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Quotes About Faith

God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons.
~ John Muir
It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
~ John Ortberg
the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented.
~ John Owen
There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience.
~ John Owen
We cannot enjoy peace in this world unless we are ready to yield to the will of God in respect of death. Our times are in His hand, at His sovereign disposal. We must accept that as best.
~ John Owen
Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?
~ John Piper
Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head and puts the spoon in our mouth...And He is the medicine.
~ John Piper
The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God.
~ John Piper
We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.
~ John Piper
God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.
~ John Stott
The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and for the sake of the Name.
~ John Stott
In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.
~ John Thomas Sladek
I don't want my children to be what I want them to be. I want them to become everything God created them to be.
~ Jon Gordon
Resolved, never to do any manner of thing, whether in soul or body, less or more, but what tends to the glory of God; nor be, nor suffer it, if I can avoid it.
~ Jonathan Edwards
We believed in our grandmother's cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which they had never the opportunity of performing.
~ Joseph Addison
Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.
~ Joseph Alleine
God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.
~ Joseph Barber Lightfoot
God's people should plan for a voyage of a thousand years, but be prepared to abandon ship tonight.
~ Joseph Bayly
Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army
~ Joseph Campbell
The Bible is God's sacred Word of truth.
~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford
You cannot mock God because whatever good thing you do, you're gonna reap for it.
~ Joseph Prince
And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.
~ Josiah Royce
The biggest black eye that you can give the devil is to give God your pain and let Him turn it into gain.
~ Joyce Meyer