I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
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If...you feel that if you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it would be a punishment of itself and that if you could have the whole world, and abide in it for ever, it would be quite enough misery not to be parted from it for your Godyour Godis what your soul craves after then be of good courage, thou art a child of God.Charles Spurgeon
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
Charles Spurgeon
We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.
Charles Spurgeon
I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.
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