Quotes About Faith

It takes grace for me to acknowledge that there is a King and that he is not me.

Suffering doesn't so much change your heart as expose what has been in your heart all along.

First, the gospel is the world's best love story. It is a story of a God of love who places his love on people who do not deserve his love. This God sends the Son of his love to make a sacrifice of love so that his children can be welcomed into his arms of love and become a community of love that takes his love to those in desperate need of that love.

We were created to be part of something so big, so glorious, so far beyond the ordinary that it would totally change the way we approach every ordinary thing in our lives.

No podemos gloriarnos en aquello de lo que nos libera la gracia, sin aceptar también aquello a lo que nos llama.

tu Dios tiene un increíble poder; un poder distintivo. Él conoce a Su pueblo, conoce dónde está, conoce lo que necesitan y cuándo lo necesitan, conoce de qué debe ser liberado y qué debe ser controlado para que Su voluntad sea hecha. Él siempre le da a Sus hijos el poder que necesitan.

On your very worst, most rebellious, and most faithless day, you can run into the holy presence of your heavenly Father and he will not turn you away.

If you obey God for a thousand years, you will not have earned more of his acceptance than you were granted the very first moment you believed.

If true humanity is bound up in community with God and godly community with others, I will never experience it when all my eyes ever see is my own need.

It gives you a reason to get up in the morning and to be able to sleep at night, no matter what you're facing at the moment.

He covers your past with his grace; he protects, provides for, and empowers you in the present; and he holds every aspect of your future in his sovereign and gracious hands.

En la Palabra hallamos esperanza cuando todo parece estar perdido; encontramos riquezas cuando nos sentimos pobres; recibimos Su poder cuando vemos nuestras debilidades; y recordamos Su gobierno cuando todo a nuestro alrededor parece estar fuera de control.

Seeing yourself as hopeless and helpless if left to yourself initiates and ignites your pursuit of God's grace.

Christianity gutted of Christ is devoid of both its beauty and its power.

We don't offer people a system; we point them to a Redeemer. He is hope.

We have peace because we know that he will complete the good things that he in grace has initiated in our lives.

There is a God of awesome grace who meets his children in moments of darkness and difficulty. He is worth running to. He is worth waiting for. He brings rest when it seems like there is no rest to be found.

The heart of true prayer is vertical confession, not horizontal desire.

If you find more joy in serving God than yourself, you know that grace has entered your door, because only grace has the power to rescue you from you.

Sinners tend to move away from defining themselves in relationship to their Creator and begin defining themselves in relationship to the creation.

En lugar de que sea el amor de Dios moldeando mis relaciones y motivaciones, el amor por mí mismo toma el control.

Worshiping the creation is never a pathway to life; it leads you in the opposite direction.

God's purpose in controlling the details of your life (the exact length of it and the locations where you live) is so that at any moment in the middle of your unfolding story, you can reach out and touch him, because his rule makes him very near to every one of us. What each of us really needs in our finite and faltering humanness is not so much the success of our plans, but God himself.

The prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. (James 5:15–16)