Monthly Archives: March 2012

“While on earth He was the Father’s faithful witness of the truth.  He never lacked courage nor did He ever compromise.  The path of our human testimony is strewn with failure and even wreckage.  But Christ was faithful unto death.”  … Continue reading →

“Unless we realize that in the Bible God is speaking, and not man, it will mean little or nothing.  Man, in the Scriptures, is only the channel and the instrument; God is the infallible Author.”  (M. R. De Haan; 1891-1965)

“There is no ascertaining the quality of a tree but by its fruits.  When the wheels of a clock move within, the hands on the dial move without.  When the heart of a man is sound in conversion, then the … Continue reading →

“For uprightness is the soundness of all grace and virtues, as also of all religion and worship of God, without which they are unsound and not worthy.”  (George Downame; 1560-1634)

“God hath blessed us in Him, yea, and we shall be blessed; He hath chosen us in Him; pardoned us in Him; sealed us in Him; built us up and completed us in Him.”  (Christopher Ness; 1621-1705)

“Private self-love seems to be the root of depravity; the grand substitute in human affection to the love of God and man.  Self-admiration, self-will, and self-righteousness are but different modifications of it.  Where this prevails, the creature assumes the place of … Continue reading →

“It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the harlot, but to fly from all appearance of evil (Prov. 5. 1, 1 Thess. 5. 22.”)  … Continue reading →

“The activity of faith is to have for its motive and end the glory of Christ.”  (William Graham Scroggie; 1877-1958)

“There is an adversary of our souls who is ever active.  His great object is always to discourage us, and if possible to get us even to deny the faith.  Various temptations are presented by him to our minds—anything, indeed, … Continue reading →

“The promises of grace flow from the boundless love of God, and from that alone.”  (Charles H. Spurgeon; 1834-1892)