Quotes About Faith

Those who suffer rest their security not on things, which often cannot be enjoyed and may soon be taken away, but rather on people.

Legalism lowers, rather than raises, God's standards. Loving your neighbor as yourself, caring for the poor, bringing about justice, forgiving enemies—none of these reduces to a set of rules. Indeed, any list of rules narrows the breadth of what God wants done in the world. It moves the emphasis away from dispensing God's grace to sinners toward a pointless competition with pseudo-saints. It makes faith petty and irrelevant, not something that urgently matters.

There is a simple cure for people who doubt God's love and question God's grace: to turn to the Bible and examine the kind of people God loves.

Those who suffer can respond to the call of the gospel with a certain abandonment and uncomplicated totality because they have so little to lose and are ready for anything.

There's something unique about having only God to lean on in times of trial.

C. S. Lewis said, "If you read history you will find out that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next… Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Only Christianity dares to make God's love unconditional.

some of the most inspiring stories of faith come from those often considered "losers" by the rest of the world.

Believing there is no God does not make the thirst go away.

The phrase "the body of Christ," expresses well what we are called to do: to represent in flesh what Christ is like, especially to those in need. The

grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us.

Self-sufficiency, which first reared its head in the Garden of Eden, is the most fatal sin because it pulls us as if by a magnet away from God.

Only he who is helpless can truly pray.

According to Barna surveys, 61 percent of today's youth had been churched at one point during their teen years but are now spiritually disengaged.

unless we learn dependence we will never experience grace.

When I ask, "Tell me the first word that comes to your mind when I say Christian," not one time has someone suggested the word love. Yet without question that is the proper biblical answer.

Forgiveness, we discover, is always harder than the sermons make it out to be

In the study of scientific atheism, there was the idea that religion divides people. Now we see the opposite: love for God can only unite.

I need God more than anything I might get from God.

No matter how capable we are, we need God every day, living in us and acting through us. We need his courage and his hope, his love and his companionship. We need his salvation. We can't live without God.

It takes great effort, and considerable faith, to keep the Big Picture in mind. In some ways it makes me feel utterly insignificant, in some ways eternally significant

Jesus requires—no, demands—a response of forgiveness.

At the heart of sin lies a lack of trust that God intends the best for us.

We're all bastards but God loves us anyway.