February 14, 2010

“To be weak is to be emptied of self; but to be all the time occupied with our inability is to be absorbed with self.” Arthur W. Pink (1886-1952)

February 13, 2010

“Alas, how many in our day who profess to be the Lord’s are as abjectly dependent upon their fellow-men or upon an arm of flesh in some shape or other, as if they had never known the name of Jehovah at all.” (Charles H. Spurgeon; 1834-1892)

February 12, 2010

The duration of the Satan’s encounters will last until he is destroyed. He only conspires in sabotage and vandalism. Leaving the evil monster to the will of God is our greatest wisdom. Should we seek to do battle against him in the power of our own strength will only result in bringing upon ourselves an absolute crushing defeat. (Anonymous)

February 11, 2010

“God never intended that any one should wrestle with evil without the power of the Spirit.” (Norval Geldenhuys )

February 10, 2010

“Hallowed be Thy Name. That this petition stands first warns us against self-seeking in prayer. We are not to begin with our own wants, not even our spiritual wants; not with ourselves at all, but with God.” (Alfred Plummer; 1841-1926)

February 9, 2010

In these names, Lord and Jesus, Christ’s divinity and humanity blend. He whom we trust is both God and Man. As God alone, we could never have known Him. As Man alone, He could never have saved us. (William Graham Scroggie; 1877-1958)

February 8, 2010

“His wisdom, which cannot err. His knowledge, which cannot be deceived. His truth, which cannot fail. His love, which nothing can alienate. His justice, which cannot condemn any for whom Christ died. His power, which none can resist, and His unchangeableness, which can never vary…from all which it appears that we do not speak at all improperly when we say that the salvation of His people is necessary and certain.” Jerome Zanchius (1516-1590)

February 7, 2010

“Thus His Almightiness comes to us in what appears to be our helplessness. The less of self, the more of God. And the one only thing needed on man’s part, to receive all this Almightiness, is the faith to yield oneself to God, and to let Him do what He will with us. Can we so believe as to let God do what he pleases with us? Then as “all things are possible with God, so “all things are possible to him that believeth.” Andrew Jukes (1888)

February 6, 2010

Some men are kept back from sin for lack of opportunity; if they had it they would sin. (Ralph Venning; (1622-1674)

February 5, 2010

Thoughts are sins! The law judges them, rebukes a man for them, and therefore they are transgressions of the law. Thoughts are capable of pardon, they must be pardoned if we are to be saved, which argues the multitudes of God’s mercies, for thoughts are so infinite, thoughts are to be repented of. And a man is never truly and thoroughly wrought on until his “every thought is brought into obedience,” which argues that they are naturally rebellious and contrary to grace. (Thomas Goodwin; 1600-1679)

February 4, 2010

“It is not ours to resolve all difficulties in our understanding of God’s ways with men.” John Murray (1898-1975)

February 3, 2010

"Not only were we unable to bring ourselves into the faith but we cannot continue in it without divine strength. Because of our proneness to apostatize, the subtlety and strength of our spiritual enemies, the evil of the world in which we live, God’s power alone can keep us." (Jude 24). Arthur W. Pink (1886-1952)

February 2, 2010

"Oh, if I could but creep one foot, of half a foot, nearer in to Jesus, in such a dismal night as that when he is away, I should think it a happy absence! If I knew that the Beloved were only gone away for trial, and further humiliation, and not smoked out of the house with new provocations, I would forgive desertions and hold my peace at his absence. But Christ’s brought absence (that I brought with my sin), is two running boils at once, one upon each side; and what side then can I lie on?” Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661)

February 1, 2010

“It is in love that his face is turned away; yet to a real child of God, this hiding of his Father’s is terrible, and he will never be at ease until once more he hath his Father’s smile.”

