Quotes About Faith

God did not give you the Bible to make you a smarter sinner, but rather a holy saint. Application, not knowledge, pleases God.

Jesus did not die for man's sin against man, only for man's sin against God. God decides how we are to treat one another, and therefore when we sin against others we sin against God. David said, "in thy sight," knowing that God looks on. Nothing escapes His notice. One of the marks of regeneration is an awareness that God is watching.

Whenever you conclude that God is unjust, you can know that you err biblically. Behind your misconception you will find the beautiful, gracious work of God.

The sun melts butter and hardens clay. Blessed are the troubled who allow their tribulation to soften their heart to repentance. Notice how often God uses our children to get our attention. Christianity is a religion of rescue. It is designed for the desperate.

You cannot have a clean conscience without satisfying justice, and this Christ did when He died on the cross.

God makes you an incredible offer:You can give your life in exchange for the same thing for which Jesus spent His life – people. People last forever. For good or bad, they are eternal. Spend your life helping them prepare for their eternity. Don't give your life to mediocrity. Life is too short and the issues of eternity too significant.

No one will go to heaven glad that they sinned, but they will be glad they obeyed.

When Jesus said He came "to seek and to save the lost," he meant that there are two kinds of people in the world: those that know they need saving, and those that don't know.

Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make your free." John 8:32 These words are carved over the doors of university buildings. Obviously, how the university and Jesus use this phrase differ. Jesus said of Himself, "I am Truth."1 And again, "If the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."2

Repentance is essential, but never presume to come to God with a broken heart of repentance without acknowledging your dependence upon Jesus Christ's death as the sole basis of God's mercy. It is only in His name and for His sake that God promises to forgive you.

In your heart you know whether you are as close to God as you ought to be; keep your ears open to your conscience, your heart open to God and your eyes in the Word. 1

Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

It is only for those without hope that hope is given.

Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption.

The world does not need the church to talk about what is already possible. The work of the church is to battle the world's definition of what is believable and unbelievable.

The church will not have power to act or believe until it recovers its tradition of faith and permits that tradition to be the primal way out of enculturation. This is not a cry for traditionalism but rather a judgment that the church has no business more pressing than the reappropriation of its memory in its full power and authenticity.

For I believe the crisis in the U.S. church has almost nothing to do with being liberal or conservative; it has everything to do with giving up on the faith and discipline of our Christian baptism and settling for a common, generic U.S. identity that is part patriotism, part consumerism, part violence, and part affluence.

Prayer is a refusal to settle for what is.

When we suffer from amnesia, every form of serious authority for faith is in question, and we live unauthorized lives of faith and practice unauthorized ministries.

In that world where jingles replace doxology, God is not free and the people know no justice or compassion.

But this is real prayer, down and dirty. It is not nice church prayer that refuses to ask anything because we mostly do not believe that prayers are heard or answered.