Quotes About Faith

We must continually maintain an adventurous attitude toward Him, despite any potential personal risk.

said—"Let not your heart be troubled." God will not keep your heart from being troubled. It is a command—"Let not.

The vital relationship which the Christian has to the Bible is not that he worships the letter, but that the Holy Spirit makes the words of the Bible spirit and life to him.

the underlying foundation of Christianity is personal, passionate devotion to the Lord Jesus.

I delight in knowing that there is something in me which must fall prostrate before God when He reveals Himself to me, and also in knowing that if I am ever to be raised up it must be by the hand of God. God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.

It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things.

Just because I have listened carefully and intently to one thing from God does not mean that I will listen to everything He says.

God does not give us overcoming life: He gives us life as we overcome. The strain is the strength. If there is no strain, there is no strength.

Why doesn't God reveal Himself to you? He cannot. It is not that He will not, but He cannot, because you are in the way as long as you won't abandon yourself to Him in total surrender.

If you have ever had the vision of God, you may try as you like to be satisfied on a lower level, but God will never let you.

Never run before God gives you His direction.

Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion.

allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I've lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit's vision, Gazing on the Crucified.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on our difficulties

Wait for the fruit to manifest itself and do not be guided by your own fancy.

You may often see Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it. (Cf. Matthew 10:34)

Have you been bolstering up that stupid soul of yours with the idea that your circumstances are too much for God? Put all "supposing" on one side and dwell in the shadow of the Almighty. Deliberately tell God that you will not fret about that thing. All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.

A Christian servant is one who perpetually looks into the face of God and then goes forth to talk to others.

Faith, however, is not intellectual understanding; faith is a deliberate commitment to the Person of Jesus Christ, even when I can't see the way ahead.

The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today.

Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him"—this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.

The life of faith brings the two into a right relation. Common sense is not faith, and faith is not common sense; they stand in the relation of the natural and the spiritual; of impulse and inspiration. Nothing Jesus Christ ever said is common sense, it is revelation sense, and it reaches the shores where common sense fails. Faith must be tried before the reality of faith is actual.

If it is an impossibility, it is the thing we have to ask. If it is not an impossible thing, it is not a real disturbance. God will do the absolutely impossible.

If our hopes seem to be experiencing disappointment right now, it simply means that they are being purified.