Quotes About Faith

Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.

To abandon all is to take our hearts, place them before the One who created them, and dare to believe He can live life powerfully through our surrendered lives.

We'd avoid a lot of insecurity, if we fully, wholly believed in God's wild affection for us.

When we have difficult relationships, God often uses them as gifts in our lives—to shape us, conform us to His Son, and make us gutsier and stronger.

Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.

Look how He's dusted me off and set me on my feet two hundred and fifty bazillion times. I'm fanatically in love with Him. So if this is true, I need to shed my need-for-everyone-to-like-me coat in favor of His robe of redemption, His mantle of humble submission.

When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible person and breaks her.

Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past for the sake of our present.

To become more like Jesus we must understand that the only growth we can be in charge of is our own.

When I became a Christian as a teenager, I gathered a false belief to myself that my Christian friends would be my forever friends. Surely, since we both loved Jesus and followed Him, we would always be in each other's lives. No one would hurt the other -- because Jesus! It didn't take long for that theory of mine to be tested by reality.

The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.

I want to live today in anticipation of what you will do next instead of constantly complaining about what isn't pristine in my life.

Sometimes we control our family members because we idolize and idealize our perfect plan over the journey that God has laid out for them. (p. 56)

When Jesus isn't our everything, our enough, we pursue every other thing that fills.

That's the crux of my prayer for you as you walk through difficult relationship -- that you would begin to see God's storytelling in your life even in the midst of pain and bewilderment.

So much growth can come in discord. The pain we walk through can become a catalyst to push us toward God.

I'm just a broken girl who's learned I can't walk the crooked path of this life.

Because of Jesus, I was already a completed story.

Mary E. DeMuth

But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of all Your works. Psalm 73:21–28 NASB

Dear Jesus, I pray you will show me the importance of humbling myself like a little child. Instead of instructor today, help me put on the hat of "learner." Use my children, Lord, to teach me more about you. Use their words to point me to your Word. Use their freedom to infuse freedom into my heart.

God] occupies all the difficult spaces humanity has endured. While I can't fully reconcile the problem of evil and why so many people have been sexually violated over the centuries, I do know this: Jesus has wept alongside me, and he weeps for his church to rise up valiantly and love the least, the last, and the lost. This is our WE TOO moment, to purposefully suffer alongside the sexually broken.

Nothing you can do will separate you from His love. Nothing you don't do will separate you from His love. Nothing done to you will separate you from His love.

Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.