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“The goodness of God is a spiritual sunbeam to melt the heart into tears.  Oh, says the soul has God been so good to me?  Has He reprieved me so long from hell, and shall I grieve His Spirit any … Continue reading →

“If we open our mouths to God in prayer, he will fill them more and more with suitable petitions and arguments.  When we attempt to open the mouth, God will open it still wider.”  Benjamin Beddome  (1717-1795)

“It is a comfort to see that God’s power works effectually and irresistibly. It’s the very same power as wrought in Christ to raise Him from the dead.”  Thomas Goodwin  (1600-1679)

“The reason we find so little to praise is because we have no eyes for his daily miracles”  (Augustus F. Tholuck; 1856)

“For his sake, not for our own, are we chosen; in him, not in ourselves, we are received by God being accepted in the Beloved; therefore, in him are we blessed and he is our blessing.”  Unknown  (1859)

“There is nothing which God requires of his people as to be done by them, but HE himself helps them in the doing of it.”  (Thomas Horton; 1673)

“Lord, thou art my righteousness, and I am thy sin; thou hast taken from me what was mine, and given me what was thine.”  “Oh, sweet exchange!  Oh, unsearchable device!  Oh, benefits beyond all expectation!”  (Alexander A. Bonar; 1810-1892)

Faithful waiting that looks only to God is like the willow tree, “often shaken and whipped in the wind, but firm at the root.”   (Unknown)

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 →

“To present the bait and hide the hook; to present the golden cup, and hide the poison; to present the sweet, the pleasure, and the profit that may flow in upon the soul by wrath and misery that will certainly … Continue reading →