Quotes about Belief

The danger we have is that we want to water down what Jesus said to make it mean something that aligns with our common sense.

These sermons of Jesus Christ are meant for your will and your conscience, not for your head. If you dispute these verses from the Sermon on the Mount with your head, you will dull the appeal to your heart.

Do I really dare to let God be to me all that He says He will be?

My misgivings arise from the fact that I search within to find how He will do what He says. My doubts spring from the depths of my own inferiority.

Daydreaming after God has spoken is an indication that we do not trust Him.

God can do nothing for me until I get to the limit of the possible.

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough.

Paul was devoted to a Person, not a cause.

Jesus did not say to make converts to your way of thinking, but He said to look after His sheep, to see that they get nourished in the knowledge of Him. We consider what we do in the way of Christian work as service, yet Jesus Christ calls service to be what we are to Him, not what we do for Him. Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.

Faith in active opposition to common sense is mistaken enthusiasm and narrow-mindedness, and common sense in opposition to faith demonstrates a mistaken reliance on reason as the basis for truth. The life of faith brings the two of these into the proper relationship.

Do not look for God to come in a particular way, but do look for Him.

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.