Monthly Archives: August 2015

“When the eye of our faith is fixed upon the eye of God’s omniscience, we dare not let out our thoughts and affections to vanity.” John Flavel (1628-1691)

“Everybody’s lot in this world has some crook in it.” Thomas Boston (1677-1732)

“When therefore we are encompassed on every side, let us look to the hand of the Lord to execute the plan which he may have prepared for our deliverance.” Alexander Carson (1776-1844)

“We can have no adequate appreciation of this world-order until we see it as one mighty system through which God is working out His plans.” Loraine Boettner (1901-1990)

“Excellences of the divine character which excite love cannot be known without a divine revelation. Surely, then, the necessity of such a revelation cannot be denied.” James Madison Pendleton (1811-1891)

“Repentance, therefore, must spring from a deep consideration and a true sense of its infinite malignity and demerit.” John Colquhoun (1748-1827)

“The better view we have of God, the better will we know ourselves.” Claude Duval Cole (1885-1968)

“Even the most illustrious believer left to himself is as indecisive and confused as are the ignorant. Take counsel in his heart all he will, the answers are all the same. It is like a complex puzzle with most of … Continue reading →

“Shame, guilt, and woe would be my portion if I should leave any effort untried to unfold His glorious image. Let me rather use every power of life and pen to magnify and exalt Him:–to beseech men to ponder Him—to … Continue reading →

“Harshness and contemptuousness are vices inseparable from an ambitious spirit.” Alexander Balmain Bruce (1831-1899)