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“All the beauty, comfort and joy in our lives come from God; and this as bounties, as free gifts to us, the undeserving.”  (Robert Johnstone  1871)

“For prayer is not a work of the head, or hand, or eyes only but chiefly a work of the heart; therefore called in Scripture, the “pouring out of the soul” (1 Sam. 1:15);  and the “pouring out of the … Continue reading →

“No sooner is confession made than forgiveness is granted.”  James G. Murphy  (1849-1921)

“It was our sins that murdered him.  Sin was the spear that wounded and pierced his very heart.  “He being made sin for us.”  We could not live again except he bore our sins upon his own body and human … Continue reading →

“How different if one is enabled to wait on God’s own time and to look alone to him for help and deliverance!  When at last help comes, after many seasons of prayer  and after much exercise of faith and patience … Continue reading →

“God’s chastening is not to destroy but to reform.  God cannot hurt His children for He is a tender-hearted Father, “Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.” (Psalms 103:13) (Thomas Watson; 1620-1686)

“The way to victory is not a confident assertion of our own better selves, but faith and faith necessarily refers us to something beyond ourselves.  The victorious faith of the Christian is trust in God as He is revealed in … Continue reading →

“What a blessed thing is faith —  faith in God’s word and faith in God’s heart.  That faith which becomes a bridge to the distressed from the region of desolation and misery to the region of peace and joy.”  (William … Continue reading →

“Because a Christian sometimes stops short of the Cross in his spiritual conflicts, he fails to defeat the enemy and remains unfruitful and unhappy, until by some special intervention of the great Restorer, he is again brought, in spirit, to … Continue reading →

“In the spiritual sense there is no more important ingredient of character in God’s sight than the sense of emptiness, all blessings must come from God. The heart thus emptied is prepared to welcome the grace that is offered to … Continue reading →