The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ March 22, 2023

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

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The Amen Corner

In these days smile, stand up, speak up, stay at it! Don’t be intimidated! Don’t allow discouragement! Now is the time to walk with the Lord and do His bidding! -Dr. Shelton Smith

Dr. John Ritchie of Scotland replied to one who disapproved of his going up and down the country resorting to agitation: “Agitation! What good in the world was ever done without agitation? We cannot even make butter without it!”

Julia Ward Howe was talking to the old fire-eater Charles Sumner about a third party needing help. The senator replied, “I’ve become too busy to concern myself with individuals.”

“That’s remarkable. Even God hasn’t reached that stage yet,” snapped Mrs. Howe.

There’s something drastically wrong with the kind of concern that bleeds for mankind yet can’t focus on a man.

Some of you are spiritually dead as far as any power is concerned. The salt has lost its savor. -Dr. John R. Rice

When near the end of his earthly career, Richard Baxter, a godly man, was asked how he was. He replied, “Almost well. Better than I deserve, but not so well as I hope to be.”

William Carey said on his deathbed to a fellow missionary who had spoken highly of Carey’s accomplishments, “When I am gone, speak less of Dr. Carey and more of Dr. Carey’s Saviour.”

Joan of Arc was burned at the stake as a witch. As the flames enveloped her, she said, “Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!” The passport to Heaven is the name “Jesus”! -George W. Truett

Make honesty a part of your character. Fight never to yield to the temptation to be dishonest. Sometimes the truth hurt; but in the long run, it never hurts as badly as being dishonest. -Dr. Curtis Hutson

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. -Thomas Jefferson

A long face is a poor signboard for Jesus. -Dr. John R. Rice

The cross is the theme of all Heaven’s music, the power of all gospel preaching, the only hope of a lost world and the only safe refuge from God’s wrath and judgment. -Tom Malone

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ March 3, 2023

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism.

The Amen Corner

The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. -A. B. Simpson

If the increase of the ravages of alcohol in our country is to be halted and reversed, the pulpit and Sunday school must be reconsecrated to a militant doctrine of abstinence. -Andrew Ivy

We must be willing, individually and as a nation, to accept whatever sacrifices may be required of us. A people who value their privileges above their principles soon lose both. -Dwight Eisenhower

Being a Christian is not a thing that goes by families but by individuals. You are an American because your father is an American, but you are not a Christian because your father is a Christian. -John R. Rice

God’s Book gives great emphasis to the brevity of human life. It is a shadow passing quickly across the face of the earth. It is a vapor, fragile and unstable and soon gone. It is as grass, green a moment, then dry and dead! Man’s life “appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away” (James 4:14). -Tom Malone

Not to do what we ought to do is as bad as doing what we ought not to do. -George W. Truett

The blood alone makes us safe. The Word alone makes us sure. -D. L. Moody

Will the church that bows down and compromises succeed? Of course it will. It is the very thing that the natural man wants, but it is the lure of a wrong road to the kingdom. Beware of putting anything sweet and winsome in front of the One who suffered in Gethsemane. -Oswald Chambers

Allow nobody to live in your family whose sentiments, habits, manners or temper may corrupt your children. -Charles G. Finney

The automobile took the family out of the home and television brought the world into the home. –Vance Havner

By yielding to temptation one may lose in a moment what it took him a lifetime to gain.

Live so that when the final summons comes, you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper. -Billy Sunday

The acid test of our profession of Christianity comes at the point of our attitudes toward those who oppose and hurt us. Unless we love, pray and forgive, we are unlike Christ and unworthy to bear His name. -W. E. McCumber

Satan and his followers have opposed the Word of God from the outset. Men like Paine, Ingersoll and Voltaire are soon forgotten. The Word of God abides forever. God said, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away”(Matthew 24:35). The Bible is indestructible! -Dr. William G. Studer

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ February 17, 2023

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism.

The Amen Corner

Most evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except that it is still missing.

When one fellow admitted to me that there were a few missing links in the evolutionary chain, I advised him that in reality his whole chain is missing. -Dr. Shelton Smith

Give me one hundred preachers who hate nothing but sin, fear nothing but God and who love nothing more than the lost souls of men and I care not one wisp whether they be clergymen or laymen. -John Wesley

The only permanent pain and harm that can come to me from the offenses committed against me is the irreparable injury I do myself by hatred of those who wrong me! -Harry Rimmer

A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets rough. -Ronald Reagan

Live every day as if it were your last. Do every job as if you were the boss. Drive as if all other vehicles were police cars. Treat everybody else as if he were you.

