Monthly Archives: August 2016

“The Lord has appointed various means, and commanded you to use them.  Employ them all, therefore, and instead of depending on them, or relying on your use of them, trust that the Lord Jesus will render them effectual.  If you … Continue reading →

“Mere formalists may be content without answers to their prayers, but genuine suppliants cannot; they are not satisfied with the results of prayer itself in calming the mind and subduing the will—they must go further and obtain actual replies from … Continue reading →

“Those who are ordained unto eternal life were not so ordained on account of any worthiness foreseen in them, or of any good works to be wrought by them, nor yet for their future faith, but purely and solely of … Continue reading →

“For with the Lord is mercy…In myself I perceive nothing but wrath, in the devil nothing but hatred, in the world nothing but extreme fury and madness.  But the Holy Ghost cannot lie, which willeth me to trust because there … Continue reading →

“God makes a man righteous by possessing him with a principle of righteousness; which principle is not of nature, but of grace; not of man, but of God.”  (John Bunyan, 1628-1688)

“Cares do, as the word imports, distract the soul and scatter it into wild thoughts, wandering anxieties.”  Thomas Goodwin  (1600-1679)

“Receive me, then, O Eternal Father, for the sake of our Lord’s merits and words; for he, by his obedience and his death, hath now merited from thee everything which I do not merit of myself.”  Fra Thome de Jesu … Continue reading →

“Consider, I intreat you, that without an affecting sense of the hatefulness of sin, there is no humiliation; that without humiliation, there is no true repentance; and that without such repentance, it will be impossible for you to escape the … Continue reading →

“To return evil for good is devilish; to return good for good is human; to return good for evil is divine.”  (Alfred Plummer 1841-1926)

“But whatever vies of faith we take, one thing is obvious; that it is from first to last ‘the gift of Go’”  Horatius Bonar  (1808-1890)