Quotes About Belief

It is a very small thing to be judged by man now for our boldness, but dismal to be condemned by Christ for our cowardice

Story tells us of some Turks who have, upon the sight of Mahomet's tomb, put their eyes out, that they might not defile them, forsooth! with any common object after they had been blessed with seeing one so sacred.

O how true are poor sinners to the devil's trust!

Him that hath not God before he dies, the devil shall have when he dies.

How canst thou put thy head into the other world without horror, if thou hast not solid ground that Christ will own thee for his? Heaven

Love is another heavenly grace; but faith gathers the fuel that makes this fire.

So that it is not the love of any present sin in thy heart, but the fear of thy past sins in thy conscience, that keeps thee from believing. Now for thee it is that I would gather the best encour agements I can out of the word, and with them strew thy way to the throne of grace.

It is not, indeed, the bare knowing the truths of the gospel saves; but the gross ignorance of them, to be sure, will damn souls.

Humana dita argu mentis ac testibus egent; Dei autem sermo ipse sibi testis est, quia necesse est quicquid incorrupta veritas loquitur incorruptum sit veritas testimonium: so Salvan (De Gub. Dei, lib. iii)—men need arguments and witnesses to prove and vouch what they say to be true; but the word of God is a sufficient witness to itself, because what truth itself, which is pure, saith, can be no other than a sincere and true testimony.

And they cannot be solid Christians, that are not instructed in the grounds of Christianity. The

A weak hand with a sincere heart is able to turn the key in prayer.

The saints are oft feeding their hopes on the carcass of their slain fears.

Many think they shall not pay so dear for an error in judgment as for a sin in practice. Yea, some have such a latitude, that they fancy a man may be saved in any religion—

What Bernard saith of a hard heart I may say of an unbelieving heart, illud cor verè durum, quod non trepidat, ad nomen cordis duri—that is a hard heart indeed, saith he, that trembles not at the name of a hard heart.

If he cannot shed tears, much less will he bleed for truth.

True faith is prayerful. Prayer, it is the child of faith; and as the child bears his father's name upon him, so doth prayer the name of faith.

That it is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to get an established judgment of the truth, but also to maintain a steadfast profession of the truth.

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again. Know,

The Christian must trust in a with draw ing God, Isa. 50:10. Let him that walks in darkness, and sees no light, trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.

The believer is to persevere in his Christian course to the end of his life: his work and his life must go off the stage together.

They love truth flourishing, who do not love it when it is confuting. They dare handle and look on the sword with delight when in a rich scabbard, who would run away to see it drawn.

That is the sweet frame of heart indeed—to lie low in the sense of your own vileness, yet to believe; to renounce all conceit of worthiness in ourselves, yet not therefore to renounce all hope of mercy, but the more speedily to make haste to Christ that woos us. All

They use faith as an eye but not as a hand; they look for victory to drop from heaven upon their heads, but do not fight to obtain it.

Faith and repentance will be good doctrine to preach and hear to the end of the world; you