All Quotes By Tag: Faith

“I believe we are trying to understand kingdom principles with a democratic mindset. It is programmed into our core thinking and reasoning. God is a dictator. Thankfully he is a benevolent one. but he has the final say in all aspects of life…..If we are going to try and follow God, we simply cannot use democratic reasoning in the way we respond to his leadership”

“It’s possible to want intellectual stimulation, emotional gratification and social usefulness but not to want God. Because if you really want God in your life, you have to give up your own will, and that shows us the difference between someone who is actually trying to use God and someone who is trying to serve God. to use God is to seek him for what we can get out of Him. To serve God, is to be entirely motivated by our love for him.”

“There are countless people who attend church, call Jesus their savior, and declare they are children of God but have not given their lives to his Lordship. are they truly saved? Is it possible to birth converts in our christian circles who aren’t children of God? Jesus stated to the children of his day, “you cross land and sea to make one convert, and then you turn that person into twice the child of hell you yourselves are.” Matt 23:15. I’m not saying our leaders in the western church are children of hell, however what I am saying is what kind of converts are we spawning? The consequence of not calling for seekers to lose their lives is converts who have found an improved lifestyle and the promise of an afterlife….but are these converts actually saved? or are they deceived? Thus making it much more difficult for them to hear the actual truth. could this message be what produces the misled followers that led Jesus to declare, depart form me, I never knew you. Is our message the same as his? Is this the way Jesus reaches out to the lost?”

“Meredith has held faith for the last five months that Harvard will have faith in her– even after the initial early deferral. They have to. She is smart and her parents are important.”

“Mercy, though crucial, brings us through, but grace adds an extra touch of God’s goodness.”

“The I am a fool,” he said bitterly. “But a fool with faith. I am tired of treating hunger pains and mending broken bones with weak painkillers and scrap-wood splints. I must believe there’s something better out there. My people deserve it. You deserve it.”

“Peace is about going deeper in God. It’s about trusting him and yielding our worries and fears to the Holy Spirit – who is already at work inside us. It’s about placing our focus heavenward instead of fixing our focus on our struggles”

“The enemy knows God has a purpose and plan for your life. The enemy is the one who wants you to give up.”

“If your beliefs offend othersit’s their problemdon’t make it yoursIf their beliefs offend youit’s your problemget over yourselfIf your beliefscan’t stand up to questionhave strength of characterto reevaluate themIf their beliefscan’t stand up to your questionsshow grace & humilitynot to throw it in their faceIf you let any beliefget in the way of any relationshipyou don’t understand the purpose of oneor the value of the other.”

“We make loving people a lot more complicated than Jesus did. Every time I try to protect myself by telling somebody about one of my opinions, God whispers to me and asks about my heart. Why are you so afraid? Who are you trying to impress? Am I really so insecure that I surround myself only with people who agree with me? When people are flat wrong, why do I appoint myself the sheriff to straighten them out? Burning down others’ opinions doesn’t make us right. It makes us arsonists.”

“Have faith that the results that you are looking for will come from the fruition of your research.”

“It’s amazing how the greater you become in your spirituality, faith and walk in your purpose, the more others display their “lesser” selves. They try so hard to dim your shine, but ultimately burn themselves out.”

“There is a goodness in the world that got me through, that taught me it’s important to know who you are.”

“Her faith was a conscious decision, a hard earned achievement, constantly evolving to deal with her family’s agnosticism and her own bisexuality. I wore my own faith like the shirt I fell asleep in because I was too lazy to change.”

“The journey to understanding begins with a leap of faith.”