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“To bless God for mercies is the way to increase them;  to bless him for miseries is the way to remove  them:  no good lives so long as that which is thankfully improved;   no evil dies so soon as that … Continue reading →

“Repentance and faith are inseparably united; the one perhaps never exists in the mind of a sinner without the other.”  (John Fawcett  1740-1817)

“The Christian lives by revelation, not by the conclusions of reason.”  Herman Hoeksema  (1886-1965)

“Unbelief and the fear of men are open avenues to a crushing despair.”  (No mention of author)

“So you may look lightly upon a Scripture and see nothing; meditate often upon it, and there you shall see a light, like the light of the sun.”  (Joseph Caryl; 1602-1673)

“Therefore, build not your comfort upon sense and feeling, which is to build upon the sand; but go to the promise, as to the rock, for it.”  Thomas Hooker  (1586-1647)

“The ‘anointed one’ is Jesus Christ, who is cut off by His death upon the Cross of Calvary.  [And he has naught]—literally, and there is not to him . . . This is a very forceful way of setting forth … Continue reading →

“Mental distress generally originates in unbelief.’  (David Thomas; 1813-1894)

“The church must never be satisfied to preach to ‘respectable’ people only, but should continually be engaged in evangelizing those who have fallen into sin or who religiously are outsiders.  If Jesus came not to call the righteous but sinners … Continue reading →

“The grace of God is plainly the grand manifestation of the free sovereign love of God in the way of salvation through the sacrifice of Christ and the faith of the gospel.”  (John Brown  1784-1858)