Quotes About Faith

If we put God into a box built by our own human understanding, we'll never be able to endure the trials of our faith.

Jesus is the only One who can expose and cleanse my sin and heal me from the inside out.

if God used the "way of suffering" in Jesus' life to accomplish His will, then it's reasonable to expect that He will use our trials and our suffering to accomplish His will in our lives also.

Romans 4:18, "hope against hope.

but I believed with all my heart that God was involved in some way and that He would do a "miracle." I would somehow be healed, perhaps lead many others to Christ in the hospital, and lots of "fruit" would be produced from the whole experience, etc.

Our expectations and hopes were for something else, but He knew exactly what we needed to be stretched and changed. And, thus, we need to lay even our hopes and expectations on the altar.

The Gospel is not health and wealth in this life, but a call to follow in Jesus Christ's footsteps.

listen for the Lord's will in everything; and don't lean on your own understanding.

And so...we prayed. And I added a silent prayer of my own, giving God thanks for the blessing of my father.

That our path was hard does not mean it was not also right, nor that it is not paved with blessings.

I will admit that "just Jane" seems to gain insight from hard times. I wish to ask the Almighty about this, for why do we learn more from struggles than victories?

We have to have faith as if everything depends on God, while we work hard as if everything depends on us.

Instincts are given to us by God to guide us. It takes a strong woman to listen to those instincts and ignore what the world says to do.

We thank the Lord for happy hearts, for rain and sunny weather. We thank the Lord for this our food and that we are together. Amen.

God's ways cannot be fully explained, for He sees the big picture while we only see a small slice.

I do not dwell on could-bes. I pray for the best and do my part to create a happy life.

There is no such thing as luck. God arranged for our paths to cross in order to give me His assurance and the truth, and so I thank Him, and you. Good day." ... Although she was teeming with anger, humiliation, and grief, she didn't react as she had done in the past... Instead, she crossed the room with slow deliberation, feeling the gentle sway of her skirt, hearing the subtle rustle of her petticoats, conscious of the beat of her heart.

Even in the the dark times, He is there. And in the good times we need to be good stewards of the blessing.~ pg 219

It's Jesus, not we ourselves, who gives us righteousness and redemption. So being unlikable doesn't mean we aren't saved.

I knew the Almighty could and would do what He wished, when He wished to do it. Yet, pragmatic woman that I was, I wished to know His reasons. Actually, I longed for more than that. I wished God would listen to my advice and adjust His will to match mine.

It's said God won't give us more than we can handle.

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

For the rest of my life I'm going to trust that God is always at work in all things, and give Him thanks long before my simplest prayers are answered.

faith is based not on what we see and know, but on what we believe to be true through the reading of God's word. The