Monthly Archives: January 2013

“To be weak is to be emptied of self; but to be all the time occupied with our inability is to be absorbed with self.”  Arthur W. Pink  (1886-1952)

“The mind may be disciplined from utter unprofitableness, only to indulge in the idolatry of talent, or the fascinations of poisoned literature.”  (Charles Bridges; 1794-1869)

“He withdraws not in anger, but in love; he feels, without ceasing, the strongest desire to return to us; he earnestly invites us to return; he continues still to view us with unabated love, with even greater pleasure than he … Continue reading →

“Poor short-sighted men, we often regret the very loss which serves our highest interest.”  (David Thomas  1813-1894)

“The progress of time has been much swifter than the progress of his thought.  Alas! He has made one long mistake.  He has ‘looked at the things which are seen,’ and forgotten the things which are not seen.  And ‘the … Continue reading →

“The more experience a man hath in the ways of God, the more sensible is he of his own readiness to wander insensibly, by ignorance and inadvertency, from the ways of God.”  (David Dickson  1583-1662)

“Grace, in the writings of Paul, stands in direct opposition to works and worthiness—all works and worthiness of every kind, and of every degree.”  (Abraham Booth  1734-1806)

Alas, how many in our day who profess to be the Lord’s are as abjectly dependent upon their fellow men or upon an arm of flesh in some shape or other, as if they had never known the name of … Continue reading →

“Only where the irresistible and efficacious grace of God changes and radically turns about the perverse will of the sinner can the later will to come to Christ.”  (Herman Hoeksema  1886-1965)

“Even the fact of unbelief is not beyond the power and the purpose of God.”  (Leon Morris; 1914-2006)