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“The moral heart of the sinner is so fat with pride, selfishness, carnality, and worldliness that it is almost ‘past feeling.’”  (David Thomas  1813-1894)

“The Spirit puts nothing new into the Bible; he only so enlightens and strengthens our faculties so we can discern and admire what is there already.”  (Henry Melvill  1798-1871)

“The only way to know God is through the revelation He has made, and He has revealed Himself in His Son.”  (Leon Morris)

“The spirit of prayer must be born from above, and cannot be imitated nor counterfeited by merely human effort.”  (A. B. Simpson  1843-1919)

“It is mercy that takes us out of the womb, feeds us in the days of our pilgrimage, furnishes us with spiritual provisions, closes our eyes in peace, and translates us to a secure resting place.”  (G. S. Bowes  1869)

“The more experience a man has in the ways of God, the more sensible is he of his own readiness to wander insensibly, by ignorance and inadvertency, from the ways of God.”  (David Dickson  1583-1662)

“The way to victory is not a confident assertion of our own better selves, but faith, and faith necessarily refers us to something beyond ourselves.  The victorious faith of the Christian is trust in God as He is revealed in … Continue reading →

“Prayer is chiefly a heart-work. God hears the heart without the mouth, but never hears the mouth acceptably without the heart.”  (Walter Marshall)

“If the people of God would diligently keep their hearts, their communion with each other would be unspeakably more inviting and profitable.”  (John Flavel  1628-1691)

“Unbelief is rebellion against God.  Faith, on the other hand, is an act of submission, or the surrender of ourselves to God, contrary to the natural opposition of our minds, in order that He may possess and conduct us, and … Continue reading →