Monthly Archives: September 2017

“Thy way, i. e. all thy cares and business, thy desires and necessities.  Commend them to God by fervent prayer, referring them to His good will and expecting a happy issue of all from him.”  (Matthew Poole  1624-1679)

“Learn to set spiritual riches over against temporal poverty.  Balance all your present troubles with your spiritual privileges.”  (John Flavel; 1628-1691)

“Prayer is a necessity of spiritual life, and all who earnestly try to pray soon feel the need of teaching how to do it.” (Unknown)

“Errorists always like to add at least something to faith in Christ’s death, often even the main saving thing.”  (R. C. H. Lenski  1864-1936)

“Well!  A tempted soul, when it is worse with him, may safely argue thus:  If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy; if there were not something of God within me, Satan would never … Continue reading →

“His wisdom, which cannot err.  His knowledge, which cannot be deceived.  His truth, which cannot fail.  His love, which nothing can alienate.  His justice, which cannot condemn any for whom Christ died.  His power, which none can resist, and His … Continue reading →

“When we have clear indications of the Divine mind as to any course of action, we are to advance to it promptly and without fear, even though the means at our disposal appear utterly inadequate to the object sought to … Continue reading →

“We do not look for any man’s world betterment program to succeed, but we do look ‘for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.’” (Titus 2:13).  (Lehman Strauss  1911-1997)

Man, rebelling against God as He has revealed Himself and from the kind of life that God dictates, proceeds to make for himself new gods, and new religions, and to elaborate a new way of life and of salvation.”  (D. … Continue reading →

“It is the low and mean thoughts, and the shallow persuasion we have of things that are spiritual, that are the cause of all our remissness and coldness in them.” Robert Leighton  (1611-1684)