Quotes about Belief

Sometimes when people work for God, they get the idea that He should make their life all smooth and easy because they're doing His work...It ain't so. Jesus said life is gonna be hard. Period. He said if you're gonna follow Him, then you're gonna carry a cross, just like He did. this world of ours is under a curse, honey. We need to expect things to be bad. But even if we lose everything, we still have Jesus.

Can't never go by your feelings. Got to go by the word of the Lord.

Humans are very attached to outcomes. We say we trust God but behind the scenes we work our fingers to the bone and our emotions into a tangled fray trying to control our outcomes. We praise God when our normal looks like what we thought it would. We question God when it doesn't. And walk away from Him when we have a sinking suspicion that God is the one who set fire to the hope that was holding us together.

My identity must be anchored to the truth of who God is and who He is to me. Only then can I find a stability beyond what my feelings will ever allow. The closer I align my truth with His truth, the more closely I identify with God—and the more my identity really is in Him.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

Living loved is sourced in your quiet daily surrender to the One who made you.

Outside our comfort zone, though, is where we experience the true awesomeness of God.

Hope is the melody of the future. Faith is dancing to that melody right now.

My heart struggles to make peace between God's ability to change hard things and His apparent decision not to change them for me.

Just because something is hard doesn't mean it's impossible.

My imperfections will never override God's promises. God's promises are not dependent on my ability to always choose well, but rather on His ability to use well.

If I'm trusting myself, I will stare at all the possible ways I could fail. If I'm trusting God, I will stare at all the possible ways He'll use this whether I fail or succeed.