Quotes about Belief

We tend to believe that the sin that surrounds us is more dangerous than the sin that resides inside us.

In short, we are called to help each other see the unseen reality of our active, present, and personal God.

The power of self-interest is still present in the believer

This chapter invites you to consider the life-changing help you can find in the person and promises of the Lord Jesus Christ for your struggle with words.

Positive personal change takes place when my dreams of change line up with God's purposes for change.

My panic was about more than being overwhelmed in my responsibilities; it revealed a lack of trust in God. We can't move toward community with one another until we have been drawn into community with God.

for a Christian whose hope is in an invisible God, seeing the unseen is essential. 24

The gospel gap in many of our lives doesn't stay empty either. If we do not live with a gospel-shaped, Christ-confident, and change-committed Christianity, that hole will get filled with other things. These things may seem plausible and even biblical, but they will be missing the identity-provision-process core that is meant to fill every believer.

Imagination is not the ability to dream up things that aren't real; it is the ability to see what is real but often unseen. As Eugene Peterson says in Subversive Spirituality, for a Christian whose hope is in an invisible God, seeing the unseen is essential. 24 Hebrews 11 calls this faith.

Or do you move into conflict with a God-centered perspective?

We are worshipers who enter into relationship with the person or thing we think will give us life.

For too many of us, our sense of identity is more rooted in our performance than it is in God's grace.