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“It is when sin is contemplated by the believer as a base and criminal outrage against the Father of mercies, and his own God and Father, that a sense of the malignity of it is deeply impressed on his heart.”  … Continue reading →

“If all the apostles were alive, and should set themselves to persuade one man; or if God should send all the angels down from heaven to the earth to persuade one man; they could not make this law pass in … Continue reading →

“The intenseness of the affliction renders it trying to our fortitude; but it is by the continuance of it that patience is put to the test.  It is not under the sharpest, but the longest trials, that we are most … Continue reading →

“How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily?”  (Ps. 13:2)  “There is in the original the idea of ‘laying up’ counsels in his heart, as if his devices had become innumerable but unavailing.  … Continue reading →

“Contact with moral evil is intense suffering to a pure soul.”  Alfred Plummer (1841-1926)

“It is written, ‘Abraham believed God.’  It does not say Abraham understood God.”  Ethelbert William Bullinger  (1837-1913)

“God would not be a respectable Being if He were not almighty, and the doer of all things that are done, or if anything could come to pass which He had no hand.”  Martin Luther (1483-1546)

“His knowledge can no more be frustrated, or His wisdom be deceived, than He can cease to be God.  Nay, could either of these be the case, He actually would cease to be God, all mistake and disappointment being absolutely … Continue reading →

“Simple, childlike faith in prayer consists not in high devotion and warm feeling; it is nothing but believing and not doubting from the bottom of the heart.”  Rudolf E. Stier  (1816-1862)

“The mind which holds the simple fundamental truth that all is of God, may also hold, almost as a matter of course, that all is designed of God.”  J.J. Stewart Perowne  (1823-1904)