We have the faith to do it; but for faith to work, we have to release our faith, and the way we release it is to go in obedience.

In the prophetic tradition the continual insistence is that trusting relationships and not tradable commodities are the proper category for communion with God.

You will never get what you don't ask for. You can't find what you aren't looking for. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Our obedience to God will not always achieve the results we want, but our ultimate call is not to be successful, but to be faithful!

Anyone can believe God exists but still maintain a life apart from him.

Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

God brings tests into your life because your faith in Him--your belief that He is in control and that He is good--can be proved only in times when life is hard.

We must rip the foundations out from under all the bastions of human reasoning that say, "I don't need God!" We must demolish every non-God story of life. We must pulverize every God-is-not-good life narrative.

This is the Christian faith, which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved." The harsh and much-disputed statement begins to look like a blunt statement of fact, for how can anyone make anything of life if there is no belief in life? If we truly desire a creative life for ourselves and other people, it is our task to rebuild the world along creative lines, but we must be sure that we desire it enough.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

There is some task which the God of all the Universe, the Great Creator, your Redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to do--and which will remain undone and incomplete until, by faith and obedience, you step into the will of God.

But to doubt God and to question His motives causes our faith to shrink until literally we cease to be believers—we are believers in name, but not in practice or in action.