Monthly Archives: January 2016

“Every kind of trial is to be accepted as a necessary means of strengthening our character, for there can be no virtue without temptations to vice, temptations which come from the evil one.” (Alfred Plummer; 1841-1926)

“He made all the persons, and he makes all those differences Himself as it pleaseth Him; therefore He doth not admire them as we do, no, nor at all regard them. We find very great odds betwixt stately places and … Continue reading →

“As God draws near to us in promise, it is our privilege to draw near to Him in petition.” Arthur W. Pink (1886-1952)

“He who believes that God is really the Almighty Creator and Preserver of the whole creation will have no difficulty in believing that He has intervened miraculously in the course of human history.” Norval Geldenhuys (1918-1964)

“Disprove that He is almighty, and then we will grant that His influence and operations are limited and circumscribed.” Jerome Zanchius (1516-1590)

“Nothing hinders His work or changes His purpose.” Andrew Jukes (1815-1901)

“’Purge away our sins for Thy Name’s sake,’ i.e. that God’s Name may be glorified as a God who pardons iniquity and sin.”J.J. Stewart Perowne (1823-1904)

“Teach me to do thy will.” We are to pray that God would teach us to know, and then teach us to do, his will. Knowledge without obedience is lame, obedience without knowledge is blind; and we must never hope … Continue reading →

“Dear brethren: the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is the most excellent and most admirable doctrine that was ever published in the universe…There is no philosophy, or other doctrine, but this, which is able to deliver us from the … Continue reading →

“Who dares limit the Almighty? He takes his own way with sinners—one by a whisper, another by a hurricane.” John Bunyan (1628-1688)