Monthly Archives: June 2017

“For we may be well assured that what God’s goodness, grace, and mercy moved him to promise, his truth, his faithfulness, and righteousness will move him to perform.”  William Gouge 1575-1653

“He redeemed us from the curse, by becoming a curse for us.” (John Brown; 1784-1858)

“But foolish man may think many things to be necessary for him, which the all-wise God knoweth to be not only unnecessary, but hurtful, and therefore mercifully denies what men ignorantly desire to their hurt.”  (Matthew Poole  1624-1679)

“Not only were we unable to bring ourselves into the faith but we cannot continue in it without divine strength.  Because of our proneness to apostatize, the subtlety and strength of our spiritual enemies, the evil of the world in … Continue reading →

“When we bear the burden of our own affairs ourselves, and are chastised with anxiety and want of success, and with envying the ungodly who prosper better than we do, the best remedy is first to do our duty, as … Continue reading →

“It is when Divine Power draws near to men, or when men draw near to Divine Power that they get the right measure of its dimensions and the right sense of their own impotence.”  William Garden Blaikie  (1820-1899)

“To enter the place of a doer before you have occupied that of a listener, is to reverse God’s order, and throw everything into confusion.”  Unknown  (1859)

“However believers in Christ deserve condemnation of themselves, as having many things condemnable in them, and however the law may accuse and trouble them, yet they are freed from actual condemnation; for  ‘he that believeth on him is not condemned.’”  … Continue reading →

“God’s time is the best time; mercy is never nearer; Salvation is at hand, deliverance is at the door, when a man’s heart is brought into such a frame as to be freely willing that God should time his mercy … Continue reading →

“It is a comfort to see that God’s power works effectually and irresistibly, the very same power as wrought in Christ to raise Him from the dead.”  Thomas Goodwin  (1600-1679