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• Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought, feeling, wish, plan, doubt- to Him...He wants not merely to be on good terms with you, but to be intimate.

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  God, Christian, Time

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• It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it is Christ. It is not literature and science; but the knowledge of the free love of God in the gift of His only-begotten Son.

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  God, Religious, Jesus

  Thomas Boston, Horatius Bonar (2006). “Art of Manfishing & Words to Winners of Souls”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity.

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  Life, Death, Christian

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• In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.

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  God, Christian, Adversity

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 7), 1895.

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• In all unbelief there are these two things: a good opinion of one's self, and a bad opinion of God.

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  Self, Two, Opinion

  Horatius Bonar (1864). “God's Way of Peace: A Book for the Anxious”, p.38

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• In order to grow in grace, we must be much alone. It is not in society that the soul grows most vigorously. In one single quiet hour of prayer it will often make more progress than in days of company with others. It is in the desert that the dew falls freshest and the air its purest.

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  Prayer, Fall, Air

  Thomas Boston, Horatius Bonar (2006). “Art of Manfishing & Words to Winners of Souls”, p.37, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• 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.

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  Home, Blessing, Journey

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• I looked for the church and I found it in the world; I looked for the world and I found it in the church.

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  Church, World, Found

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• For we are not saved by believing in our own salvation, nor by believing anything whatsoever about ourselves. We are saved by what we believe about the Son of God and His righteousness. The gospel believed saves; not the believing in our own faith.

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  God, Faith, Jesus

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• Have I then no work to work in this great matter of my pardon? None. What work canst thou work? What work of thine can buy forgiveness or make thee fit for the Divine favour? What work has God bidden thee work in order to obtain salvation? None. His Word is very plain and easy to be understood, "To him that worketh not, but believeth in Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness" (Rom. 4:5). There is but one work by which a man can be saved. That work is not thine, but the work of the Son of God. That work is finished.

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  Christian, Son, Men

  Horatius Bonar (1881). “How shall I go to God? And other readings”

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• I praise the God of grace;
  I trust His truth and might;
  He calls me His, I call Him mine.
  My God, my joy and light

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  Light, Joy, Grace

  Horatius Bonar (1864). “Hymns of Faith and Hope: Second Series”, p.113

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• I came to Jesus as I was, weary and worn and sad; I found in Him a resting place, and he has made me glad.

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  Jesus, Made, Found

  Horatius Bonar (1867). “Hymns of Faith and Hope. New edition. [Selected from Series 1-3.]”, p.66

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• The gospel is the proclamation of free love; the revelation of the boundless charity of God. Nothing less than this will suit our world; nothing else is so likely to touch the heart, to go down to the lowest depths of depraved humanity, as the assurance that the sinner has been loved -- loved by God, loved with a righteous love, loved with a free love that makes no bargain as to merit, or fitness, or goodness.

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  Heart, Our World, Humanity

  Horatius Bonar (2018). “God's Way of Holiness”, p.36, Bible Study Books

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• It is to the dead that the life comes; it is to the unloveable that the love comes; it is to the lost that the salvation comes.

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  Salvation, Lost

  Horatius Bonar (1863). “Family Sermons”, p.27

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• Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good, in order to induce God to love and pardon; and the calm reception of the truth so long rejected, that God is not waiting for any such inducements, but loves and pardons of His own goodwill, and is showing that goodwill to any sinner who will come to Him on such a footing, casting away his own performances or goodnesses, and relying implicitly upon the free love of Him who so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son.

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  Love, Faith, God

  Horatius Bonar (1873). “The everlasting righteousness; or, How shall man be just with God?.”, p.116

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• Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me.

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  God, Faith, Christian

  Horatius Bonar (1866). “Hymns of Faith and Hope. First series”, p.174

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• Faith is not our saviour. It was not faith that was born at Bethlehem and died on Golgotha for us. It was not faith that loved us, and gave itself for us; that bore our sins in its own body on the tree; that died and rose again for our sins. Faith is one thing, the Saviour is another. Faith is one thing, and the cross is another. Let us not confound them, nor ascribe to a poor, imperfect act of man, that which belongs exclusively to the Son of the Living God.

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  Son, Men, Rose

  Horatius Bonar (1873). “The everlasting righteousness; or, How shall man be just with God?.”, p.110

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• Christian, your whole life is to be one continuous following of the Lord.

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  Christian, Life Is, Lord

  Horatius Bonar (2017). “Follow the Lamb”, p.7, Gideon House Books

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• A few more years shall roll,
  A few more seasons come;
  And we shall be with those that rest,
  Asleep within the tomb.
  A few more storms shall beat
  On this wild rocky shore;
  And we shall be where tempests cease,
  And surges swell no more.
  A few more struggles here,
  A few more partings o'er,
  A few more toils, a few more tears,
  And we shall weep no more.
  Then, O my Lord, prepare
  My soul for that blest day;
  Oh, wash me in Thy precious blood,
  And take my sins away.

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  Struggle, Blood, Years

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• We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us.

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  Forgiving, May, Forgiven

  Horatius Bonar (1873). “The everlasting righteousness; or, How shall man be just with God?.”, p.182

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• All unbelief is the belief of a lie.

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  Lying, Belief, Unbelief

  Horatius Bonar (1851). “Kelso tracts”, p.188

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• The gospel comes to the sinner at once with nothing short of complete forgiveness as the starting-point of all his efforts to be holy. It does not say, "Go and sin no more, and I will not condemn thee." It says at once, "Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more.

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  Forgiveness, Effort, Doe

  Horatius Bonar (1857). “The story of grace ...”, p.63

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• The more fully that the gospel is preached, in the grand old apostolic way, the more likely is it to accomplish the results which it did in the apostolic days.

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  Way, Results, Accomplish

  Horatius Bonar, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “GOD'S WAY OF HOLINESS”, Lulu.com

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• ...the cross saves completely, or not at all. Our faith does not divide the work of salvation between itself and the cross. It is the acknowledgment that the cross alone saves, and that it saves alone. Faith adds nothing to the cross, nor to its healing virtue.

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  Healing, Doe, Add

  Horatius Bonar (1873). “The everlasting righteousness; or, How shall man be just with God?.”, p.115

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• Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.

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  Wisdom, Thinking, Noble

  Horatius Bonar (1867). “Hymns of Faith and Hope. New edition. [Selected from Series 1-3.]”, p.113

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