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Trust In Christ: Quotations from Burning Words

Exercise your God-given power of trust. Look up! Salvation is provided, and nothing remains to be done. Take hold! Take hold! Do not wait!— BISHOP JANES

Lay hold on Christ with both your poor, empty hands.— ELIZABETH PRENTISS

Seek not only to know about the Saviour, but seek confidence in Him, seek to know Him as your own.— JAMES HAMILTON

Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

We are to do what Paul meant, when he said that he had committed to Christ what He was able to keep. You have treasures that you dare not leave in your own house, and so you lock them up in some safety-deposit vault. When they are thus secured, you feel little anxiety regarding them.— GEO. C. LORIMER

We trust as we love, and we trust where we love; if you love Christ much surely you will trust Him much.— THOMAS BROOKS

Do you ask why Mary Magdalene was the one chosen to whom first of all Christ should show Himself after the resurrection? This we know - she trusted in Him, and she loved Him; she waited at His sepulchre; she sought, she looked, she wept; and if we would have Christ reveal Himself to us, we, too, must seek and wait and long and trust and love.— WILLIAM ADAMS

Trust yourselves, my brethren, to the immortal love and perfect work of the Divine Saviour, and by His dear might your days will advance by peaceful stages, whereof each gathers up and carries forward the blessings of all that went before, to a death which shall be a birth.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

We cannot come before the sinless and holy Lord with a stainless and holy life. We can at best bring Him the partial offerings of years. Yes, the holiest saint shall only at the last say, "Not for my righteousness." But if we can say with honest hearts: "I have striven to serve Thee, I have followed in Thy path, and clung to Thy cross, and pressed forward through the many falls and many repentings - I bring Thee a heart which asks nothing save Thy grace, claims nothing save Thy Divine love;" then He will say, "Bring the best robe and put it on him." "Welcome to the joy of thy Lord."— E. A. WASHBURN

Thou knowest all - I lean my head; My weary eyelids close; Content and glad awhile to tread This path, since Jesus knows ! We are only asking you to give to Christ that which you give to others, to transfer the old emotions, the blessed emotions, the exercise of which makes gladness in the life here below, to transfer them to Him, and to rest safe in the Lord. Faith is trust.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

We must not close with Christ because we feel Him, but because God has said it, and we must take God's word even in the dark.— ROBERT MCCHEYNE

Can you by humble faith look to Jesus and say: "My substitute, my refuge, my shield; Thou art my rock, my trust; in Thee do I confide?" Then, beloved, to you I have nothing to say, except this: "Never be afraid when you see God's power; for now that you are forgiven and accepted, now that by faith you have fled to Christ for refuge, the power of God need no more terrify you than the shield and sword of the warrior need terrify his wife and child."— C. H. SPURGEON

When he abandoned all attempt to save himself, Jesus Christ saved him. This was all he knew about it. And more, this was all there was about it.— ICHABOD SPENCER

Other refuge have I none; Hangs my helpless soul on Thee; Leave, ah, leave me not alone, Still support and comfort me ! All my trust on Thee is stayed, All my help from Thee I bring; Cover my defenseless head With the shadow of Thy wing.— CHARLES WESLEY

Remember that you are to venture the whole salvation of your soul on Christ, and on Christ only. You are to cast loose completely and entirely from all other hopes and trusts. You are not to rest partly on Christ and partly on doing all you can. In the matter of your justification Christ is to be all.— J. C. RYLE

Thomas passed on from the fact of the resurrection to the person of the risen: "My Lord and my God!" Trust in the risen Saviour - that was the belief which saved his soul. To Him let us but cleave in all our strife; and the Tempter will flee; the wilderness will be desolate no more; angels will come and minister unto us; and when we pass from them to the ministry of life, be it to the glory of a transfiguration, the sorrows of a Gethsemane, or the sacrifice of the cross, the tranquilizing peace of God will never be far from us.— JAMES MARTINEAU

Scatter money in a crowd, how they scramble for it; offer bread to the starving, how greedily they seize it; throw a rope to the drowning, how he eagerly grasps it! With like eagerness and earnestness may the Spirit of God help you to lay hold on Christ.— THOMAS GUTHRIE

My trust is not that I am holy, but that, being unholy, Christ died for me. My rest is here, not in what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is and must be,- in what Christ did and is still doing as He stands before yonder throne of glory.— C. H. SPURGEON

Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling; Naked, come to Thee for dress, Helpless, look to Thee for grace; Vile, I to the fountain fly, Wash me, Saviour, or I die!— TOPLADY

Let us take short views. If we look over the precipices, we shall grow dizzy. If we look too far ahead, we shall grow discouraged. Let us rather put our weak hands into Christ's strong, loving grasp, and all the time listen to His cheering words, "Fear not; only trust."— T. L. CUYLER

Rather walking with Him by faith, Than walking alone in the light. O holy trust! O endless sense of rest! Like the beloved John To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast, And thus to journey on.— LONGFELLOW

And therefore let us say, in utter faith, "Come as Thou seest best - but in whatsoever way Thou comest - even so come, Lord Jesus."— CHARLES KINGSLEY

On Thy compassion I repose, In weakness and distress, I will not ask for greater ease, Lest I should love Thee less; Oh, 'tis a blessed thing for me To need Thy tenderness. When I am feeble as a child, And flesh and heart give way, Then on Thy everlasting strength With clinging trust I stay; And the rough wind becomes a song, The darkness shines like day.— ANNA WARING

The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose, I will not - I will not desert to his foes; That soul - though all hell should endeavor to shake, I'll never - no never - no never forsake.— GEORGE KEITH

When my neighbor A - broke in business, and twenty-four hours made him a bankrupt, he came home, saying to himself, "Well, my money is gone, but Jesus is left." He did not merely come down to "hardpan," he came to something far more solid - to the everlasting arms. When another friend laid her beautiful boy in his coffin, after the scarlet fever had done its worst, she laid her own sorrowful heart upon the everlasting arms, The dear little sleeper was there already. The Shepherd had His lamb.— T. L. CUYLER

I do not ask my cross to understand My way to see : Better in darkness just to feel Thy hand And follow Thee.— A. A. PROCTOR

If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ. Let good or ill befall,— RUTHERFORD

It must be good for me,- Secure of having Thee in all, Of having all in Thee.— H. F. LYTE

Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.— RUTHERFORD

Will you tell Him frankly, that you cannot carry your load, and that you need help? Will you suffer Him to help you in His own way, and be glad and thankful if He will only take you under His care, and direct the whole course of your life for you?— W. GLADDEN

Like dew on drooping blossoms, Like breath from Holy place, Laden with health and healing, Come Thy deep words of grace : "Thy strength is all in leaning On One who fights for thee; Thine is the helpless clinging, And mine the victory."— HETTY BOWMAN