Gleanings in Genesis Quotes

“Is there not in these words of our Lord a latent reference to the history of man’s fall, and a designed contrast from the first tree? Just as by the act of "eating" man lost his spiritual life, so by an act of "eating" man now obtains spiritual and eternal life!”
― Arthur W. Pink, Gleanings in Genesis

“It was when the sin of the creature had reached its climax that Grace was exercised and displayed, as if to teach us from the onset, that it is nothing within man which calls forth the bestowment of Divine favors.”
― Arthur W. Pink, Gleanings in Genesis

“The responsibilities of parenthood should cast us more and more upon God.”
― Arthur W. Pink, Gleanings in Genesis

“Light comes to the sinner through the Word applied by the Spirit.”
― Arthur W. Pink, Gleanings in Genesis

“The order here is ever the same; the one who has no fear of God before his eyes, has no genuine respect for the rights of his neighbor.”
― Arthur W. Pink, Gleanings in Genesis

“The redeemed have gained more through the last Adam than they lost through the first Adam.”
― Arthur W. Pink, Gleanings in Genesis

“Faith is more than an intellectual assent. Faith is the committal of ourselves to God's Word. Faith necessarily involves volition, "I will let down the net." Faith flies in the face of all carnal reasonings, feelings and experience and says, "Nevertheless at Thy Word I will.”
― Arthur W. Pink, Gleanings in Genesis

“We repeat, man is a responsible creature, and as such, subject to the Divine government. This is the great fact which God would impress upon us from the commencement of human history. "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it" (Gen. 2:17). There was no other reason why the fruit of this tree should not be eaten save the plain command of God. And, as we have sought to show, this command was not given arbitrarily in the real meaning of that word, but gave emphasis to the relationship in which man stood to God. As an intelligent, responsible creature, man is subject to the Divine government. But the creature became self-seeking, self-centered, self-willed, and as the result he disobeyed, sinned, fell.”
― Arthur W. Pink, Gleanings in Genesis

“Church-going, religious exercises, attention to ordinances, philanthropy and altruism are the fig leaves which many today are weaving into aprons to cover their spiritual shame. But”
― Arthur W. Pink, Gleanings in Genesis

“It is in the sequel that God is vindicated.”
― Arthur W. Pink, Gleanings in Genesis

“the faith which justifies has to do directly with the person and work of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
― Arthur W. Pink, Gleanings in Genesis

“How much are the Lord's people losing today because of their acceptance of the world's favors! Unto how few can the Lord”
― Arthur W. Pink, Gleanings in Genesis

“And the sad thing is that while men refuse to believe the Word of the living God, yet they are sufficiently credulous to accept Satan's lies.”
― Arthur W. Pink, Gleanings in Genesis

“for in eating of the forbidden fruit our first parents committed an act of theft. Is it not then something more than a coincidence that we find a "thief" (yea, two thieves) connected with the second Tree also?”
― Arthur W. Pink, Gleanings in Genesis