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“Patience is the fair handmaid and daughter of faith; we cheerfully wait when we are certain that we shall not wait in vain.”  Charles H. Spurgeon  (1834-1892)

“The motives, even for our best deeds, are apt to be mixed, and the thought of men’s admiration is often one of them.”  Alfred Plummer (1841-1926)

“And we live beneath our privilege and fail to make the required use of the great expiation which has been wrought, and want in proper appreciation of our Saviour’s work, if we do not rise up from our prostration under … Continue reading →

“Hence it follows, that all our graces, and so our desires, receive disadvantage by our flesh, that mixing itself with what is good, and so abates the excellency of the good.”  John Bunyan (1628-1688)

“The doleful anguish and excruciating death of the Lamb of God are comments on the evil and demerit of sin, which the penitent reads with deep attention.”  John Colquhoun  (1748-1827)

“Lord, thou art my righteousness, and I am thy sin: thou hast taken from me what was mine, and given me what was thine.”  “Oh, sweet exchange!  Oh, unsearchable device!  Oh, benefits beyond all expectation!”  (Alexander A. Bonar; 1810-1892)

“What are these earnest breathings—this abiding confidence, but his own work in us?  And can the Lord “forsake the work of his own hands?”  (Psalms 138:8)  Sooner should heaven and earth pass, than the faithful engagements of the gospel be … Continue reading →

“Now, my brethren, what is the great doubt that possesses the hearts of Christians, that usually takes up their thoughts?  It is not so much a questioning of the power of God to raise them up hereafter, as it is … Continue reading →

“For the perfection of the faithful is to acknowledge their own weakness, and to pray God not only to amend all their misdoing but also to bear with them of His infinite goodness, and not to call them to account … Continue reading →

“Love to Jesus Christ becomes through sanctification, the strongest passion that can take possession of the human heart.”  George Burrowes