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“There may be, indeed, a time when God will not be found, but no time wherein he must not be trusted. . .  Times of trouble are proper times for trust, be the trouble either spiritual or temporal.”  Thomas Lye  … Continue reading →

“The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk in God’s ways, however trying to … Continue reading →

“Law is mind without passion; and it is better to have a code of laws, however bad, than to have none but the will of a man.”  Thomas McCrie  (1772-1835)

“to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed.”  He here states a double boon, that the gifts are ‘sure,’ and that they are sure ‘to all the seed.’” Chrysostom (347-402)

“The heart hungering and thirsting for righteousness, does not rest satisfied with the stalk and husks, but is anxious for the luscious kernel of these fruits of eternal life.”  George Burrowes  (1853)

“Let your outward actions be not something put on, but something produced—“fruits;” and fruits springing from inward repentance.”  David Thomas  (1813-1894)

“All blessings from God are fruits of sovereign grace.”  William H. Van Doren  (1810-1882)

“We must never forget that we know but little, if anything, of the mode of operation of the divine mind.”  James Petigru Boyce  (1827-1888)

“We do as sadly err when we smite and wound those whom God would comfort, as when we comfort those whom the Lord condemns.”  William Swan Plumer  (1802-1880)

“If the words of God are rightly understood, they will be found faithful and true; but we are not to think that God is under any obligation to verify the comments which we may put upon them.”  George Lawson  (1749-1820)