Monthly Archives: November 2020

“Contentment involves learning to love the will of God regardless of the circumstances into which it may bring a person.”  (Charles Caldwell Ryrie, 1925)

“Conversion is a peculiar and sovereign gift of God.  The sinner has no power to turn himself unto God, but is turned or renewed by divine grace before he can do anything spiritually good.”  (Loraine Boettner, 1901-1990)

“It is most meet that we should day by day cry to God for deliverance and help; our frailty and our many dangers render this a perpetual necessity.”  (Charles H. Spurgeon, 1834-1892)

“In all men by nature there is struggle — the perverse will strive with the conscience, the ‘fleshly lusts’ quelling spiritual aspirations and yearnings, and thus in the fullest sense ‘warring against the soul.”  (James Johnstone, 1871)

“We fail, not because there is not ample strength in Jesus Christ for us, but because in our folly and sin we are trusting in ourselves to obey the law.”  (Edward Henry Bickersteth  1825-1906)

“Turn me not only from sin and ignorance, but from every false confidence and every deceitful refuge.”  (James Hervey; 1714-1758)

“Without Divine permission, even the wicked cannot go on.”  (William H. Van Doren  1810-1882)

“All God’s reasons come from within His uncreated being.  Nothing has entered the being of God from eternity, nothing has been removed, and nothing has been changed.”  (A. W. Tozer  1897-1963)

“Regeneration is the spring, sanctification is the stream; if we live in the Spirit, we shall also walk in the Spirit; but we cannot walk spiritually unless we be spiritually alive.”  (James Buchanan  1843)

“If all things are possible to him that believes, then any limitation to our success against the power and prevalence of sin, or Satan, or any evil, must arise alone from unbelief.”  (Hugh Martin  1869)