Monthly Archives: August 2017

“I do not know why it is that what we desire becomes all the more alluring to us if it is forbidden.”  (St.Augustine  (354-430)

“My trust is in him, my expectation of relief is from him only, and he will deliver me out of all my temptations and tribulations.”  (Matthew Poole  1624-1679)

For to deny a man’s self, is to know he hath no power in himself to do any spiritual duty.  (Thomas Hooker; 1586-1647)

“What is man that he should dare to criticize the plans of omnipotence?  That he should propose to correct and improve the methods of Divine wisdom?  William Garden Blaikie  (1820-1899)

“There are no accidents nor chance happenings in a world presided over by the living God.”  (Arthur W. Pink, 1886-1952)

“Faith is the result of serious and impartial inquiry, and of a reverential regard to the authority of God in what he hath spoken.”  John Fawcett (1740-1817)

“It is the Lord’s will and appointment alone that can give a being to true worship, and to this must all our reasonings about this matter be subject.”  George Hutcheson (1615–1674)

“The soul which strongly believes and loves, may confidently hope to see what it believes, and to enjoy what it loves, and in that it may rejoice.”  Robert Leighton  (1611-1684)

“To have delivered me from all my troubles had been a great favour, but a far greater to deliver me from all my fears; for where that would but have freed me from present evil, this secures me from evil … Continue reading →

“The believer’s love to Jesus Christ, not only continues under the rod of correction, but is quickened and increased by it.”  (John Fawcett  1740-1817)