“The meaning of the Pentateuch” by John H. Sailhamer

“The big idea of the Pentateuch is the importance of living by faith.”
–John H. Sailhamer, The Meaning of the Pentateuch (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2009), 22.

“Our faith is a Person” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“Our faith is a Person. The gospel that we have to preach is a Person. And go wherever we may, we have something solid and tangible to preach. If you had asked the twelve apostles, in their day, ‘What do you believe in?’ they would not have needed to go round about with a long reply, [...]

“What is faith?” by John Calvin

“Now we shall have a proper definition of faith if we say it is a steady and certain knowledge of the Divine benevolence toward us, which being founded upon the truth of the gratuitous promise in Christ is both revealed to our minds and sealed in our hearts by the Holy Spirit”
–John Calvin, Institutes [...]

“Persevering faith” by Thomas Schreiner

“Saving faith is a persevering faith.”
–Thomas R. Schreiner, New Testament Theology: Magnifying God in Christ (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2008), 579.

“The fruit of faith and the power of God” by Thomas Schreiner

“Works and faith are inseparable in Paul, for good works are always the fruit of faith. Faith looks outside itself to Jesus Christ as the crucified and risen Lord for salvation. It anchors itself to the God who gives life where there is death, trusting that God will raise believers from the dead on the [...]

“The purpose of Biblical miracles” by Timothy Keller

“I don’t want to be too hard on people who struggle with the idea of God’s intervention in the natural order. Miracles are hard to believe in, and they should be. In Matthew 28 we are told that the apostles met the risen Jesus on a mountainside in Galilee: ‘When they saw Him, they worshipped [...]

“Replete with grace and mercy” by John Calvin

“Faith perceives that His seat beside the Father is not without great advantage to us. Having entered the temple not made with hands, He constantly appears as our advocate and intercessor in the presence of the Father; He directs attention to His own righteousness, so as to turn it away from our sins; so He reconciles Him to [...]

“The only organs of the Christian” by Martin Luther

“If you were to ask a Christian what his task is and by what he is worthy of the name Christian, there could be no other response than hearing the Word of God, that is faith. Ears are the only organs of the Christian.”
–Martin Luther, as quoted in Timothy George, Theology of the Reformers (Nashville: [...]

“Renunciation and reliance” by Jerry Bridges

“Faith involves both a renunciation and a reliance. First, we must renounce any trust in our own performance as the basis of our acceptance before God. We trust in our own performance when we believe we’ve earned God’s acceptance by our own good works.
But we also trust in our own performance when we believe we’ve [...]

“Feeling follows faith” by Martin Luther

“Feeling must follow; but faith, apart from all feeling, must be there first.”
–Martin Luther, What Luther Says: An Anthology, comp. Ewald M. Plass (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1959), entry no. 1540, 514.

“The faith the Church has received” by Irenaeus of Lyons (A.D. 115-202)

“The Church, though dispersed through our the whole world, even to the ends of the earth, has received from the apostles and their disciples this faith: She believes in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them.
And in one Christ Jesus, the Son [...]

“The hardest thing in the world” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“The hardest thing in the world is to turn a man’s eye off himself; as long as he lives, he always has a predilection to turn his eyes inside, and look at himself; whereas God says, ‘Look unto me.’ From the cross of Calvary, where the bleeding hands of Jesus drop mercy; from the Garden [...]

“Always the beggar’s outstretched hand” by Horatius Bonar

“It is a sin-bearer that we need, and our faith cannot be a sin-bearer. Faith can expiate no guilt; can accomplish no propitiation; can pay no penalty; can wash away no stain; can provide no righteousness. It brings us to the cross, where there is expiation, and propitiation, and payment, and cleansing, and righteousness; but [...]

“Oh, if we had more faith!” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“Providence makes special preparation for every tried saint. If you are God’s servant, and are called to trial, some singular providence, the like of which you have never read of, shall certainly happen to you to illustrate in your case the divine goodness and faithfulness. Oh, if we had more faith! Let us be sure [...]

“Faith is not in such a frightful bustle” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“The pilgrim is steady in his progress. ‘Yea, though I walk through the valley,’ says he. He does not run in haste: he walks quietly along. We are generally in a hurry to get our trouble over.
Cries one, ‘I feel in such a horrible state of suspense that I must end it one way or [...]