"O Christians! until you come to see God to be your portion, your doubts will..." ~Thomas Brooks

"O Christians! until you come to see God to be your portion, your doubts will lie down with you and rise with you, they will talk with you and walk with you, until they make your lives a very hell. It was an excellent speech of Luther, "The whole Scripture," says he, "does principally aim at this thing, that we should not doubt—but that we should hope, trust, and believe that God is a merciful, bountiful, and gracious God to his people." And what will bring a man's heart over to answer to this blessed aim of the Scripture? Certainly nothing below an assurance that God is his portion."

~Thomas Brooks 'The Transcendent Excellency of a Believer's Portion above All Earthly Portions'