If God be our God, He will give us peace in trouble. When there is storm without, He will make peace within. The world can create trouble in peace, but God can create peace in trouble.
– Thomas Watson –
Hope
As afflictions abound – Charles Spurgeon
As afflictions abound, even so do consolations abound by Jesus Christ.
– Charles Spurgeon –
God Redeems and Fulfills – Charles Spurgeon
God has given no pledge which he will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which he will not fulfill.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith,1893
Pardoned with Certainty – Charles Spurgeon
Confess your sin with honesty, be pardoned with certainty.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Peace and Satisfaction – Unknown
You can’t expect God to be the source of your peace if the world is the source of your satisfaction.
– Unknown –
The pleasures of religion – Matthew Henry
The pleasures of religion will abide; they wither not in winter, nor tarnish with time, nor doth age wrinkle their beauty; frosts nip them not, nor do storms blast them; they continue through the greatest opposition of events, and despise that time and change, which happens to all things under the sun’ (Ecl 9:1). Believers, when they are sorrowful, they are but as sorrowful, for they are “always rejoicing” (2 Cor 6:10) and “Thanks be to God who always causes us to triumph” (2 Cor 2:14).
– Matthew Henry –
from The Pleasantness of a Religious Life, 1714
Growing in Grace – JC Ryle
When I speak of a person growing in grace, I mean simply this —that his sense of sin is becoming deeper, his faith stronger, his hope brighter, his love more extensive, and his spiritual mindedness more marked.
– JC Ryle –
Heavenly hope or an earthly heart? – William Gurnall
Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.
– William Gurnall –
God is Faithful – Charles Spurgeon
God has given no pledge that he will not redeem and encouraged no hope that he will not fulfill.
– Charles Spurgeon –