Quotes About Faith

We need to do everything we can to put the glory of God and his grace before our children so that the awe of God would rule over their hearts.

What is God doing in the here and now? He is employing the difficulties of life as tools of grace to produce character in you that would not grow any other way.

Todos necesitamos a alguien que nos recuerde que la vida no se define por nuestro dolor, sino por nuestra unión con Cristo.

You don't have to worry about whether your wrongs will be forgiven and your weaknesses greeted with patience and grace. 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.

The central lie of Satan to all God's suffering children comes in the form of this question: "Where is your God now?" The lie embedded in this question is that our suffering is clear evidence that we have been forsaken by God.

God's often-repeated declaration that he will not leave sits on the pages of his Word as a protection against the lies to which suffering makes us susceptible.

Ministry leadership is not a fortress against spiritual attack; it's the front line.

You could argue that the chief reason God put parents in children's lives is so that they would know him.

Faith is something that you do with your life. True biblical faith doesn't stop with thought; it radically rearranges the way that you approach everything in your life.

The minute your functional theology tells you that God is not good, it's very hard to hold on to the confessional theology that declares he is.

None of us is yet a grace graduate, but we're satisfied. We all give evidence that we still need to grow, but we're satisfied.

When you feel unprepared, alone, overburdened, and besieged, what but God is able to give you reason to hope again, to believe again, and to live again?

You never have to feel or act as if you're alone in your suffering, because the One who sits on the throne at the right hand of the Father not only faced all the things that you now face, but he also faced the myriad of temptations that you and every other sufferer faces.

The first of these comforts is the stunningly encouraging comfort of God's amazing grace.

Qué puede consolarte más que estas palabras: "Yo he venido para que tengan vida, y la tengan en abundancia" (Juan 10:10)? Todos

The reality that on every morning brand-new mercy greets us is not the thing that grips our minds as we frenetically prepare for our day.

The Bible is the story of a love drama that looked as if it would end in tragedy—but then Jesus came.

Our motivation to stand firm in faith, even when we are going through things that we don't understand, is found in one thing: God's declaration of his intention toward us.

Good parenting, which does what God intends it to do, begins with this radical and humbling recognition that our children don't actually belong to us. Rather, every child in every home, everywhere on the globe, belongs to the One who created him or her. Children are God's possession (see Ps. 127:3) for his purpose.

Physical suffering exposes the delusion of personal autonomy and self-sufficiency

your acceptance is based on Christ's righteousness and not yours.

You have only two choices: an "on earth" way of thinking that is all about this right here, right now physical moment, or an "above" way of thinking that looks at life from the vantage point of the grand redemptive story and, more specifically, from the perspective of the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The biblical model of waiting is not simply about what you will get at the end of your wait, but about who you will become as you wait.

There is no defeat in the cross. Only triumph is to be found there.