Article length selections from the great believers of the past.

John Chrysostom… Yet Speaking

[I]f we are to have boldness, we must be clean from wrath, that none may impute our words to that. No matter how just your words may be, when you…

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Jeremiah Burroughs… Yet Speaking

God the Father, looking upon the sinful children of men, and seeing them all in a perishing condition by sin, out of infinite bowels of tender compassion, has provided a…

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Thomas Brooks… Yet Speaking

So saith a gracious soul, though honour is not, and riches are not, and health is not, and friends are not, etc., it is enough that Christ is, that he…

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Anselm of Canterbury… Yet Speaking

I acknowledge, Lord, and I give thanks that You have created Your image in me, so that I may remember You, think of You, love You. But this image is…

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Charles Spurgeon… Yet Speaking

It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master—Matthew 10:25 No one will dispute this statement, for it would be unseemly for the servant to be exalted…

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C.S. Lewis… Yet Speaking

There is something which unites magic and applied science while separating both from the “wisdom” of earlier ages. For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how…

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Hilary of Poitiers… Yet Speaking

[A]ll unbelief is foolishness, for it takes such wisdom as its own finite perception can attain, and, measuring infinity by that petty scale, concludes that what it cannot understand must…

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J. C. Ryle… Yet Speaking

[T]here are many ways in which the faith of Christ may be marred and spoiled, without being positively denied. And here we venture to think is the very reason that…

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Thomas Watson… Yet Speaking

There is no better sign of true repentance than a holy antipathy against sin. Sound repentance begins in love to God— and ends in the hatred of sin. How may…

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John Newton… Yet Speaking

  I. Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God! He, whose word cannot be broken, Form’d thee for his own abode: On the rock of ages…

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