Faith Depth Quotes

A head full of biblical knowledge without a heart passionately in love with Christ is terribly dangerous - a stronghold waiting to happen. The head is full, but the heart and soul are still unsatisfied.

It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in the church foyer with another equally uninformed believer, but when that happens you are vulnerable to the attack of the deceiver.

The most vital question to ask about all who claim to be Christian is this: Have they a soul thirst for God? ... Is their life centered on Him? Do they press forward more and more that they might know Him.

A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.

Any candidate who claims his religion has no influence on his decisions is either a dishonest politician or a shallow follower of his faith.

You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic

Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.

I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.

Those who believe for a while make only a brief tour in the kingdom, though thereafter they often feel qualified to inform those who know even less about the Church; but the fact is they were really only tourists - not natives who really knew the kingdom's countryside.

It's not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there.

God's blessings are dispensed according to the riches of his grace, not according to the depth of our faith.

Shallow believers prefer a shallow God.

Our vitality, and the vitality of each nation, rests on the sincerity and depth of the faith in the ideas which it announces, or pronounces.

The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.

Our faith comes in moments . . . yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.