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)