Faith Quotes

The glory that is given to God by the works of his creation is what we call an “external glory.” It is something outside of God. It doesn’t actually add anything to God. It is very much like an artist who has a great talent for painting and a mind full of beautiful images. If the artist puts some of those images on canvas for people to look at and admire, it still hasn’t added anything to the artist himself. It hasn’t made him any better or more wonderful than he was before (p. 5).

~ Leo J. Trese

Protect the ears of your heart, rather than being drawn in each day like the fading tides that dance daily with the moon.

~ Eric Samuel Timm

Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.

~ Mahnaz Afkhami

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.

~ Aberjhani

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.

~ Aberjhani

Nobel intentions have no real meaning to them if you don't do it solely for you. Do it to satisfy your soul, not theirs. Don't do it in hope that it earns you a reward at the end, instead let the reward be the beauty created as a result of your actions.

~ Kendal Rob

Make us, Lord, in Chesterton's distinction, travelers instead of tourists. Where the tourist defines his day by the expectation of seeing certain things, give us the traveler's openness to seeing what You will reveal.

~ Brian Eshleman

In Martin Luther's life and behavior is very courteous and friendly, and there is nothing of the stern stoic or grumpy fellow about him. He can adjust to all occasions. In social gathering he is gay, witty, ever full of joy, always has a bright and happy face, no matter how seriously his adversaries threatening him. One can see that God's strength is within him. – Petrus Mosellanus

~ Andrew Pettegree

Struggle is a prerequisite to surrender.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

I had rather have God for my banker than all the Rothschilds.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing?

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God's justice.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Unlike mere action, prayer is not subject to immediate evaluation or verification. If we are addicted to results we will quickly lose interest in prayer.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

Be wise and attend to obeying. Let Christ manage the providing.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is not a brave thing to trust God. To true believers, it is a sweet necessity.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

To give to others is but sowing seed for ourselves.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spend some personal time with Jesus and he will reveal himself to you on a deeper level.

~ Sandra M. Michelle

Why do we calculate our forces, and consult with flesh and blood to our grievous wounding? Jehovah has power enough without borrowing from our puny arm.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The line between spontaneity and stupidity can be very thin.

~ Martin Sheen

There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

God never encourages self-reliance.

~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

I thought parenting was going to reveal my strengths, never realizing that God had ordained it to reveal my weaknesses.

~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Some Christians believe the harder that one thinks, the colder faith will grow. Augustine grew more brilliant as he grew more pious, more creative as he became more orthodox. His period of heresy was imitative, but his traditional Christianity took mental risks.

~ John Mark Reynolds

If we are to have real faith, we must study the Word of God and discover what is promised. Then, we must simply believe the promises of God. Trying to believe something that you want to believe is not faith. Believing what God says in His Word is faith.

~ R.a. Torrey

If I am to have faith when I pray, I must find some promise in the Word of God to rest my faith on

~ R.a. Torrey

Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends.

~ Harold S. Kushner

You can't grasp the wonderful and keep your feet on the ground.

~ The Afters

Jesus is dangerous to society, to the status quo, and to contemporary piety. This clarity of preaching cannot be allowed to continue. It is like a cold, a virus that infects all who suffer and who love under conditions that only worsen, in a world that blames those who are poor and do not live up to religious expectations.

~ Megan Mckenna

We are afraid of religion because it interprets rather than observance. Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world, it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allowed to starve.

~ Dorothee Sölle

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.

~ Dallas Willard

[God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Accepting Christ is only the beginning, not the ultimate goal. Likewise, evangelism is vital, but so is discipleship. To go no deeper is to risk being like the seed that fell not on good soil but on rocky ground, sprouting up but bearing little or no fruit. Focusing solely on God's gift of free salvation is focusing on the minimum.

~ Ann Spangler

Let this change you. Let this take hold in the very center of your soul. Write it on the walls of your heart. Let this emanate through every part of you, and trickle into every aspect of your life. You were not designed to be merely a good person, but that through the experience of mortality you could embrace the divinity you were created with. I do not merely want you to get along with others, but for everyone to be one, and one in me. Not for my glory, but that the glory of godliness will exalt you to a higher plane of existence, beyond anything you've ever imagined. Throw out weakness and fear; rid yourself of those spoiled garments. Adorn yourself with new garments, spotless and pure. Be reborn. Set your hand to the plow and look not back. Take that first step onto the water; do not fear the wind or the waves, for it is I your Lord and Savior who beckon you. Listen o listen to my voice, which is the voice of the Good Sheppard who calls you; for why should ye parish for naught?’ Parker, the bar has been set, for you and for I, and all the rest of humanity should we chose to accept the invitation,” Flavius concluded powerfully.

~ Michael Brent Jones

My reason for believing in Christ is not that I feel my need of Him, but that I have a need of him… When I come to Jesus, I know I cannot come unless I am awakened, but nevertheless, I do not come as an awakened sinner. I do not stand at the foot of his cross to be washed because I have repented. I bring nothing when I come but sin. A sense of need is a good feeling, but when I stand at the foot of the cross, I do not believe in Christ because I have good feelings, but I believe in him whether I have good feelings or not. The basis on which a sinner comes to Christ is that he is black, not that he knows he is black; that he is dead, not that he knows he is dead; that he is lost, not that he knows he is lost… Generally, the people who repent the most think they are impenitent. People feel their need most when they think they do not feel at all, for we are no judges of our feelings. Hence the gospel invitation is not put upon the ground of anything of which we can be a judge. It is put on the basis of our being sinners, and nothing but sinners.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The risen Christ! Once morefaith is upon us, a jubilant brief keeningwith respite:Obedience, bitter joy,the elements, clouds,winds, louvres where the bellmakes its wild mouths:Holy Rus – into the rain’shorizons, peacock-dyed tail feathers of storm,so it goes on.

~ Geoffrey Hill

Realize that God uses the fires of life to purify your faith, to shape you into Christ’s image, and to cause you to love Him…even more!

~ Elizabeth George

You can seek out good fortune, authority (power), and even a righteous life-partner...and find them all. But when all of this is gone...which it will be eventually, I wish you Peace, which is only found through Christ our Lord.

~ Joe Campos

No matter our sins or our sufferings, we are not isolated or abandoned. Christ is there for us, in good times and bad, and if we know how to follow Him, how to walk in His footsteps, then the road home doesn’t seem quite so treacherous or impossible to scale.

~ Toni Sorenson

Always, God’s timing is the right time. Things happen when they have to happen and you only realise it later.” – Ernesto.

~ Paul Alkazraji

I’ve tried everything else, I’ll try God.“- Cherie.

~ Paul Alkazraji