Quotes – February 2019

Quotes

February 2019

God has a class action suit again mankind: all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. – Michael 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 (1837 – 1903)

Only through the Holy Ghost can anyone understand and know the wonder of God’s peace. Even the redeemed do not understand the magnitude and depth of God’s peace because God’s peace (although possessed by the redeemed) is not totally revealed. For His peace is a continuum for the redeemed each and every day. –Michael Haigh

This is the age of His absence, but the coming age shall be characterized by His presence. – Sir Robert Anderson (1841 – 1918)

Many Christians think that they are in a playground and not on a battlefield. – Michael Haigh

We become children by new birth, which, thanks be to God, is a divine operation from first to last. What had we to do with our natural birth? Nothing. And what have we to do with our spiritual birth? Clearly nothing. – C. H. Macintosh (1820 – 1896)

Why does God mention in the Scriptures Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob together many times? In these three personalities, we have the three stages of Israel’s history. In Abraham we have the call and the promises. In Isaac we have the seed of that continual promise. And in Jacob we have the trials and tribulations of Israel. – Michael Haigh

If you have been a victim of ecclesiastical trickinology then it is time to return to your Bible. – Michael Haigh

The first tree had a condition given by God: this condition was not to partake of that tree or die. The second tree had a condition: partake and live. – Michael Haigh

Faith is my thinking God’s thoughts instead of my own. – J. N. Darby (1800 – 1882)

The cross is the measure of God’s hatred for sin, as it is the measure of His love to the sinner. – C. H. Macintosh (1820 – 1896)

The word of God is a two-edged sword; it has no handle: all is blade. – J. N. Darby (1800 – 1882)

You’ll never know who you are until you are what God wants you to be. – 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 (1897 – 1963)

People talk of whether future sins are forgiven. All my sins were future when Christ died for them. – J. N. Darby  (1800 – 1882)

In the Old Testament God dragged His people forward to the cross. In the New Testament He takes His people back to the cross. – Michael Haigh

Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence. – Vermont Proverb

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 (1814 – 1895)

In God’s determinate counsels the perfect plan demanded the perfect Man. – Michael Haigh

Man never knows love from philosophy; it was brought in by the gospel. – J. B. Stoney (1814 – 1895)

Scripture makes known to us what we never could have known if it had not been made known. – F. E. Raven (1837 – 1903)

You are the most enlightened people of all the ages, and yet, you are the least responsive. – Michael Haigh

The true heart is never unprepared. – J. B. Stoney (1814 – 1895)