Assurance I have taken all my good deeds, and all my bad deeds, and cast them together in a heap before the Lord, and have betaken myself to Jesus Christ, and in Him I have full and sweet peace. David Dickson Assurance is like the sunflower, which opens with the day and shuts with the night. It follows the motion of God’s face: if that looks smilingly on the soul, it lives: if that frowns or hides itself, it dies. But faith is a plant that can grow in the shade – a grace that can find the way to heaven in a dark night. It can “walk in darkness” and yet “trust in the name of the Lord” (Isa. 50:10). William Gurnall The Holy Spirit is no sceptic, and the things He has written in our hearts are not doubts or opinions, but assertions – surer and more certain than sense or life itself. Luther I am not only on the rock, but I am cemented to the rock, and the cement is as hard as the rock itself, so there is no fear of my perishing; unless the rock falls, I cannot fall; unless the gospel perishes, I cannot perish. James Smith Whenever God pardons sin, He subdues it, Micah 7:19. Then is the condemning power of sin taken away, when the commanding power of it is taken away. If a criminal be in prison, how shall he know that his prince has pardoned him? If a jailor come and knock off his chains and fetters, and lets him out of prison, then he may know he is pardoned; so, how shall we know God has pardoned us? If the fetters of sin be broken off, and we walk at liberty in the ways of God, this is a blessed sign we are pardoned. Thomas Watson A Christian was at one time very much cast down in his mind. He was concluding that his back and not his face was toward heaven. His friend said: “You remind me of the ferryman. He is pulling at the oars and making for the shore. But he is not looking in the opposite direction to that in which he is going. Unknown