Monthly Archives: May 2016

“It might have been foreseen all along, for ‘affliction’ is no chance weed that springs up haphazard, but ‘man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.” (Job v. 6, 7) Edgar C.S. Gibson (1717-1795)

“Sincerity therefore must be the stamp of my Christian profession. Though utterly unable to render perfect obedience to the least of the commandments, yet my desire and purpose will have respect unto them all.”  Charles Bridges (1794-1869)

“Open thy mouth wide then, O Christian; stretch out thy desires to the uttermost, grasp heaven and earth in thy boundless wishes, and believe there is enough in God to afford thee full satisfaction.” (Benjamin Beddome, 1771-1795)

“For if it should prove to be the meaning, that all this power of God, the same power that wrought in Christ in raising Him from death unto life, if that power should be put forth in conversion at first, … Continue reading →

“As for our part, let us mark that God has chosen us to the end we should be blameless: Howbeit, that we are not able to be so till we are quite rid of all our infirmities, and departed out … Continue reading →

“Dangerous prayers. When lust dictates, wrath may answer. Let grace dictate, and mercy will answer.” Unknown

“Yea, the devil, the arch-evil-angel, who seeks to devour, yet must be sent ere he can do ought.” Richard Clerke (1634)

“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 →

“Men limit the Lord when they fix on a blessing they would have, even that, and not another; and the measure of it, to what degree it should be bestowed on them, as well as the set time when they … Continue reading →

“He is the most thankful man that treasures up the mercies of God in his memory, and can feed his faith with what God hath done for him, so as to walk in the strength thereof in present straits.” (William … Continue reading →