Quotes About Faith

all men are found to be sinners and rebels against God, and so the Bible condemns all men to an everlasting fiery hell. But it also reveals the only way to salvation, and that is through faith in Jesus Christ.

Christianity teaches that man needs salvation, and that he is saved by faith in Jesus Christ.

A person who does not understand biblical soteriology cannot help but have a warped sense of reality and an unsuccessful Christian life.

The fact that God has chosen to speak to us through the Bible means that human language is sufficient, and so it is possible to obtain reliable and detailed information about God from his verbal revelation.

Some Christians find it difficult to accept that our relationship with God is partly characterized as a master and slave relationship.

you are dealing with an absolutely sovereign and powerful God.

He has no need of anything that you give him, as if you can give him anything, but you have need of him to give to you, and you are always entirely at his mercy. People sometimes forget that, or they simply refuse to acknowledge it.

But like all biblical doctrines, this doctrine of divine sovereignty penetrates, judges, and exposes the real condition of the heart. Their faith was false all along, but they thought they could obtain some benefit from God. Once they learned that their prayers and efforts did not occupy the determinative role, and that they could not manipulate the situation in the way they desired, the masks came off and they abandoned the faith that they once professed.

It is self-refuting to argue that man cannot know God due to the difference between the two, because the statement itself assumes considerable knowledge about God.

Any act of kindness from God is solely due to his mercy offered through the covenant we have with him in Christ, and not as an obligatory payment for our service.

Sinclair Ferguson writes, "He who calls them creates in them the ability to respond so that in the very act of his calling he brings them into new life."[163]

Why is the gospel discredited when a believer steals from his employer? And when a pastor commits adultery, what does it have anything to do with the truth concerning Jesus Christ?

Rather, whoever believes the gospel does so only because God chooses to save him, to change his inner nature, and to produce faith in him.

Faith in the gospel in no way comes from the person himself – the understanding is sovereignly granted by God as he removes the blindness from the mind and enlightens it, and the willful assent is produced in him by God's power, as a gift that he gives only to those whom he has chosen.

God has made human beings in his own image, they can indeed think about God, talk about God, and understand God.

God has given the Bible a most prominent place in both the history of mankind in general, and in the history of redemption in particular.

It is a false doctrine to suggest that God provides the mere possibility of salvation, and that it is up to each individual to actualize it when he believes the gospel by his own free will.

The Bible teaches that we are justified by faith, and not that we are regenerated by faith.

The gospel never claims to produce perfect people in this life, and these individuals might or might not be genuine believers in the first place.

God demands his people to imitate his holiness under both the Old and New Testaments:

For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thessalonians 5:9)[135]

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God

John 17:15 encourages Christians to invade the lives of non-Christians, and to engage these spiritual enemies by preaching and teaching the word of God, and to be salt and light to them through our holy speech and conduct (Matthew 5:13-16).

by the power of God, who has saved us and called us to a holy life – not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace.