Quotes About Believers

As a result, you have become an example to all the believers in Greece— throughout both Macedonia and Achaia. —1 Thessalonians 1:7

Believers who are poor have something to boast about, for God has honored them. —James 1:9

Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere. —Ephesians 6:18

When we sing praises to our Lord, we join in the chorus that creation has been singing from the beginning of time. And it is the same anthem that we as believers will be singing for all eternity.

We believe that the local church is a community of regenerated believers who confess Jesus Christ as Lord, and that the universal church is all of God's people in all times and places.

In kingdom churches, it is not good enough if the pastor and staff get to fulfill their destiny while everyone else watches and applauds. It is time for every believer in every church in the West to reach their full potential and to fulfill their destiny in Christ.

The ongoing function of God's law is not to serve as a standard to be met for justification but as a guide for Christian living. Thus, according to the Confession of Faith: True believers be not under the law as a covenant of works to be thereby justified or condemned yet it is of great use to them as well as to others as a rule of life.34

The Bible is filled with powerful statements about who we are in Christ and what belongs to us as believers.

When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is the sloth and negligence then of so many who live blind and asleep to this reality of sin. There is an exceeding efficacy nad power in the indwelling sin of believers, for it constantly inclines itself towards evil. We need to be awake, then, if our hearts would know the ways of God. Our enemy is not only upon us, as it was with Samson, but it is also in us.

The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin.

the story of Ruth . . .was written to give us encouragement and hope that all the perplexing turns in our lives are going somewhere good. They do not lead off a cliff. In all the setbacks of our lives as believers, God is plotting for our joy.

The church is not called to be responsible for the way unbelievers run their lives. But we are called to be responsible, by the power of the Spirit and for the glory of Jesus, for the way believers live and the kind of relationships that are cultivated in the fellowship of the church.

Then, when the rapture does come, His people, by then relocated in other nations than their native America, will be alive to be raptured, along with the other believers in the world. Immediately before Jesus returns His people will be on the brink of being slain by those committed to their beheading and death.

the radical side of Protestantism, with its idea of the priesthood of all believers and the denial of an ecclesiastical authority interposed between God and the faithful. This view says that moral principles and precepts are accessible to normal reasonable persons generally-various

Let us strive to educate the believers to rejoice in the Lord. Spiritual joy is the result of active faith. God's people are to be full of faith and of the Holy Spirit. Then He will be glorified in them.—Bible Training School, April 1, 1905. [72]

Church was a term describing a real community of believers who meet in the presence of Christ. A church is not described by what Christians do, but who they are. But over time a problem arose. Christians began going to church, rather than being the church. Then outsiders began seeing church as a place rather than a way of life.

Calvin wrote, "The Word is the instrument by which the Lord dispenses the illumination of His Spirit to believers.

The best brothel-scenes in literature have been written, without exception, by pious believers or pious unbelievers.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I'm inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

I'm tolerant of believers, but I'm agnostic. I'm curious to see how scientists will integrate the near-death experience into their research and if it will be explained.

Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers.

The business we are about is the ministry of the Word, and the ministry of the Word seeks to grow up believers in Jesus Christ.

Perceiving preaching as discipleship gives preachers a more meaningful way of approaching those to whom they speak. No longer are their listeners an audience or even a congregation; they are believers, followers of Jesus Christ, disciples.

it is the aim of God to renew the affections of believers so that their hearts will most desire him and his ways. This is as contrary to antinomian preaching as heaven's blessings are to Satan's lies.