Monthly Archives: June 2018

“It was for the trial of their faith that these things happened to the Israelites, as do the trials of all Christians in all ages:  and it is ‘after we have suffered awhile’ that we may expect to be established, … Continue reading →

“It is stated, ‘the Spirit searcheth’—the spiritual man hath an infallible instructor.  It’s the Holy Spirit that teaches and understandeth the deep things of God.”   (No name)

“The pious man has no reason to prevent himself and others from seeing into his heart.  His strength is in God, and so he can lay open his weakness.”  (William S. Plumer; 1802-1880)

“Joy is experienced when we realize that our sin has been judged and put away in Christ.  It has been so in the purpose and intention of God.”  Frederick Brotherton Meyer  (1847-1929)

“To bless God for mercies is the way to increase them;  to bless him for miseries is the way to remove  them:  no good lives so long as that which is thankfully improved;   no evil dies so soon as that … Continue reading →

“Repentance and faith are inseparably united; the one perhaps never exists in the mind of a sinner without the other.”  (John Fawcett  1740-1817)

“The Christian lives by revelation, not by the conclusions of reason.”  Herman Hoeksema  (1886-1965)

“Unbelief and the fear of men are open avenues to a crushing despair.”  (No mention of author)

“So you may look lightly upon a Scripture and see nothing; meditate often upon it, and there you shall see a light, like the light of the sun.”  (Joseph Caryl; 1602-1673)

“Therefore, build not your comfort upon sense and feeling, which is to build upon the sand; but go to the promise, as to the rock, for it.”  Thomas Hooker  (1586-1647)