Monthly Archives: January 2018

“But what does it help if man is on your side, if God is against you?”  Frans Bakker  (1919-1965)

“Wherever God intends to reveal his Son with power, wherever he intends to make the gospel to be ‘a joyful sound,’ he makes the conscience feel and groan under the burden of sin.”  (J.C. Philpot  1802-1869)

“Should your tongue utter all the thoughts of your heart when attending the worship of God, would not men abhor you?  Yet your thoughts are perfectly known to God.”  (John Falvel  1627-1691)

“My God, thou hidest thy treasure to kindle my desire!  Thou hidest thy pearl, to inflame the seeker;  thou delayest to give, that thou mayest teach me to importune; seemest not to hear, to make me persevere.”  John Anselm  (1034-1109)

“None can better discover Satan’s sleights and policies, than those who have been long in the fencing-school of temptation.”  (Thomas Watson, 1620-1686)

“The church is ‘the fullness of Him Who filleth all in all.’  His ‘body’ is not lacking or maimed.  It is as ‘a perfect man.’  At His coming it will be presented a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle … Continue reading →

“His natural perfections may excite our intellectual admiration, but cannot awaken our love.  Love, however, is the central idea of worship, and there can be no true worship without it.”  (James Madison Pendleton; 1811-1891)

“Not only is the outward course of life known to Him, but also the thoughts of our hearts.”  (Edward J. Young  1907-1968)

“No greater curse can befall a Christian church than to have teachers who, by their confused and erroneous statements, trouble the minds of believers, and attempt to pervert the gospel of Christ.”  (John Brown  1784-1858)

“Nothing is more provoking to God than our quarreling with our allotment, and indulging the desires of the flesh.”  Matthew Henry 1662-1714