J. C. Ryle Quotes

Unfortunately, many young believers - and some older ones, too - do not know that there will be times in every person's life when circumstances don't add up - when God doesn't appear to make sense. This aspect of the Christian faith is not well advertised.

I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.

My relationship with my belief has never been easy.

I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

Believing in God is a very intense inner struggle of mine. It's something I worry about a lot, but which I don't have the answer to.

Faith is Doubt.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

I'm amazed sometimes by the Christians who don't really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

There are times when God leaves huge question marks as tools in our lives to stretch our our faith.

When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence.

If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don't believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.

I'd rather have all my questions unanswered and walk with God than not walk with God and have all my questions answered.

The truth is: We serve a generous God. He delights in giving us opportunities beyond our capabilities. He has promised to equip us, and remain with us through each bend in the road.

I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.

I trust in you, Lord, but keep helping me in my moments of distrust and doubt.

Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace.

I have the faith of a Breton peasant and by the time I die I hope to have the faith of a Breton peasant's wife.

I envy my dad and his faith. I envy all people who have someone to beseech, who know where they're going, who sleep under the fluffy white comforter of belief.

Eve doubted God, and I as a child of God am now to be exactly the opposite: I am to believe him. Eve doubted, and mankind in revolt doubts God. To believe him, not just when I accept Christ as Savior, but every moment, one moment at a time: this is the Christian life, and this is true spirituality.

If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt.

As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the deeper part, where faith did constant battle with doubt, was terrified that there would be no answer.

Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.