Quotes About Faith

Prayer is not bringing your list and asking God to sign on the bottom. Prayer is handing God a blank sheet that you have already signed and trusting him to fill it out as he sees fit.

When amazing realities of the gospel quit commanding your attention, your awe, and your worship, other things in your life will capture your attention instead.

Good biblical busyness is a powerful defense against debilitating doubt. The more you give yourself to the devotional, discipleship, and missional things God calls all his children to, the more you will be reminded of the enormous blessing and eternal importance of what it means to be a child of God and a part of God's unstoppable mission of redemption.

He lifts the burden of change off our shoulders and never calls us to do what only he can do.

The largest body of content in the psalms is given to lament, in which the psalmist "laments" or mourns the situation he is in and the distress he is facing.

grace is greater than all of the sin we're grappling with.

Discontent is good if it makes you long for home, but bad if it makes you doubt the One who prepares a place for you in his home.

What do I really want in life: the success of God's agenda of grace or the fulfillment of my catalog of desires?

My Savior has been with me, for me, and in me, and he works to take very bad things and produce through them very, very good things.

He knows that parents who admit that they are inadequate and run to God make the best parents.

Prayer always forsakes the kingdom of self for the kingdom of God,

We all face things that appear to make little sense and don't seem to serve any good purpose. So rest is never found in the quest to understand it all. No, rest is found in trusting the One who understands it all and rules it all for his glory and our good.

the struggle of midlife is fundamentally rooted in the idolatries of the heart.

On your very worst, most rebellious, and most faithless day, you can run into the holy presence of your heavenly Father and he will not turn you away. Your acceptance has not been, nor will it ever be, based on your performance.

when Jesus touches me with his rescuing grace, he is freeing me from my bondage to me!

Look at your trials and see grace. Behind those difficulties is an ever-present Redeemer who is completing his work.

One of the stunning realities of the Christian life is that in a world where everything is in some state of decay, God's mercies never grow old. They never run out. They never are ill timed. They never dry up. They never grow weak. They never get weary. They never fail to meet the need. They never disappoint. They never, ever fail, because they really are new every morning.

I've accepted the fact that I'm going to be a sad man for the rest of my life because I get calls all the time of the saddest things that are happening in the church.

God's grace often does its best and brightest work when things are the darkest and most difficult.

It is the single most stunning reality in the life of a believer. God has placed his love on us and he will never again remove it. There's a reason to continue, no matter how hard life seems and how weak you feel.

A joyful life of grace toward others grows best in the soil of gratitude.

You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy.

Tear up your list and throw it away—what God has planned for you is better than anything you've dreamed of for yourself.

Human relationships are most satisfying when we enter them not just to please ourselves or even the other person, but to please God.