Quotes About Faith

In a post-Christian era many of our friends, neighbors, and colleague will reject God for a score of reasons, but we must live and speak that they reject God for God's sake and not because of what we have said or done that has framed God wrongly.

Love is "the alpha and the omega of apologetics," in the sense that all we say must come from love, and it must lead to love and to the One who is love—in other words, Christian advocacy must move from our love for God and his truth and beauty, to our love for the people we talk to and work right up to their love for God and his truth and beauty in their turn.

Whether or not the Christian faith is true is now irrelevant. All that matters is that to more and more people in the modern world it no longer seems true.

The called-out assembly of God's people, which is subordinated to Christ as its head and coordinated with its fellow members of the body, lives its life by its practical obedience to God's call in Christ.

the truth is this: We always have sure and sufficient reasons for knowing why we can trust God, but do not always know what God is doing and why.

We are spokespersons for our Lord, and advocacy is in our genes.

To believe in Jesus is to bow twice and then to obey forever

We are never more completely ourselves than when we make that decision to trust in God.

but conformity to the will and the way of Jesus is life and freedom itself—under his authority.

The heart of the life of faith in answer to the call of God is a call to a relationship, and a relationship of love.

Or again we might say that we are at a Daniel-like moment, for Daniel and his three friends faced a challenge unlike that of most of the Jews before them. The world as the Jews had known it for hundreds of years from Joshua onward had gone. Not since the captivity in Egypt had Jews been strangers in a strange land as they found themselves when defeated and deported as exiles to Babylon in the sixth century B.C.

unbelief turns on an act of will and a habit of mind shaped by choice.

The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who gave up learning to ride a bicycle, complaining that he hurt himself because his bicycle stopped moving so he had no choice but to fall off? If he wanted to sit comfortably while remaining stationary, he should not have chosen a bicycle but a chair. Similarly faith must be put to use, or it will become useless.

We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God—which is another way of saying that our seeking will always fall short unless God's grace initiates the search and unless God's call draws us to him and completes the search.

Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.

To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience ... the quality of a Christian's experience depends on the quality of his faith, just as the quality of his faith depends in turn on the quality of his understanding of God's truth.

America has been hit by Allah at its most vulnerable point, destroying, thank God, its most prestigious buildings.

I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.

I could believe in hell, but it was impossible for me to believe in the existence of heaven.

I was frightened even by God. I could not believe in His love, only in His punishment. Faith. That, I felt, was the act of facing the tribunal of justice with one's head bowed to receive the scourge of God. I could believe in hell, but it was impossible for me to believe in the existence of heaven.

Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.

But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today.

God, I ask you. Is trustfulness a sin?

If it failed I had no choice but to hang myself, a resolve which was tantamount to a bet on the existence of God.