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“Hearts harden most quickly when men are trusting in their place of special privilege, without fellowship with the God who gives it.”  (William R. Newell; 1865-1956)

“A truly wise man is one, not who has attained, but who knows that he “has not attained,” and is pressing onward to perfection.”  (Charles Bridges; 1794-1869)

“Oh! this mischievous unbelief is that which makes the heart cold and dead towards God.” Robert Leighton  (1611-1684)

“Exercise holy trust in times of great distress.  Make it your business to trust God with your life and comforts, and then your heart will be at rest about them.”  John Flavel (1627-1691)

“For we may be well assured that what God’s goodness, grace, and mercy moved him to promise, his truth, his faithfulness, and righteousness will move him to perform.”  William Gouge 1575-1653

“He redeemed us from the curse, by becoming a curse for us.” (John Brown; 1784-1858)

“But foolish man may think many things to be necessary for him, which the all-wise God knoweth to be not only unnecessary, but hurtful, and therefore mercifully denies what men ignorantly desire to their hurt.”  (Matthew Poole  1624-1679)

“Not only were we unable to bring ourselves into the faith but we cannot continue in it without divine strength.  Because of our proneness to apostatize, the subtlety and strength of our spiritual enemies, the evil of the world in … Continue reading →

“When we bear the burden of our own affairs ourselves, and are chastised with anxiety and want of success, and with envying the ungodly who prosper better than we do, the best remedy is first to do our duty, as … Continue reading →

“It is when Divine Power draws near to men, or when men draw near to Divine Power that they get the right measure of its dimensions and the right sense of their own impotence.”  William Garden Blaikie  (1820-1899)