C. S. Lewis on Our True Nature

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.”

C. S. Lewis


John Newton on Thinking About God

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

“What a shame, then, is it that my Lord and your's should ever be a single minute out of my mind, since there is not a single minute but brings me some new proof of his goodness.”

John Newton


John Owen on The Word of God and LIfe

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Monday, October 29, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“When men feed on the word, it is turned into a principle of life, spiritual strength, and growth within; which a taste of it only will not give. As food, when it is digested, turns into flesh and blood and spirits, so doth the word, and Christ therein, unto the souls of men spiritually.”

John Owen


Thomas Manton on The Word, Meditation and Prayer

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , , | Posted On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"What we take in the word we digest by meditation and let out by prayer."

Thomas Manton


A. W. Tozer on The Church and Worship

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Thursday, October 25, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"The church must worship, and worship and entertainment are at opposite ends of the table."

A. W. Tozer


C. S. Lewis on Prosperity

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.”

C. S. Lewis


John Newton on Seeing God's Promises in Our Affliction

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“How grand and magnificent is the arch over our heads in a starry night! But if it were always day, the stars could not be seen. The firmament of scripture, if I may so speak, is spangled with exceeding great and precious promises, as the sky is with stars, but the value and beauty of many of them are only perceptible to us in the night of affliction.”

John Newton


John Owen on Preservation of True Religion

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Monday, October 22, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“Men do but deceive themselves who suppose that the purity of religion will be preserved in confessions and canons, whilst some make it their business to corrupt its truth, and few or none make it their business to preserve its power.”

John Owen


Charles Spurgeon on The Word of God

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, October 19, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“The door of the Word can only be unlocked and opened by the key of diligence.”

Charles Spurgeon


Octavius Winslow on Life and Love to God

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“The outward holy life of a believer is the result of an inward principle of love to God.”

Octavius Winslow


J. C. Ryle on Hapiness

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"To be truly happy "a man must have sources of happiness which are not dependent on anything in this world." There is nothing on earth which is not stamped with the mark of instability and uncertainty. All the good things that money can buy are but for a moment: they either leave us or we are obliged to leave them. All the sweetest relationships in life are liable to come to an end: death may come any day and cut them off. The man whose happiness depends entirely on things here below is like him who builds his house on sand."

J. C. Ryle


J. Gresham Machen on the Need for the Gospel

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, October 16, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"What people need is the gospel, not directions for saving themselves but knowledge of how God has saved them."

J. Gresham Machen


William Ames on God's Use of Means

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, October 15, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“God therefore uses means, not for lack of power, but through the abundance of his goodness; that namely, he might communicate a certain dignity of working to his Creatures also, and might make his Efficiency more perceivable in them.”

William Ames


Charles Spurgeon on The Word of God

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, October 12, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"Meditation and careful thought, exercise us and strengthen the soul for the reception of the yet more lofty truths. We must meditate.  The Word of God is always most precious to the man who met lives upon it."

Charles Spurgeon


Octavius Winslow on the Love of God

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, October 11, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“Go forth and BE LOVING, even as your Father in heaven is loving. Let your heart be as large in its creature capacity as God's heart is in its divine. If He has a large heart for you, beware of a small heart for your fellows.”

Octavius Winslow


J. C. Ryle on Love

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, October 10, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"The heart in which love grows is a heart changed, renewed, and transformed by the Holy Spirit."

J. C. Ryle


J. Gresham Machen on Theology and Ethics

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Tuesday, October 9, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"There can be no greater mistake than to suppose that Jesus ever separated theology from ethics."

J. Gresham Machen


William Ames on the Omnipotence of God

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, October 8, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“The Omnipotence of God is that whereby he is able to effect all things that he wills or can will.”

William Ames


A. W. Tozer on Modern Religion

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

"Modern religion focuses upon filling churches with people. The true gospel emphasizes filling people with God."

A. W. Tozer


Octavius Winslow on the Love of God

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, October 4, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“It is love, O believer! that has forgiven you all your great debt, has blotted out your transgressions as a thick cloud, that has cast all your sins behind His back, and will remember them no more forever, because He is love.”

Octavius Winslow


J. C. Ryle on Love

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, October 3, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"The love of the Bible will show itself in the "general spirit and demeanor" of a believer. It will make him kind, unselfish, good-natured, good-tempered, and considerate of others."

J. C. Ryle 


J. Gresham Machen on Life and Love

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Tuesday, October 2, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"The whole of life, including business and all of social relations, must be obedient to the law of love."

J. Gresham Machen


William Ames on God's Knowledge

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Monday, October 1, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“The understanding of God is unchangeable; he does not know otherwise, nor one thing more than another, nor more before than now, or now than before.”

William Ames