Quotes about Belief

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

On the other hand, Jesus rebuked those who could not receive because of their lack of faith in Him.

when we pray in agreement with God's will, our "weak prayers" move the heart of God even if they do not move ours.

Beloved, our private times of prayer and our public prayer meetings may not move us, but they move the angels, and more importantly, they move the heart of God. Never measure your prayers by what you feel; when we pray in agreement with God's will, our "weak prayers" move the heart of God even if they do not move ours.

Discipleship isn't a random assortment of facts and propositions and behaviors, discipleship is something that is you to the core and is completely incarnated in you.

Faith always comes to the surface and always produces action. It cannot be contained. Thoughts and intents that are held within and not acted upon are not faith, no matter what we like to say. ("My faith is personal" is a favorite. But that is a self-contradicting statement. Faith is always acted out, never kept bottled up within.)

All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for.

True faith is forged in the furnace, not the showroom.

A person who has no standard to live by other than the culture of the moment is a person whose principles might as well come from the latest public opinion polls.

Our generation has learned to hold to the standard of each other instead of the standard of God. That is the travesty: God is no longer the standard; we are.