Help My Unbelief: Why Doubt Is Not the Enemy of Faith
Barnabas Piper
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.1”
“trust in God stems from understanding His character, not His reasons.”
“It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.1 —Søren Kierkegaard”
“If we could store God in a box, what about Him would be worthy of worship?”
“God is infinite. While the finite human mind can understand aspects of His character, even those cannot be understood in full. His bigness is too big, His goodness too good, His wrath too terrible, His grace too profound, His knowledge too deep. Because of this, God is inherently mysterious to us. We simply cannot fathom the fullness, or even a portion of the fullness, of who He is or what He does.”
“Christians who don't know the tension of "I believe; help my unbelief" might not be Christians at all, or at the least they might be very infantile ones. Our faith is one of brutal tensions. Not everyone can express this, but every Christian knows it. We feel it in our guts. We feel as if we're going to bust in half as we're pulled in two directions at once. To not recognize the significance of these words indicates a simplistic, thoughtless belief. It isn't a mark of maturity but rather of not being mature enough to know our own weakness and need. Tension is our state of being for all of this life, and to live as a believer is to live in it.”
“To live by faith is to rest in the object of our faith, the God of the Bible, and to come to terms with all of our “I don’t knows.”
“There is an inherent promise of peace in living the life you ought, in living as you were created to be, in honoring what is good.”
“Questions are the conversational currency of a child. Every question is asked to learn, out of a desire to understand, from a stance of trust. Children ask not to challenge but in order to believe. That's a big part of what "faith like a child" means.”
“You know what the book of Job doesn’t do? It doesn’t explain anything. But even without explanations or rationales it does answer our questions. God is God. We are not. Be silent.”
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