Monthly Archives: January 2011

“The presence of God with a man is the best blessing he can receive, for it includes everything else.”  Thomas V Moore   (1779-1852)

“It might have been foreseen all along, for ‘affliction’ is no chance weed that springs up haphazard, but ‘man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.”  (Job v. 6,7)  Edgar C.S. Gibson  (1717-1795)

“Open thy mouth wide then, O Christian; stretch out thy desires to the uttermost, grasp heaven and earth in thy boundless wishes, and believe there is enough in God to afford thee full satisfaction.”  (Benjamin Beddome, 1771-1795)

“Dangerous prayers.  When lust dictates, wrath may answer.  Let grace dictate, and mercy will answer.”  Unknown

“Yea, the devil, the arch-evil-angel, who seeks to devour, yet must be sent ere he can do ought.”  Richard Clerke  (1634)

“He is the most thankful man that treasures up the mercies of God in his memory, and can feed his faith with what God hath done for him, so as to walk in the strength thereof in present straits.”  (William … Continue reading →

“Suppose a man to be discontented with the appointments of providence; suppose him to murmur and repine at what the Almighty allots him to do or to bear; is he not to be charged with provoking God to change his … Continue reading →

“Whereof we learn, that no danger can hurt when God doth command us to enter into it; and all dangers overcome us if we choose them ourselves, besides God’s commandment.”  John Hooper

“If he is not to be traced, he may be trusted; and that religion is of little value which will not enable a man to trust God where he can neither trace nor see him.”  John Flavel  (1628-1691)

“He walks where we cannot always trace his footsteps.  God moves mysteriously by times, as we all know. There are ways of God which are purposely to try us.  I need not say that it is not at all as … Continue reading →