Monthly Archives: April 2012

“There is nothing which God requires of his people, as to be done by them, but himself helps them in the doing of it.”  (Thomas Horton; 1673-1725)

“We must not forget that salvation is a subject of an infinite moment.  It is invested with an importance which language was not invented to describe.”  James Madison Pendleton  (1811-1891)

“If the gospel is veiled, the veil is not on the Book but on the human heart.”  Claude Duval Cole  (1885-1968)

“Though the revelation of God in his works is sufficient to render men inexcusable, it does not follow that it is sufficient to lead men, blinded by sin, to a saving knowledge of  himself.  As Paul says of the law, … Continue reading →

“Patience is the fair handmaid and daughter of faith; we cheerfully wait when we are certain that we shall not wait in vain.”  Charles H. Spurgeon  (1834-1892)

“The motives, even for our best deeds, are apt to be mixed, and the thought of men’s admiration is often one of them.”  Alfred Plummer (1841-1926)

“And we live beneath our privilege and fail to make the required use of the great expiation which has been wrought, and want in proper appreciation of our Saviour’s work, if we do not rise up from our prostration under … Continue reading →

“Hence it follows, that all our graces, and so our desires, receive disadvantage by our flesh, that mixing itself with what is good, and so abates the excellency of the good.”  John Bunyan (1628-1688)

“The doleful anguish and excruciating death of the Lamb of God are comments on the evil and demerit of sin, which the penitent reads with deep attention.”  John Colquhoun  (1748-1827)

“Lord, thou art my righteousness, and I am thy sin: thou hast taken from me what was mine, and given me what was thine.”  “Oh, sweet exchange!  Oh, unsearchable device!  Oh, benefits beyond all expectation!”  (Alexander A. Bonar; 1810-1892)