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“Repentance and faith are not the cause of the birth from above; they are the effects of it.  The cause of regeneration is God alone.”  (Conrad Murrell)

“As for God, his way is perfect…The law of the Lord is perfect…The testimony of the Lord is sure… The statutes of the Lord are right…The commandment of the Lord is pure…The fear of the Lord is clean…The judgments of … Continue reading →

“Christians are in a peculiar sense the family of God. From the far country of darkness and death, into which we had wandered, His grace has brought us home; and now, not merely through the fact of our being moral … Continue reading →

“Persecution is a temptation to deny Christ, and those who meet persecution in a spirit of bravado have no right to expect to be delivered from succumbing to that temptation.”  Alfred Plummer (1841-1926)

“Obedience becomes easy and delightful when it is in response to trust and love, and if there were more of these latter, there would be less of disobedience.”  (William Graham Scroggie  1877-1958)

“The higher the destination of a silver vessel, the greater is the need that the silver be pure, and therefore, that it be frequently passed through the furnace.”  (William Garden Blaikie; 1820-1899)

“The noon of temptation is sometimes very hot, fierce, and violent; Satan throws his fiery darts thick and fast, which oftentimes give the believer much uneasiness; he is “in heaviness through manifold temptations;” but Christ makes him to lie down … Continue reading →

“God has designed the family to be the nurse of what is best and purest in human life, and when this design is crossed, the family institution which was designed to bring the purest joy, breeds the darkest misery.”  (William … Continue reading →

“Well!  A tempted soul, when it is worst with him may safely argue thus:  If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy; if there were not something of God within me, Satan would never … Continue reading →

“As a general rule, the things that are substantially best known are hardest to define.”  (William Aront, 1808-1875)