Quotes About Faith

Revival is not emotional extravagance where people are caught up in the moment and fall down, act bizarrely, unbiblically, and out of control. That's not revival.

Every step with God is a step of faith. Every lesson learned is a lesson of faith. Every victory won is a victory by faith. That's the prominence of faith in the New Testament.

Revival is: God, gladly at the center of my life, experienced and enjoyed.

I want nothing to be off-limits to God. He can have free access to all that I am, everywhere I go, all the time.

Watch out for the people who say that all is good between them and God but have no interest in being reconciled with the people whom their sin has injured.

Preachers who pride themselves on never giving a public invitation to be saved, never calling for a response of any kind, reveal not greater fidelity to the gospel but a lack of faith in its power.

For life change to happen, we must commit to full cooperation with God's desire to transform us.

Wake up, dude! It's not about who you are. It's all about who God is.

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love" (1 Corinthians 16:13–14).

Where is the church persevering in the priority of prayer?

God is holy, and to see His holiness means to do it His way.

When I know God's place, I can know my place— then things start to fall into place.

In his recent book Unexplainable, he said, "[God] wants to do the inconceivable, the uncommon, the unexpected, the remarkable, the incomprehensible, so that He—God—is the only explanation for what occurs in our lives."3

Pride rises above and against the knowledge of God, acting as if He is unworthy to be retained in our thoughts.

You would think that the more a man knows and loves God, the deeper he gets into understanding His Word, and the further he progresses in personal holiness, the better he would be at being a watchful man,

When God is recognized for the infinitely holy being that He is, you don't stand around questioning His decisions.

true encounter with the God of the universe makes me feel gladly small, perfectly puny, and happily so, in my assigned place and actual size! A true experience of eternity leaves us feeling, as C. S. Lewis said, "the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life."28

From the furnace of manifest presence, born of unashamed adoration and unapologetic preaching, comes an army of worshippers unafraid in their witness, determined to see others discover what they have found in the LORD.

Church has to be about helping people discover what they can't get anywhere else.

Yet many are living that very life, deluded by weak preaching and deceived by biblical illiteracy into thinking grace coddles the unrepentant.

In making God our buddy, we find Him nice for cuddling but not much help when the hurricane comes. UNFULFILLED LONGING FOR

advancing the cause of Jesus that didn't begin and end with love. I was wrong, totally wrong, and had to come to the place where I grieved the failure to love as the greatest failure a Christian is capable of.

When we wait on the Lord, we invite Him to root out the dissonance in a divided heart and bring to us the integrity of full surrender to His will. In that we experience His strength.

We preach so that people can hear the voice of God, period.