Infidelity reproves nothing that is bad. It only ridicules and denounces all that is good. It tears down but never builds up, destroys but never imparts life, attacks religion but offers no adequate substitute. -Joseph R. Paxton

I saw about a peck of counterfeit dollars once. Did I go to the window and throw away all my good dollars? No! Yet some reject Christianity because there are hypocrites, or counterfeit Christians. -William E. Biederwolf

The future success of America is not in the Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded. -President James Madison

Leave tomorrow’s trouble to tomorrow’s strength, tomorrow’s work to tomorrow’s time, tomorrow’s trial to tomorrow’s grace and to Him who is God today and tomorrow.

There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality. All else is immorality. -President Theodore Roosevelt

I remember two things: I am a great sinner and I have a great Saviour. And I don’t suppose a [former] slave trader needs to remember much more than that. -John Newton

An infidel said, “There is one thing that mars all the pleasures of my life.”

“Indeed!” replied his friend. “What is that?”

He answered, “I am afraid the Bible is true. If I could know for certain that death is an eternal sleep, I should be happy; my joy would be complete! But here is the thorn that stings me. This is the word that pierces my very soul – if the Bible is true, I am lost forever!”

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ February 3, 2023

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism.

The Amen Corner

If the world is ever to get on its feet again, the church will have to get on its knees again.

John Wesley’s biographer said of him: “He was out of breath in pursuit of souls.”

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him. -C. T. Studd

It must be important if Jesus made His first lecture, His first sermon, His first discourse, “Ye must be born again.” -Tom Malone

If you ever allow yourself to be pleased by those who speak well of you, to that extent will you be capable of being grieved by those who speak ill of you. -C. H. Spurgeon

The only permanent pain and harm that can come to me from the offenses committed against me is the irreparable injury I do myself by hatred of those who wrong me! -Harry Rimmer

Our Lord lost many a prospect because He would not mark down the price of utter devotion. -Vance Havner

The great need of these modern times is for Christian homes to have praying mothers and fathers. This is where the breakdown in religion occurs, where the religious life of a community first begins to decay and where we must go first to raise praying men and women in God’s church. The revival must start in the home. -E. M. Bounds

Never give up on anybody; miracles happen every day. -Curtis Hutson

Every word of God’s Word is packed full of truth. Every sentence is double-barreled. Every paragraph is like an old banyan tree, with a hundred roots and a hundred branches…. There has never been a pearl diver who could gather up one half of the treasures in any verse. -T. DeWitt Talmage

The bringing of one soul to Jesus is the highest achievement possible to human life. -George W. Truett

Rarely is there a church where there are not some people who poison themselves and sabotage our mission by holding grudges and desiring vengeance. Until such godless feelings and desires are cleansed from the heart, revival is hindered, witness is crippled, and progress is limited. -W. E. McCumber

The critic of the Bible is like the rat that decided to gnaw a hole in the iron safe. He worked very hard and was delighted with his progress as he observed the small white particles fall to the floor. Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain and discovered that he had made no impression on the safe but that he had worn his teeth to the gums! -Dr. William G. Studer

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ January 20, 2023

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism.

The Amen Corner

I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born. -President Ronald Reagan

If the kids of this country are going to the dogs, it is because they are trying to catch up with the grown-ups who have already arrived with the dogs. -Sam Morris

None of us should be content when the Lord’s work has been so distorted that His mandates are not our daily delight!

The real measure of your wealth is not how much money you have, but how much you would be worth if you lost all your money.

When you have books in your bookstore written by men you wouldn’t have in your pulpit, you are undermining your ministry. -Mike Wells

I had rather be in the heart of Africa in the will of God, than on the throne of England out of the will of God. -David Livingstone

One has well said, “Christ is the glory of glories, the crown of crowns, the heaven of heavens; He is light in darkness, joy in sadness, riches in poverty, life in death; it is He that can resolve all your doubts, secure you in danger, save your souls and bring you to glory, where all joys are enjoyed, Oh, therefore, let all the glory of your glory be to give all glory and yourselves to Him.” -F. E. Marsh

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me. “He ever liveth to make intercession.” -Robert Murray McCheyne

Spurgeon said that the greatest compliment ever paid him was spoken by one of his outspoken enemies. “Here is a man who has not moved an inch forward in all his ministry. At the close of the nineteenth century he is teaching the theology of the first century and is proclaiming doctrine current in Nazareth and Jerusalem in the first century!”

