Quotes
February 2021
Christ is the true substance that supersedes all shadows. – Charles J. Rolls (1856 – unknown)
We have to separate ourselves from the evil crowd, though we may not be separate from its results. – J. N. Darby (1800 – 1882)
Faith is not subject to time, or circumstances, faith can see into tomorrow, faith can bridge years, faith can pass through centuries, and faith can overcome millenniums. – Michael Haigh
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. – Proverb source unknown.
When the professing church has become mingled with the world, those who seek to be faithful must often have to walk alone, incurring the charge of folly and self-will (and that too even from their brethren), because they refuse to follow the beaten path. – J. N. Darby (1800 – 1882)
The Law and the prophets were all fulfilled in Christ’s death, and life and liberty was fulfilled in His resurrection. – Michael Haigh
The simplest things in nature are full of divine secrets. We miss them because we so little care to find them. – F. W. Grant (1834 – 1902)
Before you can even think about compromise, you first must have and possess principles. – Michael Haigh
Those who play the game do not see it as clearly as those who watch. – Proverb source unknown.
Faith rests on a far more solid ground than the evidence of our senses, and that is, the Word of God. Our senses may deceive us, but God’s Word never can. – C. H. Macintosh (1820 – 1896)
The measure of your faith is unlimited. Even if you have just a grain of faith, according to the Lord Himself, this smallest grain of faith has untold strength when it is applied by the knowledge and the will of God. – Michael Haigh
. . . the church never taught: gifted members taught it. The church’s teaching is a delusion. The apostles taught the church, a people of God in these epistles by their inspired gifts; but the church taught no one. – J. N. Darby (1800 – 1882)
Christ became the smallest part of life to be the power of an endless life. – Michael Haigh
Much of the religion of the day is a deplorable mixture of Christ and self, law and grace, faith and works. Souls are kept in a perfect muddle all their days. – C. H. Macintosh (1820 – 1896)
We live in the age of professionalism: professional screamers, professional dreamers, professional welfarites, professional haters, professional mobs, professional students, professional mourners, professional rioters, professional criers, professional victims, professional intellects, even professional Christians, and they can all be rented by the hour or by the day. – Mary Haigh
What is visible to man in his immediate circumstances is not always the end result. – Michael Haigh
The nearer to the church, the farther from God. – Proverb source unknown.
The church is under a delusion that it is not in a state of ruin. – Mary Haigh
We never progress in our spiritual walk when we are in spiritual Egypt. There is no growth, and there is no communion with God. The world in Egypt becomes our master. Although we may take from Egypt (Egypt always takes from us) and we will always bear the scars that spiritual Egypt places upon us. – Michael Haigh
The Spirit supplies no new and different revelation today from that which He has already made in the written Word. – A. W. Pink (1886 – 1952)
Although our faith has an unseen quality, it is quite evident that the reality of our faith must be visible and tangible to the world that we witness to. – Michael Haigh
In God’s determinate counsels, the perfect plan demanded the Perfect Man. – Michael Haigh
The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth. – Proverb source unknown.
We talk of general laws, and philosophy tells us that the world is governed by laws, and then they put the Almighty out of the equation. – C. H. Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)