Monthly Archives: March 2017

“For as our sanctification during life is imperfect, so there is always a deficiency in our knowledge.”  John Daille  (1594-1670)

“To be weak is to be emptied of self; but to be all the time occupied with our inability is to be absorbed with self.”  Arthur W. Pink  (1886-1952)

“Therefore, mark not anything in me, O God, that I have done, but mark that only in me which thou hast done thyself.”  Sir Richard Baker (1568-1645)

“He shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.”  “What!  All?  Yes.  Not one left?  No, not a trace, not a shade, not the shadow of a shade; all buried, all gone, all swallowed up, all blotted out, all freely pardoned, … Continue reading →

“Man has hard thoughts of God, and high thoughts of himself.”  Andrew Jukes  (1815-1901)

“Oftentimes the soul seems lost for awhile in thoughts which overwhelm it, it loses its foothold, it tumbles about helplessly amid the deep waters of affliction.  It seems as if all were over.  Do not believe it.”  E. De Pressense  … Continue reading →

“He can rescue us when our doom seems fixed, he can give us the victory when defeat seems certain.” Charles H. Spurgeon  (1834-1892)

“Men are prone to be deluded by externals, and to suppose that the absence of outward splendor is indicative of the absence of God’s blessing, forgetting that God often chooses the weak things of the earth to confound the mighty, … Continue reading →

“Unto his hands let us commend our spirits, sure that even though the works of our hands have made void the works of his hands, yet his hands will again make perfect all that our hands have unmade.”  J.W. Burgon … Continue reading →

“Waiting has four purposes.  It practices the patience of faith.  It gives time for preparation for the coming gift.  It makes the blessing the sweeter when it arrives.  And it shows the sovereignty of God,–to give just when and just … Continue reading →