Quotes About Faith

Paul writes that the church is "built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone" (Ephesians 2:20).

And just as Jesus prayed for Peter, now he prays for all Christians, so that no matter what spiritual problems they face, their faith will not fail:

Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Christianity teaches us about a God who commands humanity to procreate, and about an afterlife and a final judgment.

Many Christians forget how bad their lives were before God saved them. They dwell on all the "pleasures of sin" (Hebrews 11:25) that had them in Satan's snare before God "rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves" (Colossians 1:13).

all that God has revealed – all biblical doctrines – are conceivable, understandable, reasonable, defensible, and undeniable.

The Bible contains all that is necessary to construct a complete worldview, a true view of reality.

Those who claim to be Christians but who scorn doctrinal studies do not truly love God, even though they would like to think that they love him. But to love God by our own definition and on our own terms is not to regard him as God, and thus not to love him at all.

Everything that we need to know as Christians is found in the Bible.

Theological knowledge, or intellectual knowledge about God, is one of the most despised spiritual gifts. It is often regarded as unholy and unspiritual. However, Jesus says that to be God's friend means to have knowledge about him, about his being, his principles, and his plans and works.

because many churches are negligent and disobedient when it comes to maintaining the purity of the faith or the community.

This is what the LORD says: "Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight," declares the LORD. (Jeremiah 9:23-24)[69]

We must defy theologians who insist that God no longer performs the miraculous or speaks to people in special ways,

The Bible, or Scripture, is the ultimate authority and first principle of the Christian system, and it is the source of our knowledge about God and the things of God.

The Bible affirms active reprobation, active hardening, and active judgment.

Secular wisdom contradicts and competes against God's divine wisdom. In the areas of science, politics, parenting, marriage, education, and all other areas of thought and life the world embraces ideas that are hostile to Christianity. The Christian must realize that biblical principles are God-ordained precepts, and only they are accurate. Believers must be instructed to have confidence in the divine wisdom that God has given through the words of Scripture.

The Christian must realize that biblical principles are God-ordained precepts, and only they are accurate.

if God wanted to communicate with us through images, he could have inspired the prophets and apostles to draw pictures into the Bible. But there is not even one.

If it refuses to honor biblical revelation, we shall whip it into submission with the hard chain of logic.

The Bible says that man is essentially wicked, and that he needs a savior who is qualified to pay for his many transgressions.

You cannot preach like a Christian and then vote like an atheist. If you do, you are probably just an atheist.

The Christian God is not a physical object, but neither is he like dreams, equations, or Zeus. Rather, he is the creator and ruler of the universe, who decrees our history and decides our destiny, and who deserves and demands our worship.

Christians should not attempt to defend a general theism, but a definite biblical idea of God.

it necessarily follows that it is the Bible that judges and the Bible that damns. God damns to hell whomever the Bible damns to hell. There is no difference.