Quotes
October 2023
We have no refuge in this world. We have no refuge in the corrupt professing church. Our only refuge is in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. – Michael Haigh
Re: Christianity: The reason we do not attract souls is that we are not separate enough. – J. B. Stoney (1814-1895)
There is a great moral quality that must characterize those who will act for God and His people in an evil day. They must not only have confidence in God, but they must also be prepared to surrender self. This is a universal law of in the service of Christ. – C. H. Macintosh (1820 – 1896)
Man has developed his own standard of goodness. He believes his goodness is as good as the goodness of God; however, man does not understand that he is cut off from God’s goodness — but thank God that he has not been removed from God’s mercy. – Michael Haigh
The Holy Spirit of God is the original wordsmith. He selects the perfect word for the perfect time in the perfect place to describe His perfect meaning. – Mary Haigh
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. – Proverb from Welsh culture.
Christ is the eternal and infallible link between heaven and earth. – Michael Haigh
The world judges man on his strengths and uses those strengths to glorify mankind. The Lord judges man in weakness and uses those weaknesses for His glory – Michael Haigh
Who but He could have told us in detail of the conditions that would exist nationally and universally at the end of this age. – Charles J. Rolls (1856 – unknown)
In God’s creatorial foreknowledge He was aware of the battle ahead, and that in order to succeed over the challenges ahead mankind would need help of an entirely different makeup, a different sensibility that complemented and enhanced the entire design structure of mankind . . . and that was maleness and femaleness in its purist form, not as opposing forces, but a special unification of two different individuals brought together as one flesh with one goal and with one mind, in one love, to serve ONE God. – Mary Haigh
Names and personalities continue beyond the veil of death. – Michael Haigh
When one shuts one eye, one does not hear everything. – Proverb from Switzerland
Our world is the world of justice ignored, the world of truth refused, the world where expediency is the goal, and where fear rules – Mary Haigh
In this world I have been a sinner. In this world, I am still a sinner. And in this world, I will always be a sinner, a redeemed sinner, but thank the Lord Jesus Christ for the world to come. – Michael Haigh
Of a compliment only a third is meant. – Proverb from Welsh culture.
Your mind is but an instrument . . . it is a great thing to get coloured with the mind of God. The mind is a servant, and you have to keep it attentive and subject, detained and occupied with Scripture. – J. B. Stoney (1814-1895)
Man is living in an elapse time frame, thinks that his evil will make his future brighter, yet the darkest days of his history lay before him. – Michael Haigh
Adversity and loss make a man wise. – Proverb from Welsh culture
Many individuals have expressed that there is a hole within them that cannot be filled – that hole is the absence of God, and the vacuum of the holy. – Mary Haigh
The nearer you get to Christ the more you understand the depth of fallen man in a dark pit with no bottom. – Michael Haigh
A Morriston Proverb: Adam proved the value of the word of God, he disobeyed God’s word and therefore lost everything.
The Teaching Moment: A Few Abominations from the Book of Proverbs
● The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright [is] his delight. (Proverbs 15:8)
● The way of the wicked [is] an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness. (Proverbs 15:9)
● The thoughts of the wicked [are] an abomination to the LORD: but [the words] of the pure [are] pleasant words. (Proverbs 15:26)
● Every one [that is] proud in heart [is] an abomination to the LORD: [though] hand [join] in hand, he shall not be unpunished. (Proverbs 16:5)
● He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both [are] abomination to the LORD. (Proverbs 17:15)
● He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer [shall be] abomination. (Proverbs 28:9)