Quotes about Belief

That we shouldn't base God's desire to help us on our opinions of ourselves. Otherwise we'd always be in over our heads. We need to start believing that he wants to help us. Even when we make mistakes.

And I realized that God hadn't abandoned me. I'd simply stopped trusting him. I thought my life had to be one way to be happy—but maybe . . ." He shook his head. "Maybe there is more for me. For us.

You've always spent your life looking forward, the destination in mind. But faith is stepping forward without knowing the destination. Your job, as a warrior of the Lord, is to listen. To walk in faith.

I'm saying that we don't know how God protects us. How he is there for us, but he is. We live our life seeing only our perspective—seeing our circumstances and judging God by what happens to us. But what if we judged God by what didn't happen to us? What if we started asking . . . God, what is your view? What did you protect me from?

God always answers. It's just a matter of how.

And hello, maybe you're exactly where you are supposed to be...maybe God used your issues to give you exactly what you wanted.

What if your story is better than you imagined and by holding on, you're only creating the ending you can see?...God has a bigger plan for you than you do for yourself.

God made you the way he did for a reason. Go, be awesome.

That's not the answer. We don't stop living life just because bad things can, or will, happen. We just keep going forward, trusting in God's plan for us, even if bad things happen. God is still there, still in control. Still saving us. Still protecting us.

Oh, she knew it. Apparently, she had a type. The kind of men who didn't care what trouble—or death—might be waiting for them. Who turned their face to it and charged ahead. The kind of men who died for what they believed in. The kind of men who would break her heart.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

Sometimes even on an hourly basis we need to keep praying and keep our peace in God and remind ourselves on the promises of God that never fails.