Quotes about Assurance

Our lives are also cluttered with a lot of "if onlys." "If only I had done this," or "if only that had not happened." But again, God has no "if onlys." God never makes a mistake; God has no regrets. "As for God, his way is perfect" (Psalm 18:30). We can trust God. He is trustworthy.

The assurance here is that God will show compassion. It is not enough to say that He is compassionate, but He will show compassion.

Discipline must come from trust and confidence.

Right standing with God comes through faith in the promises of God.

Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit.

Blue skies or dark night, one truth still holds: God has you. And this is the promise He has made to you: He will never let you go.

Anchoring our hope to Christ means we live with a confident expectation that he will therefore fulfill his promises to us.

Hazen thought for a moment, then concluded: "You know, even if all religions were figments of our imagination, I would choose Christianity, because it says you can be assured that you're right with God. There's no need for performance anxiety or laboring through lifetime after lifetime. As the Bible says in 1 John 5:13: 'I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

Hope is] the unswerving belief that better days are ahead, probably in this world and most certainly in the next.

But ultimately the truth is this: Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.

The truth is that God could have forgiven my past and given me assurance of heaven and yet kept me at arm's length. He could have made me a mere servant in his kingdom household — and even that would have been more than I merited. But his grace is far more outrageous than that.

Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.