Brandon Jacobs

“Whether God speaks promises, teachings of truth, or commandments, faith accepts them, because it trusts Him. Christ is revealed to us for our faith by the doctrinal statements of the New Testament. But we must grasp Himself, as so revealed, if we are to have faith which saves the soul.”
― Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture

“He that loves and trusts God possesses God. He that possesses God has enough for earth. He that possesses God has enough for heaven.”
― Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture

“All that we fear from all the kinds of adversity, severally, is collected together in the life of a soldier on active service. Like sickness, it threatens pain and death. Like poverty, it threatens ill lodging, cold, heat, thirst, and hunger. Like slavery, it threatens toil, humiliation, injustice, and arbitrary rule. Like exile, it separates you from all you love. Like the gallies, it imprisons you at close quarters with uncongenial companions. It threatens every temporal evil—every evil except dishonour and final perdition, and those who bear it like it no better than you would like it.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

“If a man realises God's hold on him, he feels all others relaxed.”
― Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture