📚 "...and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood." [Rev 1:5]
📚 "Old tendencies need to be corrected, old weaknesses made strong, old faults removed; And if only we yield ourselves into the hands of the great Potter He will fashion the clay, in spite of all our natural disadvantages, into vessels unto honor." [W.H. Griffith]
📚 "Divine disposition of events or the calling of specific persons, by no means rules out human action. Election is not inconsistent with exertion." [Unknown Source]
📚 "Over attachment to possessions never promise proper soil for the growth of the Word of God. What we put first in our lives soon masters us." [Spiros Zodhiates]
📚 "In this TikTok age in which we live, the prophetic clock of God's Word is being muted. Many believers cannot hear it ticking toward the midnight hour because their leaders have put it in storage." [Dr. Paul Wilkinson]
📚 "I'll trust in God's unchanging Word till soul and body sever: For though all things shall pass away, His word shall stand forever." [Martin Luther]
📚 "God is never before His time but He is never behind. The clock of Divine Providence keeps strict time, and has never been known to vary either in one direction or the other. [W.H. Griffith]
📚 "It is a merciful Providence which hides the future from our view, and calls upon us to take one step at a time, and learn the spiritual meaning and significance of each event in the retrospect of experience." [W.H. Griffith]
📚 “The discipline of delay is hard to bear. But the delay is not due to the fact that God grudges to bless; it is because He has other blessings in store for us than those for which we ask.” [J.D. Jones]
📚 For who regards you as superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? [1 Cor 4:7]
📚 "The Gospels are... portraits or paintings to present various poses of 'Jesus Christ, the Son of God' ... whether King (Matthew), Servant (Mark), Man (Luke), or God (John)".
📚 "Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have met with I will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in blessed bonds of grace." [Charles Spurgeon]
📚 " Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior , through Jesus Christ our Lord , be glory , majesty , dominion , and authority before all time and now and forever . Amen . [Jude 24-25]
📚 "A marked feature of the true saint is his sense of weakness, he is a complete contrast to the haughty independent and presumptuous imposter. His strength is in God, who can so preserve him that he will not even stumble." [A. McShane]
📚 "Knowledge is the apprehension of truth; wisdom is its application to life. Knowledge is prudent judgment and wisdom is prudent action. Both are found in Christ." [Col 2:2-3 Walvoord and Zuck]
📚 "In the day of prosperity be happy, But in the day of adversity consider -God has made the one as well as the other so that man may not discover anything that will be after him." [Ecc 7:14]
📚 "It requires no faith to look back and say, 'It was the Lord!' But to see the dim-shadowed figure on today's stormy sea and say, 'It is the Lord' requires faith and courage." [L.P. Lehman]
📚 "Posterity- you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." [John Quincy Adams]
📚 "According to the general Law of habit: moral principles and spiritual truth become stronger by exercise and weaker by lack of it." [Merrill Unger]
📚 "Justification by faith is necessary in the court of heaven. Justification by works is the only thing people can observe in the court on earth." [(James 2:24) Arnold Fruchtenbaum]
📚 "God, the architect of the ages, has seen fit to take us into His confidence concerning His plan for the future and has revealed His purposes and program in detail in the Word." [J. Dewight Pentecost]
📚 "Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things." [Ecc 11:5]
📚 "A divine overruling controls the fate of the world's political powers, so that at times Satan is an instrument in serving a providential purpose." [Moffatt on Rev 17:17]
📚 "Faithfulness is that in God which guarantees that He will never be or act inconsistent with Himself. You can put that down as an axiom. It is good for you now and good for you when you're dying. God will never cease to be what He is and who He is." [A.W. Tozer]
📚 "Pride, the syndrome that now fills whole shelves of large bookstores, involves a subordination of logical thinking to highly vacillating emotions." [Spiros Zodhiates]
