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“The purposes and intentions which arise in our hearts are known to God.  This is striking, for we ourselves often do not know, much less understand, the intentions which come from our hearts.  God not merely knows of these intentions; … Continue reading →

“The impurity and earthliness of men’s minds is the great cause of disunion and disaffection among them and of all their strifes.”  James 4:1;  Robert Leighton  (1611-1884)

“The mighty God, without ceasing to be God, becomes man to redeem us.  Wonder of wonders!  The like to this never has been.  Let the greatest king become the meanest beggar–let the richest prince leave his palace for the vilest … Continue reading →

“Truth is always simpler to understand than the complex, deviating notions of teachers who endeavor to prove unfounded theories.”  (George H. Clement)

“Who among us does not blush for our errors—for our many endeavors to conceal what we have done, to appear better than we were, to seem to be pleasing God when we were pleasing ourselves, or to be aiming at … Continue reading →

“The gospel hath fuller evidence than if an angel spake from heaven, and is to be believed before, and against, any such angel.”  (John Brown  1784-1858)

“Thou understandest my thought afar off.  Afar off; before they are perfectly formed in my mind.  Thou knowest what my thoughts will be in such and such circumstances long before I know it, yea, from all eternity.”  (Matthew Poole  1624-1679)

“The Spirit doth not only show our disease, but also our cure; not only our sickness, but the physician; not only our sin, but a Saviour.”  (Benjamin Keach  1649-1704)

“Because a Christian sometimes stops short of the Cross in his spiritual conflicts, he fails to defeat the enemy and remains unfruitful and unhappy, until by some special intervention of the great Restorer, he is again brought, in spirit, to … Continue reading →

“This is it which God expects of us, and where he desires to bring us, that seeing our own emptiness,  insufficiency and the impotency and disability of others to help us, we should in all humility fly to his mercy.”  … Continue reading →