Quotes
October 2021
We (Christians) are destined to embrace entirely His divine nature, be endowed with His perfections and enriched with His beauty. – Charles J. Rolls (1856 – unknown)
The holiness of Christ is the epitome, the pinnacle, the optimum of holiness that man can never achieve. – Michael Haigh
. . . it was Christ the Creator who determined the bounds of national habitation, diverted the stream of civilization from its channel and deflected the trend of human aspiration from the terrestrial to the celestial. – Charles J. Rolls (1856 – unknown)
Re: life precedes birth: “There is a strict analogy between the natural birth and the spiritual: necessarily so, for God is the Author of them both, and He ordained that the former should adumbrate the latter. Birth is neither the cause nor the beginning of life itself: rather it is the manifestation of a life already existent.” – A. W. Pink (1886 – 1952)
As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived. – German Proverb
When we depend on the Spirit of Christ to unite us one with another, then man, in all his deceptions, will not be able to divide us. – Michael Haigh
My responsibility is that of a Christian. I am to walk as one, because I am one, not that I may be one. – J. N. Darby (1800 – 1882)
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. – Proverb source unknown
The Church: It is not the material building, it is this supernatural structure of the souls of men that God is building in heaven to be gathered around Himself, to be changed into the image of their Savior, to be like Him in heavenly moral character, and to spend all eternity with Him. – Michael Haigh
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength, before going out to face the world again. – A. W. Tozer (1897 – 1963)
If God’s Word is not sufficient without human interpretation, then it cannot be God’s Word at all. – C. H. Macintosh (1820 – 1896)
For all eternity God has designed that this earth should be the stage on which He would display His perfections: in creation, in providence and in redemption. – A. W. Pink (1886 – 1952)
Put fire in the message of the gospel. If men feel the fires of hell on their feet, they may run towards repentance. – Michael Haigh
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. – Proverb source unknown.
When everything has failed on earth, He directs me to where there is no failure, He turns my eye to heaven. – J. B. Stoney (1814-1895)
To say that mankind wasn’t responsible before the Law, is to say that mankind is not responsible after the Law. – Michael Haigh
The earth is not a place of rest, but of trial. – J. N. Darby (1800 – 1882)
He who laughs last, thinks the slowest! – Proverb source unknown
God will ever guide the obedient, humble soul; but on the other hand, if we do not walk according to the light communicated, we shall get into darkness. Light not acted upon becomes darkness. – C. H. Macintosh (1820 – 1896)
And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death. (Jeremiah 21:8)