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“As the rising sun scatters the darkness of night, so when God returns to his people, in smiling mercy, he scatters the dark forebodings of unbelief, and liberates their souls from the bondage of sin.”  (William S. Plumer  1802-1880)

“To do evil for good, is human corruption; to do good for good, is civil retribution; but to do good for evil, is Christian perfection.  Though this be not the grace of nature, yet it is the nature of grace.  … Continue reading →

“This was love indeed, that God should take a filthy, wretched thing, and spread his skirts over it, and cover its nakedness, and swear unto it, and enter into a covenant with it, and make it his;  that is, that … Continue reading →

“The name Jesus refers to His saving His people;  the designation Christ, to His being anointed for that purpose;  and that of Lord, to His sovereign authority.”  (Robert Haldane; 1772-1854)

“The one who is under the faithful and watchful eye of Jehovah is insulated from every enemy, whether real or imagined.”  (Unknown)

“The pious man has no reason to prevent himself and others from seeing into his heart.  His strength is in God, and so he can lay open his weakness.”  (William S. Plumer 1802-1880)

“The soul thus on the road to this glorious destiny is humbled with the growing sense of its unworthiness, and feels more deeply that in our flesh dwells no good thing—sees nothing in us that we can suppose Jesus will … Continue reading →

“It is by the high way of pride that sinners depart from God; and it is by the low way of humiliation that they return to Him.”  (John Colquhoun  1748-1827)

“Some appease their own conscience by censuring others.”  (William H. Van Doren 1810-1882)

“Men’s crimes and curses have been in looking for happiness in the possession of worldly wealth, power, grandeur and influence.”  (David Thomas  1813-1894)