Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Cautious Choice of Literary Company
"At spare hours read; but be sure to use caution in thy choice of books: else it is time spent in ill company" (Thomas Fuller, An Introduction to Prudence).
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Suffering and Sifting
"They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad. Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion [is] fat, and their meat plenteous" (Habakkuk 1:15-16).
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Touchstone of Sincerity
"Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand" (Daniel 12:10).
Monday, September 21, 2020
If any man come to Me
“If any [man] come to Me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple” (Luke 14:26).
Sunday, September 20, 2020
On Credulity
Herman Witsius and Blaise Pascal on credulity (not an endorsement or a promotion of Witsius or of Pascal as true Christians):
Severity and Leniency
Heinrich Bullinger quoting Augustine (not a promotion of Bullinger and Augustine as true Christians):
"Not everyone that spares is a friend; nor is everyone that strikes, an enemy. Better are the stripes of a friend than the voluntary kisses of an enemy. It is better to love with severity, than to deceive with leniency. He that binds a frenzied man, and wakes the one who is sick from lethargy, troubles them both, and yet he loves them both."
"Not everyone that spares is a friend; nor is everyone that strikes, an enemy. Better are the stripes of a friend than the voluntary kisses of an enemy. It is better to love with severity, than to deceive with leniency. He that binds a frenzied man, and wakes the one who is sick from lethargy, troubles them both, and yet he loves them both."
Saturday, September 19, 2020
The Slothful Man
The following is a quote from Wilson on Proverbs 26:13-16 (this is not a promotion or an endorsement of Wilson as a true Christian).
"The slothful [man] saith, [There is] a lion in the way; a lion [is] in the streets. [As] the door turneth upon his hinges, so [doth] the slothful upon his bed. The slothful hideth his hand in [his] bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth. The sluggard [is] wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason" (Proverbs 26:13-16).
"The slothful [man] saith, [There is] a lion in the way; a lion [is] in the streets. [As] the door turneth upon his hinges, so [doth] the slothful upon his bed. The slothful hideth his hand in [his] bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth. The sluggard [is] wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason" (Proverbs 26:13-16).
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)