Quotes About Faith

We don't often take time to sit and meditate on what our lives would've been like if the mercy of the Redeemer had not been written into our personal stories.

Jesus not only revealed God's glory on earth; he died so that that glory would be the final resting place of our hearts.

suffering is not an unusual, surprising experience; it's the experience of everyone who lives in this dramatically broken world.

We don't obey to get his favor; we obey because his favor has fallen on us and transformed our hearts, giving us the willingness and power to obey.

So we have only one place of hope, one solid rock on which to stand, and that rock is Christ Jesus. Only when we admit that we have awe-fickle hearts will we begin to reach out for and cling to the forgiving, transforming, rescuing, and delivering grace of Jesus.

The crisis of faith that often accompanies suffering is the result of a collision between our will and God's will and our glory and his glory.

Autonomous Christianity never works, because our spiritual life was designed by God to be a community project.

Don't be discouraged at the spiritual war you're called to fight every day. The Lord almighty is with you and wars on your behalf.

If God is sovereign and his rule is complete, wise, righteous, and good, why would you fear?

in the middle of the travail we all face one way or another, God is up to something good.

The commands, principles, and case studies of Scripture will take you only so far in your quest to figure out your life. There will be moments when you simply don't understand what is going on. In fact, you will face moments when what the God who has declared himself to be good brings into your life won't seem good. It may even seem bad, very bad.

Prayer is handing God a blank sheet that you have already signed and trusting him to fill it out as he sees fit.

We were made to be more connected to what is above us than to what is below us. To

Faith comes to you as God's gift of grace: "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God" (Eph. 2:8). Not only is your salvation a gift of God, but the faith to embrace it is his gift as well. But here is

when you blame other people for your circumstances or for the wrongs that you do, you are, in fact, blaming God. You are saying that God didn't give you what you needed to be what he has called you to be and to do what he has called you to do.

We all fail somehow, someway every day. Often failure is the workroom God uses in our lives to reform us to be what we need to be in order to be more successful tools in his hands.

It's so easy to load life onto your shoulders and be more motivated by low-grade anxiety than by divine awe.

temporary situational emotional high; he is working to produce something much better—eternal joy. The reality is that God has little allegiance to my selfish little wish list. He has not signed on by his grace to deliver to me that catalog of things that I think will make me happy. He has not committed to meet everything I have christened as a need.

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.

Prayer finds its hope not in the qualifications of the one praying, but in the character and plan of the God who is hearing.

But this book is not a theology of kingdom, nor an exposition of the kingdom passages in the Bible. No, it is simply a meditation on what Jesus meant when he called us to "seek first his kingdom." What does it really look like to expand everything our lives contain to touch the size of his kingdom?

Corporate worship is designed to make you thankful, not just for possessions and accomplishments, but for what you've been given in Christ.

Today you'll face things bigger than you, but you needn't be afraid because none is bigger than the One who rules them all for your sake.

God is with you in your moments of darkness because he will never leave you.