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God neither chose us nor called us because we were holy, but he called us that we might be holy, and holiness is the beauty produced by his workmanship in us.  The excellencies which we see in a believer are as much the work of God as the atonement itself.  Thus is brought out very sweetly the fullness of the grace of God.  Salvation must be of grace, because the Lord is the author of it.  Salvation must be of grace, because because the Lord works in such a manner that our righteousness is forever excluded.  Such is the believers privilege - a present salvation; such is the evidence that he is called to it - a holy life.  

- Charles Spurgeon

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When Satan cannot hide the truth, he works to hinder the practical application of it.

- William Gurnall

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Writing specifically of the veil which Satan casts over the minds of men, F.C. Jennings states:  'He so weaves the course of this age:  its religious forms, ceremonies, external decencies, respectabilies, and conventionalities as to form a thick veil, that entirely hides 'the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus,' which consists in righteous mercy to penitent sinners only.  This veil is not formed by evil-living, depravity, or any form of what passes as evil amongst men; but by cold formality, heartless decency, proud self-complacency, highly esteemed external respectability, and we must add, church-membership - all without Christ.  It is the most fatal of all delusions, the thickest of all veils, and the most common.  It is the way that because it is religious, respectable, decent 'seems right unto a man but the end thereof is death'; for there is no Christ, no Lamb of God, no blood of Atonement in it'

- From Lewis Sperry Chafer's Systematic Theology (section on Satan's motives)

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In the blessed Redeemer's service, not one thing is required, that is not first bestowed; not a service for which strength is not given, nor a grace tha thas not been promised.  We serve a Master, who gives us all for naught:  and we repay him only with his own.

- Caroline Fry Wilson

From the book containing her autobiography and Letters

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You know whether or not you are really a servant by the way you react when you are treated like one.

George MacDonald

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That the members of every Church or Congregation should know one another so that they may perform all the duties of love one towards another both to soul and body.  Matthew 18:15.  1 Thessalonians 5:14. 1 Corinthians 12:25.  And especially the elders should know the whole flock, of which the Holy Ghost has made them overseers.  Acts 20:28. 1 Peter 5:2, 3.  and therefore a Church should not consist of such a multitude that they cannot have particular knowledge of one another.

- Part of a Baptist declaration of faith in 1611