Monthly Archives: July 2016

“Contentment, even in material things, ought not to extinguish efforts for improvement; and we ought never to be content with our moral and spiritual condition.  Alfred Plummer (1842-1926)

“For if I believe, with the apostle, that ‘all things are of God’ (2 Cor. 5:18), I shall be less liable to perturbation when afflicted, and learn more easily to possess my soul in patience.”  Jerome Zanchius  (1516-1590)

“UNITE MY HEART—suffer it no longer to scatter itself upon a multiplicity of objects, to be drawn hither and thither by a thousand different aims, but turn all its powers, all its affections in one direction, collect them in one … Continue reading →

“Ay, saith Satan, thou mayest pray indeed, but thou shalt not prevail.  Thou seest thine heart is hard, cold, dull, and dead . . . thy thoughts are running after other things, when thou pretendest to pray to God.   Whereas … Continue reading →

“The things He wanted was not to be found among the possibilities, but among the impossibilities, if matters were left to themselves, and to the operation of the usual laws.  How, then, shall that which is impossible be rendered not … Continue reading →

“It is when sin is contemplated by the believer as a base and criminal outrage against the Father of mercies, and his own God and Father, that a sense of the malignity of it is deeply impressed on his heart.”  … Continue reading →

“If all the apostles were alive, and should set themselves to persuade one man; or if God should send all the angels down from heaven to the earth to persuade one man; they could not make this law pass in … Continue reading →

“The intenseness of the affliction renders it trying to our fortitude; but it is by the continuance of it that patience is put to the test.  It is not under the sharpest, but the longest trials, that we are most … Continue reading →

“How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily?”  (Ps. 13:2)  “There is in the original the idea of ‘laying up’ counsels in his heart, as if his devices had become innumerable but unavailing.  … Continue reading →

“Contact with moral evil is intense suffering to a pure soul.”  Alfred Plummer (1841-1926)