Monthly Archives: January 2010

“Oh, if I could but creep one foot, of half a foot, nearer in to Jesus, in such a dismal night as that when he is away, I should think it a happy absence! If I knew that the Beloved … Continue reading →

“It is in love that his face is turned away; yet to a real child of God, this hiding of his Father’s is terrible, and he will never be at ease until once more he hath his Father’s smile.” (Charles … Continue reading →

“Our castle or city is the promises, the word and ordinances of God: now if the devil can but get you out of this castle, he hath you where he would.” (Thomas Hooker 1586-1647)

“It is the heart that speaks, the tongue is but the instrument to give the sound.” (Richard Clerke 1634)

“Deal with Satan as with a subtle adversary, that is full of wiles and fetches.” (Thomas Hooker 1586-1647)

“His natural perfections may excite our intellectual admiration, but cannot awaken our love. Love, however, is the central idea of worship, and there can be no true worship without it.” (James Madison Pendleton; 1811-1891)

“Affliction is as it were the sauce of prayer, as hunger is unto meat. Truly their prayer is usually unsavoury who are without afflictions, and many of them do not pray truly, but do rather counterfeit a prayer, or pray … Continue reading →

“O Lord, if—lest I should be proud, and should ‘say in my prosperity, I shall never be removed”—it pleaseth thee to tempt me, yet forsake me not over-long;’ that is, if thou hast thus forsaken me, that I may know … Continue reading →

“The nerve of Satan’s temptation is now cut completely. Every weight goes from now on into the scale of God’s goodness, and there is no possibility of disturbing the existing preponderance.” (William Henry Green; 1825-1900)

“In a promise everything depends upon the person who promises. “The question therefore occurs, “Has he the will and the power to fulfill the promise?” Hengstenberg