Conscience is God’s spy and man’s overseer.
Quotes #23…John Trapp 1601-1669 (2)
December 1, 2025
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Quotes #22 …John Flavel 1627-1691
November 24, 2025There is not such a pleasant history for you to read in all the world as the history of your own lives, if you would sit down and record from the beginning hitherto what God has been to you, and done for you; what evidences and outbreakings of his mercy, faithfulness, and love there have been in all the conditions you have passed through.
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Latest on the Origin of Life Research 2025
November 20, 2025“A pair of Cambridge lectures examining the deepest challenges in origin-of-life research—from the chemistry of early Earth to the information systems inside every cell—and exploring why current prebiotic models fall short. Featuring Dr. James Tour and Dr. Stephen Meyer, this session highlights the scientific roadblocks, the role of information, and the implications for how life began.”
The cases of these two men continue to get stronger with time. I enjoyed these lectures and I hope you do as well.
CR
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Quotes #21…Roy Hobbs & Iris Gaines “1939”
November 17, 2025You’re standing awful close Gus, can’t tell if it’s your toes I’m feeling or mine. (Roy Hobbs)
You know I believe we have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. (Iris Gaines)
From the movie The Natural (1984)
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Quote #20…Richard Baxter 1615-1691 (3)
November 14, 2025Directions for profitable Reading the Holy Scriptures. Direct. 2
Remember that it is the very law of God which you must live by, and be judged by at last. And therefore read with a full resolution to obey whatever it commandeth, though flesh, and men, and devils contradict it. Let there be no secret exceptions in your heart, to baulk any of its precepts, and shift off that part of obedience, which the flesh accounteth difficult or dear.
(…to be continued…Direct 1 and 3 give balance to this seemingly legalistic Direct)
From A Body of Practical Divinity, or A Christian Directory, Vol. 3.
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Quotes #19…Joseph Caryl 1602-1673
November 10, 2025So you may look lightly upon a Scripture and see nothing; meditate often upon it and there you shall see a light, like the light of the Sun.
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Quotes #18…Timothy Cruso 1657-1697
November 6, 2025“My flesh shall rest in hope.” (Psalm 16:9) That hope which is grounded on the word, gives rest to the soul; ’tis an anchor to keep it steady. Hebrews 6:13. Which shows the unmoveableness of that which our anchor is fastened to. The promise sustains our faith, and our faith is that which supports us. He that hopes in the Word as David did (Psalms 119:81), lays a mighty stress upon it; as Samson did when he leaned upon the pillars of the house, so as to pull it down upon the Philistines. A believer throws the whole weight of all of his affairs and concernments, temporal, spiritual, and eternal, upon the promises of God, like a man resolved to stand or fall with them. He ventures himself, and all that belongs to him, entirely upon this bottom, which is in effect to say, if they will not bear me up, I am content to sink: I know that there shall be a performance of those things which have been told me from the Lord, and therefore I will incessantly look for it.
Found in The Treasury of David, an original Exposition of the Psalms by C.H.S.
Cruso had as a fellow-student Daniel Defoe, who immortalized his name in Robinson Crusoe.
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Quotes #17…George Whitefield 1714-1770
November 3, 2025The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very vigilant, and seeks all occasions to disturb me.
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Quotes #16…Jeff Allen (Born 1956)
October 30, 2025
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Wings of the Wind 
The Person of Jesus Christ
December 4, 2025Recently, Bruce Cooper posted the following article. I found it provided clarity in a world that speaks so much of Jesus but seems to hardly know the Jesus described in the Bible. To know who Jesus is, one must turn to the Bible. It is where we get our knowledge. Here Bruce takes the words of scripture and provides a good glimpse into who our Savior is. The best way to build on this knowledge is to read and study the Bible for yourself.
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