Quotes About Faith

An encounter with god or with the transcendent, per se, can only occur when we experience the violent side of god.

God does business with those who mean business.

God never got around to creating a substitute for experience.

God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.

Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!

I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.

I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an opera star.

Any sermon that is not birthed in prayer is not a message from God no matter how learned the preacher.

What God declares the believing heart confesses without the need of further proof. Indeed, to seek proof is to admit doubt, and to obtain proof is to render faith superfluous.

Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.

After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.

As we come to the Bible, we can come with the holy anticipation of actually meeting with God.

Where God is not glorified, that place is sick

I have found God to be cordial and generous and in every way easy to live with.

The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God.

The superior Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge, a secondary trust.

With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day.

Only after all the noise has spent itself do we begin to hear in the silence of our heart, the still, small, mighty voice of God.

Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God.

A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.

What else should we do with the Word of God but obey?

Our gifts and talents should also be turned over to Him. They should be recognized for what they are, God's loan to us, and should never be considered in any sense our own

What now does the divine immanence mean in direct Christian experience? It means simply that God is here. Wherever we are, God is here. Ther eis no place, there can be no place, where He is not.