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Assurance Grows By Repeated Conflict, By Our Repeated Experimental Proof Of The Lord's Power And Goodness To Save; When We Have Been Brought Very Low And Helped, Sorely Wounded And Healed, Cast Down And Raised Again, Have Given Up All Hope, And Been Suddenly Snatched From Danger, And Placed In Safety; And When These Things Have Been Repeated To Us And In Us A Thousand Times Over, We Begin To Learn To Trust Simply To The Word And Power Of God, Beyond And Against Appearances: And This Trust, When Habitual And Strong, Bears The Name Of Assurance; For Even Assurance Has Degrees.

My Grand Point In Preaching Is To Break The Hard Heart, And To Heal The Broken One.

Christ Has Taken Our Nature Into Heaven To Represent Us; And Has Left Us On Earth, With His Nature, To Represent Him.

There Is Many A Thing Which The World Calls Disappointment; But There Is No Such Thing In The Dictionary Of Faith. What To Others Are Disappointments Are To Believers Intimations Of The Will Of God.

Whoever Is Truly Humbled — Will Not Be Easily Angry, Nor Harsh Or Critical Of Others. He Will Be Compassionate And Tender To The Infirmities Of His Fellow-sinners, Knowing That If There Is A Difference — It Is Grace Alone Which Has Made It! He Knows That He Has The Seeds Of Every Evil In His Own Heart. And Under All Trials And Afflictions — He Will Look To The Hand Of The Lord, And Lay His Mouth In The Dust, Acknowledging That He Suffers Much Less Than His Iniquities Have Deserved.