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We must learn to draw a distinction between being tempted and sinning.  Thoughts will come to you and the devil may try to press you to think that because thoughts have entered your mind you have sinned.  Temptation, in and … Continue reading →

“Christ, the Lord of life and of death, is my Lord forever; to Him I belong with body and soul.  And that is my all sufficient and only comfort in life and in death.”  Herman Hoeksema (1886-1965)

“Vanity is but  foolishness.  In Prov. 12:11, vain men are said to be  “void of understanding.”  Thomas Goodwin  (1600-1679)

“In other words, He foreknows everything, because He has arranged everything.  Everything is certain in His foreknowledge, because everything is certain in His arrangements.”  Horatius Bonar  (1808-1890)

“The higher we rise in the kingdom, the more we shall be like Jesus in this humbling of Himself.”  Alexander Balmain Bruce  (1831-1899)

I offer the following description:  Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God’s wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.  (Jeremiah Burroughs; 1599-1646)

“The perfection of our graces is not discovered till we are put upon many and great trials.  As a pilot’s skill is discerned in a storm, so is a Christian’s grace in many and great troubles.”  (Thomas Manton; 1620-1677)

“However deeply despondent I may be by my sense of unworthiness as I approach the throne, let me turn to and believingly ponder the infinite worthiness of Jesus Christ.”  Arthur W. Pink  (1886-1952)

“The unborn Baptist could not restrain emotion, when the unborn Jesus was brought near.”  Henry Law  (1797-1884)

“If convictions begin to work, instantly yield to their influence.  If any worldly or sinful desire is touched, let this be the moment for its crucifixion.”  Charles Bridges  (1794-1869)