Obadiah Sedgwick Quote

"There are but two sorts of people in the world--good and bad--and both of them choose their lords (Sedgwick The Anatomy of Secret Sins SDG Pg. 167.)

Obadiah Sedgwick Quote (Sin)

"... though the heart and nature have surrendered themselves to Christ as the only Lord, and to his will as the only law yet, in many particulars, sin gets the better over grace. Though it cannot be said to rule, yet it may be said to conquer. It makes the man to fall down; it is too strong and prevalent for all the actual improvements and particular resistances of grace and prayer at that time, and for that fact" (The Anatomy of Secret Sins Sedgwick Pg. 150 SDG Publications).

Orphan Ministry

There are one hundred forty seven million orphans in the world. Do you know any of them? (James 1:27).

Augustine Quote (Love of things Temporal)

"The wicked can cause no harm to the good, for they do not deprive them of what they love" (Augustine The Christian Combat Ch. 7).

Augustine Quote (The Sovereignty of God)

"Almighty God, Lord of all the universe, who, as it is written, 'hath made all things very good,' has so ordered them that He can accomplish good from both the good and evil" (Augustine The Christian Combat Ch. 7).

Augustine Quote (both the sinless and sinful subject to God)

"And since even sinless creatures are subject to Him, how much more are sinful creatures? Seeing, therefore, that all the good angels are subject to Him, how much more so are all the wicked angels, whose chief is the Devil?" (Augustine The Christian Combat Ch.1)

Melville Quote (The Sermon)

"If we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists" (Herman Melville Moby Dick Ch. 9 The Sermon)