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