"We depend not on what we see or feel, but on what the word promises. If God has engaged, it must be fulfilled, be the difficulties—nay, impossibilities—what they may. Fixed, therefore, upon this sure foundation, with our father Abraham, ‘against hope’ from what we see, ‘we believe in hope’ from what God has promised. (Romans 4:18) Thus the word is faith’s sure venture for eternity."
