Quotes About Faith

We wish to be worthy of being saved", Father Andrei continued. "Which is another way of saying that we, every one of us, whether we know it or not, wish to be our own god, that is, to save ourselves. We want paradise without his Cross, forgetting that the Cross is the only way to reenter the original harmony we lost in the Fall of Man. This is the narrow gate.

What remains of your church is going to be handed over to the elder brother, to its rightful Lord." "God will not permit it." "Your absent god has already permitted it. Your progressives gave it over to the Christ of this age long ago. There are so many of them. How easy it was to convince them.

God wants you to know that nothing you do will ever destroy His love for you. He has sent a man back from the dead to tell you this." "I do not understand." "We do not understand because we are small creatures. You and I. All of us. Very small. To hide in His arms, that is the best thing we ever do.

Eat bread and salt, and speak the truth' ", said Father Sergius. "That is one of our old proverbs.

You and he make this union of trust together. Trust is not magic. Trust is built slowly, slowly, with patience and care.

Remember that obedience is the great fast.

Was it not ordained that the Church must one day go through this second Passover?

God, sir,' John couldn't help but add, 'after all we've been through since 2020, it's miraculous that people even dare to wake up every day!

As a Gurs inmate remarked to an American consul: "To you, we are just numbers. To us, you are the god who has the right to open the gates of the promised land or keep shut that door and condemn us to despair.

God wants everyone to be saved. Fostering a longing for the coming of Christ can only happen if we believe that it is for our good.

The Lord is virtuous, He has patience in abundance. While we might think we are the ones in need of patience, it is really He who is exercising patience with us. Giving us the much needed time to repent, to realize that His way is the only way. I

In September 1959, Graham was about to begin a crusade in Little Rock. ... 'A lot of business people in Little Rock were worried about some sort of great encounter," Clinton recalled later, 'because racial tensions were very high. And they asked Billy Graham to agree to give this crusade to a segregated audience. And he said if they insisted on that he would not come, that they were all children of God, he wanted to lead everyone to Christ. He would not do it.

And, in a larger sense, Graham was soon vindicated. Within just a few months, he received invitations to preach in the nations that were then known as Czechoslovakia and East Germany - trips that would turn out to be genuine crusades in countries desperate for Christian ministry. It had not been easy to watch, but Graham had wedged his foot in the door. And he would help kick it wide open over the next few years. p. 275

When the invitation came for Graham to return to the Soviet Union two years later in 1984, he would get the chance to lead a crusade through four cities and give twenty-three sermons in twelve days. By then, he knew how to order his steps.

JESUS MAY CALL YOU TO CHANGE CAREERS AND BECOME A MISSIONARY . . . BUT IN THE MEANTIME YOU ANSWER HIS CALL BY DILIGENTLY DOING WHATEVER IT IS YOU DO.

A flourishing human life is the best advertisement for the gospel, and the gospel in turn empowers us to become better people.

We learn what it means to be human from Scripture's opening act of creation and what it means to be Christian from its closing act of redemption. If redemption restores creation, then the point of being a Christian is to restore our humanity.

We must love God more than the world, yet if we truly love God, we will also love the world, on his behalf. God matters more than the world, but because he loves it, the world now matters.

EVERYTHING COUNTS, BUT SOME THINGS COUNT MORE. THEY JUST DO. I want my children to flourish in every way. I hope they read broadly, eat well, exercise, and get along with others. But most of all, I pray that they love Jesus. Everything counts, but some things count more. They just do. If God is the source of all value, then everything matters, and those activities that focus most on him matter most of all.

As you grasp for the next rung, remember that ultimately it doesn't matter if you rise or fall. The only thing that was ever meant to satisfy you is God.

If redemption restores creation, then creation counts for more than I had ever suspected.

DIVIDE YOUR LIFE INTO SACRED AND SECULAR, HEAVENLY AND EARTHLY, CHRISTIAN AND HUMAN REALMS. DEVOTE THEM ALL TO CHRIST.

Our Christian and human lives are united because redemption restores creation.

Faithful Christian living involves a paradox: our faith is both world-affirming and world-denying. World-affirming