Quotes about Assurance

How we long to point to something - anything - and say This works! This is sure! But if it is something other than God Himself we are destined for disappointment.

For the skeptic no proof is possible, and for the "believer" no proof is necessary.

I'm very secure about my talents and about who I am.

most people don't want truth. They want confirmation.

Nothing is so certain as that which is certain after doubts. Nil tam certum quam quod ex dubio certum. Shaking settles and roots.

If our faith were but as firm as our state in Christ is secure and glorious, what manner of men should we be ?

Philippians 1:6: "Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

Stop trying, & start trusting.

When I talk about the God who is with us, for us, and ahead of us, I'm talking about our facing that which most terrifies us about ourselves, embracing it and fearing it no longer, refusing to allow it to exist separate from the rest of our being, resting assured that we are loved and we belong and we are going to be just fine.

We cannot earn what we have always had. What we can do is trust that what God keeps insisting is true about us is actually true.

Exactly. It's about a particular kind of relationship with a particular kind of God, one who is good and kind and generous. One who can be trusted. One who keeps insisting, Trust me, I got this.

Yes. Abraham is being invited to trust God, to believe that God is good and has his best interests in mind and will be faithful to him even if Abraham makes a mess of things.