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“The work that is done in love loses half its tedium and difficulty.”  (Thomas Guthrie)

“One error requires another to maintain it.  This second must have a third or fourth to lean on.  One false step leads to twenty, or perhaps to a hundred more.  Who knows where all this is to end.”  Horatius Bonar … Continue reading →

“The glory of the God-Head is secondary to nothing in all eternity.  It was His Father’s will to which he engaged His life.  ‘For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him … Continue reading →

“The fact is that so depraved is society that it cannot afford to be sincere, and cannot afford to show its real heart in its language.”  (David Thomas  1813-1894)

“Sometimes the most God-honoring answer to Biblical questions is simply ‘I don’t understand, teach me these things.’”   (No name given)

“Christ’s whole manhood, body and soul, was placed on the altar, in the fire, and endured the wrath of God.”  (Alexander A. Bonar; 1810-1892)

“Men will never find a remedy for their miseries until, forgetting their own merits, by trusting to which they only deceive themselves, they have learned to betake themselves to the free mercy of God.”  John Calvin; 1509-1564)

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

“The Doctrine of Election containeth the whole sum and scope of the gospel, and our minds, if honestly subdued to the doctrine of God’s sovereignty, cannot be employed about a more excellent subject…It is that foundation which standeth sure, and … Continue reading →

“Having girt up the loins of your mind, being’—maintaining thus a constant guard against the natural looseness and waywardness of your own hearts, as well as against the entanglements and distractions of the things that are seen and temporal—you will … Continue reading →