Monthly Archives: July 2010

“God’s aim in your afflictions is not destruction, but trial; as gold is put into the furnace to be fined, not consumed.”  Thomas Manton (1620-1677)

“God is, and always was so perfectly wise, that nothing He ever did, or does, can elude His knowledge.  He knew, from all eternity, not only what He Himself intended to do, but also what He would incline and permit … Continue reading →

“The perfect revelation then of God is in Jesus Christ our Lord.”  Andrew Jukes  (1815-1901)

“It is the blood of infinite value, and truly capable of counterpoising and prevailing against the infinite demerit of your crimes.”  John Daille (1594-1670)

“The power of godliness did never thrive better than in affliction, and was never less thriving than in times of greatest prosperity:  when ‘we are left a poor and an afflicted people, then we learn to trust in the name … Continue reading →

“As the mercies that are with the Lord are tender, great, rich, a multitude, and manifold; so they are mercies that DIMINISH NOT in the using, but that rather increase in the exercising of them.”  John Bunyan (1628-1688)

“But out of the very midst of the furnace the sufferer can say, ‘Lord, before Thee is all my desire—in Thee, O Jehovah, have I hoped;’  I can cry with all the earnestness of a faith purified by affliction, ‘Leave … Continue reading →

“That the plans of men are not always executed is due to a lack of power, or a lack of wisdom; but since God is unlimited in these and all other resources, no unforeseen emergencies can arise, and to Him … Continue reading →

“We may and ought to trust God’s promise to bless us, even though we may see no visible appearance of its fulfillment.  The vision will surely come and not tarry.”  Thomas V. Moore(1779-1852)

“Perhaps the whole mystery of suffering is insoluble by us in our present condition; and whatever advances we make in knowledge, there will still be much which, as the speeches of the Almighty out of the whirlwind tell us, we … Continue reading →