Charles Spurgeon, A Warning

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: | Posted On Thursday, December 31, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"Beware of no man more than of yourself...we carry our worst enemies within us."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon


Samuel Rutherford on Our Will

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, December 29, 2009 at 4:00 AM

“Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.”
Samuel Rutherford




William Secker on Assurance

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, December 28, 2009 at 8:18 AM

"Though Christians be not kept altogether from falling, yet they are kept from falling altogether."
William Secker

William Bridge on Sin

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, December 25, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be."
William Bridge



Nathaniel Hardy on Spirituality

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"Spiritual rest maketh no man idle, spiritual walking maketh no man weary."

Nathaniel Hardy
(1618-1670)

Samuel Adams

Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: | Posted On Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can."
Samuel Adams

 

Samuel Rutherford on Faith

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 9:13 AM

"My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence."
Samuel Rutherford
 

Richard Sibbes on Pride

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, December 21, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride."
Richard Sibbes


Robert Murray M'Cheyne on Hell

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, December 18, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"Most of God's people are contented to be saved from the hell that is without; they are not so anxious to be saved from the hell that is within."

Robert Murray M'Cheyne



John Adams on Power Corrupts

Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: , , | Posted On Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."
 John Adams





Ralph Erskine on Faith

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"Faith, without trouble or fighting, is a suspicious faith; for true faith is a fighting, wrestling faith."

Ralph Erskine


Thomas Goodwin on the Gospel

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 8:21 AM

"Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in."
Thomas Goodwin


John Flavel on Christ

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, December 14, 2009 at 9:22 AM

"Christ is the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is the meeting-place of all the waters in the world, so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet."
John Flavel


Charles Spurgeon on Affliction

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 9:29 AM

"The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction"
Charles Spurgeon




Matthew Mead on Salvation

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 8:58 AM

"Gifts may make a man a scholar, but grace makes man a believer."

Matthew Mead
(1629-1699)

Samuel Rutherford on Affliction

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | | Posted On Monday, December 7, 2009 at 8:24 AM

"The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines."
Samuel Rutherford


Thomas Watson on Peace

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"If God be our God, He will give us peace in trouble. When there is a storm without, He will make peace within. The world can create trouble in peace, but God can create peace in trouble."
Thomas Watson
 

 

William Gurnall on the Heart and His Word

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 7:50 AM

A truly sanctified heart dares not skip or blot one word God has written, but desires to be a faithful executor to perform the whole will of God.

William Gurnall

Augustine on Blessings

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent."

~ St. Augustine      

 

John Adams

Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: | Posted On Monday, November 30, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."
John Adams


 

Stephen Charnock on God's Glory

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, November 27, 2009 at 11:50 AM

"When God and his glory are made our end, we shall find a silent likeness pass in upon us; the beauty of God will, by degrees, enter upon our soul."
Stephen Charnock



John Calvin On The Psalms

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"And, therefore, it behoves us to ask with so much the greater care, that he
would increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant,
confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and that he
would even raise it up when it is overthrown."   
                                                                                                            ~ (John Calvin on Psalm 25:19)
                                                                                                               

Isaac Ambrose on True Riches

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"O Christian, never be proud of things that are so transient, injurious, and uncertain as the riches of this evil world! But set your heart on the true and durable riches of grace in Christ Jesus."

Isaac Ambrose


Charls Spurgeon From Meditations

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | | Posted On Monday, November 23, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"... there will be three effects of nearness
to Jesus - humility, happiness, and holiness."
                                                            
                                                                                           - Charles Spurgeon



John Newton on the Minister

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, November 20, 2009 at 11:46 AM

"I measure ministers by square measure. I have no idea of the size of a table, if you only tell me how long it is: but if you also say how wide, I can tell its dimensions. So, when you tell me what a man is in the pulpit, you must also tell me what he is out of it, or I shall not know his size"
JOHN NEWTON



Richard Sibbes on Life

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it; for all is theirs to help them towards heaven; therefore if poverty be good they shall have it; if disgrace or crosses be good they shall have them; for all is ours to promote our greatest prosperity."
RICHARD SIBBES



George Washington Part of Farwell Address

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 7:00 AM


"It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible. Of all the dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, our religion and morality are the indispensable supporters. Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that our national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."



George Washington (Farewell Address)




William Gurnall on the Heart

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, November 16, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart."
William Gurnall
(1617-1679)

G.K. Chesterton

Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: | Posted On Friday, November 13, 2009 at 4:17 AM

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

 Gilbert Keith Chesterton


Jonathan Edwards on True Happiness

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"The enjoyment of [God] is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of earthly friends, are but shadows; but God is the substance. These are but scattered beams, but God is the sun. These are but streams. But God is the ocean."
Jonathan Edwards



George Washington's Farewell Address

Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 3:00 AM

"The impressions, with which I first undertook the arduous trust, were explained on the proper occasion. In the discharge of this trust, I will only say, that I have, with good intentions, contributed towards the organization and administration of the government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable. Not unconscious, in the outset, of the inferiority of my qualifications, experience in my own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself; and every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied, that, if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it."

