Quotes About Faith

is of no value to God to give Him your life for death. He wants you to be a "living sacrifice," to let Him have all your powers that have been saved and sanctified through Jesus. This is the thing that is acceptable to God.

Faith by its very nature must be tested and tried. And the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character must be proven as trustworthy in our own minds.

We are inclined to look on our Lord as one who assists us in our endeavors for God. Yet our Lord places Himself as the absolute sovereign and supreme Lord over His disciples.

He may give you a time spiritually, with no word from Himself at all, just as His Son experienced during His time of temptation in the wilderness.

Thank God that He does give us difficult things to do! His salvation is a joyous thing, but it is also something that requires bravery, courage, and holiness. It tests us for all we are worth.

Never let your common sense become so prominent and forceful that it pushes the Son of God to one side.

Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint, and the lasting remembrance of our lives is of the Lord, not of us.

We have not dwelt enough on the tragedy of Calvary or on the meaning of redemption.

huffed. I get huffed because I have a peculiar person to live with. Just think how disagreeable I have been to God!

A warning which needs to be repeated is that "the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches," and the lust for other things, will choke out the life of God in us (Matthew 13:22).

He is there to present the gospel of God.

O Lord, how good it is for me to know Thee; how essentially necessary it is for me to draw nigh to Thee. How can I falter when Thou art my Life!

But it is better to enter into life maimed and lovely in God's sight than to be lovely in man's sight and lame in God's.

The purpose of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not of the answer.

Faith is the whole man rightly related to God by the power of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

Lord, our God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of Whom Jesus is the very image, I look to Thee and make my prayer. Bless me this hour with the feeling of Thy presence and the glow of Thy nearness, for I do trust Thee and hope only in Thee.

The call of God is the expression of God's nature, not ours. God providentially weaves the threads of His call through our lives, and only we can distinguish them. It is the threading of God's voice directly to us over a certain concern, and it is useless to seek another person's opinion of it. Our dealings over the call of God should be kept exclusively between ourselves and Him.

Life without war is impossible in the natural or the supernatural realm. It is a fact that there is a continuing struggle in the physical, mental, moral, and spiritual areas of life.

All our fretting and worrying is caused by planning without God.

Our insistence in proving that we are right is nearly always an indication that there has been some point of disobedience.

Be exhausted for God, but remember that He is your supply.

You cannot bring your friend to the point of seeing; God must do it. Have you seen Jesus? If so, you will want others to see Him too. "And they went and told it to the rest, but they did not believe them either" (Mark 16:13). When you see Him, you must tell, even if they don't believe.

First John 3:9 does not mean that we cannot sin; it means that if we obey the life of God in us, we need not sin.

God gives us a vision, and then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of that vision. It is in the valley that so many of us give up and faint. Every God-given vision will become real if we will only have patience.