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“If God knows that any event will occur and can prevent it but does not, it is evident that he purposes that it shall exist and makes it a part of his plan.”  (James Pettigru Boyce  1887)

“The best Christians are most suspicious of themselves.”  (Thomas Hooker  1586-1647)

“Every time I truly mourn over my sins, feel my poverty of spirit, hunger and thirst after righteousness, I have an indubitable evidence that I am among the ‘blessed.’”  (Arthur W. Pink  1886-1952)

“They who are of faith are plainly those who are expecting justification by faith and not of works; who are not working that they may obtain the favor of God as a meritorious reward, but who are believing that ‘God … Continue reading →

“The excellency of the Scriptures and the wisdom of their Divine Author are to be seen in what they conceal and keep back, as well as in what they reveal and bring forward.”  (Thomas McCrie; 1772-1835)

“The feeblest desire and attempt to seek the Lord is the Spirit’s rising beam in the heart, a ‘day of small things not to be ‘despised.’”  (Zech. 4:10)  (Charles Bridges  1827)

“Seeing in the glass of the loving kindness, sparing mercy, and holy law of God, and of the agony and anguish of his Redeemer, the unutterable deformity, odiousness and demerit of his sins, he abhors himself for his iniquities and … Continue reading →

“Nothing in this world can change the deceitful and desperately wicked heart of man and cause it to do service for God.”  (Joseph Caryl; 1602-1673)

“The wages that sin bargains with the sinner are life, pleasure and profit; but the wages it pays him with are death, torment and destruction.  He that would understand the falsehood and deceit of sin must compare its promises and … Continue reading →

“Faith accepts the present remission of sins; hope is the expectation of future deliverance.”  (Phillip Melanchthon, 1497-1560)