Faith

It is the absence of the knowledge of God and man’s refusal to obey Him that lie at the root of every problem which besets us.

God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives ‘declining’.

I have done nothing but open windows-God has done all the rest.

Praise is declaration, a victory cry, proclaiming faith to stand firm in the place God has given you. Praise is a proclamation that the enemy's intent to plunder you will not rock you. Praise declares that you will not be moved by the enemy's attempt to snatch you away.

Praying without gratitude, first, is more like complaining.

It's kind of spooky when you are caught talking to God everybody thinks you're nuts. They used to call you a prophet.

Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.

I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss the pounce. One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires.

Our job as Christians is to stick so close to Jesus that when people are around us, they sense him.

[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.

Before you came into my life, I believed that God had abandoned me. Now I know that He has blessed me beyond measure. ~Sir Bannor.

Despite differences of faith or even the occasional collisions between them, Egypt is united.

The choice to believe is yours. It’s the only thing that truly is.

In order to know who you are you need to know God is.

It's okay to have faith in something that you can't see or touch.

I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any imagination a human being might have of it. God does, after all, so love the world.

Angels are all around us—everywhere andomnipresent. I consider them to be proof that God loves us, wants to protect us, and that he is always there.

[Every] believer will receive a reward for his works. The New Testament teaches these rewards are called “crowns.” We will surely be surprised to note who receives the crowns and who doesn’t. The lowliest servant may sparkle with more jewels than the philanthropist who endowed the church and whose name is engraved on the plaque in the narthex.

Jesus and institutional religion are on a collision course, and those who go with Jesus will find more adventure, freedom, and religion-bursting grace than they can stand, all the things that make traveling worth the effort. But they will also find clash and conflict. The path of Jesus is not well tolerated by the establishment.

The measure of a man is determined by how he responds to the truth of God.