Monthly Archives: March 2016

“God is much displeased, even with his own children, when his power is questioned by them…Well, then, let it be your great care to have your faith confirmed in the belief of God’s almighty power…and pray much that God would … Continue reading →

“Grace to pray, and the fixing of the heart in prayer on the Lord, is his gift, no less than the answer of the prayer: and where the Lord giveth the one grace, he will also give the other: thou … Continue reading →

“He that is conscious of this relationship to Christ considers all things, in life and in death, in the light of it, and evaluating things in that light, is quite sure that the evil of this present time, including death, … Continue reading →

“There may be, indeed, a time when God will not be found, but no time wherein he must not be trusted…Times of trouble are proper times for trust, be the trouble either spiritual or temporal.” Thomas Lye (1621-1684)

“Love to Jesus Christ becomes through sanctification, the strongest passion that can take possession of the human heart.” George Burrowes (1811-1894)

“The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk in God’s ways, however trying to … Continue reading →

“There is no sin in the mere possession of any thought, but in the entertainment that is given to it.” David Thomas (1813-1894)

“Law is mind without passion; and it is better to have a code of laws, however bad, than to have none but the will of a man.” Thomas McCrie (1772-1835)

“The decrees of God may be defined as that just, wise, and holy purpose or plan by which eternally, and within himself, he determines all things whatsoever that come to pass.” James Petigru Boyce (1827-1888)

“We hear much of what man does, and can do, and ought to do, but by no means so much of what God is doing, and has purposed to do. Man’s agency stands very prominently to our view,–God’s arm and … Continue reading →