Monthly Archives: October 2012

“When a father disowns and banishes a child, he corrects him no more.  So God may let one whom he intends to destroy go unchastened; but never one with whom he is in covenant.”  (William S. Plumer; 1802-1880)

“A rich man, who is able to despise in himself whatever there is in him by which pride can be puffed up, is God’s poor man . . . Such men “confess their poverty with as great humility of spirit, … Continue reading →

“The sacred Scriptures are the treasures and pleasures of a gracious soul . . . A mountain of transparent pearls, heaped as high as heaven, is not so rich in treasure as these.”  (Oliver Heywood; 1630-1702)

“Sin is pleasant, but unprofitable; and sorrow is profitable, but unpleasant.”  (William Secker; 1681)

“The loss of self is a happy loss; God’s Spirit breaks down our pride and self-esteem in order to build us up in Christ.”  (Frans Bakker; 1919-1965)

“Nothing is more forcible to obtain mercy than to lay God’s former mercies before him.”  (Richard Greenham; 1537-1594)

“How well would it be for the world if the great potentates of the earth would thus think, speak, and do, ‘I am a companion of all that fear thee.”  (Thomas Manton; 1620-1677)

“All experience teaches that the holier men become, the more convinced they are of their own sinfulness.”  (Alfred Plummer; 1841-1926)

“Our life is subject to many changes, and God by his word hath provided for us also many instructions and remedies.  Every cross hath its own remedy, and every state of life its own instruction.”  (William Cowper; 1731-1800)

 “A man of simple-hearted, pure piety, with no weapon but the word of God, may often thus be better armed than if he had all the arguments of the schools at his command.”  (Albert Barnes; 1798-1870)