“None can hope in vain who believe God.” Ethelbert William Bullinger (1837-1913)
Sunday, November 29, 2009
December 12, 2009
The soul is the theatre where moral actions, both good and bad, are performed. 'As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.' What we will, that we morally do. This doctrine suggests, that the world is really worse than it appears. It appears bad enough; its outward features and procedures are most repulsive to the eye of reflective virtue; but not a tithe of the heart’s dispositions does the body represent. The soul has a word of sentiment that neither tongue nor pen expresses; it is conscious of hosts of volitions that the muscles and limbs never carry into effect. We thank God that the body is too frail, fully to work out the latent wishes of a depraved world. (David Thomas; 1813-1894)
December 11, 2009
“The goodness of God is a spiritual sunbeam to melt the heart into tears. Oh, says the soul has God been so good to me? Has He reprieved me so long from hell, and shall I grieve His Spirit any more? Shall I sin against goodness? Thomas Watson (1620-1686)
December 10, 2009
“He is so kind that he cannot deceive us, so true that he cannot break his promise. Faithful is he who hath promised, who also will do it. He was good in making the promise, and therefore will be upright in performing it.” Matthew Henry (1662-1714)
December 9, 2009
“With the growth in goodness grows the sense of sin. One law fulfilled shows a thousand neglected. Moral advancement, as a natural consequence, destroys the sense of merit, and produces that of sin.” (Moztley)
December 8, 2009
“God is a Being, whose will acknowledges no cause, neither is it for us to prescribe rules to His sovereign pleasure, or call Him to account for what He does. He has neither superior nor equal, and His will is the rule of all things.” Jerome Zanchius (1516-1590)
December 7, 2009
Our devotion to a tradition is wholesome only when we recognize in that tradition, not the authority of the fathers, but the authority of God’s Word. (John Murry; 1898-1975)
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