As Christians, have faith in God; and
have faith in that, and that only, which has God in it. Whenever and
wherever you can see the divine nature in the human nature, “God
manifest in the flesh,” by meekness, purity, and love, so far you may
trust. So far as God is not there, you can trust only as you would trust
that which is without true wisdom and without true strength; which is
the same thing as to say, that there is, in reality, no place for trust.
So that it is easiest and shortest, because it is wisest and truest, to
say, trust in God only. Throw aside every other support. Reject every other refuge. Consider man out of God as what he really is, nothing.
And looking to him, who is just the opposite, the All in All, say, in
the significant and beautiful language of the Psalmist, “My soul, wait
thou ONLY upon God, for my expectation is from him.”
— The Life of Faith, Part 2, Chapter 2.
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