Quotes about Belief
It is our Lord's wisdom, that His kirk should ever hang by a thread; and yet the thread breaketh not, being hanged upon Him who is the sure Nail in David's house (Isa. xxii. 23), upon whom all the vessels, great and small, do hang; and the Nail (God be thanked) neither crooketh nor can be broken. Jesus,
— Samuel Rutherford
It were a well-spent journey, to creep hands and feet, through seven deaths and seven hells, to enjoy Him up at the well-head. Only let us not weary: the miles to that land are fewer and shorter than when we first believed; strangers are not wise to quarrel with their host, and complain of their lodging; it is a foul way, but a fair home.
— Samuel Rutherford
Learn to believe Christ better than His strokes; Himself and His promises better than His glooms .
— Samuel Rutherford
God hath called you to Christ's side, and the wind is now in Christ's face in this land; and seeing ye are with Him, ye cannot expect the lee-side or the sunny side of the brae.
— Samuel Rutherford
He is not lost to you who is found to Christ.
— Samuel Rutherford
God chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.
— Samuel Rutherford
what can ail faith, seeing Christ suffereth Himself (with reverence to Him be it spoken) to be commanded by it; and Christ commandeth all things.
— Samuel Rutherford
God knoweth that ye are His own. Wrestle, fight, go forward, watch, fear, believe, pray; and then ye have all the infallible symptoms of one of the elect of Christ within you.
— Samuel Rutherford
Faith is exceeding charitable, and believeth no evil of God.
— Samuel Rutherford
Go on, and faint not, something of yours is in heaven, beside the flesh of your exalted Saviour, and ye go on after your own.
— Samuel Rutherford
I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in that precise way that I lay wait for him; he hath a gate [road] of his own.
— Samuel Rutherford
In the Jewish religion it says - in the time of deepest darkest night act as if the morning has already come
— Marianne Williamson