Quotes – May 2016
The better you know a scripture the more it yields to you. – J .B. Stoney
To be indifferent to the presence of evil in the church is to be guilty of high treason against God. – J. N. Darby
The simplest things in nature are full of divine secrets. We miss them because we so little care to find them. – F. W. Grant
Re: The standard as set by the Word of God: This standard cannot be found in the world of the judicial, or in higher education, nor in society. What feels good, sounds good, produces a smile, or brings the approval of your peers is not a true standard by which one judges. – Mary Haigh
Much of our modern prayer has no power in it because there is no heart in it. – R. A. Torrey
God cast man out of the garden, and man took Christ out of the garden. – Michael Haigh
God acts in love in the church; but He acts with holiness and for the maintenance of holiness. – J. N. Darby
The Bible is not a narrative about revelation, or of revelation – it is revelations. – Taylor
Your watch measures time, your heart measures eternity. – Michael Haigh
Christianity is not a cut and dried system; it is a spiritual system . . . – C. A. Coates
If He (Jehovah) has pledged Himself to bless the nation of Israel, let us have a care how we seek to force the stream of blessing to flow in a different channel. It is a serious thing to tamper with the declared purpose of God. – C. H. Mackintosh
It will be unprofitable, even if I were able, to expose all the effects which have ensued from man’s mind attempting to initiate the Jewish ritual, when God and His grace are lost sight of. – J. B. Stoney
Spiritual separation will lead to moral separation. – Michael Haigh
The reason why man, without a revelation, cannot reach up to the creation as a certainty, I suppose to be this, that man cannot rise above that which he is himself. He is but a creature. – William Kelly
There are two works of Christ that applies to the individual: the work he did for me, and the work He is doing in me. – Michael Haigh
Know Him more in His exaltation and you will take a share in His rejection here. – J. B. Stoney
All our errors in decision making, all our errors in judgement, in discernment, all our errors in understanding come because we are totally ignorant of Scripture. The Word of God is the only unchanging element in all areas of life. This is the true and only standard. – Mary Haigh
. . . . let us never forget . . . that the practical sense and experimental enjoyment of . . . immense blessings and privileges will be on exact proportion to the measure in which the Church seeks to maintain the order, the purity, and the Nazarite separation to which she is called as a dwelling-place of God — the body of Christ — the habitation of the Holy Ghost. – C. H. Mackintosh
Faith lets loose where knowledge of man only binds. – Michael Haigh
History [as written by man] is not always a truthful speaker. – William Kelly
Some die without having really lived, while others continue to live, in spite of the fact that they have died. -Anonymous
Prayer promotes our spiritual growth as almost nothing else, indeed as nothing else but Bible study; and true prayer and true Bible study go hand in hand. – R. A. Torrey
The outward church today spends too much time worrying about their outward appearance, they should be more concerned about Who is in their midst. – Michael Haigh
If you want to enrich a man do not increase his riches, but diminish or alter his desires. – J. B. Stoney
Creation, therefore, is the action of sovereign will to call into being, whatsoever seemed fit to His wisdom. – William Kelly
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever: (Psalm 92:7)
Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. (Psalm73:17)
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? (Job 4:17)
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: (Job 4:18)
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth? (Job 4:19)
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it. (Job 4:20)
Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom. (Job 4:21)