Monthly Archives: February 2018

“Because a Christian sometimes stops short of the Cross in his spiritual conflicts, he fails to defeat the enemy and remains unfruitful and unhappy, until by some special intervention of the great Restorer, he is again brought, in spirit, to … Continue reading →

“This is it which God expects of us, and where he desires to bring us, that seeing our own emptiness,  insufficiency and the impotency and disability of others to help us, we should in all humility fly to his mercy.”  … Continue reading →

“Oh! Let the redeemed cherish honorable thoughts of their present glory.  Be careful to clear it from the defilement and degradation of the world’s dust, and enjoy it in adoring praise to Him, who hath chosen thee to this so … Continue reading →

“When man is selfish he cannot but have a great deal of trouble and vexation, for if I regard myself, my ends are so narrow that a hundred things will come and jostle me, and I cannot have room in … Continue reading →

“Therefore, on seeing your failures, you should say, I am nothing but a failure; but God is dealing with me on another principle altogether than my works, good or bad–a principle not involving my works, but based only on the … Continue reading →

“Particular truths can be fully understood, and the power of certain promises can be adequately felt, only by our being brought into situations where the soul is made to feel the need of those truths and those promises.” George Burrowes  … Continue reading →

“It is not so much external performances that make the difference between men, as their inward temper.”  Robert Leighton  (1611-1684)

“There is nothing of more importance, whether for the individual believer or for the Church collectively, than a firm conviction, such as the Book of Joshua emphatically supplies, that long delays on God’s part involve no forgetfulness of His promises, … Continue reading →