Monthly Archives: August 2011

For to deny a man’s self, is to know he hath no power in himself to do any spiritual duty.  (Thomas Hooker; 1586-1647)

“In a word, the end of Christ’s redeeming His people is, that they might be freed from all evil, from every enemy, and all that is hurtful; sin, Satan, the world, law, and hell, and death; and that they might … Continue reading →

“Nothing is so tranquillising and so stabilizing as the assurance that the Lord Himself is on the Throne of the universe, “working all things after the counsel of His own will  Arthur W. Pink  (1886-1952)

“Whatever our knowledge of the word of God, certain it is that our hearts will never burn within us, till Jesus himself open to us the Scriptures.  None other can expound to us in all this Song the things concerning … Continue reading →

“Although God should tarry for us a hundred thousand years, if we could continue so long in the world, yet it is certain that we should never come unto Him, nor do anything else than increase the mischief continually to … Continue reading →

We must learn to draw a distinction between being tempted and sinning.  Thoughts will come to you and the devil may try to press you to think that because thoughts have entered your mind you have sinned.  Temptation, in and … Continue reading →

“Christ, the Lord of life and of death, is my Lord forever; to Him I belong with body and soul.  And that is my all sufficient and only comfort in life and in death.”  Herman Hoeksema (1886-1965)

“Vanity is but  foolishness.  In Prov. 12:11, vain men are said to be  “void of understanding.”  Thomas Goodwin  (1600-1679)

“In other words, He foreknows everything, because He has arranged everything.  Everything is certain in His foreknowledge, because everything is certain in His arrangements.”  Horatius Bonar  (1808-1890)

“The higher we rise in the kingdom, the more we shall be like Jesus in this humbling of Himself.”  Alexander Balmain Bruce  (1831-1899)