Quotes About Faith

We live on a planet that has been invaded by evil forces, and God's followers are called to be part of the solution.

as thou hast given me a repentance, not to be repented of, so give me, O Lord, a fear, of which I may not be afraid.

prayer incorporates the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of God's grace.

forgiveness is an act of faith.

Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.

suffering can serve as instruments to teach us the value of dependence, and unless we learn dependence we will never experience grace. The apostle Paul gave the Corinthians an

La presencia visible de Dios no mejoró en nada su fe ni la hizo duradera.

never live as though God does not exist." Or, stated positively, "Always live in awareness of God's existence.

I fight the tentacular grip of ungrace in my own life. Although I may not perpetuate the strictness of my upbringing, I battle daily against pride, judgmentalism, and a feeling that I must somehow earn God's approval.

Sometimes God seemed as close as his wife or children. Sometimes he had no sense of God's presence, no faith to lean on. God is wild, you know, he wrote. We're not in charge.

Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.

Over time Christians learned that the faith grows best from the bottom up rather than being imposed from the top down.

Viktor Frankl, who spent time in one of Hitler's camps, said, "Despair is suffering without meaning.

Dios no le importa tanto que lo analicemos. Principalmente, lo que quiere es que lo amemos.

He had not come primarily to heal the world's cells, but to heal its souls.

Faith like Job's cannot be shaken because it is the result of having been shaken." C.

As Solzhenitsyn elegantly expressed it in his classic One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, faith in God may not get you out of the camp, but it is enough to see you through each day.

Aun cuando todo parezca fuera de control, Dios sigue dominando con toda firmeza

Confieso que, a pesar de las largas horas de estudio de los profetas, no tengo un entendimiento más claro de lo que sucederá el año próximo ni en el año 2025. Pero tengo una idea mucho más clara de lo que Dios desea lograr en mi vida ahora mismo. Y estoy ganando, gradualmente, confianza para creer en el presente lo que solo será totalmente entendible cuando se vea desde el futuro.

No society in history has attempted to live without a belief in the sacred, not until the modern West.

What would it mean, I ask myself, if I too came to the place where I saw my primary identity in life as "the one Jesus loves"? How differently would I view myself at the end of a day?

God took a great risk by announcing forgiveness in advance, and the scandal of grace involves a transfer of that risk to us.

Where is God when it hurts? I have often asked. The answer is another question, Where is the church when it hurts?

But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today.