QUOTES OF THE WEEK

Don't ever put confidence in a man or woman that does not frequently visit the altar. If they're not tenderhearted enough for God to speak to them they're going to hurt you if you put them in leadership. - Lee Roberson as told by Tom Sexton

To be strangers to the Word of God, and little conversant in it, is a great evil. - Thomas Manton

All the contention between the flesh and the spirit lies in this, whether God shall have His will or we have ours. - Richard Sibbes

We glorify God when we exalt Him in our souls above all creatures in the world, when we give Him the highest places in our love and in our joy, when all our affections are set upon Him as our greatest good. This is seen also by opposition, when we will not offend God for any creature; when we can ask our affections, "Whom have I in Heaven but You?" (Psalm 73:25). - Richard Sibbes

It is rebellion against God for a man to make away with himself; the very heathens could say that we must not go our of our station until we be called. It is the voice of Satan, "Cast yourself down," but what says Paul to the jailer, "Do thyself no harm, for we are all here." We should so carry ourselves that we may be content to stay here till God has done that work He has to do in us and by us, and then He will call us hence in the best time. - Richard Sibbes

As nothing is too great to be above His power, so nothing is too little to be beneath His care. - William Gurnall

Our comfort flows in by the performance of the promise, but the revenue of God's honor is paid to Him by our humble waiting on Him in the interval between the promise and the performance, and it is the main reason He forbears the paying of it hastily. Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and God sure may better make us wait before the promise is given in to our embraces by the full accomplishment of it. "For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise" (Hebrews 10:36). - William Gurnall

But if you will follow such a cloud of fashionable witnesses, let me conclude you will go to Hell also; for I can assure you that is the fashion. You may keep that excuse until the Day of Judgment. And when God asks you what you have done, and wherefore you did so, you can say, :Lord for nothing but the fashion," and see how you will win off. - Samuel Rutherford

Contentment is a sweet, inward heart-thing. It is the work of the Spirit indoors. - Jeremiah Burroughs

All love to God in the soul is the result of His love to us. It is begotten in the heart by His Spirit: He took the first step and made the first advance.  "He first loved us" (1 John 4:19). Oh heart-melting truth! The love of God to us when we were yet sinners, who can unfold it? What mortal tongue can describe it? Before we had any being, and when we were enemies, He sent His Son to die for us; and when we were far off by wicked works He sent His Spirit to bring us to Him in the cloudy and dark day. All His dealings with us since then- His patience, restoring mercies, tender, loving, faithful care, yes, the very strokes of His rod-- have but unfolded the depths of His love towards His people; this is the love we desire you to be filled with. "The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God" (2 Thessalonians 3:5). - Octavius Winslow