Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.
– Martin Luther
Faith | Believing
A man’s real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.
– George Macdonald
Believing
If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
– Tim Keller
Believing | Resurrection
The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in.
– R. C. Sproul
Faith | Believing
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
– Thomas Fuller
Hypocrisy | Believing
It is of no use to say to men, “Let not your heart be troubled,” unless you finish the verse and say, “Believe in God, believe also in Christ.”
– Alexander MacLaren
Trials | Believing
We can’t have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
– Thomas Aquinas
Faith | Believing | Knowledge
When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father’s hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.
– William Barclay
Believing
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
– C.S. Lewis
Believing
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
– Martin Luther
Believing | Death
Learn that urgency in prayer does not so much consist in vehement pleading, as in vehement believing. He that believes most the love and power of Jesus will obtain the most in prayer.
– Robert Murray McCheyne
Believing | Prayer
Sight is not faith, and hearing is not faith, neither is feeling faith; but believing when we neither see, hear, nor feel is faith; and everywhere the Bible tells us our salvation is to be by faith. Therefore we must believe before we feel, and often against our feelings, if we would honor God by our faith.
– Hannah Whitall Smith
Believing | Feelings
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
– Blaise Pascal
Faith | Believing
No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.
– Blaise Pascal
Believing
Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.
– Charles Spurgeon
Believing
If I get well and write a book on Christianity, about which we have talked, we can attend more fully to this matter; but if I should be taken away suddenly, I do not wish to leave any duty of this kind unperformed. I want to leave somewhere a declaration of my belief in Christianity.
– Daniel Webster
Christianity | Believing
A child who knowingly sins can savingly believe.
– Charles Spurgeon
Children | Believing
You can’t tell it like it is, if you don’t believe it like it was.
– Vance Havner
Believing
The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs.
– Alister McGrath
Believing
Seeing is not always believing.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Ignorance | Believing
Many confuse understanding with believing.
– Watchman Nee
Faith | Believing
There is no saint here who can out-believe God. God never out-promised Himself yet.
– Charles Spurgeon
Believing
For the most part we live upon successes, not promises: unless we see and feel the print of victories, we will not believe.
– John Owen
Success | Believing
What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.
– Ravi Zacharias
Believing
Faith is the root of all blessings. Believe, and you shall be saved; believe, and you must needs be satisfied; believe, and you cannot but be comforted and happy.
– Jeremy Taylor
Faith | Believing
It is more necessary for us to be active than to be orthodox. To be orthodox is what we wish to be, but we can only truly reach it by being honest, by being original, by seeing with our own eyes, by believing with our own heart.
– Henry Drummond
Believing
I believe there is no man in the world so constituted but he can believe in God’s word. He simply tells you to believe in Him, and He will save you.
– Dwight L. Moody
Believing
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
– Assorted Authors
Faith | Believing | Trust
God chooses us, not because we believe, but that we may believe.
– Augustine
Believing
We should inquire once again as to what the life of faith is. It is one lived by believing God under any circumstance: “If he slay me,” says Job, “yet would I trust in Him” (Job 13:15 Darby). That is faith.
– Watchman Nee
Faith | Believing | Circumstances
We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.
– Ravi Zacharias
Believing
It is of no use to say to men, “Let not your heart be troubled,” unless you finish the verse and say, “Believe in God, believe also in Christ.”
– Alexander MacLaren
Trials | Believing
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
Eternity | Believing
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
– C.S. Lewis
Suffering | Believing | Piety
Believe in the Bible or you’ll believe anything.
– Woodrow Kroll
Believing | The Bible
Believing in him is not the same as believing things about him such as that he was born of a virgin and raised Lazarus from the dead. Instead, it is a matter of giving our hearts to him, of come hell or high water putting our money on him, the way a child believes in a mother or a father, the way a mother or a father believes in a child.
– Frederick Buechner
Believing
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.
– C.S. Lewis
Morality | Believing | Freedom
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
– John Henry Newman
Salvation | Believing
Believing is accepting as a fact and making a commitment of your own future to the promises of God to save you — simply by believing in Christ.
– John F. Walvoord
Believing | Salvation
The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts the minds of many who sincerely profess belief in God. It makes prayer psychologically impossible, replacing it with dead ritual at best.
– David Brainerd
Apathy | Prayer | Believing
Unless we examine what we believe and why we believe it, we can easily be deceived and not know it.
– Pamela Christian
Believing | Deception
He that knows nothing will believe anything.
– Thomas Fuller
Believing
Believe God’s love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.
– Samuel Rutherford
Believing | Feelings
Trust is faith that has become absolute, approved, and accomplished. When all is said and done, there is a sort of risk in faith and its exercise. But trust is firm belief; it is faith in full bloom. Trust is a conscious act, a fact of which we are aware.
– E.M. Bounds
Trust | Peace | Believing
So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.
– William Barclay
Believing
A man’s religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.
– Thomas Carlyle
Religion | Believing | Doubt
Prayer – secret, fervent, believing prayer – lies at the root of all personal godliness.
– William Carey
Prayer | Believing | Godliness
Our first place of victory [over fear] is in believing the truth concerning our relationship with God. Paul tells us that, “having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Rom 5:1). We reject the lie that insists God is our enemy. We come to believe He is our Helper in the healing of our souls!
– Francis Frangipane
Fear | Believing
Believing and confessing go together; and you cannot be be saved without you take them both. “With the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” If you ever see the kingdom of heaven you have to take this way.
– Dwight L. Moody
Believing | Confession
Christians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God’s view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please Him. They must dare to allow the Holy Spirit to point out to them every corruption of the soul life. They must exercise faith in believing God’s estimation of their natural life and must wait patiently for the Holy Spirit to reveal in them what the Bible says of them. Only in this manner will they be led in the way of deliverance.
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit | Believing | The Bible
Seeing’s believing, but feeling’s the truth.
– Thomas Fuller
Truth | Believing
To believe is to be strong. Doubt, cramps energy. Belief is power.
– Frederick W. Robertson
Faith | Believing | Doubt
Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.
– John Owen
Temptation | Believing
Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love.
– Oswald Chambers
Faith | Believing