Quotes About Faith

Learning is the heart of discipleship. You can't just take up your cross daily. You need to take up the Bible every day.

I don't pretend to understand where the sovereignty of God and free will of humans meet, but it motivates me to work like it depends on me and pray like it depends on God.

La oración y la imaginación son directamente proporcionales entre sí;

If God is for us, it doesn't matter what comes against us. Without Him, we can do nothing. With Him, we can do all things.

Has God ever called you to throw something down? Something in which you find your security or put your identity? It's awfully hard to let go, isn't it? It feels like you are jeopardizing your future. And it feels like you could lose what is most important to you. But that is when you discover who you really are.

Soñar es una forma de orar, y orar es una forma de soñar. Mientras más ores, más grandes se volverán tus sueños. Y mientras más grandes se vuelvan tus sueños, más tendrás que orar. En ese proceso de trazar unos círculos de oración cada vez mayores, se amplía la esfera de la gloria de Dios.

La fecha de nuestra muerte no es la fecha que escriben en la lápida de nuestro sepulcro. El día en que dejemos de soñar, es el día en que comenzaremos a morir. Cuando sacrificamos la imaginación en el altar de la lógica, le robamos a Dios la gloria que le pertenece a él con todo derecho.

If you take thirty linear steps, you're ninety feet from where you started. But if you take thirty exponential steps, you've circled the earth twenty-six times!2 Faith isn't linear. Faith is exponential.

dream big, pray hard, and think long.

Here's the point: God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities. But those God-given opportunities often come disguised as man-eating lions. And how we react when we encounter those lions will determine our destiny. We can cower in fear and run away from our greatest challenges. Or we can chase our God-ordained destiny by seizing the God-ordained opportunity.

We can't just know what we believe; we need to know why we believe what we believe.

Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows.

Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.

He hoped and prayed that God had a special place for soldiers of any religion, of any country, of any age, who trusted so much their leaders and their cause.

There are those who build, those who teach or heal, those who research how to do things better. But I am a soldier. A soldier protects people. A soldier enforces laws. A soldier stands guard over what he believes in, sometimes alone when his only fuel is from his faith in himself. He trusts his judgment that his fellow soldier, his leader, his country and his country's cause is just and fair and deserving of his faith.

The great hope of the Tet Offensive was that its very size and daring would trigger a surge of nationalism that would transcend barriers of ideology, class, and faith.

Woran du glaubst, dafür sollst du leben und sterben.

without rest, we miss the rest of God: the rest he invites us to enter more fully so that we might know him more deeply. "Be still, and know that I am God." Some knowing is never pursued, only received. And for that, you need to be still.

Prayer makes no sense apart from waiting.

I discovered that being thankful and experiencing the power and presence of Jesus Christ are tightly entwined. As we practice thankfulness, we experience more of God's transforming grace, God's thereness.

When we suffer, God empowers us to face the worst and become our best.

For the place God calls us into isn't doubt free—how can any place where we walk by faith and not by sight be that? No, the holy wild is where we have driving and haunting doubts, God-hungry doubts that pull us to our knees, force us to the Word, make us wrestle all night and not let go until He blesses us. The holy wild throngs with true skeptics.

Holiness is not a bid to be noticed or loved or accepted by God. Holiness, rather, is acting out and acting upon the truth that God has noticed, loved and accepted us long before we did anything to warrant that.

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.