B.B. Warfield on Election and Grace

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, April 29, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"The marvel of marvels is not that God, in His infinite love, has not elected all this guilty race to be saved, but that He has elected any."
B.B. Warfield

Leonard Ravenhill on Legalism

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 9:00 AM

“When there’s something in the Bible that churches don’t like, they call it legalism.”
Leonard Ravenhill

Cotton Mather on the Family

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 9:00 AM

“Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.”
Cotton Mather


Thomas Brooks on Family Prayer

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven."
Thomas Brooks

Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Death

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, April 25, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Loraine Boettner on the Will

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, April 22, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"As the bird with a broken wing is "free" to fly but not able, so the natural man is free to come to God but not able"
Loraine Boettner

Francis Schaeffer on Truth

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 10:08 AM

"Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong."
Francis Schaeffer

Charles Spurgeon on Sin

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"He who cannot find water in the sea is no more foolish than the man who cannot perceive sin in his members! As the salt flavors every drop of the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it you are deceived."
Charles Spurgeon

Walter Cradock on Divisions

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"It is better to have divisions than evil uniformity."
Walter Cradock
(c.1606-1659)

Thomas Watson on Obedience

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, April 18, 2011 at 9:00 AM

“God commands nothing but what is beneficial. “O Israel, what doth the Lord require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, and to keep His statutes, which I command thee this day, for thy good?” To obey God, is not so much our duty as our privilege.”
Thomas Watson

William Greenhill on God and Faith

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, April 15, 2011 at 9:00 AM

“Man’s faith may fail him sometimes, but God’s faithfulness never fails him.”
William Greenhill

Thomas Watson on Sin

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 9:00 AM

“Little sins unrepented of will damn thee as well as greater. Not only great rivers fall into the sea, but little brooks; not only greater sins carry men to hell, but lesser; therefore do not think pardon easy because sin is small.”
Thomas Watson

William Secker on Pride and Humility

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 11:00 AM

"Pride is a sinner's torment, but humility is a saint's ornament."
William Secker

Thomas Adams on Good Works

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 10:58 AM

“Good deeds are such things that no man is saved from them, nor without them.”

Thomas Adams

J.C. Ryle on Heaven and Hell

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Monday, April 11, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell."
J.C. Ryle


Samuel Rutherford on Obedience

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, April 8, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"When the Lord's blessed will bloweth cross your desires, it is best, in humility, to strike sail to Him, and to be willing to be led any way our Lord pleaseth."
Samuel Rutherford

George Washington on War

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind."
George Washington

Samuel Adams on Liberty

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at 9:42 AM

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom – go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!”
Samuel Adams

John Owen on Holines and Sanctification

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 9:52 AM

“He leads none to heaven but whom He sanctifies on the earth. This living Head will not admit of dead members.”
John Owen

John Trapp on Grace and Free Will

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Monday, April 4, 2011 at 10:06 AM

"The friends of free-will are the enemies of free-grace."
John Trapp

Oliver Cromwell on Liberty

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, April 1, 2011 at 9:00 AM

“It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon a supposition he may abuse it. When he doth abuse it, judge.”
Oliver Cromwell