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“The man who has drained the cup of pleasure can best tell the taste of its dregs.”  (William Arnot; 1808-1875)

“The inference from God’s words to Moses is, that the bestowal of the Divine mercy depends not on man’s will or man’s effort, but simply on ‘God that sheweth mercy’  (Rom. 9: 15-16).”  (Edwin Hamilton Gifford  (1820-1905)

The soul is the theatre where moral actions, both good and bad, are performed.  ”As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.´ What we will, that we morally do.  This doctrine suggests, that the world is really worse … Continue reading →

“He understands and consults the best interests of His people in every respect.  He took flesh, and knows the infirmities of  human nature by personal experience, that He may sympathize with their condition, and compassionately conduct their concerns.  He was … Continue reading →

“This was love indeed, that God should take a filthy, wretched thing, and spread his skirts over it, and cover its nakedness, and swear unto it, and enter into a covenant with it, and make it his;  that is, that … Continue reading →

“And as it is the gift of God, the purchase of Christ, and the work of the Holy Spirit, it is a saving grace.”  (John Colquhoun; 1748-1827)

“Men will never find a remedy for their miseries until, forgetting their own merits, by trusting to which they only deceive themselves, they have learned to betake themselves to the free mercy of God.”  John Calvin; 1509-1564)

“The pious man has no reason to prevent himself and others from seeing into his heart.  His strength is in God, and so he can lay open his weakness.”  (William S. Plumer; 1802-1880)

Our most dangerous foes are within our breasts.  (William H. Van Doren; 1810-1882)

“To bless God for mercies is the way to increase them;  to bless him for miseries is the way to remove  them:  no good lives so long as that which is thankfully improved;   no evil dies so soon as that … Continue reading →