Quotes About Faith

we are indeed saved by faith in Christ, but it is only through the Bible that we receive an infallible revelation from and about Christ.

the study of theology is the most important human activity.

One who respects non-Christian beliefs and who thinks that some of them might be true is probably not a Christian in the first place. Just as Jesus has nothing to learn from the devil, Christians have nothing to learn from non-Christians (2 Corinthians 6:15).[84]

We must never allow the non-Christians to think that we are prepared to accept their beliefs or to make the slightest adjustment to the Christian worldview.

if the Bible is a revelation of truth, then anything that contradicts it must be false.

The necessary result is that the person who claims to believe both divine sovereignty and human freedom believes neither.

Scientists and non-Christians may wallow in contradictions, but Christians must not tolerate them.

God himself pursues them and throws them into the lake of fire.

God saved you not because you have been good, but he sovereignly arranged for you to hear the gospel and regenerated you.

Accordingly, a person who insists that he accepts Christ because of his own free will, and not because of God's sovereign choice and direct action in his soul, cannot at the same time affirm a sovereign God.

Since the only God presented in the Bible is an absolutely sovereign God, a person who affirms human free will cannot, without contradiction, affirm belief in God.

We should never use the excuse, "Only God knows." No, we know as well, because God has revealed his thinking on the subject to us. Non-Christians will go to hell. Homosexuals will suffer everlasting hellfire. Feminism is of the devil. Greed leads to perdition. Liars will be exposed and punished. Oppressors will be destroyed by divine wrath. We know all of these things.

One who begins to awaken from his spiritual stupor sees that it is better to be a Christian than to wallow in sin, and that it is better to be a believer than an unbeliever.

Unless you repent, you too will all perish" (Luke 13:3, 5).

Christ does for us what we are too cowardly and unfaithful to do.

Christianity affirms an absolute exclusivity. There is only one way to salvation, and anyone who does not come through this way is excluded. The way to God and heaven is not a wide path but a narrow one. It is so narrow that salvation is possible only through one person, one message, one faith, and anyone who does not travel on this path is heading toward damnation, and endless conscious torment in hell.

The Bible does not contrast between the native human abilities of the Christians and the non-Christians; rather, it makes a contrast between man's abilities and God's abilities – between human power and divine power, the wisdom of man and the wisdom of God. When these are pitted again each other, there is no contest, "For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.

Even the most sophisticated philosopher has no defense against the most uneducated and untrained Christian whose plain assertion of the gospel is empowered by the Holy Spirit. Although it is far better to be properly equipped, not by worldly professionalism but by a sound understanding and application of the faith, our overall success and progress is guaranteed by the divine promise.

The Christian faith is indestructible because our Father is greater than all. The church is invincible because Christ promises to build his church and that the forces of hell will not overcome it. Christianity is a permanent religion, and Christ's church a permanent institution.

In the light of Christ's promise, the forces of the devil and the unbelievers are pathetic and impotent. They are defenseless against us, for greater is he who is in us than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4).

Just because a person has been a Christian for many years does not mean that he is spiritually mature. Rather, due to his lack of initiative and negligence, he may need "someone to teach [him] the elementary truths of God's word all over again.

As for those who reject the very idea that God will punish people with natural and "man-made" disasters, and kill thousands of people in the process, their problem is that they do not believe the Scripture at all,

The Lord knows those who are his" (2 Timothy 2:19). If God has given us faith in Christ, then we are among his chosen ones; if we are among his chosen ones, then we are his special possession; and if we are his special possession, then he has given us his guarantee that he will jealously protect and preserve us to the day of redemption by his almighty power.

The evil disposition of the unregenerate mind prevents a person from assenting to the gospel regardless of the preacher's persuasiveness.