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“Our salvation, because it is founded on the promises of Christ, does not fluctuate according to the various agitations of the world, but remains unshaken, provided only that our faith rises above heaven and earth, and ascends to Christ himself.”  … Continue reading →

“In a promise everything depends upon the person who promises.  The question therefore occurs, ‘Has he the will and the power to fulfill the promise?’”  (E. W. Hengstenberg, 1802-1869)

“If men’s works are sufficient for their justification, Christ’s death was entirely needless.”  (John Brown  1784-1858)

“I have no rest, but in a nook, with the book.”  (Thomas a Kempis  1380-1471)

“No man was ever so laden with sin as the Man Christ Jesus.  No man ever had so much sin to answer for; but He has answered for it all, and it is on Him no longer; He has put … Continue reading →

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

“Natural conscience and legal convictions may distress a sinner, and put him to pain, and stop him for a time in his evil courses; nay, it may tend to reform his life, but it cannot make him a true penitent, … Continue reading →

“God knows what his people suffer; how much, how long, from whom, for what.  His people should find consolation in this knowledge.   That trial is permitted by him.  That it is apportioned by him.  That it has its design from … Continue reading →

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

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