Quotes about Belief
Since her childhood her parents and grandparents had taught her that she shouldn't waste her time asking God the whys and hows of life. Those problems were best left for Him to figure out.
— Hannah Alexander
God is more than an emotional experience. Doubts are normal, Grant. There's nothing wrong with examining your faith." "I didn't just examine it, I think I lost it." "I've felt that way before but God's faithfulness isn't dependent on you.
— Hannah Alexander
The third thing that I learned was that you, my Lord, never regarded me as I actually was, lame and weak and crooked and cowardly. You saw me as I would be when you had done what you promised and had brought me to the High Places, when it could be truly said, 'There is none that walks with such a queenly ease, nor with such grace, as she.'
— Hannah Hurnard
Then she looked at the Shepherd and suddenly knew she could not doubt him, could not possibly turn back from following him; that if she were unfit and unable to love anyone else in the world, yet in her trembling, miserable little heart, she did love him. Even if he asked the impossible, she could not refuse.
— Hannah Hurnard
It is a law of the spiritual life that every act of trust makes the next act less difficult. Trusting becomes like breathing, the natural unconciousness of the redeemed soul.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
He who cares for the sparrows and numbers the hairs of our head, cannot possibly fail us.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
Has the kingdom of God been overadvertised, or is it only that it has been underbelieved; has the Lord Jesus Christ been overestimated, or has He only been undertrusted?
— Hannah Whitall Smith
Perfect obedience would be perfect happiness, if only we had perfect confidence in the power we were obeying.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
The kingdom of God could not possibly be over advertised, nor the Lord Jesus Christ overestimated, for eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him; and that all the difficulty arises from the fact that we have under believed and under trusted.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
— NT Wright
I'm someone who has always had a positive outlook towards life.
— Vivek Oberoi