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“If God reduces you to necessities, he therein deals no otherwise with you than he has done with some of the holiest men that ever lived.”  John Flavel; 1628-1691

“We always seek what is forbidden and stretch out our hands, desiring to obtain what is denied us.’  Again: “The sick person thus desires the water that is forbidden him.” Or whatever is allowed, we do not want, but what … Continue reading →

In these names, Lord and Jesus, Christ’s divinity and humanity blend.  He whom we trust is both God and Man.  As God alone, we could never have known Him.  As Man alone, He could never have saved us.  (William Graham … Continue reading →

“The privilege of addressing God as LORD is one which no man of himself can rightly take upon his lips.  No one is entitled so to speak to the holy God but those to whom God has granted this privilege.”  … Continue reading →

“That man, as a religious and moral being, is radically and totally depraved;-that the bias of his nature is decidedly towards what is false in sentiment, and towards what is wrong in feeling and action; is a principle which is … Continue reading →

Our love is not the cause of His, but His is the cause of ours; and it is not merely His loving us, but the shedding it abroad in our hearts by His Spirit, which draws out our love to … Continue reading →

“I do not know why it is that what we desire becomes all the more alluring to us if it is forbidden.”  (St.Augustine  (354-430)

“My trust is in him, my expectation of relief is from him only, and he will deliver me out of all my temptations and tribulations.”  (Matthew Poole  1624-1679)

For to deny a man’s self, is to know he hath no power in himself to do any spiritual duty.  (Thomas Hooker; 1586-1647)

“What is man that he should dare to criticize the plans of omnipotence?  That he should propose to correct and improve the methods of Divine wisdom?  William Garden Blaikie  (1820-1899)