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“Sin is the only hindrance to our having the spirit of prayer.”  (William H. Van Doren  1810-1882)

“In God’s eternal counsels, He looked upon them with a favorable regard which nothing in them can explain, and all whom He thus foreknew became the subjects of a gracious predestination.  In other words, the whole and sole cause of … Continue reading →

“Christianity is a system intended not merely to awaken excitement or instruct the intellect, but to rule the life and form the character.”  David Thomas  (1813-1894)

“The perfection of deity’s decree is always in the realm of His glory — holy and profound.”  (Anonymous)

“Past favors are pledges of God’s love; they ought therefore to be viewed as the earnest of future blessings, rather than as forerunners of ill.”  (Andrew Robert Fausset; 1821-1910)

“Piety is not commended by sadness and sourness.”  Arthur W. Pink  (1886-1952)

“The Gospel of God concerns His Son.  The whole of it is comprised in the knowledge of Jesus Christ;  so that whoever departs one step from Him, departs from the Gospel.”  (Robert Haldane; 1772-1854)

“An allegory illustrative of the great human fact, that not till we have slain the dragons of selfishness and sloth can we obtain any of the golden successes of life.”  (Hugh Macmillan; 1883-1903)

“He has presented us with his goodness, when he saw nothing in us but impatience and unbelief, when we were like Jonas in the belly of hell, his bowels yearned over us, and his power brought us safe to land.  … Continue reading →

“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)