Monthly Archives: July 2021

“It is the heart that speaks, the tongue is but the instrument to give the sound.”  (Richard Clerke; 1634)

“The world we live in is a world of fools.  The far greater part of mankind act a part entirely irrational.  So great is their infatuation, that they prefer time to eternity, momentary enjoyments to those that shall never have … Continue reading →

“Learn how deep seated and how stubborn is that principle in human nature which seeks the starting point of salvation in self rather than in God, in doing rather than in receiving, in work rather than in grace.”  (Thomas Dehany … Continue reading →

“If God knows that any event will occur and can prevent it but does not, it is evident that he purposes that it shall exist and makes it a part of his plan.”  (James Pettigru Boyce  1887)

“The best Christians are most suspicious of themselves.”  (Thomas Hooker  1586-1647)

“Every time I truly mourn over my sins, feel my poverty of spirit, hunger and thirst after righteousness, I have an indubitable evidence that I am among the ‘blessed.’”  (Arthur W. Pink  1886-1952)

“They who are of faith are plainly those who are expecting justification by faith and not of works; who are not working that they may obtain the favor of God as a meritorious reward, but who are believing that ‘God … Continue reading →

“The excellency of the Scriptures and the wisdom of their Divine Author are to be seen in what they conceal and keep back, as well as in what they reveal and bring forward.”  (Thomas McCrie; 1772-1835)

“The feeblest desire and attempt to seek the Lord is the Spirit’s rising beam in the heart, a ‘day of small things not to be ‘despised.’”  (Zech. 4:10)  (Charles Bridges  1827)

“Seeing in the glass of the loving kindness, sparing mercy, and holy law of God, and of the agony and anguish of his Redeemer, the unutterable deformity, odiousness and demerit of his sins, he abhors himself for his iniquities and … Continue reading →