William Carey on Prayer and Means

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Thursday, May 31, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"We must not be contented however with praying, without exerting ourselves in the use of means for the obtaining of those things we pray for."

William Carey


E. M. Bounds on God's Place in Our Thoughts

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, May 30, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day."

E. M. Bounds


Martyn Lloyd Jones on The Church

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, May 29, 2018 at 5:00 AM

"For to me the real cause of the present state of the Church of God on earth is to be found in the Church’s voluntary departure from a belief in the Bible as the fully inspired Word of God, and from stressing and emphasizing real
evangelical truth."

Martyn Lloyd Jones


R. C. Sproul on The Gospel

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, May 28, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"The Gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news."

R. C. Sproul


John Mason on Love

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, May 25, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“Love begets love. Tis is a flame that communicates itself. They that have much forgiven them, much done for them, much laid out for them, and much laid up for them, will love much.”

John Mason


William Law on Ones Actions

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Thursday, May 24, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"Do not therefore please yourself with thinking, how piously you would act and submit to God in a plague, a famine, or persecution, but be intent upon the perfection of the present day; and be assured, that the best way of showing a true zeal, is to make little things the occasion of great piety."

William Law


Jospeh Hall on Doctrine

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"The life of doctrine is in application"

Jospeh Hall


William Carey on Success

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"I'm not afraid of failure; I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter."

William Carey


E. M. Bounds on Prayer

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, May 21, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else."

E. M. Bounds


John Mason on Contentment

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, May 18, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“Neither contentment nor discontentment arises from the outward condition, but from the inward disposition.”

John Mason


William Law on Our Lives and Prayer

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 7:29 AM

"We must alter our lives, in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way, and pray another."

William Law


Thomas Chalmers on the Needs of Life

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, May 16, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"A man's needs are few. The simpler the life, therefore, the better. Indeed, only three things are truly necessary in order to make life happy: the blessing of God, the benefit of books, and the benevolence of friends."

Thomas Chalmers


Francis Bacon on Truth

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true."

Francis Bacon

by - Frans Pourbus the Younger

Ralph Venning on Success

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, May 14, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"Success at first doth many times undo men at last."

Ralph Venning


Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Happiness and Righteousness

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, May 11, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"Whenever you put happiness before righteousness, you will be doomed to misery. That is the great message of the Bible from beginning to end. They alone are truly happy who are seeking to be righteous."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones


Thomas Chalmers on Faith

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, May 10, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it."

Thomas Chalmers


Francis Bacon on Truth

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, May 9, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"There are three parts in truth; first, the inquiry, which is the wooing of it; secondly, the knowledge of it, which is the presence of it; and thirdly, the belief, which is the enjoyment of it."

Francis Bacon

by - Frans Pourbus the Younger

Ralph Venning on Religion

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"Inward religion, without the outward show of it, is like a tree without fruit, useless; and the outward show of religion without inward sincerity, is like a tree without heart, lifeless."

Ralph Venning


J.C. Ryle on Being Ashamed of Christ

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, May 7, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"Let us be resolved never to be ashamed of Christ. Of sin and worldliness we may well be ashamed. Of Christ and his cause we have no right to be ashamed at all. Boldness in Christ's service always beings its own reward.  The boldest Christian is always the happiest person."

J.C. Ryle


Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the Christian Life

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, May 4, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer


Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Knowing God

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"I am not asking whether you know things about Him but do you know God, are you enjoying God, is God the centre of your life, the soul of your being, the source of your greatest joy? He is meant to be."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones


Thomas Chalmers on Being Remembered

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , , | Posted On Wednesday, May 2, 2018 at 7:45 AM

"Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year; and you will never be forgotten."

Thomas Chalmers


Francis Bacon on Happiness and Wisdom

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On at 5:30 AM

"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."

Francis Bacon

by - Frans Pourbus the Younger

Ralph Venning on Opinions

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, May 1, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth."

Ralph Venning