All Quotes By Tag: Faith

“The problem that we are facing in the church today is that we have so many Christians who have made a decision to believe in Jesus but not a commitment to follow Him. We have people who are planning to, meaning to, trying to, wanting to, going to, we just don’t have people who are doing it.”

“As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance—an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love—then external lack is bound to be temporary.”

“We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor’s ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God’s past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future…it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future. ”

“Even if things aren’t going the way we want right now, we will always get through it.”

“My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on the truth of—a proposition that I don’t understand. So far, my faith is not unlike religious faith, but I am not in the slightest bit motivated to go to my death rather than recant the formulas of physics. Watch: E doesn’t equal mc2, it doesn’t, it doesn’t! I was lying, so there!”

“For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.”

“Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God’s laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by faith, and the heart becomes purged from that which is profane and unworthy. When holiness is achieved by conforming to God’s will, one knows intuitively that which is wrong and that which is right before the Lord. Holiness speaks when there is silence, encouraging that which is good or reproving that which is wrong.”

“Bombs have kill-radiuses; churches should have love-radiuses–anyone within twenty miles of a church should know it.”

“Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.”(History Will Teach Us Nothing)”

“To be honest with you, I don’t have the words to make you feel better, but I do have the arms to give you a hug, ears to listen to whatever you want to talk about, and I have a heart; a heart that’s aching to see you smile again.lines from Love Vs Destiny…”

“faith gaped at him”how the hell did you do this?” He looked at her as if she’d asked the dumbest question in history. “I’m brilliant.”

“Maybe, if you can’t get someone out of your head they were never meant to leave. Perhaps, they were meant to help change you into the person you have been waiting to become.”

“He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?”

“George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble–times when I have seen people tempted to deny God–when he says, “The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.”

“knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith”