Assurance

““A secure sinner provides for his body, but neglects his soul; like one that waters his flowers, but never minds his jewels.” ~ The Great Gain of Godliness”

“Do you want peace and comfort and quietude of soul? Take heed how you walk with doubting company … one opposer of godliness draws on another, and one adulterer makes another; so one doubting Christian makes another. You that are weak, and full of doubtings, should go and lean upon those that are strong and have full assurance; and you that have assurance should give the shoulder to those that are weak, and say, Come, and lean upon me, and I will be an help unto you. You know how it is with the ivy and the vine; the ivy leans upon the oak, and the vine upon the posts or the house-side; the ivy and the vine do not lean one upon another; if the ivy and the vine should come and lean upon one another, what twisting would there be. Both would fall to the ground: but the ivy leans upon the oak, and the vine upon the posts or the house-side. ~ A Lifting up for the Downcast by William Bridge”

“Nothing is so certain as that which is certain after doubts. Shaking settles and roots.”

“Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.”

“Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.”

“In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.”

“We must not confide in the armour of God, but in the God of this armour, because all our weapons are only mighty through God.”

“Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument.”

“I have been vile myself, but have obtained mercy; and I would have my companions in sin partake of mercy too; and therefore I have writ this little book.”

“Jesus Christ would have mercy offered in the first place to the biggest sinners.”

“His heart stands affected towards us, under all sorts of infirmities whatsoever, either of sin or misery.”

“But I am a great sinner, sayest thou. 'I will in no wise cast out,' says Christ. But I am an old sinner, sayest thou. 'I will in no wise cast out,' says Christ.”

“Words will not do with Jesus Christ. Coming is coming, and nothing else will go for coming with him.”

“Unbelief is the daughter of Ignorance.”

“Whensoever we would go down into our own hearts, and take a view of our graces, let us be sure first to look wholly out of ourselves unto Christ, as our justification, and to close with him immediately.”

“That which I have here endeavoured is to set forth to all sorts of believers, whether they have assurance or not, Christ as he is the object of our faith as justifying, and as the cause of justification to us.”

“A Christian may be stripped of anything but his God; he may be stripped of his estate, his friends, his relations, his liberty, his life, but he can never be stripped of his God.”

“He who has God for his portion enjoys all; and he who lacks a saving interest and propriety in God enjoys nothing at all.”

“There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us. It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.”

“Grace is little at the first; things of greatest perfection are longest in coming to their growth.”

“The strongest are readiest to bear with the infirmities of the weak.”

“Godliness is the sacred impression and workmanship of God in a man, whereby from being carnal he is made spiritual.”

“Godliness consists in an exact harmony between holy principles and practices.”

“Reason makes us men; godliness makes us earthly angels.”

“Weeds grow by themselves; flowers are planted.”

“Counterfeit piety is double iniquity.”

“Heaven is won or lost on earth; the possession is there, but the preparation is here.”

“The latter days of churches are always perilous days, days full of danger.”

“Unless we are upon our watch and guard, and cry mightily unto God for help and assistance, we shall be all overtaken with perils and dangers in the days wherein we live.”

“Rightly to fear the Lord is a sign of a gracious heart.”

“The whole of our service to God, and every part thereof, ought to be done by us with reverence and godly fear.”

“Seeking of Christ is the soul's duty; but Christ manifesting himself is the soul's comfort.”

“Many times Christ hath his face towards us, when we have our backs upon him; and therefore if thou wouldst find Christ, turn thyself to him.”

“There is nothing more helpful, succouring, or comfortable to a Christian while in a state of trial and temptation, than to know that there is a breadth to answer a breadth, a length to answer a length, a depth to answer a depth, and a height to answer a height.”

“Truths are often delivered to us like wheat in full ears, to the end we should rub them out before we eat them, and take pains about them before we have the comfort of them.”

“God has a long arm, and he can reach a great way further than we can conceive he can.”

“Grace is glory in the bud, and glory is grace at the full.”

“To have grace, and to be sure that we have grace, is glory upon the throne, it is heaven on this side heaven.”

“Communion consists in giving and receiving. Until the love of the Father be received, we have no communion with him therein.”

“Few can carry up their hearts and minds to this height by faith, as to rest their souls in the love of the Father; they live below it, in the troublesome region of hopes and fears, storms and clouds. All here is serene and quiet.”

“How shall a man know if he has a true and special interest in Christ, and whether he may lay claim justly to God's favour and salvation?”