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“The heart is ever prone to divide its confidence between God and the creature.  This will never do.  We must  ‘wait only  upon God.’  ‘He only’ must be our ‘rock,’ our ‘salvation,’ and our ‘defence.’  Then we are frequently tempted … Continue reading →

“WE NEED ‘grace and truth’ to expel the demons of selfishness and falsehood, and there is only one Being in the universe that can supply our need, and that is Christ.  He is ‘full of grace and truth.’  Lord to … Continue reading →

“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)

“The knowledge of God, therefore not being acquired, cannot be increased.”  (James Petigru Boyce; 1827-1888)

“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)

“The law is good, holy, and profitable; but if justifieth not.”  (John Brown  1784-1858)

“It was for the trial of their faith that these things happened to the Israelites, as do the trials of all Christians in all ages:  and it is ‘after we have suffered awhile’ that we may expect to be established, … Continue reading →

“It is stated, ‘the Spirit searcheth’—the spiritual man hath an infallible instructor.  It’s the Holy Spirit that teaches and understandeth the deep things of God.”   (No name)

“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)

“Joy is experienced when we realize that our sin has been judged and put away in Christ.  It has been so in the purpose and intention of God.”  Frederick Brotherton Meyer  (1847-1929)