Quotes – June 2022

Quotes
June 2022

 


Man is born by time, valued by time, recorded by time, controlled by time, condemned by time, and finally judged by time. – Michael Haigh


Everyone who gets to heaven will have to thank God for it. Everyone who finds himself in hell will have to blame himself for it. – C. H. Macintosh (1820 – 1896)


You cannot have Christ in eternity if you do not have Him in time. – C. H. Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)


We need a baptism of clear seeing. We desperately need seers who can see through the mist — Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy. – A. W. Tozer (1897 – 1963)


When men pass into eternity they will see with awful clearness what they now affect to think is so obscure and perplexing, namely, the perfect compatibility of God’s electing sovereign grace and the free offer of salvation to all — the fullest harmony between divine sovereignty and human responsibility. – C. H. Macintosh (1820 – 1896)


A sermon without Christ is a brook without water; a cloud without rain; a well which mocks the traveler; a tree twice dead, plucked up by the root; a sky without a sun; a night without a star; — it were a realm of death — a place of mourning for angels and laughter for devils. – C. H. Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)


God may will a change, but He cannot change His will. – From an unknown Puritan preacher.


Since God made Christ so much better than the angels, would He not have made Him so much better than man? – Michael Haigh


The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. – Proverb Source Unknown.


That God has placed before His redeemed children a vast world of spiritual treasures and that they refuse or neglect to claim it may easily turn out to be the second greatest tragedy in the history of the moral creation, the first and greatest being the fall of man. – A. W. Tozer (1897 – 1963)


If the child of God will stoop so low as to mix himself up with the world, he must calculate upon being made a participant in its convulsions. – C. H. Macintosh (1820 – 1896)


You may not have placed the nails in His body, but you held the hammer that drove them in. – Michael Haigh


If the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.
John Owen (1616 – 1683)


. . . . the thread of human authority runs through every religious system in Christendom . . . . your will find man’s authority recognized and demanded. With that you may minister; without it you may not . . . . on the contrary, Christ’s gift ALONE makes man a minister, apart from all human authority. This is the grand principle of ministry. – C. H. Macintosh (1820 – 1896)


In order to apprehend the mind of Christ we need to close our minds to the things of the world. The best mind to have when delving into the word of God is a closed mind. Yes, you read that correctly, the triumphant mind is a closed mind. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind . . . (1st Peter 1:13) Protecting your mind spiritually is a constant challenge requiring battle awareness of the elimination fields of distraction and prideful imaginations. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; (2nd Corinthians 10:5) – Mary Haigh


Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse. – Proverb Source Unknown


We live in an age of the uncontrollable Cain syndrome, and just as Cain, we do not blame sin, we blame the gun, or the car, or the sword, or the poison, or any other vehicle of death, but we forget the driving force that is within every man and that is sin. It is death by sin.- Michael Haigh



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