Quotes
February 2017
If you have been a victim of ecclesiastical trickinology then it is time to return to your Bible. – Michael Haigh
Scripture nowhere condemns the acquisition of knowledge. It is the wisdom of this world, not its knowledge, that is foolishness with God… The history of philosophy is a story of contradictory, discarded hypotheses… Many of them have failed to avail themselves of that which would unravel every knot and solve every problem, namely, the revelation of God in Christ as given in the Holy Scriptures. – Harry A. Ironside
The greatest loss of the Church: we have lost the fullness of Christ. We should expect His fullness and desire His fullness. – Michael Haigh
The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honored for Himself, but that is only part of what He wants. The other part is that He wants us to know that when we have Him, we have everything — we have all the rest. – A. W. Tozer
I cannot reach the travail of my soul unless I go through the travail of my Saviour’s soul. – Michael Haigh
He understands badly who listens badly. – Welsh Proverb
Man does not realize that there is also a psychological effect on him by the indwelling sin within him. Sin and the amount of sin brings on certain sensitivities. A man whose soul is in turmoil is quick to anger, and to commit atrocious sins. When a society is ruled and controlled by sin it is corrupt from within. – Michael Haigh
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence. – Vermont Proverb
Two questions that all should ask everyday: in the morning ask, 1) What can I do to glorify Christ today? and in the evening ask, 2) What did I do today to glorify Christ? – Michael Haigh
Grace and responsibility are always kept distinct in Scripture. Everyone gets grace when he is not entitled in anything but having got grace he is responsible. – J. B. Stoney
Man never know love from philosophy; it was brought in by the gospel. – J. B. Stoney
The outward disdain for sin is not the same as the brokenness of heart because of sin. – Michael Haigh
Law sets forth what man aught to be, grace exhibits what God is. – C. H. Macintosh
You’ll never know who you are until you are what God wants you to be. – Michael Haigh
. . . . the great fundamental principle of the gospel is, that God is all: man is nothing. – C. H. Macintosh
Scripture makes known to us what we never could have known if it had not been made known. – F. E. Raven
The true heart is never unprepared. – J. B. Stoney
. . . . expulsion from man is not the same thing as opposition from him, but the one prepares us for the other. – J. B. Stoney
All mankind are slaves to time and in time, yet, for the Christian, however, we are servants of eternity. – Mary Haigh
I believe all the knowledge of God is at the cross; it is there we get it. We may get a knowledge of divine principles elsewhere (in Scripture), but it is at the cross that we learn the glory of God. – F. E. Raven
Voting in a democracy is like choosing which hand to put in the fire, there are only two choices — right or left. What is absent from the choice? God is absent. – Michael Haigh
. . . . Christians occupy themselves with matters relating to the confederations of men, rather than the recognition of the rights of the Spirit of God in the body of Christ. – J. N. Darby
Too many in the Church age do not want to acknowledge, or to understand, or to be instructed by Old Testament teachings and principles because they do not want to be submissive to, nor responsible to a sovereign God, nor to recognize the rights of a judicial God. Instead, they desire a permissive God who only moves and acts to bless them with physical and material benefits. – Mary Haigh
Until you carry the load you don’t know how heavy it is. – Michael Haigh —— Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. (2 Corinthians 11:28)
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? (Psalm 130:3)
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. (Psalm 90:8)
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. (Psalm 143:2)
But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap: (Malachi 3:2)
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; (Romans 3:23)
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9)