Quotes About Faith

Christians in China are praying for our Christian brothers and sisters in America. We believe we are handling our persecution better than you are handling your prosperity.2 A CHRISTIAN LEADER IN CHINA

I have learned that if all we ever do is seek God's hand, we may miss His face; but if we seek His face, He will be glad to open His hand and satisfy the deepest desires of our hearts.

Building a prayer culture takes time. . . and relentless pressure over time. I often say that it is much more a crock pot than a microwave.

It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business in the morning and the last in the evening. Guard yourself against such false and deceitful thoughts that keep whispering: Wait a while. In an hour or so I will pray. I must first finish this or that. Thinking such thoughts we get away from prayer into other things that will hold us and involve us till the prayer of the day comes to naught.

If my activity is human in origin, it will fail. • If my activity is from God, nobody will be able to stop it.

Peter Lord, one of my personal mentors and a pastor for over five decades, states, "Most Christians pray out of crisis or from a grocery list – period." His point is that God has much more for us in our walk with Him when we learn to seek His face, not just His hand. This is the discovery so many are making today in their relationship with Christ.

There is a difference between a church that prays and a praying church. One has prayer programs. The other develops a prayer culture.

our real need is not to be "relevant" through new self-styled efforts to morph into a more palatable version of faith. Our need is to be revived in the New Testament essence of church leadership that will answer a hostile and wary culture with a display of all that makes Christianity unique and triumphant—the power of the Gospel, lived and proclaimed in supernatural power.

When prayer goes viral, people are not excited about "it" (prayer) but are infectious about "Him

I say often that prayerlessness is our declaration of independence from God.

According to George Barna, the majority of born-again Christians admit that their bi-weekly attendance at worship services is generally the only time they worship God.

Half of all believers say they do not feel they have entered the presence of God or experienced a genuine connection with Him in the past year.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

I do engineering, not religion.

Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly...to revere God and be God.

Dios, concédeme serenidad para aceptar las cosas que no puedo cambiar, valor para cambiar aquellas que puedo, y sabiduría para reconocer la diferencia.»

Aquí me tienes. Esto es así. Sé que es difícil, pero puedes hacerlo. Estoy contigo.»

Finally, the illusions of validity and skill are supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers. Given the professional culture of the financial community, it is not surprising that large numbers of individuals in that world believe themselves to be among the chosen few who can do what they believe others cannot.

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.

We provide new programmes, concepts, shows, regardless of what's on other channels. After all, we command viewer loyalty and we are trustees of public faith.

I want to be honest about my faith, but not preachy, for my viewers and my readers.

Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

All religious believers should be licensed to make sure that they are competent to hold opinions and viewpoints and that they don't believe in just any old thing, such as creationism or a flat tax.