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“Man can endure any change, however violent and contradictory; but a long continuance, a sameness either of joy or sorrow, has a debilitating and depressing effect.”  (R. H. Ryland)

“For in choosing those that are unworthy, He has no respect but only to His own mere goodness.  What want we more?  Then it is good reason that we should hold ourselves contented with God’s will, and bridle ourselves, and … Continue reading →

“The same surroundings may be to one man a channel of divine influence, to another the very embodiment of the worldly spirit.  Where the mind of one sees or creates good in all around him, the mind of another may … Continue reading →

“The gospel of Jesus Christ—the Bible, of which the gospel is the substance—is emphatically and by pre-eminence ‘the word of truth,’ ‘to which whatever is contrary is imposture, and whatever is compared to it insignificant.’”  (Robert Hall)

“Grief flows from love:  we only grieve for having grieved one we love.”  (Edward Henry Bickersteth, 1825-1906)

“The earthly garden with its tree of life is indeed lost, and lost forever, but ‘the paradise of God’ is opened to us; and life above hidden with Christ in God is ours through faith in Him.” (Henry W. Soltau; … Continue reading →

“Hence, when you discover in yourself thirst after higher knowledge and a predisposition to nobler learning, the impulse that is born from this is an impelling operation of the Spirit of God in you, and thereby you obtain the fruit … Continue reading →

“Thank God, prayer reaches Him at once—fervent, earnest prayer which arises from hearts which are truly exercised before Him in utter humility and devotion to the glory of God.  Satanic opposition may be, and often is, permitted—but only to the … Continue reading →

“The closer our expectations are confined to God, the higher our expectations may be raised.”  (Matthew Henry; 1662-1714)

“Let us not desire more evidence than the Gospel affords, but grace to profit by the evidence afforded.”  (William H. Van Doren; 1810-1882)