Quotes – September 2017

Quotes

September 2017

The infidel will teach you how to doubt, but never how to believe. – C. H. Mackintosh

It is impossible indeed for man’s thoughts to get beyond himself. Thus the image of God which he devises must be only in some way a reflection of himself. – F. W. Grant

The wisdom of the world has been captivated and chained by it’s own wisdom. It is their own wisdom that will not release them to believe in God and the Son of His love, Jesus Christ. – Michael Haigh

The Spirit of God may engage our spirits in true worship at any time and in any place. – F. B. Hole

A beautiful bird is the only kind we cage. – Chinese proverb

There is only one divine interpretation and that belongs to God and not to man. Only God can reveal His truth within the pages of His holy word. This offends man’s natural intelligence, and overturns the scholar’s pride. – Michael Haigh

It is not, ‘they that live shall hear,’ but, ‘they that hear shall live.’ – F. B. Hole

The world will tell you that the authority and the power comes from the collective meeting to the individual, however, God tells us that the power comes from the individual to the collective meeting. – Michael Haigh

What greater place of servitude could the created creature experience but to serve his own Creator. – Michael Haigh

. . . . there is no blow so keen and so deeply felt as that which comes from those who profess to love us! – William Kelly

The call of God is not a replica or duplicate call of other believers in the past, but it is to set each believer on his own course to work within the counsels of God to glorify God through the unique service of each believer within his own time frame in history. – Michael Haigh

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. – Chinese proverb

While ‘the controllers’ speak of their desire to control their own bodies, they have yet to demonstrate that they are capable of controlling their own mouths. – Mary Haigh

The God of truth does not need man to verify His truth. – Michael Haigh

A man does not run very fast when he is not quite sure that he is in the right road. – C. A. Coates

It is not another Bible translation that is needed, but a spiritual transformation that is needed. – Mary Haigh

The word of God condemns man, condemns the world, condemns the evil and the demonic realm, condemns Satan himself, and yet, in that hammer of condemnation and judgment we see the nails that pierced His Son. – Michael Haigh

. . . . when souls are occupied with experience whether it be in connection with holiness, power for service, or spiritual attainment — they always have something before them less than the purpose of God. – C. A. Coates

A drop of the Savior’s blood stained the world, and yet it cleansed the soul. – Michael Haigh

It (the Bible) is entitled ‘the oracles of God’ (Romans 3:2) because in it God Himself is the speaker. – A. W. Pink

History (through the eyes of mankind) is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn’t there. – Anonymous

By the word of God He convicts, condemns, and judges the children of men. By the same word He sends faith, grace, and justifies those who comes to Him through Jesus Christ. – Michael Haigh

Those who seek to obtain righteousness by works are greatly irritated against those who have peace with God through faith, for this declares all their labour to be in vain. – J. N. Darby

The earth is not a place of rest, but of trial. – J. N. Darby

. . . and I have remarked in my experiences that the servant (of God) who refused to receive support from anyone except the Holy Spirit, the only One competent to bear witness of Christ in heaven, was largely compensated by the knowledge of heavenly things. – J. B. Stoney

In every age man has failed. The failure is simply that man has need of nothing, and that includes God Himself. He has no need of God, no need of salvation, no need of the blood of Christ, and he has no need of the Man in heaven. – Michael Haigh

. . . in this day of the newspaper, the telephone, the radio and television? (and I add to Tozer’s words, the hand held chains called smartphones) These modern playthings, like pet tiger cubs, have grown so large and dangerous that they threaten to devour us all. What was intended to be a blessing has become a positive curse. No spot is now safe from the world’s intrusion.　- A. W. Tozer

Three times in Scripture we have the voice of the Godhead through His decree:

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

(Matthew 24:35) (Mark 13:31) (Luke 21:33)

The Father establishes the word, the Son verifies the word, and the Holy Spirit preserves the word. His decree is that the word of God is more enduring than heaven and earth, and will last longer than heaven and earth — His word has always existed outside the framework of time. Heaven and earth will become dust in the cosmos, but the word of God will endure forever. – Michael Haigh