Quotes for the Day

 "Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments." (Psalm 119:21)
"Pride brings forth error, and error provokes God to inflict the curse, of which his rebukes are but the fore-runner."
— Spurgeon's Devotional Bible
 
"O let me not wander from thy commandments." (Psalm 119:10b)
"... let it be remembered, that daily progress in the heavenly walk is not maintained by yesterday's grace. Humble and dependent prayer must fetch in a fresh supply continually.
— Charles Bridges, An Exposition of Psalm 119

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"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean  not unto thine own understanding." Proverbs 3:5


Faith is not fear, and fear is not faith.


Christ is the way; but it is unto the father that the prodigal returns. The only method of reconciliation is the look unto Jesus, and looking on until confiding faith spring up; but the religious act of a soul saved is a trust in God.


Trust in the Lord, when a soul attains it, loosens every other bond, and makes it easy to let go all which the world gives. When you feel your footing firm in the peace of God, you will not be afraid though the earth should sink away from beneath you.


Trust is natural to the creature, although trust in the Lord is against the grain to the guilty.


— William Arnot, Studies in Proverbs; Laws from Heaven for Life on Earth

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"Nothing is required of man that is not first in God. It is because God is perfect that we are required to be perfect."

"... it is not obedience alone that our Lord will have, but obedience to the truth, that is, to the Light of the World, truth beheld and known."

"That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and his desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to him, "Thou art my refuge, because thou art my home." Such a faith will not lead to presumption. The man who can pray such a prayer will know better than another, that God is not mocked; that he is not a man that he should repent; that tears and entreaties will not work on him to the breach of one of his laws; that for God to give a man because he asked for it that which was not in harmony with his laws of truth and right, would be to damn him—to cast him into the outer darkness."

— George MacDonald. Unspoken Sermons / Series I., II., and II

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"A Christian mind is impossible without the discipline of refusal. Part of having a Christian mind is saying no to ungodly influences." - Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Woman

1 Corinthians 2:16b, "But we have the mind of Christ."

Romans 12:2, "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God."

Philippians 4:8, "Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy - meditate on these things."

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James Madison

"If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

"I believe there  are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."

"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot  be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood."

"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."

"The means of defense against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.  Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended.  Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people."

"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.  War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few."

"Disarm the people - that is the best and most effective way to enslave them."

— James Madison, quotes re-posted from Goodreads

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"The liberal left has so addicted half the country to government entitlement programs and the fiction that they can’t possibly make it in life without the aid of government that many have forgotten the meaning of personal freedom and the power that comes with it." - Cal Thomas

 "Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced means dictatorship and the total state. That this statement is still widely disputed only illustrates the degree to which malignant fantasy can capture the imagination of intellectuals." - Lew Rockwell

"Many of our fellow citizens no longer have the tolerant souls and morals of free men and women. They have the souls and morals of busybodies and petty tyrants who want to run their neighbors' lives." - Edward L. Hudgins

 

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"The issue is not the national debt in terms of trillions of dollars; the issue is actually the national debt in terms of millions of abortions; it's the national debt in terms of thousands of unwanted pregnancies; it's the national debt in terms of the epidemic of AIDS; it's the national debt in terms of moral promiscuity; it's the national debt in terms of the dysfunction of family life.  THAT is the issue." 

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"A complacent soul sees no need
for repentance."

 — Alistair Begg

[Neither does a complacent Nation, I'm afraid.] 

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"Envy and contentment never go hand in hand.  Covetous which is a sin and contentment which is a grace never co-exist in our lives."

"Christian contentment is clearly independent of my circumstances.  Happiness depends upon what happens, but joy is something independent of the chances and changes of our world.  Christian contentment is grounded in our union with Jesus.  It is a relationship with Jesus which establishes the basis for Christian contentment.  First I want to know Christ and in knowing Him I can do everything through Him. Christian contentment is the fruit of an ever deepening relationship with Jesus.  The more I know of Christ the more contented I become.  Christian contentment is learned.  It is learned in the school of God’s providence."

~  Alistair Begg, Sermon: The Secret of Contentment

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"... living is to believe and act on what God says rather than feel what God says. It is living by faith. ...when there is a debate between what your feelings say and what Scripture says, Scripture wins. Any other result and you are essentially telling God that He is not to be trusted. ... You may not understand what God is doing, but to deny that God speaks the truth is itself untrue. It is a lie. Don't believe it. God is truth."

"Confessing sin does not jeopardize our relationship with God. It only enhances it. If we have trusted in Christ, the divine judgment on our sin has fallen on Christ, not ourselves. Confessing sin reminds us that Christ has already dealt with our deepest problem, and we have reason to be thankful."

"Keep a sharp eye out for grumbling and complaining. Like gossip, these are sins that are acceptable in our culture so we don't see their ugly roots."

     ~ Edward T. Welch

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"One plague of our age is the widespread dislike to what men are pleased to call dogmatic theology. In the place of it, the idol of the day is a kind of jellyfish Christianity - a Christianity without bone, or muscle, or sinew, - without any distinct teaching about the atonement or the work of the Spirit, or justification, or the way of peace with God - a vague, foggy, misty Christianity, of which the only watchwords seem to be, 'You must be ... liberal and kind. You must condemn no man's doctrinal views. You must consider everybody is right and nobody is wrong'."

~ J. C. Ryle

"How much ought we to hate sin! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred."

~ J. C. Ryle

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