Quotes About Faith

One thing is certain: Nothing will set you apart from culture more than the exclusive claims of Christianity. And it is here that we must intentionally set ourselves apart-because if we do not, we will have no message for the world!

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

When we are in the grip of lust, the reality of God fades.

Our devotion must culminate in a conscious yielding of every part of our personality, every ambition, every relationship, and every hope to Him. This done, we have reached the apex of personal devotion

Train yourself to be godly. For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.

Men, on the most elementary level, you do not have to go to church to be a Christian. You do not have to go home to be married either. But in both cases if you do not, you will have a very poor relationship.

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having all our money.

Jesus is literally the exegesis of God.

The difference is one of motivation: legalism is self-centered; discipline is God-centered. The legalistic heart says, "I will do this thing to gain merit with God." The disciplined heart says, "I will do this thing because I love God and want to please Him.

If we confuse legalism and discipline, we do so to our soul's peril.

a Christian mind demands conscious negation; a Christian mind is impossible without the discipline of refusal.

John Bunyan once said: "You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

Most men would rather die in deception than live in uncertainty.

When one believed, one´s soul moved. When one didn´t, everything else moved.

What if the choice isn't between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it?

and that revelation murdered all that I once did know. Where once I asked of the God, 'Who are you?' now I ask, 'Who am I?

Better blind in Hell than speechless in Heaven. —

Convince a man to take a single step—after all, what earthly difference could one step make?—and he would walk the next mile to prove himself right.

fot he sin of the idolater is not that he worships stone, but that he worships one stone over others.

Conviction, no matter how narcotic its depth, simply did not make true.

You can only believe so many lies before becoming one of them.

What did it mean to a prophet to sing in a God´s own voice? Would that make him a shaman, as in the days described in the Tusk? Or would it make him a god?

There's faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there's faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the mysteriousness of the God. It begets compassion and tolerance. Who can entirely condemn when they're not entirely certain they're in the right? But the second, Proyas, the second embraces certainty and only pays lip service to the God's mystery. It begets intolerance, hatred, violence . . .

Ignorance is trust. —