Monthly Archives: May 2025

“Rather than give way to doubt and unbelief, let us fall down in lowly adoration at his feet, take His truth, and rejoice in Him as our hope and our everlasting consolation.”  Joseph Augustus Seiss  (1823-1904)

“There is neither grace nor peace for man except through Christ.”  Joseph Augustus Seiss  (1823-1904)

“Self-Control!—This cannot be acquired in an instant…to possess it because we have learned to hand it over to Jesus Christ; to be self-controlled because we are Christ-controlled—this does not come easily or at once.  Only through long years of temptation … Continue reading →

“God is much displeased, even with his own children, when his power is questioned by them…Well, then, let it be your great care to have your faith confirmed in the belief of God’s almighty power…and pray much that God would … Continue reading →

“The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk in God’s ways, however trying to … Continue reading →

“Law is mind without passion; and it is better to have a code of laws, however bad, than to have none but the will of a man.”  Thomas McCrie  (1772-1835)

“Grace to pray and the fixing of the heart in prayer on the Lord, is his gift, no less than the answer of the prayer: and where the Lord gives the one grace, he will also give the other: thou … Continue reading →

“The heart hungering and thirsting for righteousness does not rest satisfied with the stalk and husks, but is anxious for the luscious kernel, of the fruits of eternal life.”  George Burrowes  (1600-1646)

“Let your outward actions be not something put on, but something produced—’fruits’ and fruits springing from inward repentance.”  David Thomas  (1813-1894)

“All blessings from God are fruits of sovereign grace.”  William H. Van Doren  (1810-1882)