Monthly Archives: January 2011

“God would not be a respectable Being if He were not almighty, and the doer of all things that are done, or if anything could come to pass which He had no hand.”  Martin Luther (1483-1546)

“Only direct thy faith to the depths both of the wisdom and knowledge of God, that it may honour His judgments and ways, the individual particulars of which the human mind can never understand.”  Rudolf E. Stier  (1816-1862)

“What barren restless waters does the light at first reveal.  But the very discovery of the barrenness is progress.”  Andrew Jukes  (1815-1901)

“Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.”  Ps. lxxi 21.  “This, therefore, is the reason why, notwithstanding all our weaknesses, and the rage of Satan, we are kept and preserved in a wicked world; we are … Continue reading →

“In the matter of faith all the pious, from the beginning, looked to the Messiah; to whom also we, in these last days, must look; for He is the foundation not only of the apostles, but also of the prophets.  … Continue reading →

“I have sinned;” and as in the parable, the Father’s heart moved toward his prodigal son when he was yet a long way off, so David found that his Father was ready to forgive—“I said, I will confess.’  And “thou … Continue reading →

“His perplexities are such as he cannot believe any living soul is exercised with; the fiery darts which are cast into his mind by the Wicked One are such as he thinks no child of God has ever experienced; the … Continue reading →

“The set time.”  “There is a certain set time for God’s great actions.  He lets the powers of darkness have their hour, and God will take his hour.  He hath a set time for the discovery of his mercy, and … Continue reading →

“Ah, the hopes that this awakens!  My wandering, wavering, unstable heart, that of itself cannot keep to one course two days together, is to seek its perseverance from God, and not in its own strength.”  Mary B.M. Duncan (1801-1900)

“It is a covenant of works, and not a covenant of grace, that suspends eternal life on what is the fruit of a man’s own strength.”  Jonathan Edwards  (1703-1758)