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“God can authoritatively declare unto the elect, ‘fear not,’ ‘fear none of these things,’ for the powers that be have their conception, duration, boundaries, and termination from me.”  (No name given)

“Sin has so separated the whole race from God, that not one member of it can be brought near, or can be brought into the region of benediction, without the shedding of blood.”  (William Garden Blaikie; 1820-1899)

“The way of any sinner’s deliverance from such wrath shows sin to be exceeding great in the price and ransom that is paid for the salvation of him from his sins—the price of the blood of the eternal Son of … Continue reading →

“There is the way of unbelief within, to which we are very prone.  There is the way of vanity and pride, to which we often accustom ourselves.  There is the way of selfishness in which we frequently walk.  There is … Continue reading →

“There is a vital sense in which ‘the natural man discerneth not the things of the Spirit of God, and in which all the realities of Christian experience are utterly hid from his perceptions.”  (John Morison; 1792-1859)

“As election is the effect of God’s sovereignty, our pardon the fruit of his mercy our knowledge a stream from his wisdom, our strength an impression of his power; so our purity is a beam from his holiness.”  (Stephen Charnock; … Continue reading →

“Contrition and faith, regeneration, conversion, justification, the new life and its development, all the Christian virtues plus perseverance to the end are the operations of grace alone.”  (Richard C. H. Lenski; 1936)

“It is our greatest sin as redeemed people not to trust and believe God.”

“True piety is sincere, consistent, practical, hearty, intelligent, earnest, active, stirring, diligent, humble, distrustful of itself, systematical, guileless, unspotted from the world, self-renouncing, confident in God, delighting in thankfulness, fully purposed to keep the law, and as ready to confess … Continue reading →

“To enter the place of a doer before you have occupied that of a listener, is to reverse God’s order, and throw everything into confusion.”  (Unknown; 1859)