If the Father always hears the Son, then he always hears those who, in Christ, are his sons. - Calvin, Institutes 3.20.15 p870
"In the year of Grace, 1654 On Monday, 23rd of November, – from about half past 10 in the evening until half an hour after midnight ... Fire ... God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, and not all the philosophers and of the learned. Certainty. Certainty. Feeling Joy. Peace. - Blaise Pascal, found sewn into the inner lining of his coat when he died. Quoted in Prayer, Timothy Keller, page 167
Repentance is not a little bowing down our heads ... but a working our hearts to such a brief as will make sin itself more odious to us then punishment. - Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed
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