Monthly Archives: July 2018

“Sometimes the most God-honoring answer to Biblical questions is simply ‘I don’t understand, teach me these things.’”   (No name given)

“Christ’s whole manhood, body and soul, was placed on the altar, in the fire, and endured the wrath of God.”  (Alexander A. Bonar; 1810-1892)

“Men will never find a remedy for their miseries until, forgetting their own merits, by trusting to which they only deceive themselves, they have learned to betake themselves to the free mercy of God.”  John Calvin; 1509-1564)

“Some appease their own conscience, by censuring others.”  (William H. Van Doren 1810-1882)

“The Doctrine of Election containeth the whole sum and scope of the gospel, and our minds, if honestly subdued to the doctrine of God’s sovereignty, cannot be employed about a more excellent subject…It is that foundation which standeth sure, and … Continue reading →

“Having girt up the loins of your mind, being’—maintaining thus a constant guard against the natural looseness and waywardness of your own hearts, as well as against the entanglements and distractions of the things that are seen and temporal—you will … Continue reading →

“If Christ be precious to us, we shall prefer him to every other object:  He will have the chief place in our affections.”  (John Fawcett  1740-1817)

“Nothing perhaps more strongly indicates the tone of a believer’s spirituality, than the light in which the Scriptures are regarded by him.”  Octavius Winslow  (1808-1878)

“Man wanted to be a god at the first, and he continues his struggle to the last.”  (Horatius Bonar; 1808-1889)

“If we are exhorted to forgive the offenses of others, it is because God, for Christ’s sake hath forgiven us.”  (Robert Haldane; 1772-1854)