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“To contemplate Gethsemane and Golgotha is, under the influences of the Holy Spirit, eminently conducive to evangelical repentance.  Consider, too, that how light soever your crimes may sit on your spirit, they are a heavy burden to the Spirit of … Continue reading →

“Self-love is the general that goes before, and Love of Pleasure is the lieutenant that follows after this army.  One is the first, the other is the last, and all the other lusts are between these two backs.”   Thomas  Goodwin  … Continue reading →

“Righteousness is not complete, if it only judges and condemns; for the devil also can condemn.  The highest righteousness, while it judges sin, can never rest until it also makes the sinner righteous.”  Andrew Jukes  (1815-1901)

“Where there is the perfection of love there will be the perfection of both ethical character and behavior.  Love never fails, and perfect love casts out fear.”  John Murray  (1898-1975)

“It is not the Lord’s will that the great enemy of our souls should overcome his children.  This would dishonour God, and cause the evil one to boast.  It is well for us that our salvation and God’s honour are … Continue reading →

“Contentment, even in material things, ought not to extinguish efforts for improvement; and we ought never to be content with our moral and spiritual condition.  Alfred Plummer (1842-1926)

“For if I believe, with the apostle, that ‘all things are of God’ (2 Cor. 5:18), I shall be less liable to perturbation when afflicted, and learn more easily to possess my soul in patience.”  Jerome Zanchius  (1516-1590)

“UNITE MY HEART—suffer it no longer to scatter itself upon a multiplicity of objects, to be drawn hither and thither by a thousand different aims, but turn all its powers, all its affections in one direction, collect them in one … Continue reading →

“Ay, saith Satan, thou mayest pray indeed, but thou shalt not prevail.  Thou seest thine heart is hard, cold, dull, and dead . . . thy thoughts are running after other things, when thou pretendest to pray to God.   Whereas … Continue reading →

“The things He wanted was not to be found among the possibilities, but among the impossibilities, if matters were left to themselves, and to the operation of the usual laws.  How, then, shall that which is impossible be rendered not … Continue reading →