"I took no torch with which to light the sun, but the sun enlightened me." Charles Spurgeon


"It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there."
- John Bunyan


"For how can the idea of God enter your mind without instantly giving rise to the thought, that since you are
his workmanship, you are bound, by the very law of creation, to submit to his authority?—that your life is
due to him?—that whatever you do ought to have reference to him? If so, it undoubtedly follows that your life is
sadly corrupted, if it is not framed in obedience to him, since his will ought to be the law of our lives."
- John Calvin

1/24/2008

How Few There Are Who Die So Hard: A Letter From Adoniram Judson to His Future Father in Law

"I have now to ask whether you can consent to part with your daughter early next spring, to see her no more in this world; whether you can consent to her departure for a heathen land, and her subjection to the hardships and sufferings of a missionary life; whether you can consent to her exposure to the dangers of the ocean; to the fatal influence of the southern climate of India; to every kind of want and distress; to degradation, insult, persecution, and perhaps a violent death? Can you consent to all this for the sake of Him who left his heavenly home, and died for her and for you; for the sake of perishing immortal souls; for the sake of Zion and the glory of God? Can you consent to all this in hope of soon meeting your daughter in the world of glory, with a crown of righteousness brightened by the acclamations of praise which shall redound to her Saviour from heathens saved, through her means, from eternal woe and despair?"
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