Faith - Trust
Faith and fear go hand in hand. Faith keeps the heart cheerful, fear keeps the heart serious. Faith keeps it from sinking in despair, fear keeps it from floating in presumption. [ATFG]
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Sin always dies most where faith lives most. The most believing soul is the most mortified soul. [PRASD]
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It is not resolving, it is not complaining, it is not mourning, but believing, that will make thee divinely victorious over that body of sin that to this day is too strong for thee, and that will certainly be thy ruin, if it be not ruined by a hand of faith. [PRASD]
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Ah, sinners! Tell me, tell me, is there anything in Christ to keep you off from believing? No! Is there not everything in Christ that may encourage you to believe in him? Yes! Oh, then believe in him, and then, ‘Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow, though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool’ (Isa. 1:18). [PRASD]
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In a life of faith the more we think of Christ, the lower do we put ourselves. We cannot be too low in self-esteem. [ROOS]
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Faith breeds union with Christ, and there can be no separation from sin till there be union with Christ. [TDOR]
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In the measure that we believe Christ will conquer, in that measure we will endeavour by his grace that we may conquer, for faith is an obedient and wise grace. [TBR]
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Your strength to stand and overcome must not be expected from graces received, but from the fresh and renewed influences of heaven. You must lean more upon Christ than upon your duties; you must lean more upon Christ than upon your spiritual tastes and discoveries: you must lean more upon Christ than upon your graces, or else Satan will lead you into captivity. [PRASD]
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We sadly err when we begin in the spirit and end in the flesh; when we regard Christ as the Author, but not as the Finisher of our faith. [ROOS]
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It was not David’s sling nor stone that gave him the honour and advantage of setting his feet upon Goliath, but his faith in the name of the Lord of hosts (1 Samuel 17:45). [PRASD]