“There is none upon earth who is fully conformed to God’s will. Practical holiness is a matter of growth. In this life holiness is but infantile and will only be matured in glory. At present it exists more in the form of longings and strivings, hungerings and efforts, rather than in realizations and attainments.”
- A.W.Pink, from his Hebrews Comm. p.1000
Practical Holiness
Every Good From God Alone
“But He calls those humble who being emptied of every confidence in their own power, wisdom and righteousness, seek every good from God alone.”
-John Calvin, from his commentary on 1Peter
Christianity is not a Species…
Christianity is not a species of the genus religion, but rather the religion of which other belief systems are false derivations”.
Gordon Clark, from his “A Christian View of Men and Things”
Lowly Thoughts
“He who is blest with a spiritual faith will have lowly thoughts of himself”.
A.W.Pink, Hebrews Comm. p.849
The Nature of Faith
“The Nature of Faith is to be certain. Any measure of doubt or uncertainty is not a degree of faith but an assault upon it. Faith, therefore, must rest on something more sure than an inference of probability.”
J.I.Packer, from his “Fundamentalism and the Word of God,” p.117
What to Renounce…
“We are not to renounce our comforts and throw away God’s blessings; but we are to renounce our carnal affections. We cannot get out of the world when we please, but we must get the world out of us”.
AW Pink, from his Hebrews Comm. p.732
The Theater of Divine Glory
“Correctly then is this world called the mirror of divinity; Not that there is sufficient clearness for man to gain a full knowledge of God, by looking at the world, but that He has thus so far revealed Himself, that the ignorance of the ungodly is without excuse. Now, the faithful, to whom He has given eyes, sees sparks of His glory, as it were, glittering in every created thing. The world was no doubt made, that it might be the theater of the Divine Glory”.
-John Calvin, from his commentary on Hebrews, p.266
The Need for Mutual Exhortations
“For as by nature we are inclined to evil, we have need of various helps to retain us in the fear of God. Unless our faith be now and then raised up, it will lie prostrate: unless it be warmed, it will be frozen; unless it be roused, it will grow torpid. He would have us then to stimulate one another by mutual exhortations, so that Satan may not creep into our hearts, and by his fallacies draw us away from God.
-John Calvin, from his commentary on Hebrews, p.88
Faith, Not a Blind Reliance”
“Faith is not a blind reliance on the Word of God, but an intelligent persuasion of it’s veracity, wisdom and beauty.”
AW Pink, from his Hebrews comm. P.654
Purchased by Christ
‘Every grace implanted in the Christian’s soul was purchased by the obedience and blood of Christ, and are living evidences of the worth of them.”
-A.W.Pink, from his Hebrews Comm. p.575
Dangerous and Fatal
“To indulge the flesh is dangerous; To persist in the course of self-gratification is highly dangerous; And to remain therein unto the end, would be fatal.”
A.W.Pink,from his Hebrews Comm. p.612
Want or Weakness
“It is through want or weakness of faith that we cannot put the word of promise and works of Providence in a harmonious way together”.
-Jeremiah Burroughs, from his Faith, p.xviii
The Mediator’s Desire
“Never did famished mortal so crave food to satisfy hunger, as did the God-Man Mediator to perform the Father’s pleasure”.
A.W.Pink, From his Hebrews Comm. p.560
Confession of Sin
“Confession of sin is as necessary under the New Covenant as under the Old, but with an entirely different end in view; It is not as a part of the compensation for the guilt of it nor as a means of pacifying the conscience so that we may still go on in sin; but to fill us with self-abasement, to induce greater watchfulness against sin, to glorify God for the mercy available, and to obtain a sense of His pardon in our own souls”.
A.W.Pink, from his Hebrews Commentary, p.535
Truth and Error
“When we cease to value Truth, we are already in the atmosphere of error.”
-Charles Bridges, from his commentary on Ecclesiates, p.307
Not One Sigh
“If I had to contribute so much as one sigh to my salvation, I would go to hell”.
- Hanko, from “Justified Unto Liberty”, p.170
Spiritual Wealth
“Never expect spiritual wealth, while indulging carnal sloth”.
From Charles Bridges’ commentary on Ecclesiastes, p.256
False Religion
“All false religion is but a choice of other things for men to place their trust in with a neglect of Christ, and all superstition, instances of it, be they great or small”.
-John Owen
The Time of Testing
Providence so arranges human affairs that everything in life is a test of character”.
W. Plummer, Jehovah Jireh, p.89
Sweet Meditation
Meditation is a holy exercise of the mind; whereby we
bring the truths of God to remembrance—and seriously
ponder upon them and apply them to ourselves. It is a
work which cannot be done in a crowd. A Christian must
retire from the world, to have serious thinking upon God.
It is not a few transient thoughts that are quickly gone;
but a fixing and staying of the mind upon heavenly
objects.
-Thomas Watson
