Quotes About Assurance

I feel confident that the Lord will not leave us alone in making this major decision, and we can expect to be guided, even if we don't realize it at the time.

For the Word of God is not received by faith if it flits about in the top of the brain, but when it takes root in the depth of the heart . . . the heart's distrust is greater than the mind's blindness. It is harder for the heart to be furnished with assurance [of God's love] than for the mind to be endowed with thought.

we shall find that the reason why   we doubt of God's promises is, because we sinfully detract from his   power.

The knowledge of faith consists in assurance rather than in comprehension. . . . We add the words "sure and firm" in order to express a more solid constancy of persuasion.

The salvation of all the elect is not less certain than the power of God is invincible.

As to their question-How can we be assured that this has sprung from God unless we have recourse to the decree of the church?-it is as if someone asked: Whence will we learn to distinguish light from darkness, white from black, sweet from bitter? Indeed, Scripture exhibits fully as clear evidence of its own truth as white and black things do of their color, or sweet and bitter things do of their taste.

The word 'hope' I take for faith; and indeed, hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.

because life is not stable except by faith. Let

We are in no position to rely upon God's promises unless we obey his commandments. Now

We are taught that the salvation of all the elect is as certain as that God's power is invincible. Besides

And this is the evidence of faith that we never allow ourselves to be torn away from Christ and the promises we have in him. The

Convinced, however, we are not, if we look to ourselves only, and not to the Lord also

You already knew the right thing to do. You just needed someone to confirm it for you.

Good ideas do not need to be shouted. They can take care of themselves.

Strait-jacket and chain-gang procedures had to be done away with if there was to a chance for growth of individuals in the intellectual springs of freedom without which there is no assurance of genuine and continued normal growth.

To me faith means not worrying

First, I give my gracious God an entire sacrifice of body and soul, with my most humble thanks for that assurance which His Blessed Spirit imprints in me now of the Salvation of the one, and the Resurrection of the other;

3. Hope in God.This is the believer's most appropriate hope.

These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.

Over the years I've learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.

As an O.B. doctor of thirty years, and having delivered 4,000 babies, I can assure you life begins at conception.

Nothing in life is guaranteed, including government guarantees.

Sometimes I tend to worry too much and at the end of all the preoccupation nothing goes wrong.