Quotes About Faith

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the world and the Devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.

No great saint lived without errors.

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.

For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club.

Be thou comforted,little dog;thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.

many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.

The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ. The righteousness by which a person is justified (declared righteous) is not his own but that of another, Christ.

God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

The truth of the matter is rather as Christ says, "He who is not with me is against me." ... He does not say "He who is not with me is not against me either, but merely neutral.

Here I stand, I can do no other, God help me. Amen!

What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow.

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.

I am of a different mind ten times in the course of a day. But I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away. When he tempts me with silly sins I say, 'Devil, yesterday I broke wind too. Have you written it down on your list?

Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow.

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.