Quotes About Faith

If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God.

It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right.

If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty of erasers and a whole lot of white-out. Better yet, I should invest in a good shredder.

With God, the word 'impossible' is itself impossible.

To ascend the mountain, we must descend to our knees.

In one way or another, every mission that I have ever set out on to rescue myself is yet another mission that I end up needing to be rescued from. Hence, there is God.

If I were to sit down and count them, how many of my prayers were tainted by the seduction of greed? None, simply because nothing of that sort is a prayer.

To attempt to know myself 'apart' from God is to choose to know nothing more than 'a part' of myself.

God's glory is seen in his grace.

Your solution lies not in finding favor before men but before God. Learn to seek Him for your problems and His favor will meet you.

Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men.

Of course God does outrageous things. But in reality, what insanity would prompt me to follow a God who did anything less?

Although I rail against it, death is the dark demarcation beyond which I am at the mercy of my own end. To the contrary, an empty tomb says that my end is at the mercy of God's beginning.

God emptied out that first tomb so that He could turn around and empty out me.

A god of the 'possible' is no God.

Easter is the final solution to the finality of death.

Easter is the invulnerable tale of utter selflessness where at an inestimable cost God did for us what He did not need done for Himself. And that kind of 'doing' happens every day.

If God has the answer to every question, maybe my appreciation for God should be shaped more by the number of questions and less by the wisdom of the answers.

I find that I spend a tremendous amount of time chasing the praises of men rather than sitting with the praises of God. The former is something I attempt to catch, the latter catches me.

The most formidable way to lead is to serve. And while the perplexing oxymoron of such a grinding statement absolutely cripples us, it birthed a Savior.

The worst defeat of all is to surrender without having been defeated. And it is Christmas that obliterates both.

The promises of God hold up long after the promises of the world have blown up.

God has given me both the right and privilege to outrun Him if I so choose. Yet, if I do so, I will have lost the race.

To understand the mysteries of God we must move past the logic of men.