(Charles H. Spurgeon; 1834-1892)

January 31, 2010

“Our castle or city is the promises, the word and ordinances of God: now if the devil can but get you out of this castle, he hath you where he would.” (Thomas Hooker 1586-1647)

January 30, 2010

“It is the heart that speaks, the tongue is but the instrument to give the sound.” (Richard Clerke 1634)

January 29, 2010

“Deal with Satan as with a subtle adversary, that is full of wiles and fetches.” (Thomas Hooker 1586-1647)

January 28, 2010

“His natural perfections may excite our intellectual admiration, but cannot awaken our love. Love, however, is the central idea of worship, and there can be no true worship without it.” (James Madison Pendleton; 1811-1891)

January 27, 2010

“Affliction is as it were the sauce of prayer, as hunger is unto meat. Truly their prayer is usually unsavoury who are without afflictions, and many of them do not pray truly, but do rather counterfeit a prayer, or pray for custom.” (Wolfgang Musculus 1497-1563)

January 26, 2010

“O Lord, if—lest I should be proud, and should ‘say in my prosperity, I shall never be removed”—it pleaseth thee to tempt me, yet forsake me not over-long;’ that is, if thou hast thus forsaken me, that I may know how weak I am without thy help, yet ‘forsake me not utterly,’ lest I perish.” (Augustine; (354–430)

January 25, 2010

“The nerve of Satan’s temptation is now cut completely. Every weight goes from now on into the scale of God’s goodness, and there is no possibility of disturbing the existing preponderance.” (William Henry Green; 1825-1900)

January 24, 2010

“In a promise everything depends upon the person who promises. “The question therefore occurs, “Has he the will and the power to fulfill the promise?” Hengstenberg

January 23, 2010

“Ordinarily there is some truth mixed up with falsehood, which renders the calumny more dangerous.” (Thomas McCrie; 1772-1835)

January 22, 2010

Amid all the darkness, we can yet see that God is so overruling sin as to cause it greatly to redound to his glory and the happiness of his creatures.” (James Petigru Boyce; 1827-1888)

January 21, 2010

“Watch against that which may be most properly called your one sin, that to which you are most inclined, and which most easily besets and conquers you.” (Ralph Vennin; 1622-1674)

January 20, 2010

“But now, God speaks, and I am dumb, He opens His mouth, and I hold my peace. I bid my busy, speculative soul be quiet. I am still, and know that it is God. I now at once recognize a real and living Person, beyond and above myself. I take my station humbly, submissively at His feet.” (R.S. Candlish)

January 19, 2010

“The sun is not so clear as this truth, that God is, for all things in the world are because God is. If he were not, nothing could be.” (Richard Sibbes; 1577-1635)

January 18, 2010

“What in the world could ever solace and restore a man who has lost the joy of God’s presence?” (Joseph Caryl 1602-1673)

January 17, 2010

“Divine influence is one of the most precious blessings God can bestow; and He never bestows it on sinners but on account of the expiatory sufferings of Jesus Christ.” (John Brown 1784-1858)

January 16, 2010

"To plough the soil is as much a natural action as to eat or drink; yet as all such actions are performed by wicked men for merely selfish purposes, without any regard to God and the general good, they become sinful in the sight of God; and hence we read that ‘the ploughing of the wicked is sin.” Andrew Fuller (1754-1815)

January 15, 2010

“In former days he had brought sympathy to cheer others, but now when he looks for blessings for himself there is nothing but misery and unrest (25-27). He is dried up, helpless, fit only to keep company with the beasts of the desert (28-29); his skin is shriveled up and his bones consumed by a raging fire within (30). What wonder then that all the music of his life has become a mournful dirge (31)? " (Edgar C.S. Gibson; 1848-1924)

January 14, 2010

“There can be no evil from the hand of the Lord. Evil is good when it comes from Him. He no longer puts the benefits received from God in one scale and the afflictions in the other. But afflictions are now put into the same scale with the benefits—for they, too, are benefits when God sends them.” (William Henry Green; 1825-1900)

January 13, 2010

“In the sufferings and death of the Lamb of God, he sees what infinite wrath, what tremendous punishment he as a sinner deserves.” (John Colquhoun; 1748-1827)

January 12, 2010

“One error requires another to maintain it, this second must have a third or fourth to lean on. One false step leads to twenty, or perhaps to a hundred more. Who knows where all this is to end.” (Horatius Bonar 1808-1889)

January 11, 2010

“Even when Divine grace has awakened the desire to return homewards, the habit of wandering from God, and the long-cherished pollutions of sin, seem to form an almost invincible barrier to progress.” (Charles Bridges , 1794-1869)