If you want to scatter your doubts, look at the blood; and if you want to increase your doubts look at yourself. You will get doubts enough for years by being occupied with yourself only a few days.
– DL Moody –
Hope
Go to the Fountain – Samuel Rutherford
Dry wells send us to the fountain.
– Samuel Rutherford –
from The Loveliness of Christ
Holiness and Happiness – Richard Sibbes
Those that look to be happy must first look to be holy.
– Richard Sibbes –
(1577–1635)
Hope is Never Ill When Faith is Well – John Bunyan
Hope is never ill when faith is well.
– John Bunyan –
Hope fills the afflicted soul – William Gurnall
Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called “the rejoicing of hope.” (Hebrews 3:6)
– William Gurnall –