Prayer crowns God with the honour and glory that are due His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. Usually the most praying souls are the most assured souls.
— Thomas Brooks (1608–1680)
Assurance
Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying “I am saved” is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee.
— C. H. Spurgeon
God Knows What We Need
If God does not give His people what they ask for – it is because He knows they do not need it, and that it is not for their good.
— Matthew Henry
Assurance
None have assurance at all times. As in a walk that is shaded with trees and chequered with light and shadow, some tracks and paths in it are dark and others are sunshine. Such is usually the life of the most assured Christian.
— Ezekiel Hopkins
Assurance
What a wonderful thing it is to be sure of one’s faith! How wonderful to be a member of the evangelical church, which preaches the free grace of God through Christ as the hope of sinners! If we were to rely on our works, what would become of us?
— G. F. Handel
