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Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 53: 1907 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces toward it." Jeremiah 50:5. I am going to take these words out of their context and use them as I believe they may very properly be used—as a description of those whom God is about to save.
Expositor's Bible: The Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans by Moule, Handley Carr Glyn (1841-1920)
THE FUNCTION OF THE LAW IN THE SPIRITUAL LIFE Romans vii. 7-25 THE Apostle has led us a long way in his great argument; through sin, propitiation, faith, union, surrender, to that wonderful and "excellent mystery," the bridal oneness of Christ and the Church, of Christ and the believer.
History of the Moravian Church by Hutton, J. E.
IT is recorded in John Wesley’s “Journal,” August, 1738. that when he paid his memorable visit to Herrnhut he was much impressed by the powerful sermons of a certain godly carpenter, who had preached in his day to the Eskimos in Greenland, and who showed a remarkable knowledge of divinity.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 56: 1910 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"Then said the Jews, Behold how He loved him!" John 11:36. IT was at the grave of Lazarus that Jesus wept and His grief was so manifest to the onlookers that they said, "Behold how He loved him!" Most of us here, I trust, are not mere onlookers, but we have a share in the special love of Jesus.
Commentary on Joshua by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
15. And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
Prayer (Greek euchesthai, Latin precari, French prier, to plead, to beg, to ask earnestly). An act of the virtue of religion which consists in asking proper gifts or graces from God.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 15: 1869 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
"At the time appointed the end shall be."- Daniel 8:19. Human nature anxiously desires to know something of the future. If we were told tonight that we could repair to a certain spot where we might lift the veil of our own history and foresee the course of our own lives during the next few years, I am afraid very few of us could be trusted to absent ourselves from such a place,…
Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Volume I by Stokes, George Thomas (1843-1898)
THE ELECTION OF MATTHIAS. "They prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew of these two the one whom Thou hast chosen, to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
’s-day Morning, March 5th, 1871 by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington “Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and everyone that loveth him that begot loveth him also that is begotten of him.”—1 John 5:1.
Essays on the Social Gospel by Harnack, Adolf (1851-1930)
CHAPTER X CONFLICT BETWEEN THE EVANGELISTIC AND MODERN OUTLOOK YET the Cross itself would be of no avail if it happened that in seeking our moral goal we had to look beyond Jesus Himself: Along the path of duty He must always be our Guide.