Monthly Archives: December 2013

“The evil is in the unmortifiedness of your affections, not in the misery of your condition.”  Thomas Manton (1620-1677)

“Let us watch the avenues where we know our position to be weak.  Let us watch the sides too, where we think ourselves to be strong.”  (Robert Johnstone; 1871)

“The world of sense triumphs.  The visible becomes the enemy of the invisible; the temporal of the eternal.  That is the curse inherited by every member of Adam’s tragic race.”  (A. W. Tozer,1897-1963)

“That cannot be a truth which the Scripture nowhere affirms.”  (Christopher Ness,  1621-1705)

“Let every danger, every trial, send you nearer and closer to him.  Look not away from him.  He will minister to you his righteousness continually; and you shall trample on your guilt and condemnation.  He will minister to you his … Continue reading →

“Man can endure any change, however violent and contradictory; but a long continuance, a sameness either of joy or sorrow, has a debilitating and depressing effect.”  (R. H. Ryland)

“For in choosing those that are unworthy, He has no respect but only to His own mere goodness.  What want we more?  Then it is good reason that we should hold ourselves contented with God’s will, and bridle ourselves, and … Continue reading →

“The same surroundings may be to one man a channel of divine influence, to another the very embodiment of the worldly spirit.  Where the mind of one sees or creates good in all around him, the mind of another may … Continue reading →

“The gospel of Jesus Christ—the Bible, of which the gospel is the substance—is emphatically and by pre-eminence ‘the word of truth,’ ‘to which whatever is contrary is imposture, and whatever is compared to it insignificant.’”  (Robert Hall)

“Grief flows from love:  we only grieve for having grieved one we love.”  (Edward Henry Bickersteth, 1825-1906)