📚 "Whenever we are awestruck by the edifices of the world, we are blinded to higher realities. The cure is prophecy- the ability to foresee God's judgment on human pride." [Spiros Zodhiates]
📚 "The cross of shame, and woe, and curse has in modern day been turned into an ornamental device. It is stamped in gold; emblazoned in colors, and worn as an ornament of dress. Truly it is polluted by being handled by human fancy." [Henry W. Soltau]
📚 "... so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus." [1 Thess 4:13b-14]
📚 "It is good for us, certainly, to find hardships and contempt here, and to find them frequent, that we may not think them strange, but ourselves strangers." [Thoughts To Help Cheer 1854]
📚 "Accept your inward and outward trials as appointed by the Friend of your soul for its progress, not doubting, but confidently. [Thoughts To Help Cheer 1854]
📚 "A clear conscience is often understood as that inner sense of right and wrong, aligning one's behavior and intentions with moral and divine standards. There is a consistent thread throughout Scripture that shows conscience is 'God given'." [Albert Barnes]
📚 "Do not imagine heaven to be a place of inactivity or lazy self-indulgence. We who are even now positionally seated with Christ in 'heavenly places' are destined for the throne as joint heirs with Him." (c.f. Eph 1:3, 20; 2:6) [Ed Hindson]
📚 "..when you received the word of God...you accepted it, not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe." [Apostle Paul 1 Thess 2:13]
📚 "There is a world we have not seen, That time can not destroy; Where mortal footsteps have not been, Nor ear hath heard its joy." ['Thoughts To Help And Cheer' 1853]
📚 “Who gave Him authority over the earth? And who has laid on Him the whole world? “If He should determine to do so, If He should gather to Himself His spirit and His breath, [Job 34:13-14]
📚 "When God says something will occur, it is just as well as done. Since God is not bound by time as we humans are, He looks at things as if they are completed: 'It is done'" Rev 21:6 [Mal Couch]
📚 "People are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. For when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success." [John Calvin]
📚 "The wise recognizes his need of counsel; the arrogant is convinced that he has no need of correction, but he is living a fools paradise, though no one can tell him that." [Unknown Source]
📚 "He cannot lie! The statement that God cannot lie [means] He is 'the unlie-able God' or the 'cannot lie God'... Our salvation is based on a promise given by the God who cannot lie." [(Titus 1:2) Charles Ray]
📚 "The fathomless immensity of the universe is the silent place of the Eternal, if which seen, the sun is like the porch lamp. And our earth is like a grain of sand on a mighty seashore." [Carlyle]
📚 "When [Jesus] was born, a star appeared. When He died, the sun disappeared. At His death, the earth shuddered, and the skies went into mourning." [Unknown Source]
📚 "It is not in time to be eternal; is it not in space to be infinite: men exhaust all time and fall out of space into God's infinity." [Joseph Parker, D.D. 1891]
📚 "Apostasy is not partial, it is universal. That is the case with the world as God views it. God looked from heaven to see if there were any righteous and he found 'no not one'." [Joseph Parker, D.D 1891]
📚 "Man may look behind him and study the fully-written page of history, but he cannot turn over the leaves of the future; those leaves can only be turned over by the invisible hand of God." [Joseph Parker, D.D. 1891]
📚 "We can know the truth because God has given this revelation in words. Revelation speaks of the source of God's truth. Inspiration has to do with the nature of God's truth." [Dan Mitchell]
📚 "The difference between a sheep and a pig is that if a sheep falls into the mud, it will struggle to get out, but if a pig falls into the mud, it will wallow in it." [Source Unknown]
📚 "God's wrath in its initial form is simply to allow men to live with the result of their own choices, to take the restraint of protection off." [John MacArthur]
📚 "The more we learn of the Lord by means of the mirror of the Scriptures, the more we let His glory operate within us, the more conformed to His likeness we become." [W.E. Vines]
📚 "I think everybody's got to take responsibility for what they can control, and if you starting worrying about things you can't control, that's going to start affecting things you can control." [Nick Saban]
