Quotes about Assurance

With God in charge we don't have to be anxious or fear. He'll bring about what He needs to in order to accomplish His purposes. I'm just glad we're on His side.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

I assume the Spirit is always whispering, "Abba", to God's children, assuring them that they are safe in His care. And he is continually calling them to become what God saved them to be, solid people, indestructibly alive, hurting perhaps, but consumed with pleasing the Father.

It was as true… as turnips is. It was as true… as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.

Through all my punishments, disgraces, fasts, and vigils, and other penitential performances, I had nursed this assurance; and to my communing so much with it, in a solitary and unprotected way, I in great part refer the fact that I was morally timid and very sensitive.

It is always the secure who are humble.

As Christians, regardless of what cause we may have to be troubled, there is greater cause not to be.

Im afraid that when it comes to the Christian life, and especially the issue of assurance, too many of us adopt the Barney Fife approach. That is, we let the enemy bully us into believing that were only safe as long as were wearing our Christian 'uniform.'

He who does not believe God's promises—will never love him.

We should pray that God would enrich his ordinance with his presence; that he would make the sacrament effectual to all those holy ends and purposes for which he hath appointed it; that it may be the feast of our graces, and the funeral of our corruptions; that it may not only be a sign to represent, but an instrument to convey, Christ to us, and a seal to assure us of our heavenly jointure [union].