All Quotes By Tag: Faith

“Jesus is the only door we can enter to gain salvation and eternal life, and he is also the only way we can gain access to understanding the message of our faith.”

“Faith is like a forward memory, allowing us to believe as if what is promised has already happened.”

“Faith isn’t a business trip walked on a sidewalk; it’s an adventure worked out on a steep and sometimes difficult trail.”

“For the doctrine of justification by faith is like Atlas: it bears a world on its shoulders, the entire evangelical knowledge of saving grace. The doctrines of election, of effectual calling, regeneration, and repentance, of adoption, of prayer, of the church, the ministry, and the sacraments, have all to be interpreted and understood in the light of justification by faith. …when justification falls, all true knowledge of the grace of God in human life fall with it, and then, as Luther said, the church itself falls… When Atlas falls, everything that rested on his shoulders comes crashing down too.”

“Our faith is not a facade we erect to convince ourselves and others that pain doesn’t hurt—it is an oak tree that can withstand the storms of doubt and pain in our lives, and grow stronger through them.”

“Breath of life is common to all living beings.”

“Replacing “what if ” with “even if ” in our mental vocabulary is one of the most liberating exchanges we can ever make. We trade our irrational fears of an uncertain future for the loving assurance of an unchanging God. We see that even if the very worst happens, God will carry us. He will still be good. And he will never leave us.”

“We don’t have to remain in the filth of yesterday. Jesus didn’t die for the spiritually clean; He died for those who reek with sin. What’s the purpose of His blood if not to wash away our yesterday?”

“Everything you are seeking is already there. Reach within. Everything you need is there.”

“Yet what is expectation but a kind of folly, and what is that folly but an excess of hope?”

“It seems that our refusal of God evidences our belief in Him, for why would we need to refuse something that doesn’t exist?”

“A sunset is the end of a day now passed. Yet, for some reason we get caught in the reality of the descending dark verses the anticipation of a rising dawn.”

“Don’t be fooled. Greatness is not the catalyst of great change. Rather, the catalyst of great change is the common man deciding to walk with the uncommon God. Therefore, all of us are only one decision away from changing everything.”

“One thing is needful faith expressed in love.”

“I am made in the image of God. Therefore, if I don’t know God I can’t know me.”