Monthly Archives: May 2011

“Certainly a dejected spirit liveth beneath the height of Christian privileges and principles.”  (Thomas Manton, 1620-1677)

“In opposition to the views of Deists, Rationalists, and all kindred errorists, I maintain that the Bible is a superhuman production—that it is the book of God, properly so called, because it contains a revelation from him.”  James Madison Pendleton  … Continue reading →

“The Bible is the chief source of information about God in His character and work.”  Claude Duval Cole  (1885-1968)

“A society in which spiritual pride and self-complacency prevails is in a bad way.”  Alexander Balmain Bruce  (1831-1899)

“Consequently, if He positively wills whatever is done, He cannot be indifferent with regard to anything.”  Jerome Zanchius  (1516-1590)

“Contact with moral evil is intense suffering to a pure soul.”  Alfred Plummer (1841-1926)

“The mind which holds the simple fundamental truth that all is of God, may also hold, almost as a matter of course, that all is designed of God.”  J.J. Stewart Perowne  (1823-1904)

“Ay, saith Satan, thou mayest pray indeed, but thou shalt not prevail.  Thou seest thine heart is hard, cold, dull; and dead;….thy thoughts are running after other things, when thou pretendest to pray to God.   Whereas the soul rightly informed … Continue reading →

“Grace is that which God implants in the heart against great opposition of enemies, great opposition from the corruption of the heart, and from Satan and the world.”  Jonathan Edwards  (1703-1758)

“True repentance, which is an evangelical contrition of heart and a fixed resolution of spirit to turn from all sin to God, is wrought in the soul by the Spirit of Christ.”  John Colquhoun  (1748-1827)