Bruce Wilkinson Quotes

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

Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.

By night an atheist half believes in a God.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.

I had my battles. I had my times of just being upset and God would show me, 'Hey, I'm right here, I'll walk you through this and it doesn't make sense now but just trust me.' That's where faith come in - trust.

Whenever I go through any sort of bad patch, I remind myself that part of the game of cricket is God testing you.

Sometimes, I feel like I'm lost. But I've always said that I believe in God.

I don't have any answers, but in my personal opinion, I'm a person that has faith and I believe that a lot of people have neglected God.

Faith that is sure of itself is not faith; faith that is sure of God is the only faith there is.

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.

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

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

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

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

At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.

I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you will trust God.

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.

You see, this people [Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Jacob, etc.] simply believed that God existed in the situation they were faced with, and they trusted Him rather than themselves. The result? God said, "That pleases Me." They were men and women just like you and I, which is the most encouraging part of all. We don't find golden haloes, or perfect backgrounds, or sinless lives, we just find people. People who failed, who struggled, who doubted, who experienced hard times and low times in which their faith was eclipsed by doubt. But their lives were basically characterized by faith.

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

It isn't necessary to trust God when we have full understanding and knowledge of what He is doing on our behalf... Trust is needed in those times when, for whatever reason, we are not hearing from God as clearly as we would like.