Monthly Archives: April 2011

“Jesus gives us to understand that two agreed are better, stronger, than twelve or a thousand divided by enmities and ambitious passions.”  Alexander Balmain Bruce  (1831-1899)

“Righteousness is not complete, if it only judges and condemns; for the devil also can condemn.  The highest righteousness, while it judges sin, can never rest until it also makes the sinner righteous.”  Andrew Jukes  (1815-1901)

“To return evil for good is devilish; to return good for good is human; to return good for evil is divine.”  (Alfred Plummer 1841-1926)

“His knowledge can no more be frustrated, or His wisdom be deceived, than He can cease to be God.  Nay, could either of these be the case, He actually would cease to be God, all mistake and disappointment being absolutely … Continue reading →

“If God counts me righteous, I am safe, though in and of myself I am nothing but a sinner, and ungodly.”  John Bunyan (1628-1688)

“The end of the struggle—confession, and so forgiveness and peace.  God covers sin, but man must not cover his sin before God.”  J.J. Stewart Perowne (1823-1904)

“There is an inseparable relation between faith and the Word, and these can be no more torn asunder from each other than rays of light from the sun.”  John Calvin  (1509-1564)

“The true penitent loves God supremely, and therefore his sins are a heavy burden to him.”  John Colquhoun  (1748-1827)

“Pollution is much more readily given and taken than purity.  One drop of filth will defile a vase of water, many drops of water will not purify a vase of filth.  ‘Evil communication corrupt good manners.”  Thomas V. Moore (1779-1852)

“Thou hast his free promise, who never failed, who hath promised more than possibly thou couldst ask or think, who hath done more for thee than ever he promised, who is good and bountiful to the wicked and ungodly; thou … Continue reading →