Monthly Archives: October 2011

“The sight of the Lord Jesus as contemplated by faith calls up within the soul, clusters of ideas of the greatest beauty and sensations of the greatest pleasure.”  George Burrowes  (1811-1894)

When God, by His Word, gives us reason to expect any extraordinary events, it would be a mark of stupidity to be inattentive to the voice of the great Ruler of heaven and earth.  His works and His words reflect … Continue reading →

“He that is conscious of this relationship to Christ considers all things, in life and in death, in the light of it, and evaluating things in that light, is quite sure that the evil of this present time, including death, … Continue reading →

“Everything that can be called good in man, or in the universe, originates in the “I will” of Jehovah.”  Horatius Bonar  (1808-1890)

“To place anything before God is to deny Him, however noble and exalted that thing may be.”  D. Martyn  Lloyd-Jones  (1899-1981)

Christian experience explains a mystery unfathomable to human reason.  It harmonises man’s energy and God’s grace.  There is no straitening, no exclusion, with God.  His promises with one mouth assure a welcome to the the willing heart.  If it cannot … Continue reading →

Our devotion to a tradition is wholesome only when we recognize in that tradition, not the authority of the fathers, but the authority of God’s Word.  (John Murray; 1898-1975)

“Divine grace in the soul can never really die; true faith can never utterly and finally fail.  We are speaking now but of their decay.  A flower may droop, and yet live: a plant may be sickly, and yet not … Continue reading →

“So doth Satan more hurt in his sheep’s skin than by roaring like a lion.”  Thomas Brooks  (1608-1680)

“No man can lose by honestly searching his own heart.  FRIEND, TRY IT AT ONCE.”  Charles H. Spurgeon  (1834-1892)