Monthly Archives: September 2018

“The perfection of deity’s decree is always in the realm of His glory — holy and profound.”  (Anonymous)

“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)

“Piety is not commended by sadness and sourness.”  Arthur W. Pink  (1886-1952)

“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)

“An allegory illustrative of the great human fact, that not till we have slain the dragons of selfishness and sloth can we obtain any of the golden successes of life.”  (Hugh Macmillan; 1883-1903)

“He has presented us with his goodness, when he saw nothing in us but impatience and unbelief, when we were like Jonas in the belly of hell, his bowels yearned over us, and his power brought us safe to land.  … Continue reading →

“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)

“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 →

“Brethren, there is much lacking to us all; and what we receive, how speedily do we lack again!”  Rudolf Stier  (1800-1862)

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