Monthly Archives: August 2021

“It was our sins that murdered him. Sin was the spear that wounded and pierced his very heart.  “He being made sin for us.”  We could not live again except he bore our sins upon his own body, and human … Continue reading →

“Unless we realize that in the Bible God is speaking and not man, it will mean little or nothing.  Man, in the Scriptures is only the channel and the instrument. God is the infallible Author.”  (M. R. DeHaan; 1891-1965)

“The Bible is divinely inspired, and when God says certain things must come to pass, be sure that they will come to pass.”  (Lehman Strauss; 1911-1997)

“There is not a single throb of godly sorrow, or a single pulsation of holy desire, in the lost spirit.  The temper toward God in the lost is angry and defiant.”  (William G. T. Shedd; 1820-1894)

“For uprightness is the soundness of all grace and virtues, as also of all religion and worship of God without which they are unsound and nothing worth.”  (George Downame; 1560-1634)

“Humility is a part of the image of God.  Pride is the masterpiece of the image of the devil.”  (Thomas Boston;  1677-1732)

“God’s chastening is not to destroy but to reform.  God cannot hurt His children, for He is a tender-hearted Father, “Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him (Psalm 103:13).”  (Thomas Watson; 1620-1686)

“It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the harlot, but to fly from all appearance of evil (Prov. 5. 1; 1 Thess. 5. 22).”(Thomas … Continue reading →

“There is not a moment, even the holiest, but we are exposed to the “fiery darts” of the adversary.”  (Octavius Winslow; 1808-1878)

“There is an adversary of our souls who is ever active.  His great object is always to discourage us and if possible, to get us even to deny the faith.  Various temptations are presented by him to our minds—anything that … Continue reading →