Monthly Archives: January 2011

“The most proper means used for compassing an end are insignificant without a word of Divine appointment, commanding their success.  ‘Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord does not command it?”  Thomas Boston (1677-1732)

“From all eternity God has purposed to do just exactly what He is doing.”  Loraine Boettner (1901-1990)

“Certainly, nothing maketh afflictions burdensome to us but our own carnal affections.”  Thomas Manton (1620-1677)

“We have reason to believe that all finite minds are under the direction of the Supreme Power, who, without destroying their accountability or interfering with their agency makes all their operations subservient to the accomplishment of his counsels.”   James Madison … Continue reading →

“The lowest stage in depravity is reached when men take pleasure in seeing others sin.”  Claude Duval Cole  (1885-1968)

“The mighty God, without ceasing to be God, becomes man to redeem us.  Wonder of wonders!  The like to this never has been—never could be.  Let the greatest king become the meanest beggar:–let the richest prince leave his place for … Continue reading →

“A lively sense of the divine presence is a mighty stay to the heart in times of distress.”  Charles H.  Spurgeon  (1834-1892)

“The intenseness of the affliction renders it trying to our fortitude; but it is by the continuance of it that patience is put to the test.  It is not under the sharpest, but the longest trials, that we are most … Continue reading →

“”It is written, ‘Abraham believed God.’  It does not say Abraham understood God.”  Ethelbert William Bullinger  (1837-1913)

“For if I believe, with the apostle, that ‘all things are of God,’ (2 Cor. 5:18) I shall be less liable to perturbation when afflicted, and learn more easily to possess my soul in patience.”  Jerome Zanchius  (1516-1590)