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“Learn how deep-seated and how stubborn is that principle in human nature which seeks the starting point of salvation in self rather than in God, in doing rather than in receiving, in work rather than in grace.”  (Thomas Dehany Bernard  … Continue reading →

“God is equally loving and gracious when He sends affliction and when He sends prosperous abundance.”  (William Henry Green, 1825-1900)

“Indeed no man or devil is as bad to us as our evil self is to us.”  (Ralph Venning 1621-1674)

“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)