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“We best recognize our sinfulness when we best recognize the glory of God.”  (William H. Van Doren 1810-1882)

“When we are exhorted to look not to our own things only, but also to those of others, it is because we ought to have the same mind in us that was in Christ Jesus, who being in the form … Continue reading →

“In all emotions of the heart, such as fear, love, hope, hatred, and the like, a state of suspense and delay is vexation and difficult to be born, as Solomon says in Prov. 13:12, “Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.”  … Continue reading →

“Everything that can be called good in man or in the universe originates in the ‘I will’ of Jehovah.”  (Horatius Bonar; 1810-1892)

“No one knows more fully the arrogance and the rebellion that is manifested in sin than the one who knows the sovereign grace of God.”  (Anonymous)

“It is but right that I should be entirely devoted to him who devoted himself entirely to me.”  (John Brown 1784-1858)

“The less confidence we have in ourselves or in anything beside God, the more evidence have we of the sincerity of our faith in God.”  (David Dickson..1583-1662)

“While he keeps the throne, it is a senseless heart that fails through distrust of his power, even when all visible power and help fail.”  (David Clarkson)

“Wherever God intends to reveal his Son with power, wherever he intends to make the gospel to be ‘a joyful sound,’ he makes the conscience feel and groan under the burden of sin.”  (J.C. Philpot  1842)

“Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him.”  It implies a willingness that he should choose for us, a conviction that the ordering of all that concerns us is safer in his hands than in our own.”  (James D. Burns)