God’s mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God.
– Charles Spurgeon –
God’s Nature
Ignorance of Scripture – Jerome of Stridon
Ignorance of the Scripture is ignorance of Christ.
– Jerome of Stridon –
mid-300s AD
Great Men or Great God? – Paul Washer
There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.
– Paul Washer –
Complete Trust in God – Elisabeth Elliot
Are we still willing to place our complete trust in God, believing that He really does know what He’s doing?
– Elisabeth Elliot –
What I Learned in Sickness – Gaspar Olevianus
In this disease I have learned how great God is, and what the evil of sin is.
– Gaspar Olevianus –
1586 … as quoted in Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices by Thomas Brooks, 1652
God forgives and restores – Theodore Epp
When God forgives, He at once restores.
– Theodore Epp –
God’s Strong Love – Charles Spurgeon
His strong love stands like a granite rock, unmoved by the hurricanes of our iniquity.
– Charles Spurgeon –
We Do See Jesus – Charles Spurgeon
We have not seen Jesus raise the dead; we have not seen him cast out devils; we have not seen him use the winds and calm the waves; but we do see, with our mind’s eye, his spotless holiness, his boundless love, his superlative truth, his wondrous heavenliness; in a word, we have seen, and do see, his fullness of grace and truth; and we rejoice in the fact that the tabernacle government of God among men in Christ Jesus is attended with a more real glory than the mere brilliance of light and the glow of flame.
– Charles Spurgeon –
My Goal is God – Leonard Ravenhill
My goal is God Himself. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but Himself.
– Leonard Ravenhill –