Quotes About Faith

Living in this present world is designed by God to produce three things in me — longing, readiness, and hope.

God didn't give you your children to build your reputation but to publicly proclaim his.

God is with you in your moments of darkness because he will never leave you. But your darkness isn't dark to him. Your mysteries aren't mysterious to him. Your surprises don't surprise him. He understands all the things that confuse you the most.

So peace is found only in trust, trust of the One who is in careful control of all the things that tend to rob you of your peace. He knows, he understands, he is in control of what appears to be chaos, he is never surprised, he is never confused, he never worries or loses a night's sleep, he never walks off the job to take a rest, he never gets so busy with one thing that he neglects another, and he never plays favorites.

You don't have to worry, because you have a Savior who has invaded your life with his grace and has made you the place where he dwells.

Wherever your story takes you, you'll never arrive there first, because your Lord is already there in sovereign presence and power, and he rules that place in infinite wisdom and holiness.

Word problems are often interpretation problems. We do not say the right thing because we do not believe the right thing.

Good parenting lives at the intersection of a humble admission of personal powerlessness and a confident rest in the power and grace of God.

It requires powerful mercy for me to become a person who surrenders self-appointed authority to the authority of God.

It takes God's rescuing hand for me to forsake the purpose of my kingdom and take up the purpose of his.

Suffering confronts us with the fact that life is not about us but about God. It is not about our glory but his.

If God is your Father, the Son is your Savior, and the Spirit is your indwelling Helper, you have hope no matter what you're facing.

We are God's forever and ever. He will never turn his back on us. He will never angrily throw our sin in our faces. He will never withdraw his presence and his promises, no matter how messed up we continue to be, because our standing with him is not based on our performance, but on the perfect record of his Son. But

In your weakness, worry, doubt, and fear, he pleads to the Father in your defense.

Si Dios ya te ha otorgado un lugar en la eternidad, entonces también te ha otorgado toda la gracia que necesitas para el camino, de lo contrario nunca llegarías.

Parenting is about being used of God to bring your children to that wholesome and heart-changing place of personal hopelessness. This is not a process of condemnation, but of patient and loving rescue.

Rest will only be found as you are willing to believe that there is Someone who is controlling the details of your life, not only for his glory, but also for your good.

It is only when the peace of God rules my heart that I can know real peace with you.

The same grace that forgives your past empowers you to live in a new way in the future.

You do not really understand the significance of words until you realize that the first words that human ears ever heard were not the words of another human being, but the words of God! The value of every piece of human communication is rooted in the fact that God speaks.

putting your entire existence in the hands of One whom you cannot see, touch, or hear is far from natural. This is why faith is only ever a gift of divine grace.

True biblical faith is always something that you live. If your faith does not reshape your life, it is not true faith.

You could say that the advice here is to connect everything you require of your children in behavior and belief to the story of redemption.

Many people have talked to me about God in the middle of difficulties, and after listening to them, I have been struck that, if I believed in the "God" they described, I wouldn't run to him for help either, and I'd be in a panic