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