Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.
—Thomas Aquinas
In the evening, the hand of faith seemed to be strengthened in God; my soul seemed to rest and acquiesce in him; was supported under my burdens, reading the 125th Psalm; and found that it was sweet and comfortable to lean on God.
—David Brainerd
Not law but gospel, not demand but promise is the center of revelation, even in the days of the old covenant, to which man’s part is to respond in faith and in the walk of faith (Gen. 17:1), just as Paul in Romans 4 and Galatians 3 understood the revelation of God to Abraham.
—Herman Bavinck
Oh, how heavy is my work, when faith cannot take hold of an almighty arm, for the performance of it! Many times have I been ready to sink in this case. Blessed be God, that I may repair to a full fountain.
—David Brainerd
What you fear… will not happen because of your faith, but because of your fear.
“Faith is not a blind thing; for faith begins with knowledge.”
Christian doctrine lies at the very roots of faith.
—J. Gresham Machen
“We practise believer s baptism, and baptize all who confess faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, whether they are children or adults. Our enquiry as to fitness does not refer to age, but to faith.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“We practise believer s baptism, and baptize all who confess faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, whether they are children or adults. Our enquiry as to fitness does not refer to age, but to faith.”
– Charles Spurgeon
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Let us seek more faith, more love, more patience, more zeal: let us labour after greater charity, greater brotherly kindness, greater humbleness of spirit.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Faith . . . reaches out in a single act to the person of Christ as well as to Scripture. It embraces Christ as Savior and Scripture as the word of God.
—Herman Bavinck
My learning does not help me now; neither does my Dogmatics; faith alone saves me.
—Herman Bavinck
“We lay in our death quite unable to raise ourselves therefrom; ours were eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear; a heart that could not love; and a withered hand that could not be stretched out to give the touch of faith.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
—Voltaire
The Lord, on the behalf of Christ, for his sake, because it is purchased and procured by him for us, bestows faith, and (by same rule) all grace upon us.
—John Owen
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
—Thomas Aquinas
To have faith in Christ means to cease trying to win God’s favor by one’s own character.
—J. Gresham Machen
Faith is a grace that gives God the glory of his sufficiency and faithfulness.
—Jonathan Edwards
“The law is never honoured by fallen man till he comes from under its condemning rule, and walks by faith, and lives under the covenant of grace.”
– Charles Spurgeon
6 benefits to hearing the Word of God:
1. It exercises our humility.
2. It instructs our faith.
3. It lights us up with joy.
4. It inflames us with love.
5. It inspires us with zeal.
6. It lifts us up towards heaven.
— Charles Spurgeon
“Salvation by grace, through faith in Jesus, is no dream, no fiction, let sceptics say what they will.”
– Charles Spurgeon
For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.
—Thomas Aquinas
“Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can make poverty to be sweet, and sickness to be borne with patience.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Faith in Christ can make even trouble to be welcome, and affliction to be regarded as a gain.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“[…] I must mention one other thing that I know; it is that faith in Christ can save a man from every sort of fear in life and in death.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Brother, have you fallen into drunkenness? Faith in Christ can turn that cup bottom upwards for you.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“It is that, by faith in Christ, the ruling power of sin is immediately broken, and that every sin, of every kind, may be overcome by faith in the blood of Jesus Christ.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
—Michelangelo
“[…]there is pardon for the greatest guilt through faith in Jesus Christ, — that his precious blood, shed on Calvary’s cross, is able to cleanse from all sin of every kind, and that as many as believe in him are saved.”
– Charles Spurgeon