Monthly Archives: September 2025

“None is so miserable as he who cannot see his need and therefore says, ‘I have need of nothing.”  (Conrad Murrell)

“Nothing but a perfect obedience can gain God’s favour.  Hence, the covenant, and hence the incarnation and sacrifice of Christ; hence the substitution of the just for the unjust.”  (William Arnot; 1808-1875)

“It was our sins that murdered him. Sin was the spear that wounded and pierced his very heart.  “He being made sin for us.”  We could not live again except he bore our sins upon his own body, and human … Continue reading →

“Unless we realize that in the Bible God is speaking and not man, it will mean little or nothing.  Man in the Scriptures is only the channel and the instrument, God is the infallible Author.”  (M. R. De Haan; 1891-1965)

“The Bible is divinely inspired. When God says certain things must come to pass, be sure that they will come to pass.”  (Lehman Strauss; 1911-1997)

“There is no ascertaining the quality of a tree but by its fruits.  When the wheels of a clock move within, the hands on the dial move without.  When the heart of a man is sound in conversion, then the … Continue reading →

“There is not a single throb of godly sorrow, or a single pulsation of holy desire, in the lost spirit.  The temper toward God in the lost is angry and defiant.”  (William G. T. Shedd; 1820-1894)

“For uprightness is the soundness of all grace and virtues, as also of all religion and worship of God, without which they are unsound and worth nothing.”  (George Downame; 1560-1634)

“Humility and lowliness of spirit qualify us for friendly communion and interaction with God in Christ.  Pride makes God our enemy.”  (Thomas Boston; 1677-1732)

“A child of God is in himself not able to send up a sweet-smelling sacrifice of prayer that is acceptable to heaven.  He is too infirm and powerless because of the impotence of sin, the impotence of foolishness, ignorance, and … Continue reading →