KenH
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"It seems as if we needed day by day to be taught over and over again our own sinfulness, weakness, and helplessness, and that none but the blessed Lord can do us any real good. Religion is not like any art or science which, when once learned, is learned forever; but is a thing which we are ever forgetting, and ever learning over and over again. Nor can we make any use of our knowledge, experience, or faith. It is like a well that is of no use unless water is drawn out of it by the hand of another. We may have a certain knowledge, both of ourselves and the Lord Jesus, and have had raised up from time to time a living faith in Him; but we cannot make any use of our knowledge or our faith, at least so as to do us any sensible good.
The clay cannot mold itself into a vessel; it requires a potter’s wheel and a potter’s hand. So we are but the clay, and God must be our Potter; for we only are what is pleasing in His sight, as we are the work of His hand."
- excerpt from a letter written by J.C. Philpot to Joseph Tanner on November 14, 1860
The clay cannot mold itself into a vessel; it requires a potter’s wheel and a potter’s hand. So we are but the clay, and God must be our Potter; for we only are what is pleasing in His sight, as we are the work of His hand."
- excerpt from a letter written by J.C. Philpot to Joseph Tanner on November 14, 1860