Faith & Trust
Believing is not a work, but a ceasing from work.
You must go to your knees, believing that God is willing, or that he is not willing, to bless you. In the latter case, you cannot expect any answer or blessing.
Your strength, as well as your righteousness, is in another; yet, while you admit the former, you deny the latter.
Believing in the Lord Jesus Christ will do everything for us; believing in our own faith, or trusting in our own trust, will do nothing.
Your acquisition of feeling would not qualify you for it, nor bring it nearer, nor buy its blessings, nor make you more welcome, nor persuade God to do anything for you that he is not at this moment most willing to do.
Faith does not spring out of feeling, but feeling out of faith.
Election has helped many a soul to heaven; but never yet hindered one.
He is too loving to say anything needlessly severe; too true to say anything untrue; nor can he have any motive to misrepresent us; for he loves to tell of the good, not of the evil, that may be found in any of the works of his hands.
No confidence in the flesh must be our motto, as it is the foundation of God’s gospel.
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