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“Devout, and simple tears which cannot speak, speak aloud in the ears of God.”  (John Donne; 1572-1631)

“The Spirit can make the feeble mighty, the trembling brave, and the weary cheerful.  “He gives power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increases strength’ (Isa. 40:29).  (Arthur W. Pink;  1886-1952)

“As long as we continue to trust in our own abilities and activities, we shall avail nothing.”  (D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones;  1899-1981)

“God knows everything perfectly, and he knows everything perfectly at once.  This to a human understanding, would breed confusion; but there can be no confusion in the Divine understanding, because confusion arises from imperfection.”  (Henry Kirke White;  1785-1806)

“All the prayers that God answers are prayers that God has inspired.”  (William Garden Blaikie, 1820-1899)

“As to the first cause of salvation, the Scripture shows that God alone is its author, who moved by His infinite goodness, has entirely prepared, procured, and accomplished the satisfaction of His justice, and the purchase of immortality, by sending … Continue reading →

“The attributes of God’s grace, mercy, goodness and clemency shine forth in nothing so much as in pardoning sins.”  (Nathanael Hardy; 1618-1670)

“It is not so much the weeping eye God respects as the broken heart; yet I would be loath to stop their tears who can weep. God stood looking on Hezekiah’s tears (Isaiah 38:5).  (Thomas Watson;  1620-1686)

“There may be thoughts too sweeping for expression, there may be unutterable groaning prompted by the Spirit (Romans 8:26); yet above and beyond our widest conceptions and most daring expectations is God ‘able to do.”(John Eadie; 1810-1876)

“One of the attributes of sin is to hide man from himself, to conceal his deformity, to prevent him from forming a just conception of his true condition.”  (William Howels)