Quotes About Faith

Joyful, perseverant obedience only ever grows in the soil of worship.

We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.

Suffering has the power to expose what you have been trusting all along. If you lose your hope when your physical body fails, maybe your hope wasn't really in your Savior after all. It was humbling to confess that what I thought was faith was actually self-reliance

In grace, he leads you where you didn't plan to go in order to produce in you what you couldn't achieve on your own.

Se requiere la mano redentora de Dios para que yo renuncie al propósito de mi reino y vaya tras el Suyo.

Faith is living in light of what God has said, resting in what he has done, and entrusting the future to his care.

The Psalms welcome us to a faith where God's agenda is more important than ours and where we are asked to live out our faith in the context of a disastrously broken world. But this is also precisely where we experience the highest personal joys, as we put our hope in the covenant love of the Lord and make the pursuit of his glory the goal of our lives.

There's not a day without sin rearing its ugly head and not a day in which God's abundant mercies are not new.

Scripture never looks down on the sufferer, it never mocks his pain, it never turns a deaf ear to his cries, and it never condemns him for his struggle. It presents to the sufferer a God who understands, who cares, who invites us to come to him for help, and who promises one day to end all suffering of any kind once and forever.

In a real way, things are worse than you ever thought they could be, but God's grace is greater than you could ever have imagined it would be. Biblical faith lives at the intersection of shocking honesty and glorious hope.

Because your world is not out of control but under God's careful redemptive control, you can have hope even when it looks to you as if darkness is winning the day.

If you're God's child, you can rest assured today that both your standing before God and his rule on your behalf are sure and secure.

If God's plan really is to make his invisible grace visible by sending parents of grace to give grace to children who desperately need grace, then I am called not just to preach that grace but to live and model it for my children every day.

successful parenting is not about achieving goals (that you have no power to produce) but about being a usable and faithful tool in the hands of the One who alone is able to produce good things in your children.

Christ has already placed in my storehouse everything that I need.

When you quit celebrating grace, you begin to forget how much you need grace, and when you forget how much you need grace, you quit seeking the rescue and strength that only grace can give.

Grace doesn't make it okay for you to live for you. No, grace frees you to experience the joy of living for One greater than you.

His love for you is never a result of your character; it is a clear demonstration of his.

God's call to obey is itself a grace. In this call, he is actively rescuing you from you.

The church is in desperate need of a leadership community whose function is not just structured to achieve with efficiency but is more deeply shaped by the comforts and calls of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

When you don't understand what's going on, run to God's goodness rather than questioning whether it exists.

I was wired for awe of God. No other awe satisfies the soul.

One of the most important questions you could ask is: "What is God doing in the here and now?

most people who are angry with God are angry with him for being God. They're not angry because he has failed to deliver what he promised, They're angry because he has failed to deliver what they have craved, expected or demanded.