Quotes About Faith

We must be the sons of God both by adoption and regeneration, before we can be

Guilty consciences are apt to take good providences in a bad sense

When men's spirits are sinking every thing helps to sink them.

We cannot reach true wisdom except by divine revelation.

prayer-time must be kept up as duly as meat-time.

We are apt to show our trouble too much to ourselves, aggravating it, and poring upon it, which does us no service, whereas by showing it to God we might cast the care upon him who careth for us, and thereby ease ourselves. Nor should we allow of any complaint to ourselves or others which we cannot with due decency and sincerity of devotion make to God, and stand to before him.

When death comes into a family it ought to be improved.

The gospel excludes none who do not exclude themselves.

Note, Our sorrow upon any account is sinful and inordinate when it diverts us from our duty to God and embitters our comfort in him

Those who are saved have only God to thank, and those who perish have only themselves to blame.

God proportions his people's trials to their strength, and will not suffer them to be tempted above what they are able, 1 Cor. 10:13.

It must be the strong affection of the youth, and the espousals, that will carry us on to follow God in a wilderness, with an implicit faith and an entire resignation; and it is a pity that those who have so followed him should ever leave him.

The perfecting of God's mercies to us must be waited for in a humble observance of his institutions.

Christ is the author of salvation to those only that obey him.

In divine things we must not covet to know more than God would have us know; and he has allowed us as much as is good for us.

It is the will of God that his ministers should be well provided for with food convenient; and what is given to them he accepts as offered to himself, if it be done with a single eye.

God's word will stand, and we shall get nothing by disputing it, or delaying to submit to it.

Those that sincerely design and endeavour to do their duty may in faith beg of God direction and strength for the doing of it.

Whom God helps he helps right early, Ps. xlvi.

We must not abruptly quit our callings because we have not the success in them we desire.

As those who live and die unsanctified go out of the world with their hell about them, so those who are sanctified and renewed go out of the world with their heaven about them.

God will own his own people, though ever so poor and despicable, and will find a time to plead their cause.

All that are to be employed for God are to be sanctified to him.

Men of business ought to be devout men, and not to think that business will excuse them from that which is every man's great business – to keep up communion with God.