Monthly Archives: December 2015

“There is a resting—place for the weary — deep and broad, immovable and sure,–Jesus, the sin-bearing Lamb of God.” Horatius Bonar (1808-1890)

“Men are very unwilling to admit that God should have any end with respect to them greater than their happiness. But his own glory is everywhere in the Scripture represented as the chief end of man’s existence, and of the … Continue reading →

“The children of Egypt rush in presumptuously, without command. O my soul, follow God fully, and stagger not. But never move without the light of guidance from on high. Henry Law (1797-1844)

“Every doctrine which can be taught to theologians is taught to children.” John Murray (1898-1975)

“So while we are in the most serious talk with Him, when all other things should be kept out, yet how many chinks there are in the heart, at which a flood of other thoughts come in! Our minds leave … Continue reading →

“If God really is our Master, all the resources of heaven and earth are at our back.” William Garden Blaikie (1821-1899)

“If he be not JEHOVAH in the highest sense, we lose all confidence in the vicarious character of His death, and are compelled to resign our long and fondly cherished hope of salvation through His cross—the perfection of His atoning … Continue reading →

“The offence of the Cross” is still the greatest offence in the Christian Gospel. If man objects to God’s law, he objects still more to the truth that his salvation is entirely and solely dependent upon the grace and mercy … Continue reading →

“O teach me to know myself, the deep depravity of my nature, the guiltiness of my whole life, the purity of that law which I have violated, the inflexibility of that holiness and justice which I have offended, the exceeding … Continue reading →

“The giving of thanks should be a habit with us. No life is so utterly barren of good as to present no ground whatever for thanksgiving.” William Graham Scroggie (1877-1958)