Monthly Archives: July 2017

“It would be in us an impious and unexcusable uncharitableness to suspect the end of any work which he hath begun.”  (Robert Baylie; 1643)

“Sometimes a sudden passion arises, and out it goes in angry and forward words, setting all in an uproar and combustion:  by-and-by our hearts recur upon us, and then we wish, “O that I had bit my tongue and not … Continue reading →

“It may be that of His great generosity God sometimes blesses us, even through we have made a very inadequate use of the ordinary means.”  William Garden Blaikie  (1820-1899)

“But so long as we are occupied with any other object than God Himself, there will be neither rest for the heart nor peace for the mind.”  Arthur W. Pink  (1886-1952)

“It is not ours to resolve all difficulties in our understanding of God’s ways with men.”  John Murray  (1898-1975)

“They who profess themselves worshippers of the true God ought to perform it with humble and affectionate reverence, and with subjection and submission to him, considering his majesty and their own vileness.”  George Hutcheson (1615–1674)

“Oh!  the strange passions, the strange imaginations, the strange conclusions, that attend a distempered judgment.”  (Thomas Brooks  1608-1680)

“True repentance, which is an evangelical contrition of heart and a fixed resolution of spirit to turn from all sin to God, is wrought in the soul by the Spirit of Christ.”  John Colquhoun  (1748-1827

“And His beneficence to us, ill-deserving creatures, may well stop our mouth from complaining of His making a crook in our lot, who would have done us no wrong had He made the whole of it crooked.”  (Thomas Boston 1677-1732)

“When you dig away the earth from the root of a tree, it is to loosen the tree from the earth; so God digs away our earthly comforts to loosen our hearts from the earth.”  Thomas Watson 1620-1686)