Monthly Archives: November 2019

“The man who has drained the cup of pleasure can best tell the taste of its dregs.”  (William Arnot  1808-1875)

“God’s Word is only and always true and good; it must be unconditionally accepted on the simple ground that it is the Word of God.  There can never be a good in violating the Word of God.”  (Herman Hoeksema , … Continue reading →

“The giving of thanks should be a habit with us.  No life is so utterly barren of good as to present no ground whatever for thanksgiving.”  William Graham Scroggie  (1877-1958)

“Nothing of our own, however costly, as duty and self-denial and mortification, can excuse us for hesitating to rush into his arms.” (George Burroes, 1853)

“As the rising sun scatters the darkness of night, so when God returns to his people, in smiling mercy, he scatters the dark forebodings of unbelief, and liberates their souls from the bondage of sin.”  (William S. Plumer  1802-1880)

“To do evil for good, is human corruption; to do good for good, is civil retribution; but to do good for evil, is Christian perfection.  Though this be not the grace of nature, yet it is the nature of grace.  … Continue reading →

“This was love indeed, that God should take a filthy, wretched thing, and spread his skirts over it, and cover its nakedness, and swear unto it, and enter into a covenant with it, and make it his;  that is, that … Continue reading →

“The name Jesus refers to His saving His people;  the designation Christ, to His being anointed for that purpose;  and that of Lord, to His sovereign authority.”  (Robert Haldane; 1772-1854)

“The one who is under the faithful and watchful eye of Jehovah is insulated from every enemy, whether real or imagined.”  (Unknown)

“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)