Quotes About Faith

Faith is a deep-seated belief in the existence of God that radically alters the way you live your life. Now, here's the rub. Faith isn't natural for us. Biblical faith is counterintuitive and countercultural. So we even need God's grace to have faith to believe in the existence of the One whose grace we so desperately need. And the grace is yours for the asking again today.

As much as we try to make sense of our lives, there are things that we simply aren't able to understand.

We are called to be ambassadors of Christ. To be the look on his face, the touch of his hand, and the tone of his voice.

Yet we all tend to think that we are more righteous than we are, and when we think this, we have taken the first step to embracing the delusion that maybe we're not so bad in God's eyes after all.

What is that lie? It is the lie that was first told in the garden of Eden—the false promise that life, heart-satisfying life, could be found somewhere outside the Creator. It is the lie of lies, the cruelest lie ever told. If you believe it, it will not only leave you empty and discouraged, but it will set your life on a course of destruction.

When the Word of God, faithfully taught by the people of God and empowered by the Spirit of God, falls down, people become different.

As I've said before, I really do love the honesty of the Bible. I don't need vacuous religious platitudes that delude me into thinking that life is better than it really is. I don't need a form of faith

No, no vas a entender todo lo que enfrentas, y sí, la voluntad de Dios puede ser confusa en ocasiones, pero tu historia ha sido infundida con significado y propósito porque se ha incluido en la historia de la redención y la restauración de Dios.

if you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never

Peace and hope are never to be found in your efforts to figure out the future. God's secret will is called his secret will precisely because it is secret! No, real hope is found in living inside the implications of what it means that God holds your future in his wise, powerful, and gracious hands.

Prayer is abandoning your place in the center of your world and daily surrendering that place to God alone as an act of heartfelt worship.

There is so much that we are incapable of understanding. So rest is found in trusting the Father.

Your story is a biography of wisdom and grace written by another.

It is vital to remember, when trouble comes your way and discouragement begins to grip your heart, that every single day of your life was written into God's book before you lived the very first of them. None of those days and none of the things that you have faced or will face in those days are a surprise to your Lord.

Theological instruction that does not arouse awe is broken.

Your obedience is never to be done in the hope that you will get something, but rather in recognition of what you have already been given.

even though there is very little that we know for sure about our lives and we experience constant surprises along the way, we need not give way to panic. Yes, our lives are out of our control, but that doesn't mean they are out of control. No, our lives are under the careful administration of the One who had the wisdom and power to be the great Author of it all.

God is holy, but we're not. Jesus became our righteousness so that we can stand before God, holy in him.

But here's what you have to face. God, for your good and his glory, has chosen to keep you for a while in this broken-down world. He has chosen to employ the hardships of this world to complete the work that he has begun in you. He does not leave you alone. He does not leave you without resources. He blesses you with his new morning mercies. But he has you right where he wants you.

Their disappointed thinking had a fatal flaw in it. What they saw as being in the way of God's plan was actually part of his plan; what caused their faith to weaken was actually God's tool to build their faith.

And they understand that if their children grow and mature in life and godliness, they become not so much their trophies, but trophies of the Savior that they have sought to serve. For them, it's God who does the work and God who gets the glory; they are just gratified that they were able to be the tools that God used.

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 most important thing that a child could ever learn about is the existence, character, and plan of God.

El amor real, bíblico y que honra a Dios nunca compromete lo que Dios establece como bueno y malo.