Doubt

Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts; do not make the mistake of doubting your beliefs and believing your doubts.

— C. F. Deems

Never doubt in the dark what God told you in the light.

—V. R. Edman

Man is not made to question, but to adore.

— E. Young

Christ distinguished between doubt and unbelief. Doubt says, “\ can’t believe’.’ Unbelief says, “I won’t believe.” Doubt is honest. Unbelief is obstinate.

— H. Drummond

Faith is the daring of the soul to trust further than doubt can see.

— Anonymous

Doubt is brother devil to despair.

—J. B. O’Reilly

Satan loves to fish in muddy water.

—W. S. Plumer

The art of doubting is easy, for it is an ability that is born with us.

— M. Luther

TAKING PAINS FOR SALVATION

Samuel Rutherford

“I wish that ye take pains for salvation. Mistaken grace, and somewhat like conversion which is not conversion, is the saddest and most doleful thing in the world. Make sure of salvation, and lay the foundation sure, for many are beguiled. Put a low price upon the world’s clay; but a high price upon Christ. Temptations will come but if they be not made welcome by you, ye have the best of it. Be jealous over yourself and your own heart, and keep touches with God. Let Him not have a faint and feeble soldier of you. Fear not to back Christ, for He will conquer and overcome. Let no man scare [take fright] at Christ, for I have no quarrels at His cross; He and His cross are two good guests, and worth the lodging. Men would fain have Christ good-cheap; but the market will not come down. Acquaint yourself with prayer. Make Christ your Captain and your armor.”

—extracted from Fort McLeod bulletin

TRUE SHEPHERD

“The true shepherd of souls is he who enters the ministry with a single eye to Christ, desiring to glorify Christ, doing all in the strength of Christ, preaching Christ’s doctrine, walking in Christ’s steps, and labouring to bring men and women to Christ. The false shepherd of souls is he who enters the ministerial office with little or no thought about Christ, from worldly and self-exalting motives, but from no desire to exalt Jesus, and the great salvation that is in Him. Christ, in one word, is the grand touchstone of the minister of religion. The man who makes much of Christ is a pastor after God’s own heart, whom God delights to honour. The minister who makes little of Christ is one whom God regards as an imposter— as one who has climbed up to his holy office not by the door, but by “some other way”…. If we would know the value of a man’s ministry, we must never fail to ask, Where is the Lamb? Where is the Door? Does he bring forward Christ, and give Him his rightful place?”

—JCR

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