Monthly Archives: July 2025

“As the rising sun scatters the darkness of night, so when God returns to his people, in smiling mercy, he scatters the dark forebodings of unbelief, and liberates their souls from the bondage of sin.”  (William S. Plumer  1867)

“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)

“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 →

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

“Sometimes the most God-honoring answer to Biblical questions is simply ‘I don’t understand, teach me these things.”   (No name given)

“We best recognize our sinfulness when we best recognize the glory of God.”  (William H. Van Doren 1810-1882)

“The whole universe is more thoroughly at the command of His will than our bodies are at the command of ours.”  (David Thomas  1813-1894)

“Everything that can be called good in man, or in the universe, originates in the ‘I will’ of Jehovah.”  (Horatius Bonar; 1808-1889)

“It is the Gospel of God, inasmuch as God is its author, its interpreter, its subject: its author, as He has purposed it in His eternal decrees; its interpreter, as He Himself hath declared it to men; its subject, because in … Continue reading →

“It is after Spiritual instruction that one really knows the truth, and instead of it producing pride, it brings forth shame that ends in God-wrought repentance.”  (Anonymous)