Monthly Archives: September 2017

“If we open our mouths to God in prayer, he will fill them more and more with suitable petitions and arguments.  When we attempt to open the mouth, God will open it still wider.”  Benjamin Beddome  (1717-1795)

“Soldiers have never been so admired for their victories, as the saints have been for their sufferings.”  (Thomas Watson  1620-1686)

“There is no condition that a godly man or woman can be in, but there is some promise or other in the Scriptures to help him in that condition.”  (Jeremiah Burroughs  1600-1646)

“When matters are raveled and disordered, he can find out the right end of the thread, and how to disentangle us again; and when we have spoiled a business, he can dispose it for good, and make an advantage of … Continue reading →

“O then take heed of repining.  Say not that God deals hardly with you, lest you provoke him to convince you by your own sense that he has worse rods than these for unsubmissive and forward children.”  (John Flavel  1627-1691)

“Therefore, when we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God.”  Arthur W, Pink  (1886-1952)

“The first word He spoke to man in paradise was the law, the second was the glorious Gospel; He made Himself known first as the Sovereign, and then as the Redeemer.”  (R.S. Candlish; 1806-1873)

“None but God’s people can call Him Lord, and no man calleth Him LORD save through Jesus Christ His Son.”  (Edward J. Young  1907-1968)

It takes many years to learn how to live, and it is a waste not to draw from those wells of accumulated experience.” (George E. Gardiner  1919-1984)

When the specific purpose of God is to divorce one from self, God usually leaves one by oneself.  (Anonymous)