Quotes About Faith

God uses every moment that we spend waiting upon Him—not a silent moment spent listening for Him is wasted.

A veces hacemos promesas innecesarias a Dios y luego pensamos que nuestra promesa es la base de nuestro perdón. Pero Dios nos pide que renunciemos a nuestro derecho de demostrar que somos dignos del amor que nos da. Este engaño nos pone en una situación de mucha vulnerabilidad.

Es posible que no te sientas cómodo lidiando con los problemas de la persona o con la forma en que se relaciona contigo. Puede ser demasiado controladora o manipuladora para ti. Asegúrate de que el Señor haya enviado a esa persona y de que no estés asumiendo más de aquello para lo que estás preparado.

Mary was the first to respond in intimacy to the Father as she received Jesus into her womb. Her yes echoes down through history in our yes to the Father.

Señor Jesús, ven a buscarme. Atrapa mi corazón con tu amor. No tengo la fuerza de Jacob; dame el valor de pedir la libertad y las bendiciones que son mías en Cristo. Usa este libro para renovar mi esperanza y exponer aquellas áreas de mi vida que no te he entregado. Muéstrame quién soy y tu plan para mi vida, mi identidad y mi destino. Bendíceme para que yo pueda ser una bendición para los demás.

Si le das tus "panes y peces" a Jesús, Él puede y convertirá nuestros humildes dones, incluso las cicatrices de nuestras dolorosas heridas, en una mayor compasión por los demás.

Sanación interior lleva a búsqueda de patrones de pensamiento y comportamiento. Si no hay apoyo llega introspección y depresión. Necesitamos un amigo maduro y volver mirada a Cristo. Hablar en voz alta con Jesús, no basta sólo pensar. Eso ahuyenta la autocompasión, la autojustificación, el echar culpas y cualquier forma de hacer que las cosas dependan de mí.

Samuel Chadwick said, "The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless works and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray!" Prayer

Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.

Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.

God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing.

Belief creates behaviors.

Two little girls, on their way home from Sunday school, were solemnly discussing the lesson. "Do you believe there is a devil?" asked one. "No," said the other promptly. "It's like Santa Claus: it's your father."

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.

That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.

When you wish upon a star,Makes no diff'rence who you are,Anything your heart desires will come to you.

Although we were sent into a failing world, we were not sent to fail.

The more you reaffirm who you are in Christ, the more your behavior will being to reflect your true identity.

I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.

Poetry has to do with the non-rational parts of man. For a poet, a human being is a mystery… this is a religious feeling. OCTAVIO PAZ

I have come to understand church as this: the presence of Jesus among His people called out as a spiritual family to pursue His mission on this planet.

Attendance on Sundays does not transform lives; Jesus within their hearts is what changes people.