Quotes About Faith

The purpose of grace is to grant us access into his presence every day. Grace qualifies us for the relationship we could never earn on our merits.

who do not trust Jesus to build his church cannot imagine church life without leaders and followers. They

community of the new creation that Jesus is building. They

God sees something redemptive even in letting us fail. He seems less concerned about our mistakes than how we respond to them. Do our mistakes lead us away from trusting in our own strength or wisdom and toward seeking what it means to put our trust in him?

simply following what Jesus put on my heart and loving people around me, I found myself living squarely in the middle of the church life I had been hungering for all those years. I didn't

Don't be concerned if it's nothing you can point to and say, 'That is the church.' You are the church. Don't be afraid to live in that reality.

If we believe that this particular pain is the one that will push the baby out of the womb and into our arms, we somehow try to make a place for that pain in our heart. Pain is still there: excruciating, terrible pain. But at the moment of birth, we rarely feel betrayal or rage; we somehow feel that this is simply pain that has come with life.

I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.

I've always had great faith in people.

One reason many people never see God working in their lives is because they never hang in long enough for God to show his power.

God seldom gives us all we need in order to understand, but He always gives us all we need to obey.

Problems never just go away or take care of themselves, especially when God allows them in order to shape our character. God will patiently wait and allow the circumstances to compel us to do what we should have done at the beginning: surrender all control to God.

We must remember in our struggles that our duty lies outside of trying to understand God's plan. He never asks that of us. Instead, He wants to see our trust in Him, through simple daily obedience, even in a land of affliction and confusion.

Our brief, little life here on Earth represents the only time in all of eternity when we can glorify God in the midst of struggle.

Our greatest need from God isn't for Him to change our circumstances but for Him to use our circumstances to change us.

Sometimes when our faith is too weak to trust God, He puts us in a place where our weakness forces us to surrender. Not to trust, but to surrender. Surrender then lays the groundwork for trust, because God always shows Himself faithful.

The Lord was with Joseph, and Joseph remained forgotten for two years. Both were equally true.

We want God to change situations. God wants to change us in them.

He seldom gives us all we need in order to understand, but He always gives us all we need to obey.

There are passages and doors And Realms that lie unseen. There are Roads both wide and narrow And no avenue between. Doors Remain closed for those Who in sad vanity yet hide. Yet when Belief is chosen, The key appears inside. What is lived now will soon pass, And what is not will come to Be. The Door Within must open, For one to truly see. Do you see? Believe and enter.

I will never deny my King.

Wayne Thomas Batson

if someone will take such good care of your physical bodies in the Temporal." "Don't you worry about that

What Paragal intended for evil has become the foundation for much that is good.