Quotes About Faith

The Bible describes non-Christians as contemptible, entirely useless and pathetic. We were also in such a condition. If left to ourselves, we would have remained in ignorance and wickedness.

Although faith is applied to every aspect of the Christian life, it has special relevance when it comes to the justification of God's chosen ones.

Try to remember. Has there ever been a time when you were overwhelmed with the love of God for you, and your love for him?

God has spoken, and I dare not pretend that nothing happened.

Try to remember. Has there ever been a time when even a casual reading of a Bible passage would cause your heart to burn? Has there ever been a time when you were so anxious to visit the house of worship that it made your toes curl and your palms moist? Have you ever hungered for the word of God to a point that your heart ached with anticipation, so that you yearned for it as a deer pants for water?

I am invincible because God's word is invincible.

Christianity is the only true worldview, and it alone makes knowledge possible. All other systems of thought collapse into skepticism, but since skepticism is self-contradictory, one cannot remain in such a position, and Christianity is the only way out of the epistemological abyss.

You cannot just wish your way into the kingdom. You must be born into it. And if God has ever implanted into you spiritual life, this is something that can never die.

The Bible is aware that there are those who deny God, and it says that they are stupid people. The non-Christian is a fool.

Repent now, believe the gospel, and you will be saved. For if Christ is so firm with his church, what do you think he will do to you, if you fail to repent (1 Peter 4:17)?

False doctrines and religions, whether outside or inside of the church, alarm the true people of God, awake them from their spiritual slumber and complacency, incite them to pursue holiness, and compel them to define the biblical doctrines and refine their theological formulations.

The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God'" (Psalm 14:1). The

God is sovereign, man is not free – and there is no problem. This is biblical, coherent, simple, and defensible.

the Christian should not think like the non-Christian, in order to avoid becoming a stupid person.

Faith is "a gift of God" (Ephesians 2:8) – it is something that God gives, and not something that we produce.

Thus Christians must regard non-Christians as intellectually and ethically inferior. Of course non-Christians may think that this is an unkind and offensive assessment, but Christians must not think like them.

Love for God is not defined by fondness or admiration, but obedience. And only a true Christian can love God as defined by these verses – he obeys the commands of God, and submits to him in thought and action. Of course a Christian is also fond of God, but it is a feigned fondness if he does not also obey the divine commands in the Bible.

No matter what issues you face today, you are miserable and you are dying because your sin has separated you from God. Putting a bandage over a rotting cancer is not going to cure you. You

God has made a point of preventing non-Christians from knowing him through their own wisdom.

God has always been absolutely and exhaustively sovereign whether or not you knew about it.

Salvation is really and wholly from God, from start to finish (Hebrews 12:2). F

Therefore, unless we are ready to renounce God and the Scripture, we must say with Anselm, "Why then did 'the Fool say in his heart, there is no God'…unless because he was stupid and a fool?

You must confess your sins, and return to God through Jesus Christ. Then, you can approach him in unwavering faith, and ask him to grant you his wisdom and to teach you his ways. This is the only hope for you, and the only hope for mankind.

He does not determine only what he wants to happen but also how he wants it to happen, and he has decided that Christians should have the role of preaching in bringing the chosen ones to faith in Christ. We should be grateful that God would use our effort as the means by which he summons those he has chosen for salvation (2 Timothy 2:10).