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“Free me from the evil man that is myself.”  (Augustin; 345-430)

“The best Christians are most suspicious of themselves.”  (Thomas Hooker  1586-1647)

“God himself works in his people that faith and obedience which are called the conditions of salvation.”  (Eph. 2:8; Phil. 2: 13; 2 Tim. 2:25)  (James Petigru Boyce 1827-1888)

When the specific purpose of God is to divorce one from self, God usually leaves one by oneself.  (Anonymous)

“They who are of faith’ are plainly those who are expecting justification by faith and not of works; who are not working that they may obtain the favour of God as a meritorious reward, but who are believing that ‘God … Continue reading →

“Taking counsel in the soul will drive us in every direction and cause us to surmise things that are so alien to the truth of God that once enlightened, we will shutter at such wild extremes.  Yet, is not this … Continue reading →

“The excellency of the Scriptures, and the wisdom of their Divine Author, are to be seen in what they conceal and keep back, as well as in what they reveal and bring forward.”  (Thomas McCrie; 1772-1835)

“God seems to go quite across and work in a contrary way: when He intends the greatest mercies to His people He first usually brings them into very low conditions.”  (Jeremiah Burroughs; 1599-1646)

“The wages that sin bargains with the sinner are life, pleasure and profit; but the wages it pays him with are death, torment, and destruction.  He that would understand the falsehood and deceit of sin, must compare its promises and … Continue reading →

“As with the Master, so with the servants:  witness the calumnies and the reviling that from the time of Joseph’s accusation by his mistress till the present day, have been the lot of God’s people.”  (Michael Ayguan  1340-1416)