Grace Quotes

(adapted from Octavius Winslow's, "The Redeemer, the Revelation of the Father's Glory" October, 1844) "The time is surely coming," says the Sovereign Lord, "when I will send a famine on the land; not a famine of bread or water but of hearing the words of the Lord." Amos 8:11 Already has this famine of the true word of God commenced! How few, forming their ministry upon the apostolic model, can affirm with Paul, "My speech and my preaching are not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power!" How few, disdaining artificial embellishment, and scorning the applause of men won by a vain show of intellect and eloquence, preach that simple truth of which Jesus is the Author, the Substance, the Glory, the Power, and the End; purely, boldly, faithfully, affectionately, uncompromisingly! How few who honestly and heartily desire to lift up their Lord and Master; themselves lost behind the glory of His person and the splendors of His cross! How sadly, how painfully, is the Lord Jesus Christ kept in the background! How is His glory obscured, His beauty veiled, His honor withheld! "The time will come, when a faithful minister of the Gospel will be more scarce and precious than a bar of gold!" John Owen "The time is surely coming," says the Sovereign Lord, "when I will send a famine on the land; not a famine of bread or water but of hearing the words of the Lord." Amos 8:11