"Faith is a refusal to panic. Do you like that sort of definition of faith? Does that seem to be too earthly and not sufficiently spiritual? It is of the very essence of faith. Faith is a refusal to panic, come what may.
"It says, 'All right, I see the waves and billows but'--it always puts up this 'but'. That is faith, it holds on to truth and reasons from what it knows to be fact. That is the way to apply faith...It is inevitable logic, and faith argues like that. Faith reminds itself of what the Scripture calls the 'exceeding great and precious promises. ...Whatever your circumstances at this moment, bring all you know to be true of your relationship to God to bear upon it. 'All things work together for good to them that love God.' Not a hair of your head shall be harmed, He loves you with an everlasting love.'"
– Martin Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression, 1965: 143-145
"It says, 'All right, I see the waves and billows but'--it always puts up this 'but'. That is faith, it holds on to truth and reasons from what it knows to be fact. That is the way to apply faith...It is inevitable logic, and faith argues like that. Faith reminds itself of what the Scripture calls the 'exceeding great and precious promises. ...Whatever your circumstances at this moment, bring all you know to be true of your relationship to God to bear upon it. 'All things work together for good to them that love God.' Not a hair of your head shall be harmed, He loves you with an everlasting love.'"
– Martin Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression, 1965: 143-145
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