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“We should not be too anxious to proclaim our good services, nor offended at their being forgotten.”  (Thomas McCrie; 1772-1835)

“Even the gnawing pain of the soul over so much want of spirituality and dullness is ever an encouraging sign that the good work is begun in our hearts.”  (J .J. Van Oosterzee;  1874)

“Degrade not your Master, my fellow Christians, by modeling his doctrines according to the profane speculations of the schools.   (Alexander Carson; 1776-1844)

“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)

“The moral heart of the sinner is so fat with pride, selfishness, carnality, and worldliness, that it is almost ‘past feeling.’”  (David Thomas; 1813-1894)

“The Spirit puts nothing new into the Bible; he only so enlightens and strengthens our faculties, that we can discern and admire what is there already.”  (Henry Melvill; 1798-1871)

“Attempts to complete what grace begins, betray our pride and offend the Lord; but cannot promote our spiritual interest.”  (Abraham Booth; 1734-1806)

“Doth thy heart hanker after riches?  Tell thy heart that there are unsearchable riches in Christ, and that through him we have a title to all the promises of this life and a better.”  (Thomas Hooker; 1586-1647)

“Cause me to hear thy strengthening and encouraging voice.  If the voice of thy grace be not lifted up in my spirit, reanimating my feeble faith, I feel that there is but a step between me and despair.”  Jean Baptiste … Continue reading →

“To know the truth is not to enter into intellectual freedom as such, but it is to enter into the liberating experience of being a disciple of the Lord in terms of freedom from sin and guilt, and with fellowship and knowledge … Continue reading →