Quotes about Belief

Jesus is his name. There's no point in pretending that his name is Herbert.

miracle is a shift in thinking, a shift from fear to love.

What appears like a problem is merely a place where a miracle awaits.

Miracles occur in response to every problem, yet it is my faith and compassion that bring them forth.

You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both." If you want God to do something off the chart, you have to take your hands off the controls.

Finally, I learned that we shouldn't seek answers as much as we should seek God.

But God doesn't call the qualified; God qualifies the called.

Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.

Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.

And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and match my actions and inactions to it. It was to learn the slow hard discipline of waiting. It was my season to believe in spite of—to believe in the absence of evidence or emotion, when there's nothing, no bud, no color, no light, no birdsong, to validate belief. It was my time to walk without sight.

To worship is to ascribe to God things that are true about him until we actually believe that truth and live according to it.

we preach with the goal of spurring believers on in their maturity in Christ and of awakening nonbelievers to their need for the Savior.