Monthly Archives: March 2020

“Never doubt, though thy iniquities be never so great, there is a sea of mercy in God.”  (Richard Stock)

“The way of any sinner’s deliverance from such wrath shows sin to be exceeding great in the price and ransom that is paid for the salvation of him from his sins—the price of the blood of the eternal Son of … Continue reading →

“What if our prayers be full of defects, much troubled, too imperfect; what if conscience of unworthiness will not let us apply things as we would, God works abundantly above that what we think or ask.” (Paul Bayne)

“As election is the effect of God’s sovereignty, our pardon is the fruit of his mercy our knowledge is a stream from his wisdom, our strength an impression of his power; so our purity is a beam from his holiness.”  … Continue reading →

“Contrition and faith, regeneration, conversion, justification, the new life and its development, all the Christian virtues plus perseverance to the end are the operations of grace alone.”  ((Richard C. H. Lenski; 1864-1936)

“God knows everything that passes in our inmost souls better than we do ourselves:  he reads our most secret thoughts:  all the cogitations of our hearts pass in review before him; and he is as perfectly and entirely employed in … Continue reading →

“Devout and simple tears, which cannot speak, speak aloud in the ears of God.”  (John Donne; 1572-1631)

“As to the first cause of salvation, the Scripture shows that God alone is its author, who moved by His infinite goodness, has entirely prepared, procured, and accomplished the satisfaction of His justice and the purchase of immortality by sending … Continue reading →

“There is an inexhaustible fullness of grace and mercy in God, which the prayers of all the saints can never draw dry.”  (Matthew Henry, 1662-1714)

“Instead of trying to make others fret, we should try, young and old alike, to make the crooked places of men’s hearts straight, and the rough places of their lives plain; try to give the soft answer that turns away … Continue reading →