Monthly Archives: July 2018

“Men’s crime and curse have been in looking for happiness in the possession of worldly wealth, power, grandeur, and influence.”  (David Thomas  1813-1894)

“Natural conscience and legal convictions may distress a sinner, and put him to pain, and stop him for a time in his evil courses; nay, it may tend to reform his life, but it cannot make him a true penitent, … Continue reading →

“God knows what his people suffer; how much, how long, from whom, for what.  His people should find consolation in this knowledge.   That trial is permitted by him.  That it is apportioned by him.  That it has its design from … Continue reading →

“In His eternal counsels, He looked upon them with a favorable regard which nothing in them can explain, and all who He thus foreknew became the subjects of a gracious predestination.  In other words, the whole and sole cause of … Continue reading →

“Sin is the only hindrance to our having the spirit of prayer.”  (William H. Van Doren  1810-1882)

“The heart is ever prone to divide its confidence between God and the creature.  This will never do.  We must  ‘wait only  upon God.’  ‘He only’ must be our ‘rock,’ our ‘salvation,’ and our ‘defence.’  Then we are frequently tempted … Continue reading →

“WE NEED ‘grace and truth’ to expel the demons of selfishness and falsehood, and there is only one Being in the universe that can supply our need, and that is Christ.  He is ‘full of grace and truth.’  Lord to … Continue reading →

“Past favors are pledges of God’s love; they ought therefore to be viewed as the earnest of future blessings, rather than as forerunners of ill.”  (Andrew Robert Fausset  1821-1910)

“The knowledge of God, therefore not being acquired, cannot be increased.”  (James Petigru Boyce; 1827-1888)

“The Gospel of God concerns His Son.  The whole of it is comprised in the knowledge of Jesus Christ;  so that whoever departs one step from Him, departs from the Gospel.”  (Robert Haldane, 1772-1854)