Quotes About Faith

Suffering always reveal idols of the heart.

Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.

This is God's world, so everything, even if it intends to efface God, bears witness to God – understood and interpreted through biblical eyeglasses.

We must rip the foundations out from under all the bastions of human reasoning that say, "I don't need God!" We must demolish every non-God story of life. We must pulverize every God-is-not-good life narrative.

If you don't tell your kids/grandkids what God has done for you, don't expect their hearts to be captured by your God! Worst

Counseling is ultimately not about the counselee or the counselor, but about the Divine Counselor.

Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope.

Any counseling that does not pursue spiritual formation through an intimate relationship with Jesus by faith as one of its chief goals is not worthy to be called BIBLICAL counseling.

When the people of God are not told the works of God, they lose the wonder of God, and everyone does that which is right in his or her own eyes.

Prayer is the easiest thing to assume in church and the hardest thing to maintain. Prayer is the first thing our flesh stops when times get easy, and true prayer is the last thing we resort to when times get tough.

When we pray, we are speaking to the One Whose eternal purpose and designs are unfolding as our present realities. In order to find hope in them, we must seek HIM and HIS perspective. This requires a keen understanding of the redemptive nature of our existence, which points to the glorious gospel of Christ.

Holy Spirit of God, thank You for filling my life with You. You are in control of all that I am—my thoughts, my actions, my words, and my feelings. Thank You, Spirit of God. I am now living under the downpour of Your power and strength and blessing, and I thank You for the riches of Your mercy. In the precious name of Jesus. Amen.

when we want decisions more than we want disciples, we get tares instead of true converts and Ichabod, departed glory for the church.

How long will this people spurn Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, despite all the signs which I have performed in their midst? I will smite them with pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they" (verses 11–12). That's when Moses pleaded with God not to wipe them out even for His own reputation. And God relented.

Don't get a bad attitude like they did back in the wilderness, or you're going to be joining them.

To complain is to say in effect; "God, You blew it! You had a chance to meet my expectations, but You couldn't handle it! Nice try, God, close—but not close enough." So complaining definitely injures you and the Lord.

More of anything other than God will never fill that longing for fulfillment He has placed within you and me.

So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.

With God, we can be satisfied and fulfilled with very little, but without Him, all that we have will always be dry and deeply disappointing.

Yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired.

Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God.

We must evaluate every person, place, product, perspective, position, or pleasure we have looked to in place of the promises of God, and turn away from those things accordingly.

The people sang to the Lord, not about Him.

If we believe God is present in our worship as He promises to be,20 then we must frame all language of worship as to Him and not merely about Him.