is no shame in this, perhaps I can bear this, fight this. To give in but not give up. And projected back out behind him, toward the sea, Saul unable to say the name, just three simple words that seemed so inadequate, and yet they were all he had left to use.

I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.

God is eagerly waiting for the chance to answer your prayers and fulfill your dreams, just as he always has. But he can't if you don't pray, and he can't if you don't dream. In short, he can't if you don't believe.

In the Scriptures, a comrnu- nity is a group of people, living under God's rule, who are learning how to love God and love one another.

Where there is no gospel, there is no church!

Sin embargo, la iglesia primitiva tenía un enfoque mucho más simple, centrándose en la predicación de la Palabra, comunión y la oración (Hechos 2:42). Sin importar cuán poco atractivo eso pueda sonar a los oídos modernos, esto es lo que la iglesia primitiva buscó hacer.

apartar el enfoque de estas actividades bíblicas y reemplazarlas con intereses secundarios o centrados en el hombre solo puede dar como resultado un cristianismo nominal.

Nosotros no tenemos la libertad para inventar nuevos métodos de adoración a Dios, solo porque ayudan a facilitar una experiencia emocional. No podemos realmente experimentar lo que no sabemos y no podemos conocer a Dios a menos que Él mismo se nos revele en su Palabra.

En otras palabras, donde la Palabra está ausente allí no está la iglesia verdadera ni tampoco la verdadera adoración.

Por lo tanto, el hecho de que Abraham sea justificado por la fe, sin la circuncisión, muestra cómo puede ser el padre de todos los que son justificados por la fe (con o sin la circuncisión).

Si las iglesias quieren volver al modelo bíblico de cómo adorar a Dios, entonces la predicación debe ser colocada de nuevo a su prioridad bíblica!

Una predicación profunda resultará en una adoración profunda

Cuando la línea entre una iglesia santa y el mundo secular se vuelve borrosa, sin duda la iglesia se volverá antropocéntrica (centrada en el hombre en vez de Cristo-céntrica (centrada en Cristo).

El reino de Dios no puede ser una mezcla de ciudadanos regenerados y no regenerados.

Y si Cristo es el heredero universal de Abraham, entonces todos los que están unidos a Cristo por medio de la fe, tanto los judíos creyentes como los gentiles creyentes, están unidos a la herencia completa de Abraham: «Y si sois de Cristo, entonces sois descendencia de Abraham, herederos según la promesa» (Gál. 3:29).