Monthly Archives: October 2016

“The most proper means used for compassing an end are insignificant without a word of Divine appointment, commanding their success.  ‘Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord does not command it?”  Thomas Boston (1677-1732)

“And because God is thus infinite, His plan must extend to every detail of the world’s existence.  If we could see the world in all its relations, past, present, and future, we would see that it is following a predetermined … Continue reading →

“Many things occur to make us uneasy, but there is enough in the covenant of grace to balance them, and to make us easy.”  Matthew Henry (1662-1714)

“Certainly, nothing makes afflictions burdensome to us but our own carnal affections.”  Thomas Manton (1620-1677)

“He (Satan) is studying our tempers and characters all the day long.  We know little of ourselves –he knows us perfectly.  He sees the weak point—the fitting time—and accordingly, he lays the snare.”  Henry Law  (1797-1884)

“Whatever is in harmony with the moral character of God is right, and whatever is in conflict with it is wrong.”  James Madison Pendleton  (1811-1891)

“The Bible answers every question concerning the eternal welfare of the human soul.”  Claude Duval Cole  (1885-1968)

“The sovereign arbitrator of destiny holds in his own power all the issues of our life; we are not waifs and strays upon the ocean of fate, but are steered by infinite wisdom towards our desired haven.”  Charles H. Spurgeon  … Continue reading →

“Persecution is a temptation to deny Christ, and those who meet persecution in a spirit of bravado have no right to expect to be delivered from succumbing to that temptation.”  Alfred Plummer (1841-1926)

“God bids thee do so; and I, says the apostle, ‘desire that ye faint not,’ Eph. 3:13. That is in the prosecution of your desires, what discouragements soever you may meet with in the way; for he hath said, “The … Continue reading →