Monthly Archives: August 2011

“There are two things said of the disposition of a man’s mind by nature.  First, it cannot be subject; and second, it is enmity.”  Thomas Goodwin  (1600-1679)

“Survey minutely your inclinations and thoughts, your words and actions, even from your earliest years.” John Colquhoun  (1748-1827)

“How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily?”  (Ps. 13.2)  “There is in the original the idea of ‘laying up’ counsels in his heart, as if his devices had become innumerable but unavailing.  … Continue reading →

“Bent upon compassing a particular object, we run recklessly forward, thinking that, as the object is right, anything that can contribute towards the securing of it cannot be wrong.”  Horatius Bonar  (1808-1890)

“The heart is the treasury, the hand and tongue but the shops; what is in these, comes from that; the hand and tongue always begin where the heart ends.  The heart contrives, and the members execute:”  John Flavel (1628-1691)

“If God had not foreordained the course of events but waited until some undetermined condition was or was not fulfilled, His decrees could be neither eternal nor immutable.  We know, however, that He is incapable of mistakes, and that He … Continue reading →

“Many things occur to make us uneasy, but there is enough in the covenant of grace to balance them, and to make us easy.”  Matthew Henry (1662-1714)

 “Cheerful patience is a holy art and skill which a man learneth of God:  “I have learned to abound, and to be abased,’  Phil. Iv. 12.  Such a hard lesson needeth much learning.”  Thomas Manton (1620-1677)

“You will see, that when man is all careless, God is all care; when man can do nothing, God does all; when man deserves nothing, God gives all.  Salvation is from first to last of grace.  Henry Law  (1797-1884)

“We stretch out empty hands, for we are beggars; we lift them up. For we seek heavenly supplies; we lift them towards the mercy seat of Jesus, for there our expectation dwells.”  Charles H. Spurgeon  (1834-1892)