Monthly Archives: June 2021

“The highest freedom is the state in which it will be forever impossible for man to choose contrary to the will of God.”  (Herman Hoeksema, 1886-1965)

“It follows that if Christ bore sin, His people do not need to bear it.  It follows also that since God has appointed this way of deliverance, there is no other way.”  (George Smeaton; 1814-1889)

‘’However hot the furnace, not a particle of heaven’s pure ore—the faith of God’s elect—shall perish there.  Only the base alloys of earth must be consumed.”  (John Lillie  1812-1867)

“Sometimes the most God-honoring answer to Biblical questions is simply ‘I don’t understand, teach me these things.”   (No name given)

“It is by the high way of pride that sinners depart from God; and it is by the low way of humiliation that they return to Him.”  (John Colquhoun  1748-1827)

“Men will never find a remedy for their miseries until, forgetting their own merits, by trusting to which they only deceive themselves, they have learned to take themselves to the free mercy of God.”  John Calvin; 1509-1564)

“Men’s crime and curse have been in looking for happiness in the possession of worldly wealth, power, grandeur, and influence.”  (David Thomas  1813-1894)

“So you may look lightly upon a Scripture and see nothing; meditate often upon it, and there you shall see a light, like the light of the sun.”  (Joseph Caryl  1647)

“We best recognize our sinfulness when we best recognize the glory of God.”  (William H. Van Doren 1810-1882)

“When we are exhorted to look not to our own things only, but also to those of others, it is because we ought to have the same mind in us that was in Christ Jesus, who being in the form … Continue reading →