Genuine Faith Quotes

Faith is personal if it's to be real.

If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.

Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not.

I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.

At the end of day, what matters most to God, what moves His heart, isn't our fancy words and impressive possessions - it's the condition of our hearts.

If a person professes faith in Christ and yet falls away or makes no progress in godliness, it does not mean that he has lost his salvation. It reveals that he was never truly converted.

Anybody who was easily converted was not worth converting.

When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.

If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.

When people have real faith in something, it's fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many people say they do. It kind of blows my mind.

Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.

What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

I want God, not my idea of God.

It’s much easier to act like a Christian than it is to react like one!

Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

If you are worshipping God without depending on the Spirit of God, you are serving a god you do not know.

In my experience, it’s much easier to act like a Christian than it is to react like one. Anyone can put on an act. But your reactions reveal what is really in your heart.

The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.

Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.

Our attitude toward others reveals our genuine attitude toward God.

A true Christian will be sensitive to the sin in their life and it will lead them to brokenness and genuine confession, but the person who says they are a Christian and are not sensitive to sin, it does not lead them to confession, a person who is that way is not a Christian.

If someone is truly converted, they will publicly confess Christ in word and deed. That does not mean presenting them in front of the church on the night of their supposed conversion.

Jarrid Wilson has a passion and heart for God that is contagious. His genuine faith comes through powerfully in his teaching and writing. 30 Words points to the God of all wonder and grace in a way that will expand your faith and experience of God.