Quotes about Belief

Where is hope to be found? In five life-altering words: "I am with you always.

For the believer, fear is always God-forgetful. If God is sovereign and his rule is complete, wise, righteous, and good, why would you fear?

If you obey God for a thousand years, you will not have earned more of his acceptance than you were granted the very first moment you believed.

We don't offer people a system; we point them to a Redeemer. He is hope.

The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.

Providence," he argues, "is not a theory about some activities of God; it is the religious symbol of the courage of confidence with respect to fate and death.

This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things which are supposed to be wrong and doing a few things which are supposed to be right. Biblical ethics means standing in ultimate decisions for or against God.

Faith…is a concern of the whole person; it is the most personal concern, and that which determines all others. …it is not something which we can produce by the will to believe, but that by which we are grasped.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. (190)