Actually, faith is most reasonable. What is more reasonable than that a creature should trust his Creator? Is it insane to believe in One Who can neither lie nor fail nor err? To trust God is the most sensible, sane, rational thing that a man can do. It is no leap in the dark. Faith demands the surest evidence and finds it in God’s unfailing Word. No one has ever trusted Him in vain; no one ever will. Faith in the Lord involves no risk whatever.
– William MacDonald –
It is true that all God requires of us we lack; but it is also true that all we need He supplies.
– Evan Hopkins –
All of my need He freely supplieth,
Day after day His goodness I prove;
Mercies unfailing, new every morning,
Tell me of God’s unchanging love.
– Thomas Chisholm –
from the hymn He Supplieth All of My Need
God’s manner is not to bring comfortable texts of Scripture to give men assurance of his love, and that they shall be happy, before they have had a faith of dependence.
– Jonathan Edwards –
from A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
Nothing in me can surprise Him out of loving me … there is wonderful comfort in that.
– Amy Carmichael –
from Edges of His Ways
God’s holiness and His nature are not two things, they are but one. God’s holiness is His nature, and God’s nature is His holiness.
– Thomas Brooks –
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
– CS Lewis –
If the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me; if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
– Amy Carmichael –
If the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me; if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
– Amy Carmichael –