Monthly Archives: July 2025

“He can do all that ever you need, without any means or instruments.  His bare word is sufficient, all-sufficient, for it, whatever it be, how great, how difficult, how impossible soever it seems.  Such a power there is even in … Continue reading →

“Wherever God intends to reveal his Son with power, wherever he intends to make the gospel to be ‘a joyful sound,’ he makes the conscience feel and groan under the burden of sin.”  (J.C. Philpot  1842)

“Not only is the outward course of life known to Him, but also the thoughts of our hearts.”  (Edward J. Young  1907-1968)

“A man who is little in his own eyes will account every affliction as little, and every mercy as great.”  (Jeremiah Burroughs  1600-1646)

“Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him.”  “It implies a willingness that he should choose for us, a conviction that the ordering of all that concerns us is safer in his hands than in our own.”  (James D. … Continue reading →

“He redeemed us from the curse, by becoming a curse for us.”  (John Brown; 1784-1858)

“Have mercy upon me; I plead not my merit, but thy free mercy.”  (Matthew Poole  1624-1679)

“Afflictions to the godly are medicinal…Afflictions are as needful as ordinances (1 Peter 1:6).  No vessel can be made of gold without fire; so it is impossible that we should be made vessels of honor, unless we are melted and refined … Continue reading →

 “The amount of sin makes ‘no difference.’  Out of Christ, he who calls himself the least of sinners must perish; in Christ, the very vilest is made the righteousness of God.”  Brownlow North  (1741-1820)

“Living faith in a living and loving Savior can do all things.”  William Garden Blaikie  (1820-1899)