Monthly Archives: October 2024

“The intenseness of the affliction renders it trying to our fortitude; but it is by the continuance of it that patience is put to the test.  It is not under the sharpest but the longest trials that we are most … Continue reading →

“How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily?”  (Ps. 13:2)  “There is in the original the idea of ‘laying up’ counsels in his heart, as if his devices had become innumerable but unavailing.  … Continue reading →

“The light must shine before men’ which is not the same as shining ‘to be seen of men.”  Alfred Plummer (1841-1926)

“It is written, ‘Abraham believed God.’  It does not say Abraham understood God.”  Ethelbert William Bullinger  (1837-1913)

“God would not be a respectable Being if He were not almighty, and the doer of all things that are done, or if anything could come to pass in which He had no hand.”  Martin Luther (1483-1546)

“Only direct thy faith to the depths both of the wisdom and knowledge of God that it may honor His judgments and ways, the individual particulars of which the human mind can never understand.”  Rudolf E. Stier  (1816-1862)

“God makes a man righteous by possessing him with a principle of righteousness; which principle is not of nature, but of grace; not of man, but of God.”  (John Bunyan, 1628-1688)

“’I have sinned’; and as in the parable, the father’s heart moved toward his prodigal son when he was yet a long way off. So David found that his Father was ready to forgive — ‘I said, I will confess.’ … Continue reading →

“My brethren, the love of God brought in by faith will help a man bear up under any condition.”  Thomas Goodwin  (1600-1679)

“Why does God save some and not all?  Because such is ‘the good pleasure of His will.’  He has infinitely wise reasons for this, though we understand them not.”  Horatius Bonar (1808-1890)