Quotes About Faith

I can't trust the living," Loren told her.

Despite the evidence, that lost part of Jed's heart had wanted to believe in his divine savour and her promises of a better world.

Hope doesn't die just because a life is lost, or even a million lives.

We should throw away our arcologies and our starships, and live like the Lord intended

Are you sure it is trustworthy, Mellanie?" "I'd be dead if it wasn't." "Yes, I suppose that does generate a respectable level of personal confidence.

The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.

Did I dream this belief or did I believe this dream?

It's about being prepared to lose what you have for what you might get, or what you are for what you might be. It's about letting go.

I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.

Pues conozco los planes que tengo para ti, dice el Señor, planes para que prosperes y no para perjudicarte, planes para darte futuro y esperanza.»

Prayer is not itself powerful; it is not magic. But its power is unlimited in that the child of God calls on a Father of unlimited goodness and ability.

The problem with anger against God is that it's impossible to go higher in the system to complain.

I'll come, you'll see,' I said. I knew it was a lie, she knew it, too.

The true reality of things is not important. What's important is what people believe

I have lost the sense of how to tackle a believing European.

Statistically, you can take two people, give them the same quantity of God's Word, and the one with the most Christian friends will be the one who's most likely to apply it. So the real question we need to ask ourselves is this, "Are we intimately connected with other people in the body of Christ?" If not, it doesn't matter how many sermons or worship experiences you ingest. You have very low odds of actually changing.

We need to become painfully aware of how we're obscuring God from those who need to connect with Him the most: the lost.

Obedience is now just one of the fun ways we say thanks to Him while He drenches us with favor; it naturally flows from our lives. Christianity is not a process in which we earn love; it's a process in which we reflect love.

We are all created as self-developing organisms. It's never too late to become whom you were meant to be. Even the universe is expanding. So, too, is human understanding. The development of faith is a part of God's unfolding, emerging Spirit. Staying static is not our destiny. Transformation is.

Although around 43 percent of Americans claim to go to church, only about 17 to 20.4 percent actually went to church last weekend.

Righteousness is not the reward of living rightly. It's the unmerited gift that irresistibly results in right living (Titus 3:5).

The Bible isn't a list of requirements; rather, it's a list of results after experiencing God's love. Following God isn't an action but a reaction. And if you have to painstakingly motivate yourself or others to serve God "because it's the right thing to do," you've already missed the very foundations of biblical Christianity.

The "transfer" does not diminish Christ nor make us divine on our own, but it does "link" or "connect" us into the humanity and divinity of Jesus Christ, for he is the new Adam and the representative new human being through whom we receive new life. Like open-source code and cloud-computing, Jesus Christ is the cloud and the main server to whom we are reconnected by faith and spiritual surrender.

a reaction to God's kindness, not an action to earn it.