Quotes
December 2017
Whatever is unworthy of Christ is unworthy of a Christian. – C. H. Mackintosh
The haters of God fight against the message of God, they fight against the messengers of God and the truth of God, but they cannot fight against the consequences of hating God. – Mary Haigh
Men are always quarreling with God because He will not submit His will to their dictation. –Spurgeon
There is a law within God, and this law is part of His divine Being: it is the law of righteousness. This righteousness of God, in itself, creates a moral law for God and for all His creation, for all creation is under His moral law of righteousness. – Michael Haigh
Man fools himself. He prays for a long life and he fears old age. – Chinese Proverb
What is the pressing need for professing Christians today — absolute and complete subjection to the authority of holy Scriptures. – C. H. Mackintosh
There are three principles that are brought forth by the High Priest, He evaluates our work on the basis of good and evil. He evaluates our labor based on the principal of good and evil, He evaluates our patience on the principle of good and evil. – Michael Haigh
God had a master plan of creation and redemption. With His plan He marched through time to the cross of Calvary where He, by Himself, paid the eternal price for sin. Christ was foreordained to be the Lamb of sacrifice before the foundation of the world, He was predestined to be the Redeemer. – Michael Haigh
The Bible . . . is the book for today . . . it speaks in a language so simple that a child can understand it, and yet it is so profound that the most gigantic intellect cannot exhaust it. – C. H. Mackintosh
The words, Let me tell you about my church, should instead become, Let me tell you about my Christ. – Mary Haigh
How easy we have slipped from Person-worship to place-worship – Michael Haigh
Man lives by his own definitions of goodness because he is not capable of understanding the goodness of God until he is born again. – Michael Haigh
The Laws of God: the law of righteousness, the law of sin and death, the law of faith, the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, and the law of liberty. – Michael Haigh
Many books do not use up words; many words do not use up thoughts. – Chinese Proverb
Rejection is a positive in the walk of the Christian. – Michael Haigh
The religious cliché that ‘God hates sin, but loves the sinner,’ implies that God’s view of sin is malleable. The cross was the divine measure of God’s hatred of sin as it was the measure of His love for the sinner. God cannot, and will not, love the sinner outside of acknowledging and accepting His work on the cross. – Mary Haigh
If we refuse to judge: the world, the flesh and the devil, then we refuse to obey. – Michael Haigh
A person can have 1 sin or 5000 sins, it’s all the same to God. – Mary Haigh
With the Almighty God . . . there is never a city too great — never a giant to strong, never a wall too high. – C. H. Mackintosh
It is the haters of God who have made themselves the definers of what is hate. – Michael Haigh
There is no sin for which it is worth your while to be damned. – Spurgeon
The last act of faith is age. – Michael Haigh
Church history is just the progressive history of what the church has done when, having ceased to lean on God, it began to lean on itself. – J. N .Darby
The local gas station: many treat the collective gathering of Christians as just that: getting their weekly fill-up hoping to get through the week ahead; however, if you go empty you most probably will leave empty. Sadly, sometimes when you go full you leave empty. – Mary Haigh
THE ‘WORLD’
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. (2 Timothy 2:15)
LIST OF SEVEN MEANINGS OF ‘THE WORLD’
1. The World: Universe as a Whole
God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; (Acts 17:24)
2. The World: Used of the Earth
Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. (John13:1) (Ephesians 1:4)
3. The World: Used for World
Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. (John 12:31)
4. The World: Used of Whole Human Race
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. (Romans 3:19)
5. The World: Used of Humanity Minus Believers
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. (John 15:18) (Romans 3:6) (John 5:24)
6. The World: Used of Gentiles in Contrast from Jews
Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness? (Romans 11:12)
7. The World: Used of Believers Only
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
(John 3:16, 17) (John 6:33) ( 2 Corinthians 5::14)