Monthly Archives: June 2025

“Whatever is in harmony with the moral character of God is right, and whatever is in conflict with it is wrong.”  James Madison Pendleton  (1811-1891)

“God in the exercise of His infinite wisdom and power, so personally directs and controls the free actions of men as to determine all things in accordance with His eternal purpose.”  E.H. Bancroft

“The Bible is the chief source of information about God in His character and work.”  Claude Duval Cole  (1885-1968)

“Whatever you need dwells richly in the Woman’s Seed.  Cast on Him your vileness, and take His purity; cast on Him your poverty, and take His riches; cast on Him your nothingness, and take His fullness; cast on Him your … Continue reading →

“Be our troubles many in number, strange in nature and heavy in measure; Yet God’s mercies are more numerous, his wisdom more wondrous and his power more miraculous; he will deliver us out of all.  Thomas Adams (1807-1880)

“A lively sense of the divine presence is a mighty stay to the heart in times of distress.”  Charles H.  Spurgeon  (1834-1892)

“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 →

“Contentment, even in material things, ought not to extinguish efforts for improvement; and we ought never to be content with our moral and spiritual condition.  Alfred Plummer (1842-1926)

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

“For if I believe, as did the apostle, that ‘all things are of God,’ (2 Cor. 5:18), I shall be less liable to perturbation when afflicted, and learn more easily to possess my soul in patience.”  Jerome Zanchius  (1516-1590)