Monthly Archives: July 2016

“It is written, ‘Abraham believed God.’  It does not say Abraham understood God.”  Ethelbert William Bullinger  (1837-1913)

“God would not be a respectable Being if He were not almighty, and the doer of all things that are done, or if anything could come to pass which He had no hand.”  Martin Luther (1483-1546)

“His knowledge can no more be frustrated, or His wisdom be deceived, than He can cease to be God.  Nay, could either of these be the case, He actually would cease to be God, all mistake and disappointment being absolutely … Continue reading →

“Simple, childlike faith in prayer consists not in high devotion and warm feeling; it is nothing but believing and not doubting from the bottom of the heart.”  Rudolf E. Stier  (1816-1862)

“The mind which holds the simple fundamental truth that all is of God, may also hold, almost as a matter of course, that all is designed of God.”  J.J. Stewart Perowne  (1823-1904)

“For Christ in his death and resurrection represented me.”  John Bunyan (1628-1688)

“Self-love is the general that goes before, and Love of Pleasure is the lieutenant that follows after this army.  One is the first, the other is the last, and all the other lusts are between these two backs.”   Thomas  Goodwin  … Continue reading →

“It is best to obey Christ in all things, at all times, in all conditions.” Thomas Goodwin (1600-1679)

“But why does God save some, and not all? Because such is ‘the good pleasure of His will.’ He has infinitely wise reasons for this, though we understand them not.” Horatius Bonar

“The doleful anguish and excruciating death of the Lamb of God are comments on the evil and demerit of sin, which the penitent reads with deep attention.” John Colquhoun (1748-1827)