Quotes – August 2016

Quotes – August 2016

Re: Christ: He was here for you, now you are here for Him. – Michael Haigh

If Jesus Christ was the Son of God incarnate then we should naturally expect Him to be born in a way none other ever was. If He came here on a unique mission, of supreme importance to the whole human race — a divine mission, having for its purpose a climactic display of God’s perfections, and the saving of His people with an everlasting salvation — then His life obviously would be without any parallel, yea characterized by the supernatural. – A. Pink

Only God can give grace, one cannot obtain grace for himself by works, or through euphoric feelings. Grace has to come as a gift, and like mercy God will shed His grace according to His will and purpose. This gift will come to those who God calls. – Michael Haigh

Re: Unity among believers: separation from evil is the basis of all true unity. – J. N. Darby

Someone once asked me, Do you think that you’re the only one who has the truth, I replied, No, I am only one among the only ones who have the truth. – Michael Haigh

Cannot Deity legibly inscribe His signature on the work of His own hand. – A. Pink

You first begin to think of the things that suit yourself, and then you refuse the things that suit God. – J. B. Stoney

The Old Testament establishes all things, the New Testament confirms all things. – Michael Haigh

Laws go where dollars please. – Portuguese Proverb

We not only have been saved by His grace, but the further blessing is that we live in that grace. ‘My grace is sufficient for thee.’ – Michael Haigh

Here lay Cain’s fatal mistake: “He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach a holy God without blood.” – Charles Henry Mackintosh

Re: Standards — If there are no common righteous standards by which all men should live, then . . . “Each separate individual would become a law to himself: nay, if nothing be right or good save what I approve of, then I am my own god.” – A. Pink

Earthly pollution is only a mirror of the polluted soul of man. The dregs and the slime of his sin not only pollutes the soul of man, but it also pollutes everything around him. -Michael Haigh

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. – Billy Sunday

Man measures by time, God measures by sin. – Michael Haigh

Tell your friend a lie; if he keeps it secret tell him the truth. – Portuguese Proverb

The Lord doesn’t want a theological argument, He wants surrender. – Michael Haigh

The power of the world, and the power of the Holy Spirit can never work together. – J. B. Stoney

There are two types of evangelists: one evangelist meets you in the way and tells you of the glory of Christ: the other evangelist takes you by the hand and leads you to his church because he believes that this is the only place you can meet God. – Michael Haigh

The great ecclesiastical error of all religious systems is that man should foremost be subject to the system or to the church; that the church comes before God’s word, the Bible, and that God cannot address the individual directly through His word by His Holy Spirit alone. – Mary Haigh

Christianity means a lot more than church membership. – Billy Sunday

In our day we have had about 2000+ years of Church history; during this period of time both Jew and Gentile may drink of the water of life freely which flows from the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Both Jew and Gentile are brought under the same sacrifice, the same blood, and the same water. – Michael Haigh

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. – Blaise Pascal

Even in our natural birth, water comes first; then our life is quickened by God through our blood. So in the new birth, as we become a new creation in Christ Jesus we come by water then blood. – Michael Haigh

In our new birth we are bathed in water, and cleansed by blood. God sees these two elements simultaneously in His Son. – Michael Haigh

To those who are called the ‘Higher Critics’ of “Higher Criticism,” I ask, Higher than what and higher than who? – Mary Haigh

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls. (Proverbs 25:28)

He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him: (Proverbs 24:24)

Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment? (Malachi 2:17)

And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee? (Mark 14:60)

But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? (Mark 14:61)

And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. (Mark 14:62)

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: (Philippians 2:5)

Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:(Philippians 2:6)

But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: (Philippians 2:7)

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