Quotes about Belief

In every situation, God is always doing a thousand different things you cannot see and you do not know.

The popular God of fun-church is simply too small and too affable to hold a hurricane in his hand.

The faith that honors Christ is the faith that sees and savors his glory in all his works, especially the gospel.

If God alone is enough to support joy when all else is lost, it is a miracle of grace.

The same sovereignty that could stop the coronavirus, yet doesn't, is the very sovereignty that sustains the soul in it.

It's not merely a rule to be followed. It's a miracle to be experienced. A grace to be received. It's a promise to be believed. Do you believe, do you trust, that God sees every wrong done to you, that he knows every hurt, that he assesses motives and circumstances with perfect accuracy, that he is impeccably righteous and takes no bribes, and that he will settle all accounts with perfect justice? This is what it means to be "conscious of God" in the midst of unjust pain.

Being persuaded that Christ and his promises are factual is not by itself saving faith. That is why some professing Christians will be shocked at the last day, when they hear him say, "I never knew you,' even though they protest that he is "Lord, Lord." Believing that Christ and his promises are true, based on a testimony, is a necessary part of faith. But it is not sufficient to turn faith into saving faith.

The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?

Epistemology models ontology.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two things so ill coupled together as the Doctrine of Christianity and that of Transubstantiation, because they draw several ways, and are ready to strangle one another: For the main Evidence of the Christian Doctrine, which is Miracles, is resolved into the certainty of Sense, but this Evidence is clear and point blank against Transubstantiation.