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“Contentment, even in material things, ought not to extinguish efforts for improvement; and we ought never to be content with our moral and spiritual condition.  Alfred Plummer (1842-1926)

“It is written, ‘Abraham believed God.’  It does not say Abraham understood God.”  Ethelbert William Bullinger  (1837-1913)

“For if I believe, as did the apostle, that ‘all things are of God,’ (2 Cor. 5:18), I shall be less liable to perturbation when afflicted, and learn more easily to possess my soul in patience.”  Jerome Zanchius  (1516-1590)

“God would not be a respectable Being if He were not almighty, and the doer of all things that are done, or if anything could come to pass in which He had no hand.”  Martin Luther (1483-1546)

“Simple, childlike faith in prayer consists not in high devotion and a warm feeling; it is nothing but believing and not doubting from the bottom of the heart.”  Rudolf E. Stier  (1816-1862)

“If God counts me righteous, I am safe, though in and of myself I am nothing but a sinner and ungodly.”  John Bunyan (1628-1688)

“The end of the struggle—confession, and so forgiveness and peace.  God covers sin, but man must not cover his sin before God.”  J.J. Stewart Perowne (1823-1904)

“There is an inseparable relation between faith and the Word, and these can be no more torn asunder from each other than rays of light from the sun.”  John Calvin  (1509-1564)

“My brethren, the love of God brought in by faith will help a man bear up under any condition.”  Thomas Goodwin  (1600-1679)

“Why does God save some, and not all?  Because such is ‘the good pleasure of His will.’  He has infinitely wise reasons for this, though we understand them not.”  Horatius Bonar (1808-1890)