From: Between Two Worlds, Justin Taylor D.A. Carson, For the Love of God, volume 2, Jan. 23 entry: One of the most striking evidences of sinful human nature lies in the universal propensity for downward drift. In other words, it takes thought, resolve, energy, and effort to bring about reform. In the grace of God, sometimes…

“One property of a humble soul is this; it will quietly bear burdens, and patiently take blows and knocks, and make no noise. A humble soul sees God through all the actions of men. He looks through the secondary causes, and sees the hand of God. He looks through to the supreme cause.” — Thomas…

Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked; you cannot make atonement for your past transgressions, you cannot wipe out a single page in that long black list. And when the King shall ask you for your wedding garment you will be speechless. Look simply unto Jesus, and then…

“You say, ‘I wish my cup would run over!’  What are you doing with it?  ‘I am trying to empty it of my old sins.’  That will not make it run over.  ‘I have been washing it with my tears.’  That will not make it run over.  Do you know the only way of having…

“If only we were as scared of sin as we are of cancer. Cancer only robs years from a dying body. Sin robs the soul of life for eternity.” – Michael Lederman

“We are sure that the Gospel we have preached is not after men because men to not take to it. It is opposed, even to this day. If anything is hated bitterly, it is the out-and-out Gospel of the grace of God, especially if that hateful word sovereignty is mentioned with it! Dare to say,…

From the Gospel Coalition Blog: We imagine many scenarios. We worry about many things that will never happen. I like the definition of worry I recently came across: Worry is interest paid on a debt we may never owe. God doesn’t give us grace for our imaginations. God gives us grace for today, grace for…

“That old enemy of mankind, the devil, has no more subtle device for ruining souls than that of spreading false doctrine. Outside the church he is ever persuading men to maintain destructive superstitions. Like a pirate, his object is to ’sink, burn and destroy.’ “Inside the church he is ever laboring to sow heresies, to propagate…

The enjoyment of [God] is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied…. Fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of earthly friends are but shadows, but enjoyment of God is the substance. These are but scattered beams, but God is the sun. These are but streams, but God is…

LORD JESUS, Give me a deeper repentance, a horror of sin, a dread of its approach; Help me chastely to flee it, and jealously to resolve that my heart shall be thine alone. Give me a deeper trust, that I may lose myself to find myself in thee, the ground of my rest, the spring…