Monthly Archives: April 2023

“We know not what our prayer should be for two reasons, 1) because the future is still hidden, and 2) even in the present life, we know not what is best for us.”  (Augustine, 354-430)

“To do evil for good, is human corruption; to do good for good, is civil retribution; but to do good for evil, is Christian perfection.  Though this be not the grace of nature, yet it is the nature of grace.  … Continue reading →

“It is but little that we can know of his works, but that little should teach us to be humble and to admire the divine power and goodness.  How great must that Being be who produced these immense globes out … Continue reading →

“If we are exhorted to forgive the offences of others, it is because God, for Christ’s sake, hath forgiven us.”  (Robert Haldane, 1772-1854)

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

“The pious man has no reason to prevent himself and others from seeing into his heart. His strength is in God, and so he can lay open his weakness.”  (William S. Plumer 1802-1880)

“Unbelief and the fear of men are open avenues to a crushing despair.”  (Author Unknown)

“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; 1602-1673)

“The soul thus on the road to this glorious destiny, is humbled with the growing sense of its unworthiness, and feels more deeply that in our flesh dwells no good thing—sees nothing in us that we can suppose Jesus will … Continue reading →

“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)