Monthly Archives: August 2012

“Divine promises are given for faith to lay hold of and plead before the throne of grace.  It is God’s revealed will that Christians should be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man, but it is also … Continue reading →

“Bring your most daring petitions, bring your most impossible requests, add others to them; let the whole Church join together in their wildest desires and demands!  There is no danger of exceeding the limit.”  (D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones;  1899-1981)

“There may be thoughts too sweeping for expression, there may be unutterable groaning prompted by the Spirit (Romans 8:26); yet above and beyond our widest conceptions and most daring expectations is God ‘able to do.’”(John Eadie; 1810-1876)

“When we draw nigh to God, we should reverence him in our hearts, and express it in the most suitable and becoming behavior and gesture.”  (Matthew Henry; 1662-1712)

“I was born for nothing but repentance.”  (Tertullian; 160-225)

“One of the attributes of sin is to hide man from himself, to conceal his deformity, to prevent him from forming a just conception of his true condition.”  (William Howels)

“Thou, and thou alone, O God, in all the universe knowest altogether all that can be known concerning me, even to my inmost thought, as well as outward act.”  (Martin Geier; 1614-1681)

“The word without the Spirit is but a sword without a hand to use it, but as a pen without ink, which will not write:  2 Corinthians 3:3.”  (Paul Bayne; 1617)

“In the realm of the redeemed, God’s omnipotence should be a universal accepted self-evident truth.”  (Anonymous)

“Remember how unworthy you are to stand before him.  Remember how stained your garments are with sin and worldiness, how distracted your heart is with other thoughts and feelings, how poor the service is you are capable of rendering.  Remember … Continue reading →