Quotes About Faith

God didn't give us his grace in order to make our little claustrophobic kingdoms of one work, but to invite us to a much, much better kingdom.

No debemos ofrecer a la gente un sistema de redención, un conjunto de ideas y principios. A la gente le ofrecemos un Redentor.

Principle: Your children need God's law, but you cannot ask the law to do what only grace can accomplish.

If you are God's child, you're either giving in to sin or giving way to the operation of rescuing grace, but your heart's never neutral.

there's no such things as a purely horizontal complaint. If I am complaining about the insensitivity of my physician, the lack of attention I am getting from my pastor, and the fact that my friends lack sympathy and understanding, I'm not just complaining about those people but also about the God who ordained all of them to be in my life.

Every year thousands of supposedly Christian young people go off to residential universities and forsake the faith. I would propose to you that they are not forsaking the faith at all. They never had it in the first place. They grew up under a system of control that forced the faith upon them, but when they get to college and the system vanishes, their true hearts reveal themselves.

Lo que gobierne mi corazón moldeará la manera en que reaccione ante los momentos más tristes y más felices de la vida.

Somewhere in your life you are being called to wait. In your waiting, you are being given an opportunity to deepen and strengthen your faith. So, get up tomorrow and fill yourself with vitamins of truth. Nourish your heart with the nutrient food of the glory of God. Feed on the strength-giving meat of his goodness, grace, and love. Snack throughout the day on his power and his presence. And watch the muscles of your heart grow stronger as the days go by. Feed on your Lord and be strong!

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.

One of the dark delusions of sin is that it causes us at points to buy into the insane thought that we might be smarter than God.

There are moments when we get lost in the middle of God's story. We lose our minds, we lose our sense of direction, and we lose our remembrance of him.

Your rest is not to be found in figuring your life out, but in trusting the One who has it all figured out for your good and his glory.

True Christianity is always a matter of the submission of the heart to God, something that only rescuing grace can produce.

In the beginning, God . . ." These are four thunderously important words. They really do change everything,

There is grace for our fickle and easily distracted hearts.

Your Redeemer knows. Your Redeemer understands. Your Redeemer cares. His grace has been unleashed and its work will not be done until every last sin-broken thing has been fully and completely made new again. Be encouraged, your Redeemer is at work!

If you're God's, to tell yourself you can't do what you've been called to do is to preach private heresy. You've been enabled by grace.

You have no reason for fear when you answer God's call; you have every reason to be afraid when you put your life in your own hands.

Being willing to tolerate things that are wrong in the eyes of God may create a comfortable surface peace, but it isn't what love does. Being

need grace, and when you forget how much you need grace, you quit seeking the rescue and strength that only grace can give.

Many, many believers think of their church as a place to attend rather than something with which they are intimately involved.

First, God is not shocked or surprised that you are discouraged

God knew that we would convince ourselves that we are okay when we're not okay. So he designed a means for us to be confronted again and again with the depth of our sin and the expansive glory of his provision in the person and work of the Lamb, the Savior, the Redeemer—the Lord Jesus Christ.

In moments when you wish you knew what you can't know, there is rest to be found. There is One who knows.