Monthly Archives: May 2019

“The man who does not see his need of exercising repentance daily may have a counterfeit, but cannot have a true repentance.”  (John Colquhoun 1748-1827)

“Is God’s love eternal?  Then Satan cannot get beyond or between this love of God and us; for it was before the world was, and so before Satan was.”  (Christopher Ness  1621-1705)

“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)

“The more extensive a man’s obedience is unto God’s commandments, the more he is grown in grace.”  (William Bridge; 1600-1671)

“Repentance and faith are not the cause of the birth from above; they are the effects of it.  The cause of regeneration is God alone.”  (Conrad Murrell)

“As for God, his way is perfect…The law of the Lord is perfect…The testimony of the Lord is sure… The statutes of the Lord are right…The commandment of the Lord is pure…The fear of the Lord is clean…The judgments of … Continue reading →

“Christians are in a peculiar sense the family of God. From the far country of darkness and death, into which we had wandered, His grace has brought us home; and now, not merely through the fact of our being moral … Continue reading →

“Persecution is a temptation to deny Christ, and those who meet persecution in a spirit of bravado have no right to expect to be delivered from succumbing to that temptation.”  Alfred Plummer (1841-1926)

“Obedience becomes easy and delightful when it is in response to trust and love, and if there were more of these latter, there would be less of disobedience.”  (William Graham Scroggie  1877-1958)

“The higher the destination of a silver vessel, the greater is the need that the silver be pure, and therefore, that it be frequently passed through the furnace.”  (William Garden Blaikie; 1820-1899)