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“We have not to wait and work to be forgiven.  The work has long since been done.  The decree went forth, the releasing word was spoken, the forgiveness was declared, when Jesus left his tomb; and all that any man … Continue reading →

“God will come, and mercy will come; though for the present thy set be set, and thy God seems to neglect thee, yet thy sun will rise again, and thy God will answer all thy prayers, and supply all thy … Continue reading →

“We want men who have neither the vanity to suppose that they have fully sounded the depths of theological truth, nor the arrogance to pronounce those heretics who neither adopt their notions nor use their nomenclature; but who, on the … Continue reading →

“That which really in the last resort hinders a man’s salvation and secures his doom is not his sin, but his refusal to know and own that he is a sinner.”  (William Arnot  1808-1875)

“A man who is little in his own eyes will account every affliction as little, and every mercy as great.”  (Jeremiah Burroughs  1600-1646)

“God makes use, not only of the imprudence, but of the worst vices of men, to the accomplishment of His own pleasure.”  George Lawson  (1749-1820)

“Let God arrange the order in which His gifts are distributed.  Never hurry Providence, as Sarah did when she gave Hagar to Abraham.”  William Garden Blaikie  (1820-1899)

“He that hath his lusts unmortified, and a heart unweaned from the world, though he know all the history of the death and sufferings of Jesus Christ, and can discourse well of them, yet indeed he knows them not.” Robert … Continue reading →

“This is it which God expecteth of us, and whereunto he desireth to bring us, that seeing our own emptiness and insufficiency, and the impotency and disability of others to help us, we should in all humility fly to his … Continue reading →

“A rich man, who is able to despise in himself whatever there is in him by which pride can be puffed up, is God’s poor man…Such men “confess their poverty with as great humility of spirit, and pray for grace … Continue reading →