George Washington (Farewell Address)














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Thomas Watson on LIfe

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"How soon are we broken on the soft pillow of ease! Adam in paradise was overcome, when Job on the dunghill was a conqueror."
Thomas Watson



Benjamin Franklin on Liberty

Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, November 9, 2009 at 4:09 AM

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
 
Benjamin Franklin
 

Daniel Dyke on The Word and Doctrine

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, November 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM

"The Word is the storehouse of all instruction. Look not for any new diverse doctrine, which is not in the Word."
Daniel Dyke (1617-1688)
(From: The School of Affliction)

John Newton

Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: | Posted On Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 10:52 AM

"How sweet the name of Jesus hears in a believer's ears! it sooths his sorrow, heals his wounds, and drives away his fears."

John Newton
 

 

John Gerstner on Tragedies

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"Tragedy is what happens to a non-Christian, it never happens to a Christian."
John Gerstner



1 Corinthians 10:31

Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: , , | Posted On Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 11:13 AM

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
1Corinthians 10:31 (ESV)

Robert Bolton on Law

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, November 2, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"Without law, love is blind."
 Robert Bolton
(1572-1631)

Cotton Mather on Prosperity

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 2:48 PM

"Religion begat prosperity and the daughter devoured the mother."
Cotton Mather


A.W. Pink on the Gospel

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | | Posted On Friday, October 30, 2009 at 9:19 AM

"The gospel is not an announcement that God has relaxed his justice or lowered the standard of His holiness."
A.W. Pink
(from: Saving Faith)



Anthony Burgess on Home

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"All Christians should make their houses and families a schoolhouse of a godly life."
Anthony Burgess (d.1664)     

John Adams on Democracy

Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 4:30 AM

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

John Adams


 

Samuel Rutherford on Comforts

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 9:01 AM

“Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner”
Samuel Rutherford

John Sheffield on Sin and Grace

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"Sin and grace may stand together, but not love of sin and grace."
John Sheffield
(from: Of Holiness)

George Washington

Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: | Posted On Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 10:39 AM

"Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse."






George Washington



Abraham Kuyper on Authority

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, October 19, 2009 at 8:31 AM

"The source of sovereign authority is found in God alone and not in the will of the people nor in human law. "
Abraham Kuyper

John Owen on Sin

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, October 16, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"There is no death of sin without the death of Christ."
John Owen

(from: The Mortification of Sin)

Richard Baxter on How We Spend Our TIme

Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 11:06 AM

“Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of”

Richard Baxter

Thomas Watson on Repentance

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 4:00 AM

“Many think they repent when it is not the offence, but the penalty which troubles them; not the treason, but the bloody axe. They think they repent when they shed a few tears; but though this ice begins to melt a little, it freezeth again; they go on still in sin.”
Thomas Watson
(from: The One Thing Necessary)


Thomas Jackson on His Death Bed

Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: , , | Posted On Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 2:05 PM

"I see from the number of physicians that you think my condition dangerous, but I thank God, if it is His will, that I am ready to go."  

Thomas Jackson (on His Death Bed)



Ezekiel Hopkins on Becoming a Christian

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, October 12, 2009 at 4:00 AM

“It is impossible for men by their own strength and natural ability to become Christians, but it is possible for God to make them Christians.”

Ezekiel Hopkins (1634-1690 )
(from: The Almost Christian Discovered)

Patrick Henry on Liberty

Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, October 9, 2009 at 7:00 AM

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." 
Patrick Henry


Richard Allestree on the Believers Life

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 9:07 AM

"The lives of Christians are the transcripts of their doctrine."
Richard Allestree
(from: The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety)

Anthony Burgess on Religion

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"All religion is practical; it is food not to be looked upon, but eaten and digested."
Anthony Burgess (d.1664)

Jonathan Edwards on Heaven

Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 9:45 AM

"The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh."
Jonathan  Edwards
 

 

Thomas Watson on Christ

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, October 2, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"Christ will be all in all, or nothing at all."
Thomas Watson
(from: Christ's Various Fulnesses)

Francis Schaeffer on Sin

Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 12:30 PM

"I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did."


Francis Schaeffer


Jeremiah Burroughs on Worship

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"As the heart is, so will the service be."
Jeremiah Burroughs
(from: Gospel Worship)

John Flavel on Grace

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, September 28, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low."
John Flavel
(from: Keeping the Heart)

Samuel Adams on Defending the Constitution

Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, September 25, 2009 at 11:38 AM

"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men."
Samuel Adams



Thomas Brooks on Sin

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 8:45 AM

“In a strict sense, there is no little sin, because there is no little God to sin against “

Thomas Brooks
(from: Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices- Italicized words added)