Thomas Manton on Doctrine and Application

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

"Doctrine is only the drawing of the bow; application is hitting the mark."

Thomas Manton


A. W. Tozer on Knowing God

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, November 29, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"No short cut exists for a deeper spiritual life. The man who would know God must give time to Him."

A. W. Tozer


C. S. Lewis on What We Desire

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”

C. S. Lewis


John Newton on a Life Led By God

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“O, it is good sailing with an infallible Pilot at the helm, who has the wind and weather at his command!”

John Newton


John Owen on Thinking on God

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“It is utterly impossible we should walk before God, unto his glory, or with any real peace, comfort, or satisfaction in our own souls, unless our minds are continually exercised with thoughts of his almighty power.”

John Owen


Thomas Manton on The Church

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, November 23, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"Divisions in the church always breed atheism in the world."

Thomas Manton


A. W. Tozer on God

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, November 22, 2018 at 5:19 AM

"God is always the same. No outside pressure of any kind changes Him. Hallelujah! When I find God, I find God."

A. W. Tozer


C. S. Lewis on Faith

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, November 21, 2018 at 7:39 AM

"Faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of  your changing moods and circumstances."

C. S. Lewis


John Newton on the Knowledge of Christ

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, November 20, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“O the excellency of the knowledge of Christ. It will be growing upon us through time, yea, I believe through eternity.”

John Newton


John Owen on Prayer

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, November 19, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“Where there is continuance in prayer, there will be spiritual growth in some proportion.”

John Owen


Thomas Manton on Good Works

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, November 16, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"Comfort may be increased by the sight of good works, but it is not built upon them; they are seeds of hope, not props of confidence."

Thomas Manton


A.W. Tozer on People Today

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"People today are in too much of a hurry to get nowhere."

A. W. Tozer


C. S. Lewis on Redemption

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"For God is not merely mending, not simply restoring a status quo. Redeemed humanity is to be something more glorious than unfallen humanity."

C. S. Lewis


John Newton on the Gospel

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, November 13, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“None are so bad but the gospel affords them a ground of hope: none are so good as to have any just ground of hope without it.”

John Newton


John Owen on Prayer

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, November 12, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“This holy complacency, this rest and sweet repose of mind, is the foundation of the delight of believers in this duty. They do not pray only because it is their duty so to do, nor yet because they stand in need of it, so as that they cannot live without it, but they have delight in it; and to keep them from it is all one as to keep them from their daily food and refreshment.”

John Owen


Thomas Manton on the Difference Between Study and Meditation

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, November 9, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"The end of study is information, and the end of meditation is practice, or a work upon the affections."

Thomas Manton


A. W. Tozer on Who, or What, We Serve

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, November 8, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin."

A. W. Tozer


C. S. Lewis on the Value of God

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Wednesday, November 7, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.”

C. S. Lewis


John Newton on Use of Time

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, November 6, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“Permit me to advise you to study the redemption of time; it is an important talent, and we have all misspent too much of it.”

John Newton


John Owen on Thoughts and Their Fruit

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

“The mind of man is covered with thoughts, as a tree with blossoms. Most of them fall off, vanish, and come to nothing, end in vanity; and sometimes where the mind doth most abound with them there is the least fruit; the sap of the mind is wasted and consumed in them. Howbeit there is no fruit which actually we bring forth, be it good or bad, but it proceeds from some of these thoughts.”

John Owen


Thomas Manton on Meditating on What We Hear

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, November 2, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"To hear and not to meditate is unfruitful. We may hear and hear, but it is like putting a thing into a bag with holes."

Thomas Manton


A.W. Tozer on God's Goodness

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, November 1, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"Oh God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more."

A. W. Tozer