Quotes About Faith

Martin Luther. And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us; We will not fear, for God has willed His truth to triumph through us.

What will you do with Jesus?      Neutral you cannot be.      Someday your heart will be asking,           What will He do with me?

To ignore Satan and his strategies is to commit spiritual suicide.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

You will never be passionate about something in which you don't fully believe. You may be able to fake your passion for Christ for a season, but it will be sure to wither when the heat of affliction comes. How far you are willing to go and how much discomfort you are willing to experience for the sake of the gospel will say much about what you truly believe.

Timothy Keller makes the point well: Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of Jonah imperiled by the storm), some suffering is given not to correct past wrongs but to prevent future ones (as in the case of Joseph sold into slavery), and some suffering has no purpose other than to lead a person to love God more ardently for himself alone and so discover the ultimate peace and freedom. (Keller, Walking with God, 47)

Essentially, each scientist (or even each person reading the research) with a point of view adheres to his or her position with near religious fervor.

Fearfulness is not of God. The Holy Spirit is not one who makes us fearful; rather He gives us spiritual power, a heart full of love, and a mind that is sound and understanding. Fear comes from another spirit. Satan and his demons are quick to author fear. The apostle Peter calls us to: "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom resist stedfast in the faith" (1 Peter 5:8–9a KJV).

In a most wonderful way, our Lord moved upon me, and for nearly thirty minutes I was able to share of God's love, mercy, and transforming power through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Fearfulness is not of God. The Holy Spirit is not one who makes us fearful; rather He gives us spiritual power, a heart full of love, and a mind that is sound and understanding.

If you're being smothered from someone on top of you, you've got to move, if you can't move, you better pray, and then find a pocket of air (this pocket of air will be hot and humid and almost not worth breathing, but it's all you got).

We should sooner consider ourselves sinless before we ever consider Jesus sinful. As absurd as the former sounds, the latter is much more absurd.

The most intense skeptics and the most intense believers of our age share a common conviction: that beneath all superficial appearances lies a deeper truth.

Our assignment is to make sure people can see Jesus clearly. This is the very reason we must meet them where they arc-consumer mentality and all. We must greet them with unconditional acceptance and respect. This is how people will begin to see Jesus clearly. Our goal should be to do anything and everything that helps our guests see Christ. Since

The vocation of every Christian is to live as a follower of Jesus today. In every aspect of life, in small and large acts, with family, neighbors and enemies, we are to seek to live out the grace and truth of Jesus. This is our vocation, our calling. Today.

When worship is our response to the One who alone is worthy of it-Jesus Christ-then our lives are on their way to being turned inside out.

When God's people fail to live our call, the church buries the gospel.

For the evangelical witness in the United States to flourish, it doesn't need better branding, but genuine revival.

American slaves and their descendants have taken the texts of the bible in every sense of the word: embraced them, endured them, seized them, stolen them, caught them and captured them. Allen Dwight Callahan, The Talking Book

We cannot serve the executed God and the god of religious respectability.

The phrase "executed God" does important conceptual work symbolically, and with practical effects for communities that center themselves around such a notion. The

At its best, the expression crucified God reminds us that the power of all life, "God," faces and suffers the worst that a creature can endure and emerges with newfound power, strength, and hope. What

What is sacralized or made holy is not suffering but the facing, endurance of suffering, the resisting it with hope and life.

Are the Gods real or is Ike Karton just crazy? And the answer is: Yes.