Cotton Mather on Prosperity
Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: Cotton Mather, Prosperity | Posted On Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 2:48 PM
"Religion begat prosperity and the daughter devoured the mother."
Cotton Mather
A.W. Pink on the Gospel
Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | | Posted On Friday, October 30, 2009 at 9:19 AM
"The gospel is not an announcement that God has relaxed his justice or lowered the standard of His holiness."
A.W. Pink
(from: Saving Faith)
Anthony Burgess on Home
Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: Anthony Burgess, Home | Posted On Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 4:00 AM
"All Christians should make their houses and families a schoolhouse of a godly life."
Anthony Burgess (d.1664)
John Adams on Democracy
Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: Democracy, John Adams | Posted On Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 4:30 AM
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
John Adams
Samuel Rutherford on Comforts
Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: Comfort, Samuel Rutherford | Posted On Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 9:01 AM
“Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner”
Samuel Rutherford
John Sheffield on Sin and Grace
Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: Grace, John Sheffield, Sin | Posted On Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 4:00 AM
"Sin and grace may stand together, but not love of sin and grace."
John Sheffield
(from: Of Holiness)
George Washington
Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: George Washington | Posted On Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 10:39 AM
"Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse."
Abraham Kuyper on Authority
Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: Abraham Kuyper, Authority | Posted On Monday, October 19, 2009 at 8:31 AM
"The source of sovereign authority is found in God alone and not in the will of the people nor in human law. "
Abraham Kuyper
John Owen on Sin
Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: John Owen, Sin | Posted On Friday, October 16, 2009 at 4:00 AM
"There is no death of sin without the death of Christ."
John Owen
(from: The Mortification of Sin)
Richard Baxter on How We Spend Our TIme
Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: Richard Baxter, Time | Posted On Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 11:06 AM
“Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of”
Richard Baxter
Thomas Watson on Repentance
Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: Repentance, Thomas Watson | Posted On Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 4:00 AM
“Many think they repent when it is not the offence, but the penalty which troubles them; not the treason, but the bloody axe. They think they repent when they shed a few tears; but though this ice begins to melt a little, it freezeth again; they go on still in sin.”
Thomas Watson
(from: The One Thing Necessary)
(from: The One Thing Necessary)
Thomas Jackson on His Death Bed
Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: Death Bed, Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jackson | Posted On Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 2:05 PM
"I see from the number of physicians that you think my condition dangerous, but I thank God, if it is His will, that I am ready to go."
Thomas Jackson (on His Death Bed)
Ezekiel Hopkins on Becoming a Christian
Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: Election, Ezekiel Hopkins | Posted On Monday, October 12, 2009 at 4:00 AM
“It is impossible for men by their own strength and natural ability to become Christians, but it is possible for God to make them Christians.”
Ezekiel Hopkins (1634-1690 )
(from: The Almost Christian Discovered)
Patrick Henry on Liberty
Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: Liberty, Patrick Henry | Posted On Friday, October 9, 2009 at 7:00 AM
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."
Patrick Henry
Richard Allestree on the Believers Life
Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: Life, Richard Allestree | Posted On Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 9:07 AM
"The lives of Christians are the transcripts of their doctrine."
Richard Allestree
(from: The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety)
Anthony Burgess on Religion
Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: Anthony Burgess, Religion | Posted On Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 4:00 AM
"All religion is practical; it is food not to be looked upon, but eaten and digested."
Anthony Burgess (d.1664)
Jonathan Edwards on Heaven
Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: Heaven, Jonathan Edwards | Posted On Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 9:45 AM
"The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh."
Jonathan Edwards
Thomas Watson on Christ
Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: Christ, Thomas Watson | Posted On Friday, October 2, 2009 at 4:00 AM
"Christ will be all in all, or nothing at all."
Thomas Watson
(from: Christ's Various Fulnesses)
Francis Schaeffer on Sin
Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: Francis Schaeffer, Sin | Posted On Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 12:30 PM
"I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did."
Francis Schaeffer
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