The religion that makes a man look sick certainly won’t cure the world! -Phillips Brooks

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice. No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself. -Woodrow Wilson

Cling to the whole Bible, not a part of it. A man is not going to do much with a broken sword. -D. L. Moody

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ January 6, 2023

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism.

The Amen Corner

Christ may wait long, but He will not wait forever. -C. H. Spurgeon

I would rather fail in a cause that I know someday will triumph than to triumph in a cause I know someday will fail. -Woodrow Wilson

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I ought to do; and what I ought to do, and what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I will do!

Owen, in his last hours, dictated a short letter to a friend. His secretary had written, “I am yet in the land of the living,” when Owen said, “Stop, change that. Write I am yet in the land of the dying, but I hope soon to be in the land of the living.”

How sad it is that so many Christians are more concerned about their earthly, physical lives than about their heavenly, spiritual heritage. So many have sold their heavenly birthright for an earthly mess of pottage. We must, by faith, put our spiritual heritage first in our lives. -Theodore Epp

The greatness of a man’s power is his measure of surrender. -J. Wilbur Chapman

The prayer burden of every preacher should be that he will have wisdom, power and compassion. -Dennis Leatherman

Not only is a man saved from something (spiritual death) or by something (God’s grace) and he also is saved to something (doing the will of God). -Fred Howard

If kings, presidents and rulers would study the Bible, they would know that there can be no “everlasting righteousness” as long as the Devil is loose on this earth. There can be no everlasting righteousness until King Jesus sits on the throne of David in Jerusalem, when the knowledge of the Lord will cover the earth. Then we will have peace on earth and goodwill toward men. Then men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spear into pruning hooks – and war will be forever removed from this earth. But these things will not come to pass until Jesus comes to reign on this earth. -Oliver B. Greene

Vessels never give so great a sound as when they are empty. -John Jewell

You may undertake a task that you cannot perform; but whether you succeed or fail, be careful to keep your word. -George Washington

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ December 16, 2022

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism.

The Amen Corner

Woe unto that man who conceals the Light when men are stumbling in the darkness! Woe unto him who keeps back the Bread of Life in the season of famine! -Charles H. Spurgeon

Faith has nothing to do with feelings or with impressions, with improbabilities or with outward experiences. If we desire to couple such things with faith, then we are no longer resting on the Word of God, because faith needs nothing of the kind. Faith rests on the naked Word of God. When we take Him at His word, the heart is at peace. -George Muller

Dr. W. B. Henson, a Bible-believing preacher of past years, preached a mighty sermon on the second coming of Christ.

A group of young ministers heard the message. At the close of the service, they said to Dr. Henson, “We don’t see it as you do; we cannot get it out of the New Testament.”

To this he replied, “Of course you can’t get it out of the New Testament. It’s there to stay!” -Vance Havner

Some want to live within the sound of church chapel bells. I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell. -C. T. Studd

Adversities do not make the man either weak or strong, but they reveal what he is. -Faith Foesyte

To reach the port, we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail and not drift or lie at anchor. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

Many churches are asleep and I know of no better way of awakening them than to get them to look for the return of the Lord Jesus Christ. -D. L. Moody

You will understand the Bible much more easily and much better if you get well acquainted with its Author.

Our churches need revival, but our nation needs regeneration. -Dennis Leatherman

Criminals are not born. They are reared in an era which has discarded morality. They are victims of spiritual starvation. Irreligion has obviously become the major contributing factor to our national juvenile crisis. -Judge Julius Miner, Chicago

There is no news equal to the news of Christmas. To those who receive it, who feed on it in their hearts, it is like news of a great victory. It tells of an enemy defeated – and a cruel, malicious enemy who is alike the foe of God and man – and that is the Devil. Satan’s power was shaken to the center on the day that the angels sang their hymn of joy in the fields about Bethlehem. Today, instead of the “gods many and lords many” we are presented with a truer and nobler Object of our homage. We have shown to us One who is the brightness of His Father’s glory and the express image of His Person.

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ December 2, 2022

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism.

The Amen Corner

There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether it be of law, business, morals or that vision which leads the imagination in the creation of constructive enterprises…he who seeks for guidance…may look inside its covers and find illumination. -Herbert Hoover [With all due respect to a president, it appears that Herbert Hoover missed the largest blessings in the Bible – it is the Word of God that explains and defines SALVATION, and our existence as God intends it. Frankly, he sounds to me as nothing more than a mere intellect. Pastor Steve]

A man can slip into Hell with his hand on the doorknob of Heaven. -Billy Sunday

Anything that dims my vision of Christ or takes away my taste for Bible study or cramps my prayer life or makes Christian work difficult is wrong for me; and I must, as a Christian, turn away from it. -J. Wilbur Chapman

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. -Booker T. Washington

Some of the world’s most disappointed people are those who get what’s coming to them.

