Quotes About Faith

No, this is eternal and deeply personal hope. It rests in the truth that Jesus has wrapped his powerful arms around you and he will never, ever let you go.

When you have one eye on eternity, this present physical world looks entirely different.

El Redentor vivió, murió y resucitó para que nosotros ya no vivamos para nosotros mismos sino para Él y para Su gloria (2 Co. 5:14-15) (2)

This means that if you obey him for a thousand years, you will have no more of his favor than when you first believed.

So your hope in life and death is never to be found in the degree of your love for God. It is only ever found in the magnitude of his love for you. This love is yours as a gift of his grace even on those days where your heart has run after other lovers. That's just how beautiful and faithful his love for you really is.

God will call you to do what you cannot do, but will provide everything you need to do it.

If you put too many things in your need category, you will end up frustrated with life, hurt by others, and doubting God's goodness.

You and I have all the power in the world to doubt and no independent power at all to believe. So if you are living by faith, don't proudly pat yourself on the back as if you did something great. No, raise your eyes and your hands toward heaven and thank God for gifting you with the desire and ability to believe.

If you believe in God and his control over everything that exists, then you have to accept that all of your grumbling is ultimately grumbling against him.

Hope is more than wishing things will work out. It is resting in the God who holds all things in his wise and powerful hands.

If a system could give us what we need, Jesus would never have come.

We can experience peace in the face of the unknown. We can feel an inner well-being while living in the middle of mystery. Why? Because our peace of heart does not rest on how much we know, how much we have figured out, or how accurately we have been able to predict the future. No, our rest is in the person who holds our individual futures in his wise and gracious hands. We have peace because we know that he will complete the good things that he in grace has initiated in our lives.

Jesus knew he had come not just to preach the gospel of sacrifice, but also to be that sacrifice, yet he was perfectly willing.

The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? PSALM 27:1

We complain so much not because we have horizontal problems but because we have a vertical problem.

Cuando todos los días admito qué tan necesitado estoy, todos los días medito en la gracia del Señor Jesucristo y todos los días me alimento de la sabiduría restauradora de Su Palabra, estoy motivado para compartir con los demás la gracia que todos los días estoy recibiendo de las manos de mi Salvador.

Now, allow yourself to consider the radical nature of what this passage says about the deepest motivations of the hearts of God's people. They have connected their deepest love, belief, joy, and faith to someone they have never seen, heard, or touched. They have staked the hopes and dreams of their lives to this invisible One. Their relationship to him is one of life-altering love. When they think of him, they experience joy, joy so deep that it cannot be expressed.

no hay un valle de sufrimiento tan profundo que la gracia en Jesús no sea más profunda.

Pastor, no tienes que tener miedo de lo que está en tu corazón y no tienes que tener miedo a que te conozcan porque no hay nada en ti, que pudiera salir a la luz, que no haya ya sido cubierto por la preciosa sangre de tu rey Salvador, Jesús.

We have forever inside us, and it creates a natural disappointment with the brokenness of the here and now.

God's grace dethrones you from your little kingdom and welcomes you to a much better kingdom than you could ever want for yourself.

All the human love we've experienced has been flawed in some way. But not God's; his love is perfect and perfectly steadfast forever.

Your Lord pries open your hands and takes away your crutches and distractions. He exposes your weaknesses so that you will cry out for what he knows you need, but what you have been willing to live without.

Jesus faced separation from his Father in the here and now so that we would know the Father's acceptance now and for all eternity.