Quotes About Faith

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.

I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.

I was foolish because I believed in you. You are a fool because you believe in yourself!

A person can't tell another person what to put between them and their God.

Chile, ain't life somethin?! Lord, oh, lord.

There isn't anyone anywhere that isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know—listen to me, now—don't you know who that Fat Lady really is?… Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy.

New Jerusalem is found wherever human community resists the ways of empire and places God at the center of its shared life."27

true biblical living is the greatest gift the church can give to its time.

To love Christ is to deal with the incongruity of One who is hailed as the Lion of Judah but who appears as a slain Lamb.

If we persist in hating in a universe that was made to operate on love, we can expect that it will at last cut us down.

As he watched his flocks by Mount Horeb, he saw a bush that was blazing without being consumed. He said, "Let me check out this amazing sight and find out why the bush isn't burning up." And then, the telling sentence: "When the LORD saw that he was coming to look, God called to him out of the bush" (Ex 3:3-4). I think it

Haggai preached to a people with whom we might secretly sympathize: they were so preoccupied with paneling their own homes that they forgot that the house of the Lord was in ruins. All of which is to say, distraction comes easily, in many forms, and it happens to the nicest people.

Look at the most religious areas of the world at present -- the Middle East and the United States. These are sick societies, and they're going to get sicker. People are never more dangerous than when they have nothing left to believe in except God.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

In trying to remove from Christianity everything that could possibly be objected to in the name of science, in trying to bribe off the enemy by those concessions which the enemy most desires, the apologist has really abandoned what he started out to defend.

From every point of view, therefore, the problem in question is the most serious concern of the Church. What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age?

Every historian, whether he is a Christian or not, ought to take account of this strange fact—that a certain Jesus, a man who lived in the first century in Palestine, was actually convinced, as He looked out upon the men who thronged about Him, that He would one day sit on the judgment-seat of God and be their judge and the judge and ruler of all the world.

The Christian religion is no mere form of mysticism, but is founded upon a body of facts; the facts are recorded in the Bible; and if the supposed facts were not facts at all, then Christianity and the Bible would certainly sink into a common ruin.

But underlying that sweet and blessed communion of the Christian with his God there is a true knowledge of God. A communion with God which is independent of that knowledge of God is communion with some other god and not with the living and true God whom the Bible reveals.

It is quite useless to ask a man to adopt the Christian view of the gospel unless he first has the Christian view of sin.

Indifferentism about doctrine makes no heroes of the faith.

The Bible is perfectly plain in the things that are necessary for your souls. God will make other things in it clearer to you as the years go by. Read it, my friends. It is God's Book, not man's book. It is a message from the King. Read it, study it, trust it, live by it. Other books will deceive you, but not this book. This book is the Word of God.

the evangelical Christian is not true to his profession if he leaves his Christianity behind him on Monday morning.