Quotes about Belief

If you try to deal with sin in your conscience, let it remain there, and continue to look at it in your heart, your sins will become too strong for you. They will seem to live forever. But when you think of your sins as being on Christ and boldly believe that he conquered them through his resurrection, then they are dead and gone. Sin can't remain on Christ. His resurrection swallowed up sin.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times

Our whole life should be manly; we should fear God and put our trust in him.

the paradox is that God must destroy in us, all illusions of righteousness before he can make us righteous

When it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do, rather, before the question is raised, it has done the deed, and keeps on doing it

If you consider this subject unnecessary for Christians, then please quit the field; you and I have nothing in common, for I consider it vital.

Sometimes the curses of the godless sound better than the hallelujahs of the pious.

Despair makes priests and friars.

The very simple meaning of what Moses says, therefore, is this: everything that is, was created by God.

Are we not to call Christ ours because we have not made him but only received him? Again, if we are the makers of things that are called ours, then we must have made our eyes, we must have made our hands, we must have made our feet, unless eyes, hands and feet are not to be called ours.

The article of justification must be sounded in our ears incessantly because the frailty of our flesh will not permit us to take hold of it perfectly and to believe it with all our heart.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.