Quotes About Faith

will never hesitate to tell people that inward conflict is no proof that a person is not holy, and that they must not think they are not sanctified because they do not feel entirely free from inward struggle. We will doubtless have such freedom in heaven, but we will never enjoy it in this world.

We must ask them to lay their hands on their hearts and tell us whether their favorite opinions comfort them in the day of sickness, in the hour of death, by the bedside of dying parents, by the grave of a beloved wife or child. We

But God hath undertaken to right Himself. He will reckon with them. He hath undertaken to see that the debts due to Him are paid. All their sins are written in His book: not one of them is forgotten, and every one must be paid…"He will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face" (Deu 7:10).

And he will turn many of the sons of Israel back to the Lord their God.

People will never set their faces decidedly toward heaven and live like pilgrims until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.

La verdad lisa y llana es que el conocimiento correcto del pecado es la raíz de todo el cristianismo salvador.

We cannot do better than follow His plan.

train up your children well – train well for this life, and train well for the life to come; train well for earth, and train well for heaven; train them for God, for Christ, and for eternity.

God says expressly, Train up a child in the way he should go, and He never gave a command that He did not give man grace to perform.

Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer. I cannot forget this. I look at men's lives. I believe that few pray.

Let us worship on, pray on, praise on, and read on. Let us contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints, and resist manfully every effort to spoil Scriptural worship. Let us strive earnestly to hand down the light of Gospel worship to our children's children. Yet a little time and He that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Blessed in that day will be those, and those only, who are found true worshippers, "worshippers in spirit and truth!

Una religión sin Cristo no salvará su alma.

When days of darkness come upon us, let us not consider it a perplexing thing. Rather, let us remember that lessons are learned on such days that would never have been learned in sunshine. Let us say to ourselves, "This also is for my profit, that I may be a partaker of God's holiness. It is sent in love. I am in God's best school. Correction is instruction. This is meant to make me grow.

The old man woke up at once. "Ay, ay!" cried Whitefield, fixing his eyes on him, "I have waked you up, have I? I meant to do it. I am not come here to preach to stocks and stones: I have come to you in the name of the Lord God of Hosts, and I must, and will, have an audience.

If your peace is to be solid, you must go yourself to the Fountain of all Truth. If your comforts are to be lasting, you must visit the well of life yourself, and draw fresh water for your own soul. Ministers may depart from the faith. The visible Church may be broken up. But he who has the Word of God written in his heart has a foundation beneath his feet which will never fail him.

Simply put, where there is no sanctification of life, there is no real faith in Christ.

Existem duas mãos que nos ajudam na escalada para o céu. A mão de nossa fé agarra-se ao nosso Salvador; e a mão misericordiosa de nosso Salvador, plena de redenção, segura-nos com firmeza. Nossa mão agarra-se a Ele debilmente, e com facilidade se solta; mas a mão dEle segura-nos de forma poderosa e irresistível.

In justification, our own works have no place at all, and simple faith in Christ is the one thing needful. In sanctification, our own works are of great importance, and God instructs us to fight, watch, pray, strive, try, and work. Justification is a finished and complete work, and a person is perfectly justified the moment he believes. Sanctification is an imperfect work, comparatively, and will never be perfected until we reach heaven.

In walking with God, a man will go just as far as he believes, and no further.

Sanctification is the only certain evidence of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, which is essential to salvation.

Basically, where there is no sanctification there is no regeneration, and where there is no holy life there is no new birth.

Depend on it, the nearer men draw to heaven, the more humble do they become.

La gracia es luz, y la luz siempre se puede ver. La gracia es sal, y la sal siempre se puede saborear. Decir que el Espíritu mora en uno pero no se demuestra por frutos visibles y por una gracia que los demás ni pueden ver, es muy sospechoso. Créeme cuando te digo que eres un alma muerta si no tienes más prueba de tu vida espiritual que el haber sido bautizado.

La conversión no se trata de poner al convertido en un cómodo sillón y llevarlo sentado al cielo. Es el comienzo de una tremenda batalla, en la cual cuesta mucho obtener la victoria. De allí, la enorme importancia de "calcular el costo".