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“Many things occur to make us uneasy, but there is enough in the covenant of grace to balance them, and to make us easy.”  Matthew Henry (1662-1714)

“Certainly, nothing makes afflictions burdensome to us but our own carnal affections.”  Thomas Manton (1620-1677)

“He (Satan) is studying our tempers and characters all the day long.  We know little of ourselves –he knows us perfectly.  He sees the weak point—the fitting time—and accordingly, he lays the snare.”  Henry Law  (1797-1884)

“Whatever is in harmony with the moral character of God is right, and whatever is in conflict with it is wrong.”  James Madison Pendleton  (1811-1891)

“The Bible answers every question concerning the eternal welfare of the human soul.”  Claude Duval Cole  (1885-1968)

“The sovereign arbitrator of destiny holds in his own power all the issues of our life; we are not waifs and strays upon the ocean of fate, but are steered by infinite wisdom towards our desired haven.”  Charles H. Spurgeon  … Continue reading →

“Persecution is a temptation to deny Christ, and those who meet persecution in a spirit of bravado have no right to expect to be delivered from succumbing to that temptation.”  Alfred Plummer (1841-1926)

“God bids thee do so; and I, says the apostle, ‘desire that ye faint not,’ Eph. 3:13. That is in the prosecution of your desires, what discouragements soever you may meet with in the way; for he hath said, “The … Continue reading →

“As to the crook in your lot, God has made it; and it must continue while He will have it so.  Should you apply your utmost force to even it, or make it straight, your attempt will be vain:…Only He … Continue reading →

“The decrees of God are, His eternal purpose, according to the counsel of His will. Whereby for His own glory, He hath foreordained whatever comes to pass.”  Loraine Boettner (1901-1990)