Quotes about Belief

Don't let your experience of God up to this point limit what you might enjoy with him in the coming years.

Stop doubting and believe?" (John 20:27). Thomas had a decision to make in that moment, a decision he was quite capable of making, a decision our Lord was waiting for him to make. Thomas's experience was waiting on a choice.

respectable channels of religion. Consider this one piece of evidence: millions of people who have spent years attending church, and yet they don't know God. Their heads are filled with stuffing about Jesus, but they do not experience him, not as the boys did on the beach. There are millions more who love Jesus Christ but experience him only occasionally, more often stumbling along short of the life he promised, like Lazarus still wrapped in his graveclothes.

The old saints sang "Great Is Thy Faithfulness," both because it's true and also because they needed to declare it to be true.

There is a dramatic difference between historic Christianity and the teachings of Jesus Christ. I publicly state that I am not a follower of historic Christianity; I am a follower of Jesus Christ!

It makes no difference what Washington, DC, thinks... what Iran wants... what Russia demands or what the European Union hopes for—it only matters what God Almighty has declared! He has all power in heaven and on earth!

And this one thing at least is certain; whatever history teaches, whatever it omits, whatever it exaggerates or extenuates, whatever it says and unsays, at least the Christianity of history is not Protestantism. If ever there were a safe truth, it is this.

He can no longer have God for a Father, who has not the Church for a Mother.

Judaism, again, was rejected when it rejected the Messiah.

We must determine whether on the one hand Christianity is still to represent to us a definite teaching from above, or whether on the other its utterances have been from time to time so strangely at variance, that we are necessarily thrown back on our own judgment individually to determine, what the revelation of God is, or rather if in fact there is, or has been, any revelation at all.

I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

Love is my religion--I could die for it.