You cannot successfully walk with the Lord while running with the world.

If you want to find fault, begin with yourself; maybe you will not need to go further. [Another version of this truth: If you want to find fault, use a mirror instead of a telescope. Pastor Steve]

Faith makes things possible, but it is love that makes them easy. -Charles Spurgeon

If you are a leader, be a good one; if you are a fisherman, be a good one; but if you are a Christian, be a better one. -Mike Allison

To the discontented man, no chair is easy. -Benjamin Franklin

No baby should die by someone else’s “choice.”

Let us beware that we do not forget the Old Testament and the New Testament alike tell of Jesus…. The name of Jesus, the supreme personality, the center of the world’s hope, is on every page. -Matthew Henry

The man who walks with God always gets to his destination.

Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward and pushing their luck.

Unfaithful men flaunt a so-called word of knowledge, when what they need is a knowledge of the Word. -Dr. Shelton Smith

Life is a journey, not a home; a road, not a city of habitation; and the enjoyments and blessings we have are but little inns on the roadside of life where we may be refreshed for a moment, that we may with new strength press on to the end – to the rest that remaineth for the people of God. -Horatius Bonar

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ November 18, 2022

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism.

The Amen Corner

As we offer our small rejoicing For the love that surrounds our days, All the wonderful works of Thy goodness Shall open before our gaze; Through the gayes of our narrow thanksgiving We shall enter Thy courts of prayer. -Annie Johnson Flint

Today, surely, the only thing that can turn away the terrible wrath of God upon America is a Heaven-sent revival of His blessing and power, a mighty turning to God! -Dr. John R. Rice

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest. -D. L. Moody

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. -Henry Ford

After much deliberation, the current political hierarchy has come to the conclusion that the Constitution itself in their view is “unconstitutional.”

There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after. -Adoniram Judson (1788-1850), missionary to Burma

The fires of God’s judgment burned themselves out on Him; and all who are in Christ are safe forever, for they are now standing where the fire has been. -H. A. Ironside

Without God, there is no virtue, because there’s no prompting of the conscience. Without God, we’re mired in the material, that flat world that tells us only what the senses perceive. Without God, there is a coarsening of the society. And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under. -Ronald Reagan, August 23, 1984

Good Christians are always reasonable. “Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory” (Philippians 2:3). “Nothing” means nada, zilch, zero and no thing. Most reactions are in the flesh. Attack the problem, not the person. It is not who is right, but what is right. -Dr. Bill Rice

The Lord places His churches in the world, but it is Satan who puts the world into the Lord’s churches.

God is great and what He does is always good. So if whatever happens is not good, it is not of God. -Dr. Shelton Smith

Discipline is doing the thing you ought before the thing you like.

I have lived to thank God that all of my prayers have not been answered. -J. Ingelow

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ November 4, 2022

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism.

The Amen Corner

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always. -A. W. Tozer

I heard of a man who said to the preacher, “I want to sing in your choir.” The preacher replied, “But you are not a member here. Where do you have your membership?” He said, “I don’t belong to any local church. I belong to the invisible church.” The pastor said, “Then I suggest that you join the invisible choir.” -Vance Havner

America was founded by people who believed that God was their rock of safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it’s all right to keep asking if we’re on His side. -Ronald Reagan

There is something inexpressibly pleasing to a justified mind to know that God has all the honor in our salvation and we have none; to know that God’s law is not injured but magnified and made honorable; to know that we are safe and God has all the glory. -Robert Murray McCheyne

When I was young, I was sure of many things; now there are only two things of which I am sure: one is that I am a miserable sinner; and the other, that Christ is an all-sufficient Saviour. He is well taught who learns these two lessons. -John Newton

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until sixty-five will not suddenly become filled on retirement. -D. L. Moody

Every soul saved in a Heaven-sent revival will shine throughout eternity with a marvelous luster and all the toil of revivals will be paid for in the coinage of another world. -Dr. John R. Rice

Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. -Patrick Henry

Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creature’s will. -Alexander Maclaren

God has a purpose in every life; and when the soil is completely yielded and acquiescent, He will certainly realize it. Blessed is he who has never thwarted the working of the divine ideal. -F. B. Meyer