Quotes About Faith

Now, if I am having a hard time hearing God's voice, or being certain that I have heard, I will sometimes try on one answer, then the other. Still in a posture of quiet listening, I will add to my prayers, Are you saying yes, Jesus? Are you saying you want us to go? Pause. Listen. Or are you saying no—you don't want us to go? Often as we try on one answer or another, our spirit can feel the guidance of the Holy Spirit through a confirmation, or a strong sense of reservation.

Your loyalty is not to a church or a movement, but to Jesus Christ.

what you must cling to is that you have died with Christ in the cross; sin no longer has to rule over you. You have a choice!

May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world" (Gal. 6: 14).

The greatest enemy of true faith has always been religion (notice who Jesus reserves his harshest words for), and a religious attitude is not what we are after.

set your phone alarm so that three times a day you stop, love God, and give him your allegiance. I love you, God. I love you, God. I love you. I give you my allegiance. I choose you over all things. Give me the strength that prevails.

We forgive those who harmed us. And then, with an open heart, we simply as Jesus to heal us.

The mind is a faculty, and a magnificent one at that. But the heart is the dwelling place of our true beliefs.

The secret of Christianity is something else altogether—the life of Christ in you. Allowing his life to become your life. His revolution is not self-transformation, but his transformation of you, from the inside out, as you receive his life and allow him to live through you. Vine, branch. Anything else is madness.

For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." (Rom. 8:15)

Intimacy with God is the purpose of our lives. It's why God created us.

I simply align myself with you again today.

Don't let your experience of God up to this point limit what you might enjoy with him in the coming years.

The eyes of the LORD search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him" (2 Chronicles 16:9 NLT).

I will give thanks to you, LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds. I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High. My enemies turn back; they stumble and perish before you. (Ps. 9: 1–3 NLT)

Jesus, thank you that you are right here. You are with me, and you are in me.

I give the Self Life to you, God. I abandon it, release it, deny it, turn it over to you. I'd much rather have you.

Pressure nearly always guarantees you will have a hard time discerning what God is saying, if you hear anything at all. Pressure

Jesus, I surrender the Self Life to you.

stop doubting and believe?" (John 20:27). Thomas had a decision to make in that moment, a decision he was quite capable of making, a decision our Lord was waiting for him to make. Thomas's experience was waiting on a choice.

I am surrendering it, turning it over to Jesus, relinquishing its every right.

respectable channels of religion. Consider this one piece of evidence: millions of people who have spent years attending church, and yet they don't know God. Their heads are filled with stuffing about Jesus, but they do not experience him, not as the boys did on the beach. There are millions more who love Jesus Christ but experience him only occasionally, more often stumbling along short of the life he promised, like Lazarus still wrapped in his graveclothes.

As Athanasius said, "He became what we are that we might become what he is.

The key to receiving answers to prayers for guidance is to let go of our constant attempt to "figure things out." Really