Quotes About Faith

You see when a soul comes over from Satan's quarters unto Christ, and has but once the experience of that sweetness which is in his service, there is no getting him back to his old drudgery; as

When the Son made thee free, thou becamest free indeed.

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.

this spiritual war of the Christian lies chiefly on the defence, and therefore requires arms most of this kind to wage it.

O Christian, give not place to Satan, no, not an inch, in his first motions. He that is a beggar and a modest one with out doors, will command the house if let in. Yield at first, and thou givest away thy strength to resist him in the rest; when the hem is worn, the whole garment will ravel out, if it be not mended by timely repentance.

He is not a good subject, that is all for what he can get of his prince, but never thinks what he may do for him; nor he the true Christian, whose thoughts dwell more on his own happiness than on the honour of his God.

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

Neither did the Pharisees in truth believe what Moses wrote, because they opposed Christ, who did but verify what Moses before from God's mouth had spoke.

Assurance rather is the fruit of faith. It is in faith as the flower is in the root.

Our faith must not depend on our reason, but our reason on faith.

They are all such notions as never came into the heart of the wisest sophists in the world to conceive of; and therefore it is no wonder that a little child, under the preaching of the gospel, believes these mysteries which Plato and Aristotle were ignorant of, because they are not attained by our parts and industry, but communicated by divine and supernatural revelation.

Patience enrageth indeed the wicked, but meekens the saints.

he must needs be comfortable that hath so oft a pillow to lay his head on as Christ's lap.

It is one thing to have armour in the house, and another thing to have it buckled on; to have grace in the principle, and grace in the act. So that our instruction will be,

Ecclesia est Christus explicatus—the church is nothing but Christ displayed.

Therefore, I beseech you, look to your armour. David would not fight in armour he had not tried, though it was a king's.

And where hope is raised, the Christian cannot but take sweet satisfaction from the expectation thereof. The poor ploughman that is a saint, and plows in hope of reaping salvation, would be as well contented with his place and work as the bravest courtier is with his.

He that believeth not is condemned already,' John 3:18. He hath his mittimus already to jail; yea, he is in it already in a sense—he hath the brand of a damned person on him.

No, Christian, follow not the example of the greatest on earth; it is thy own soul thou venturest in battle, therefore thou canst not be too choice of thy armour. Bring thy heart to the Word, as the only touch-stone of thy grace and furniture; the Word,

First, faith closeth with the promise as a true and faithful word, then hope lifts up the soul to wait for the performance of it.

David's sin was great, yet [he] found mercy. Peter fell foully, yet [is] now in heaven. Why sittest thou here, O my soul, under the hatches of despair? Up and call upon thy God for mercy, who hath pardoned the same to others.

This eye, beholding its sin piercing Christ, and Christ pardoning its sin, affects the heart. The

It requires more prowess and greatness of spirit to obey God faithfully, than to command an army of men; to be a Christian than a captain.