“Only once in sacred Scripture is an attribute of God elevated to the third degree. Only once is a characteristic of God mentioned three times in succession. The Bible says that God is holy, holy, holy.”- R. C. Sproul (1939–2017)
“He sustains, nourishes, and cares for everything he has made, even to the least sparrow.” - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
"There are Gibeonites outwardly attending the family of God, but do the service of his house as the drudgery of their lives. The principal they yield obedience upon, is a spirit of bondage and to fear, Romans 8:15; the rule they do it by, is the law in its dread and rigour, exacting it of them to the utmost, without mercy and mitigation; the end they do it for, is to fly from the wrath to come, to pacify conscience, and seek righteousness as it were by the works of the law. Thus servilely, painfully, fruitlessly, they seek to serve their own conviction all their days." John Owen, The Glory of Christ(Page 213)
"...it is a very suitable thing, and well pleasing to God, for many people, in different parts of the world, by express agreement, to come into a visible union in extraordinary, speedy, and fervent, and constant prayer...which shall bring one that advancement of Christ's church and kingdom..." - Jonathan Edwards A Call to Extraordinary Prayer: An Humble Attempt
Gratitude is a very rare thing. If any of you try to do good for the sake of getting gratitude, you will find it one of the most profitless trades in the world.If you can do good, expecting to be abused for it, you will get your reward; but if you do good, with an expectation of gratitude in return, you will be bitterly disappointed.--Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)_Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 51 [1905]
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