Quotes about Belief

It takes God a long time to get us to stop thinking that unless everyone sees things exactly as we do, they must be wrong.

The touchstone of the Holy Spirit's work in us is the answer to our Lord's question: "Who do men say that the Son of Man is?" Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given by the Holy Spirit.

Many of us are faithful to our ideas about Jesus Christ, but how many of us are faithful to Jesus Himself?

when we have the right relationship with God, life is full of spontaneous, joyful uncertainty and expectancy.

We must continually maintain an adventurous attitude toward Him, despite any potential personal risk.

the underlying foundation of Christianity is personal, passionate devotion to the Lord Jesus.

It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on our difficulties

Faith, however, is not intellectual understanding; faith is a deliberate commitment to the Person of Jesus Christ, even when I can't see the way ahead.

Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him"—this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.

If it is an impossibility, it is the thing we have to ask. If it is not an impossible thing, it is not a real disturbance. God will do the absolutely impossible.

Always make it a practice to stir your own mind thoroughly to think through what you have easily believed. Your position is not really yours until you make it yours through suffering and study. The author or speaker from whom you learn the most is not the one who teaches you something you didn't know before, but the one who helps you take a truth with which you have quietly struggled, give it expression, and speak it clearly and boldly.