Monthly Archives: March 2018

“We know in part and at best, our knowledge is but a stammering of the truth.  God’s knowledge is perfect and all-embracing.  Of Him alone may it be said that He knows and He understands.”  (Edward J. Young  1907-1968)

“No man is qualified to teach who is not well nigh overwhelmed with a sense of his own insufficiency.”  (David Thomas 1813-1894)

“For in choosing those that are unworthy, He has no respect but only to His own mere goodness.  What want we more?  Then it is good reason that we should hold ourselves contented with God’s will, and bridle ourselves, and … Continue reading →

“The man whose master principle is a wish to please men, cannot be a consistent servant of Christ.”  (John Brown  1784-1858)

“The impurity and earthliness of men’s minds are the great cause of disunion and disaffection among them and of all their strifes” (James 4:1);  Robert Leighton  (1611-1884)

“The fruit of the Lord’s putting his own in straits, is to make them and all men see, that he hath ways of deliverance, more than they know of; and that he will save his own when men count their … Continue reading →

“An unhumbled heart sets not a due value on Divine mercies; but those who are truly acquainted with themselves, who know what they are and have been, together with what the Lord has done for them, in raising them up … Continue reading →

“For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.”   Or rather, as others render it, and which is more admirable.  When there is not a word and Thou knowest what I intend to … Continue reading →

“Fear ye not.  What shall they fear, above whose head the Gospel-standard floats?  Faith reads thereon, ‘If God be for us, who can be against us?’  Rom. 8:31.  But use no fruitless efforts.  The waves are deep.  The foes are … Continue reading →

“To set God his time is to limit him (Psalms 78:41); it is to exalt ourselves above him, as if we were wiser than God.”  (Thomas Brooks  1608-1680)