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“It is God’s glory to hear our wants, our weakness through sin, the invincibleness of our evils, our utter impotency in ourselves even to seek redress.  That mode of procedure would lose the favour of man, but it winneth favour … Continue reading →

Happy is that believer, when duties come to be viewed as privileges.”  (Octavius Winslow  1808-1878)

“How different if one is enabled to wait God’s own time, and to look alone to him for help and deliverance!  When at last help comes, after many seasons of prayer it may be, and after much exercise of faith … Continue reading →

“To be weak is to be emptied of self; but to be all the time occupied with our inability is to be absorbed with self.”  Arthur W. Pink  (1886-1952)

“The mind may be disciplined from utter unprofitableness, only to indulge in the idolatry of talent, or the fascinations of poisoned literature.”  (Charles Bridges; 1794-1869)

“He withdraws not in anger, but in love; he feels, without ceasing, the strongest desire to return to us; he earnestly invites us to return; he continues still to view us with unabated love, with even greater pleasure than he … Continue reading →

“Poor short-sighted men, we often regret the very loss which serves our highest interest.”  (David Thomas  1813-1894)

“The progress of time has been much swifter than the progress of his thought.  Alas! He has made one long mistake.  He has ‘looked at the things which are seen,’ and forgotten the things which are not seen.  And ‘the … Continue reading →

“The more experience a man hath in the ways of God, the more sensible is he of his own readiness to wander insensibly, by ignorance and inadvertency, from the ways of God.”  (David Dickson  1583-1662)

“Grace, in the writings of Paul, stands in direct opposition to works and worthiness—all works and worthiness of every kind, and of every degree.”  (Abraham Booth  1734-1806)