Quotes About Faith

Baptism is faith in action.

Good is not always God's will, but God's will is always good.

A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.

When one tries to increase his knowledge by doing mental gymnastics over books without waiting upon God and looking to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, his soul is plainly in full swing. This will deplete his spiritual life. Because the fall of man was occasioned by seeking knowledge, God uses the foolishness of the cross to "destroy the wisdom of the wise.

Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.

Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.

It is a great thing when I discover I am no longer my own but His. If the ten shillings in my pocket belong to me, then I have full authority over them. But if they belong to another who has committed them to me in trust, then I cannot buy what I please with them, and I dare not lose them. Real Christian life begins with knowing this.

He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord - including darkness, dryness, flatness - and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him." -

I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.

We must be brought to a place where, naturally gifted though we may be, we dare not speak except in conscious and continual dependence on Him.

If we throw ourselves open to God, He will reveal. The trouble comes when we have closed areas, locked and barred places in our hearts, where we think, with pride, that we are right.

Every true work is not done to the poor. Every true work is done to Me.

Attempting to follow Him without denying the self is the root of all failures.

It is so easy to become more attached to the gifts of God than to the Giver—and even, I should add, to the work of God than to God Himself.

The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.

When do we give up, Julie?" he said. "I don't know," I said. "Maybe you can't even if you want to.

There were two kinds of people Grandpa didn't trust, a preacher and a cop. He'd say "They both think they're sanctified in everything they do.

When Christ is all you have, that's the time you realize that Christ is all you need.

Jesus didn't come into our lives to rent a room; He bought the house! As we unlock the doors to the areas that we've held onto and allow Him free reign, we experience His life living through us.

We are just vessels through which Christ works. The Christ life is a journey. We will never arrive at a point where we don't have to struggle with our flesh anymore. Either the Lord will return or we will die before that ever happens. We don't have to live defeated lives, but we should expect struggles to come and go.

If people are seeing us more than they are seeing Christ, then something is out of balance.

When you glorify Christ and He is seen in and through you, your behavior will radically change. Remember, this is not a self-help program. This is not where you grit your teeth and say, "I'm going to do better." Flesh doesn't get better. But when you come and say, "I can't do better," and you are willing to die to your own will and your own agenda and you are willing to surrender yourself to Christ, then your behavior will be markedly different.

We often try all of our strategies for life, but it is interesting that when God orchestrates our lives and puts us into an imprisoned situation that we can't get out of, we learn what it means to be yielded to Jesus Christ.

When we come to understand that the Christian life is something that I "get to do," not something I "have to do," then we are coming near to the Christ life.