Monthly Archives: November 2009

“The believing soul is convinced of its own weakness and helplessness, and inability to resist its enemies, its insufficiency to keep itself, and so commits itself to Christ, that He would be its keeper.” Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)

“Few can bear great and sudden mercies without pride and wantonness, till they are hampered and humbled to carry it moderately.” Samuel Lee (1677)

“Sincere personal conviction, with a life corresponding, is needed to make the faith in the objective sense of any virtue.” Alexander Balmain Bruce (1831-1899)

“We want men who have neither the vanity to suppose that they have fully sounded the depths of theological truth, nor the arrogance of pronounce those heretic who neither adopt their notions nor use their nomenclature; but who, on the … Continue reading →

“A rich man, who is able to despise in himself whatever there is in him by which pride can be puffed up, is God’s poor man…Such men “confess their poverty with as great humility of spirit, and pray for grace … Continue reading →

“No sooner are the eyes of a sinner’s understanding opened than he begins to see the exceeding sinfulness of sin in his heart and life. He sees his innumerable provocations, and discerns that malignity in sin which he never saw … Continue reading →

“To enter the place of a doer before you have occupied that of a listener, is to reverse God’s order, and throw everything into confusion.” Unknown (1859)

The great act of sovereignty was God’s decree for making the world; and of doing, or permitting to be done, whatever should be in it, to the folding of it up. The heavens and the earth, and all the hosts … Continue reading →

“And so with God. To be “Almighty,” He must be able to carry out His own will and purpose to the uttermost.” (Andrew Jukes; 1815-1901)

“Is not the reason of our finding so little to praise, to be sought in our having no eyes for his daily miracles?” (Augustus F. Tholuck; 1856)