Quotes About Faith

A real encounter with the living God changes everything. First, it magnifies the Lord, and then it puts me and my ego and my sin and my burdens all in their rightful place.

We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

When I embrace God for who He is and I understand who I am—when I know God's place, I can know my place—then things start to fall into place.

Does God love us even when our hearts are far from Him? The answer: Yes, He does!

Proverbs 18:10, "The name of the LORD is a strong tower.

Times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord (Acts 3:20).

What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.

Men act like men at home when they realize they will be held responsible for how well they represented God to their family.

I've never seen the Holy Spirit, but I've seen His powerful wind blowing through people's lives.

God wants sin out of your life because it's the only thing that keeps you from experiencing the torrential downpour of blessing He wants to rain upon you.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

We were a religious sect consisting of two people, and now half the congregation was gone. There would be no closure, no healing. I would simply adjust myself to a new and severely depleted reality. The world would come to an end, as it always does, one world at a time.

Yes, we were looking for a Faith spin-off, but then Faith backed down. Eliza got a really wonderful offer over on Fox in a show, and, for reasons I didn't talk to her about, she decided to go there, and everyone respects that.

In our deepest longings we hear echoes of God's longing for us. And the more we can follow these deep-down desires, those that God places within us for our happiness, the more joyful we will find ourselves.

But Jesus accepts what we give, blesses it, breaks it open, and magnifies it. Often in ways that we don't see or cannot see. Or will not be able to see in this lifetime. Who knows what a kind word does? Who knows what a single act of charity will do? Sometimes the smallest word or gesture can change a life.

Finding God often happens in the midst of a community—with a "we" as often as an "I.

Religion can provide a check to my tendency to think that I am the center of the universe, that I know better than anyone about God, and that God speaks most clearly through me.

God desires for us to be the persons we were created to be: to be simply and purely ourselves, and in this state to love God and to let ourselves be loved by God. It is a double journey, really: finding God means allowing ourselves to be found by God. And finding our true selves means allowing God to find and reveal our true selves to us.

Gratitude, peace, and joy are ways that God communicates with us. During these times, we are feeling a real connection with God, though we might not initially identify it as such. The key insight is accepting that these are ways that God is communicating with us. That is, the first step involves a bit of trust.

Noticing helps you realize that your life is already suffused with the presence of God. Once you begin to look around and allow yourself to take a chance to believe in God, you will easily see God at work in your life.

Fully human and fully divine" is, to use a loaded word, a mystery. Something not to be solved, but to be pondered.