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February 18 - February 20, 2019
the new, intensely evangelical faction rising in the American colonies: the New Lights, who emphasized personal conversion and holiness over adherence to tradition.
’twas a strange Providence that let me veer just enough off-course to be shipwrecked on the island of His mercy….”
this is a man who has learned not to say anything he does not mean – anything he has not thought through thoroughly.
Pray for more love for Him, more love for others, and He will send trials from His heart of love your way.”
“I cannot take an opiate. It will dull my thoughts, my affections… It will kill all in one, just when I want them most, at the time of my death – when my Lord sends His chariot for me. I would not meet Him with a dull brain, a dull heart, a body dodging the pain He sent.”
My whole desire has been to be a flame for God. I would rather burn out than be extinguished.”
“But, when all is done, I have nothing to give to Him. ’Tis all of Him who gave His all for me!”
“Sometimes God uses a rod to draw us near to His side. Sometimes, what a mercy will not do, He must use an affliction to accomplish.”
His love applies a balm to my heart, a lifelong balm, an eternal one, for love is of God.
