Quotes About Faith

What He said He would do He always did, and the things we already see fulfilled in His Word simply remind us that what He said about the future will take place just as surely.

Although there is validity, I believe, in leaving a church where the leadership consistently presents false doctrine, I also see people who are offended by one remark from the pulpit or one perceived hurt flit to the next church to look for fault there. It's like the cartoon I saw of a skeleton dressed in women's clothes and sitting on a park bench; the caption read, 'Waiting for the perfect man.' There is no perfect church either.

If you have put your faith in Christ and have spent significant time in the Word of God, the tough times can be like a magnet that draws you to the Lord Jesus.

Trust is an act of the mind, while obedience is an act of the hands and feet.

They turn their attention back to Ella playing. As they look, April takes a deep breath, opens her mouth, and in a voice as clear as crystal, sings - Amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now I'm found. Was blind but now I see.

You can't out-sin God's forgiveness.' What I believe that means, Tucker, is that God has more forgiveness than you have sins—no matter how many you have or how big you think they are.

Each of us has a certain ministry to perform, and we will each have to answer to God for what we have done with that gift. What have you done with the talents God has given you?

you just stay in the will of God and things will work out. If God doesn't tell you anything in particular to do, then don't do anything. Just wait on Him.

Fear not them which destroy the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell (Matt. 10:28 KJV). We should all truly love God, fear God, and be prepared to meet Him when our time comes to leave this earth and stand before Him to give an account. We never really know when our time will come to leave this life. Let's make sure we're ready!

I did wonder what happened when we died, though, and I'd wondered about it for most of my life. Thinking that nothing happened, that there was absolutely nothing following all of this pain, seemed just as silly as magic. No, there had to be something.

If they reject that truth, however, they cannot expect to understand more, and in fact, they will lose the truth that they have. (See Romans 1:21-28.) If they do not actively believe and love truth, they are subject to deception. (See II Thessalonians 2:10-12.)

In a spiritual sense, carnal people cannot grasp the significance of God's Word unless they turn to God, accept His Word by faith, and seek spiritual understanding. "The carnal mind is enmity against God" (Romans 8:7). "The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned" (I Corinthians 2:14).

Instead of appealing to human authorities, institutions, and traditions, an apostolic church challenges people to encounter God for themselves, to search the Scriptures to find truth, and to follow God's ways instead of social expectations.

Whatever He commands, He enables; and His grace always gives before it requires.

Thus, reason tells us that it is rational to accept what reason alone cannot demonstrate.

Christian theology must free the gospel not only to specify the answers but also to shape the questions.

Human authorities will exercise authority rightly only if they acknowledge the authority of God over them.

Rogers exulted in his choice to work in television. "I'm more convinced than ever that 'Children's Corner' is God's program," he wrote. "There's no doubt about it now in my mind that we are being well guided: whatever happens from now on I know will be for the best. Just too many factors have come together today for it to be 'man-planned.

Abba Antony said, "Whatever you find in your heart to do in following God, that do, and remain within yourself in Him.

A loved one's death is permanent, and that is so heartbreaking. But I believe your loss of hope can be temporary. Until you can find it, I'll hold it for you. I have hope for you. I don't want to invalidate your feelings as they are, but I also don't want to give death any more power than it already has. Death ends a life, but not our relationship, our love, or our hope.

At times like these I want to remove my hat to the beauty of the natural world and its Creator.

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

Even in faith, it is not easy for me to say to God, I am sorry for wanting my enemies to be destroyed and punished before my eyes. It is dishonest to say that it is easy to forgive our enemies, even to ask forgiveness for longing for revenge.

The secret to practicing resurrection is in giving away who we are and what we have—completely and wholly—to something greater than ourselves. It's in escaping from the circumstances and choices that entomb us and entering into new life here and now.