Monthly Archives: August 2019

“Teach me to do thy will.”  We are to pray that God would teach us to know, and then teach us to do his will.  Knowledge without obedience is lame, obedience without knowledge is blind; and we must never hope … Continue reading →

“Who dares limit the Almighty?  He takes his own way with sinners—one by a whisper, another by a hurricane.”  John Bunyan (1628-1688)

“There is a resting, a place for the weary — deep and broad, immovable and sure — Jesus, the sin-bearing Lamb of God.”  Horatius Bonar  (1808-1890)

“Christ knows the intensity and fury of temptation and He knows how strong sin is.  Therefore, He can have pity on the sinner who comes before His throne.”  Frans Bakker  (1919-1965)

“Faith in God’s word can alone enable us to wait with patience for the fulfillment of His promise.”  Ethelbert William Bullinger  (1837-1913)

“As the mercies that are with the Lord are tender, great, rich, a multitude, and manifold; so they are mercies that DIMINISH NOT in the using, but that rather increase in the exercising of them.”  John Bunyan (1628-1688)

“When we seriously consider who He was, for whom He suffered, and what He endured, we cannot but perceive God’s infinite and irreconcilable abhorrence of all iniquity.”  John Colquhoun (1748-1827)

“Faith and fear go hand in hand.  Faith keeps the heart cheerful, fear keeps the heart serious.  Faith keeps the heart from sinking in despair, fear keeps it from floating in presumption.”  Thomas Watson  (1620-1686)

“We cannot conceive how many of God’s kind counsels have been concerning us; how many good turns he has done us; and what variety of mercies we have received from him.  We cannot conceive the multitude of God’s compassions which … Continue reading →

“The fruit of patience is not found after one affliction or two, but after we are exercised and acquainted with them:  the yoke after a while begins to be well settled, and by much bearing, we learn to bear with … Continue reading →