Monthly Archives: April 2010

“Joy is experienced when we realize that our sin has been judged and put away in Christ.  It has been so in the purpose and intention of God.”  Frederick Brotherton Meyer  (1847-1929)

“There may be, indeed, a time when God will not be found, but no time wherein he must not be trusted.”  Thomas Lye  (1621-1684)

“Low views of the dignity of His person will engender low views of the necessity and nature of His work.  (Speaking of the Holy Spirit)  Octavius Winslow  (1808-1878)

“Therefore build not your comfort upon sense and feeling, which is to build upon the sand; but go to the promise, as to the rock, for it.”  Thomas Hooker  (1586-1647)

“The truth of God,” as His attribute, is not capable of increase, but it may abound more unto His glory by being more fully manifested in the contrast with man’s sin.”  Edwin Hamilton Gifford  (1820-1905)

“The fruit of daily serious examination of the conscience concerning sin committed is to make a man humble, quiet, and submissive to the Lord.”  David Dickson  (1583-1662)

“Christianity is a system intended not merely to awaken excitement or instruct the intellect, but to rule the life and form the character.”  David Thomas  (1813-1894)

“The cry of faith and penitence is never in vain.”  (James G. Murphy; 1808-1896)

“The heart can make all known to God.  Thoughts, and feelings, and acts that we should be ashamed to confess to our fellow men, we fear not to confess to Him.”  J.J. Stewart Perowne  (1823-1904)

“My brethren, faith brings home to the heart a message of a higher sovereignty, even of love from God borne to you, and tells everyone that professes an interest in God, that God has shown His absolute dominion already toward … Continue reading →