Monthly Archives: December 2010

“And what talent can be compared with the knowledge of the will of God?”  Alexander Carson  (1776-1844)

“Yet every kind of trial is to be accepted as a necessary means of strengthening our characters, for there can be no virtue without temptations to vice, temptations which come from the evil one.”  (Alfred Plummer; 1841-1926)

“He who believes that God is really the Almighty Creator and Preserver of the whole creation will have no difficulty in believing that He has intervened miraculously in the course of human history.”  Norval Geldenhuys

“To apprehend the mercy of God in Christ is to exercise the faith of His pardoning mercy.”  John Colquhoun  (1748-1827)

“Grace does to the soul, as a virtuous wife to her husband,  She will do him good all the days of her life” (Prov. Xxxi. 12)  Thomas Watson (1620-1686)

“And the Holy Scripture calls God’s election the Book of Life.  As I said before, Jesus Christ serves for a Register:  it is He in whom we are engraved, and in whom God acknowledges us for His children.  Seeing then that … Continue reading →

“The smoke and the fragrance ascend to heaven.  All is accepted—Christ first, then each of His people.  He passed through suffering, fire and flame—then was accepted.  They being reckoned one with Him, are treated as if they had done so … Continue reading →

“Men are very unwilling to admit that God should have any end with respect to them greater than their happiness.  But his own glory is everywhere in the Scripture represented as the chief end of man’s existence, and of the … Continue reading →

“The offence of the Cross” is still the greatest offence in the Christian Gospel.  If man objects to God’s law, he objects still more to the truth that his salvation is entirely and solely dependent upon the grace and mercy … Continue reading →

“I am only in the lower form in Christ’s school if I am in it at all.”  Jeremiah Burroughs (1599-1646)