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Let not him, therefore, that lacketh anything be ashamed before this throne of grace; let him ask of this giving God!   And it shall be given him! that is a positive declaration of a most certain thing.”  (James 1:5)  (Rudolf … Continue reading →

Answers to prayers are sweet cordials for the soul.  We need not fear a frowning world while we rejoice in a prayer-hearing God.  (C.H. Spurgeon; 1834-1892)

“Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him.”    “It implies a willingness that he should choose for us, a conviction that the ordering of all that concerns us is safer in his hands than in our own.”  (James D. … Continue reading →

“It would be in us an impious and unexcusable uncharitableness to suspect the end of any work which he hath begun.”  (Robert Baylie  (1643)

“If you can get your heart to be more burdened with your sin, you will be less burdened with your afflictions.”  (Jeremiah Burroughs; 1600-1646)

“Although times might change, and the purposes of God might seem to be forgotten, yet God abides the same.  What He has promised will in His own time most certainly find fulfillment.”  (Edward J. Young; 1907-1968)

“The meaning of the phrase, ‘he gave himself for our sins,’ is, ‘he voluntarily by his sufferings and death made atonement for our sins’—‘he offered himself a sacrifice for our sins.”  (John Brown; 1722-1787)

“Have mercy upon me; I plead not my merit, but thy free mercy.”  (Matthew Poole  1624-1679)

“The night of their adversity will be turned into the light of prosperity; and as surely as they can believe when it is night that it shall be day, so surely may they be persuaded when crosses are upon them, … Continue reading →

 “The amount of sin makes ‘no difference.’  Out of Christ, he who calls himself the least of sinners must perish; in Christ, the very vilest is made ‘the righteousness of God.”  Brownlow North  (1741-1820)