Quotes About Faith

nothing in the world of so good use, as the least dram of grace.

Perfect refining is for another world

For where God intends to do any good, he first works in them a gracious disposition: after which he looks upon his own work as upon a lovely object, and so doth give them other blessings. God crowns grace with grace. By

The heroic deeds of those great worthies do not comfort the church so much as their falls and bruises do.

Discouragements, then, must come from ourselves and Satan, who laboureth to fasten on us a loathing of duty.

It should be the art of Christians to present death as a passage to a better life, to labour to bring our souls into such a condition, as to think death not to be a death to us, but the death of itself. Death dies when I die, and I begin to live when I die. It is a sweet passage to life. We never live till we die.

If those also of the younger sort would ask of themselves, why God should not have the flower and marrow of their age? And why they should give their strength to the devil?

Two things trouble the peace of Christians very much (1), their weaknesses hanging upon them, and (2) fear of holding out for time to come.

Never fear to go to God, since we have such a Mediator with him, who is not only our friend but our brother and husband

A weak hand may receive a rich jewel. A few grapes will show that the plant is a vine, and not a thorn. It is one thing to be deficient in grace, and another thing to lack grace altogether. God knows we have nothing of ourselves

Peace and joy are two main fruits of Christ's kingdom. Let the world be as it will, if we cannot rejoice in the world, yet we may rejoice in the Lord.

What a support to our faith is this, that God the Father, the party offended by our sins, is so well pleased with the work of redemption! And what a comfort is this, that, seeing God's love rests on Christ, as well pleased in him, we may gather that he is as well pleased with us, if we be in Christ!

Nothing is so certain as that which is certain after doubts. Nil tam certum quam quod ex dubio certum. Shaking settles and roots.

If our faith were but as firm as our state in Christ is secure and glorious, what manner of men should we be ?

Sometimes a Christian has such confused thoughts that he can say nothing but, as a child, cries, `O Father', not able to express what he needs, like Moses at the Red Sea. These stirrings of spirit touch the heart of God and melt him into compassion towards us, when they come from the Spirit of adoption, and from a striving to be better.

Discouragements, then, must come from ourselves and from Satan, who labors to fasten on us a loathing of duty.

We are only poor for this reason, that we do not know our riches in Christ.

The more we see the grace of God in Christ, the spirit of fear is diminished and replaced by a spirit of love and boldness.

O how he loves you, darling boy. Oh how, like always, he invents the monsters underneath the bed to get you to sleep next to him, chest to chest or chest to back, the covers drawn around you in an act of faith against the night.

God says, Which one of you fuckers can get to me first?

You just wanted to prove that there was one safe place, just one safe place where you could love him. You have not found that place yet.

I will come back from the dead for you.

I am singing now while Rome burns. We are all just trying to be holy.

You cannot get in the way of anyone's path to God. You can, but it does no good. Every spy knows this. Somesay God is where we put our sorrow. God says, Which one of you fuckers can get to me first?