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“It is a common temptation, when trouble lasts long, to think it will last always; despondency then turns into despair, and those that have long been without joy, begin, at last, to be without hope.”  Matthew Henry (1662-1714)

“The time of trial is appointed…You are not in the furnace by chance, or at the will of your enemies; the time is appointed, set by God…..God sitteth by the furnace prying and looking after his metal: Mal. 3.3, “He … Continue reading →

“Reader, do you seriously believe, that Jesus thus humbled Himself even for you?  If you do, you cannot but feel, that no debt can be like your debt; and that, as heaven is high above the earth, so great is … Continue reading →

“To know that God exists does not determine how he is to be worshipped.”  James Madison Pendleton  (1811-1891)

“The Bible makes no effort to prove the existence of God, but it goes to great lengths in telling us what God is.”  Claude Duval Cole  (1885-1968)

“He is a God of veracity, faithful to his promises, and gracious to his saints; he will not turn away from his people.”  Charles H. Spurgeon  (1834-1898)

“In the New Testament, it is the work and not the workers that is glorified.  The Gospel is everything; who preached it is of little importance.”  Alfred Plummer (1841-1926)

“For if God withdraws himself, or hides his presence from his people, it is hard for them to bear up in the steadfast belief that they belong to him.”  John Bunyan (1628-1688)

“When a saint is under terrible impressions of Jehovah’s infinite wrath, he cannot but be under great horror of conscience, and in perplexing depths of mental trouble…The more he thinks of him as his infinite enemy, the more he is … Continue reading →

Everyone who is in earnest knows how faulty his own life is, and for this reason, will be less ready to judge others.”  Alfred Plummer (1841-1926)