Quotes About Faith

I am also praying for you, my beloved partner. God has a miracle breakthrough for your life.

Only God can change a season of war into a season of peace. Would you agree with me in prayer for peace?

My simplistic answer to the question "Who am I?" is this: my truest, purest, nonnegotiable identity is the beloved. And in spite of my checkered past, my fabulous flops, my painful history, my deepest flaws, my bonehead screwups, and, yes, even beyond my own beliefs about myself, I am God's beloved. This is my foundational identity and the foundational identity of every human being.

We may not see how our frayed, smelly imperfections can be redesigned, but God certainly can. He believes that our imperfections are the raw materials for crafting something extraordinary.

People of the Second Chance understand that God's love gets in through our cracks and breaks.

In the reverse economy of Jesus, the things that break us, God inverts to shape us.

Extraordinary things can happen to ordinary people like you and me, but only if we open ourselves up enough to let them.

Why do they call it the Catholic Church? Because if they called it the Pedophiles Club, nobody would join.

God inhabits the praises of His people. And when the King is present, all things are possible. So

I know too many people who muck around in the haze of being near God but never really embracing the new, wonderful, incredible, blessed life that God has for them. We have all lived in the haze from time to time. I know I have. This is the essence of our mess. And the challenge is to invite Jesus into the midst of your mess. Jesus died for your salvation in the afterlife, and you have a place in heaven for all of eternity. But Jesus also died for your freedom now.

God knew you'd pick up this book. God knows you. He knows what you think about, what drives you nuts, when you obsess about the parts of your body, how your significant other drives you crazy sometimes, how frustrated you get with yourself for not being all that you would like to be. In your mess, God showcases his glory. God also knows the incredible plans he has for you—the empowered and abundant and fruitful life to which he calls you. We are imperfect. His love is unending.

How would our lives change if we knew what to listen for? What effect would it have if we learned how to listen for his voice in the midst of our dailiness, our everyday work and play? According to the witness of Scripture, God does have a call on our lives, a purpose, a plan, a message, and he does care about our moment-by-moment existence. This is an incredibly exciting prospect! And potentially a frightening one as well.

Many of us are living contradictions. I've done some empirical probing in my own life and have determined this to be true. We want God to speak to us, but we're petrified he'll call us to something uncomfortable, or difficult, or worse . . . something uncool.

His Call Will Not Go against His Word or His Character

God's call will never involve temptation or evil or selfishness.

All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for.

The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated.

True faith is forged in the furnace, not the showroom.

In church politics, you're surprised when people are bad, while in secular politics you're surprised when people are good.

Our generation has learned to hold to the standard of each other instead of the standard of God. That is the travesty: God is no longer the standard; we are.

This is a book about redemption. It's also about listening to what God has called you do to and then being all in no matter how crazy or unrealistic it seems. It's about expecting God to work it out, keeping the faith, and knowing that when God says it's time, it is time, and no one can stop Him.

If there are real angels in the world," Michael said to his brother, "how come they're never around when we need them?

Among modern idols the worst is the homeland Its robe is the shroud of religion

Theology, it turns out, is Satan's favorite game.