Quotes About Faith

There is a God we want, and there is a God who is. They are not the same God. The turning point of our lives is when we stop seeking the God we want and start seeking the God who is.

Francis Schaeffer wrote, "A ministry such as teaching the Bible in a college is no higher calling intrinsically than being a businessman or doing something else.

The first step to knowing God's plan for our lives is the commitment to see ourselves as we really are.

To protect our self-image, we kid, trick, and fool ourselves into believing the visible you is somehow real. To see ourselves as we really are, we must acknowledge our inability to do so without God's help.

Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again." John 3:3

Faith with proof is no faith at all.

Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

Don't deceive me. Never leave me.

And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most.

Belief is half of all healing.

Seth," she says, "wherever you are, it's okay. You can come back from it. Whatever happened to you down there, whatever the world looks like now, that's not how it always looks. That's not how it's always going to look. There's more. There's always more. Whatever you see, wherever you are, we're still here with you. Me and Tommy.

It's always darkest before the dawn, Todd." I look at him, baffled. "No, it ain't! What kinda stupid saying is that? It's always lightest before the dawn!

No," I say firmly. "If you ever doubt anything here, if you ever not know what to think or who to trust, you trust Todd, okay? You remember that.

And I know it - I know it in my heart - Right now - Todd Hewitt - There's nothing we can't do together -

Will the world end in darkness because it is foretold? Or because there will be those who believe it so strongly they will make it so?

Do you believe there's hope at the end?" I ask. "No," she says simply, looking away. "No, I don't, but I'm still going.

Belief is half of healing.

The parson refused to believe the Apothecary could help, said the monster. When times were easy, the parson nearly destroyed the Apothecary, but when the going grew tough, he was willing to throw aside every belief if it would save his daughters. "So?" Conor said. "So would anyone! So would everyone ! What did you expect him to do?

And it's a sad song, Todd, but it's also a promise. I'll never deceive you and I'll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it's true.

Maybe probably ain't all that comforting a word when it's maybe yer not dying.

No,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that's why it's hope.

Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits. And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most. He believed selfishly and fearfully.

There's more than this, Sethy," Gudmund said. "This sucks beyond belief, but there's more. We just have to get there.

La creencia es la mitad de la curación.