Quotes – August 2021
Throughout Scripture faith means more than trust in Jesus for personal safety . . . faith is looking at the things which are not seen and temporal; it is preferring spiritual and eternal realities to the things of time, sense, and sin; it is leaning on God and realizing His word. – Adolph Saphir (1831 – 1891)
We (Christians) are destined to embrace entirely His divine nature, be endowed with His perfections and enriched with His beauty. –Charles J. Rolls (1856 – unknown)
Nothing but the supernatural operations of the Holy Spirit will avail. Not only is man polluted to the very core by sin original and actual, but there is in him absolute incapability to understand, embrace or enjoy spiritual things. (1st Corinthians 2:14) A. W. Pink (1886 – 1952)
He who is present at a wrongdoing and does not lift a hand to prevent it, is as guilty as the wrongdoers. – Omaha proverb
Strange indeed that we hear much about how we should live by faith from preachers in the pulpit as they plead for more financial giving so that they can live and plan by fixed budgets. – Mary Haigh
Sin became the evolution of mankind: not from beast to man, but from mankind to beast. – Michael Haigh
Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale. – Proverb source unknown
The man who brought an abomination into his house became a cursed thing like it. C. H. Macintosh (1820 – 1896) (Read Joshua 7:21, 24; 22:20)
When we come into the world, and take our first breath, in one sense, it is the first breath of life, and in another sense, it is the first breath of death, for death is upon all of mankind. – Michael Haigh
The Bible has suffered more from Christian exponents than from infidel assailants. Sir Robert Anderson (1841 – 1918)
Christ was NOT sent to be a greater Adam. Christ was NOT sent to be an improved Adam. He was sent to manifest the glory of God among His creation (which was the race of man). – Michael Haigh
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. – Proverb source unknown
If there is no redemption, there would be no revelation. . . . it is because God is the God of redemption that He is the God of revelation. – Adolph Saphir (1831 – 1891)
How do I know that mankind has fallen below the survival instincts of the realm of animals? Creatures of nature instinctively react to survive, but not man. Man has proven through insane statements and demented behavior that he believes to be what he is not. Mythland and LaLaL are not places that mankind can thrive or survive in. – Mary Haigh
Nature is one vast object lesson of spiritual things. – F. W. Grant (1834 – 1902)
Growing old is inevitable; growing up is optional. – Proverb source unknown
The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. – Nahum 1:7