“Great leaders, great statesmen, great poets, great teachers, great inventors, great philosophers are God’s gifts to the nations. The service they have rendered cannot be reckoned. We are all indebted to God for them more than we can say.” But above all is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, his ineffable gift to men. He did not spare his own Son, but gave him freely for all of us. Love is a great gift . Take away love and the world would be darker and sadder than it would be if the sun were blotted out. All these great gifts, and many more, God has given us.” Selected.
“There is too much truth, we fear, in the suggestion that the reason we recoil from the furnace that is to test us is our awareness that there is so little gold and so much dross in us.” (1913.)
“As everyone knows, fashions in America are dictated by the imperative edicts that are issued from Paris. Many of these fashions are not only grotesque and ridiculous, but, what is worse, they are positively indecent…” ( 1914).
Isn’t it a glorious thing to die at exactly the right time? Perhaps none of us knows exactly when that is; but every now and then a man outlives his usefulness or in the end kicks the bucket full of the good deeds of his best Joseph Cook said of an eminent American preacher: “He would have lived longer if he had died sooner.” . How true is the paradox in many lives.” (1915.)
THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF DARWIN, The Herald of Zion. From the article: “I was a young man with unformed ideas. I launched inquiries, suggestions, wondering all the time about everything; and to my amazement, the ideas spread like wildfire. People made a religion of them.” (1915.)
“Just as flowers carry drops of dew that tremble on the edge of their petals and are ready to fall at the first breath of wind or the brush of a bird’s wing, so the heart must carry its beads of thanks, and at the first breath of heavenly favor let the rain fall, perfumed with the gratitude of the heart”. Beecher. (1916.)
“No man or woman of the humblest kind can be really strong, gentle, pure, and good without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.” Philips Brooks. (1916.)
“I once felt that I was responsible for the conduct of universal affairs, but recently I have come to believe otherwise. As long as I tried to rule the world, I was miserable; now it makes me happy to trust in God.” Lyman Beecher. (1916.)
“The grave is not a dead end. It is a thoroughfare.” Victor Hugo.
“Why do men try to account for Jesus Christ and to give a satisfactory explanation on natural grounds of all that He was and did? Men do not try to prove that Shakespeare was a mother man, or Socrates, or Luther, or Washington. Which is too obvious. But Jesus Christ has never been considered except as the Living Bread that came down from heaven.” Anonymous. (1916.)
The old are more hungry for love than for bread.
If you can help the poor to clothe themselves in a cloak of praise, they will appreciate it as much as a woolen blanket on a winter’s night.
If you can win the wanderer from the error of his way and bring him to Christ for salvation, you will certainly hide a multitude of sins through his forgetfulness.
If you can maintain a cheerful and patient spirit toward your enemies, you will have introduced Jesus to a needy heart and won for yourselves a place of gratitude in the life and thought of him who was your enemy.
If you want to be a light bearer, you must have the light in your own heart and life, for only then can you bring it to others and help lead them out of the paths of darkness and ruin into the realms of light and heaven. eternal joy. . Selected.
An unbeliever once mocked a minister with this question… “What right has such a man to enter the gates of heaven?” “I don’t know, when he arrives I’m going to ask him,” replied the minister. “But suppose he isn’t there?” “In that case, ask him,” replied the minister. (1916.)
“If the pastor doesn’t move his church, his church will move him.” JT McGlothlin.
“As a further indignity to Belgium, Germany has deported 30,000 Belgians to Germany for work purposes. This was done without their consent. They were simply herded into boxcars like cattle and scattered all over Germany, and they may never see them again.” their families. or their homeland. Germany continued to commit outrages against civilization.” Shadows of Nazi Germany years later! (1916.)
“It has been said that an American tramp can live on what an American family throws away, and that a European tramp can live on what an American tramp throws away.” (1917.)
“Better leave your money on your son than for your son.”
“Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back loaded with its kind.”
“Out with your tank tops, groomed, dazed, powdered, society ladies, and give us back the good old days, bread making, pantyhose daring, pant care, praying mothers, and our homes will be saved.” Biederwolf.
“The man who builds a fence around himself fences more than he fences.” Dr. EM Poteat.
“It is a comfort to know that the true strength of men, like that of tea, is only brought out by being in hot water.” Anonymous.
Dr. Len G. Broughton, at a Chautaqua conference: “The greatest danger that threatens the American people today is not the danger of war, but the danger that lurks in disrespect for constituted authority. Most of our young people are not under the proper authority of parents. Our public schools cannot administer disciplinary measures; the very laws of our country are lax and, in too many cases, the lawbreaker goes unpunished.” (1917!)
“Any thought that is given persistently will find its way into the brain’s motor track.” JR Miller.
“The view of the Bible that was formed in me not only by my home teaching as a child, but also by every turn and experience of my life and every step of study, is that it is the one supreme source of revelation, the revelation of the meaning of life, of the nature of God, of the spiritual nature and of the needs of men. It is the only life guide that leads the spirit along the path of peace and salvation.” Woodrow Wilson.
“There is something radically wrong when a professional boxer can make more money in fifteen minutes than a preacher can in fifteen years.” Billy Sunday. (1917.)
“The Biblical Record draws our attention to the fact that a leaning tree is a threat to the forest. Its own foundation being insecure, it leans on its neighbor for support. So do the leaning trees of mankind. So we might say about those who lean on others in the churches. Stand tall, and have your own opinions and you may give reason for hope with yourselves.” (1917.)
“Before you refrain from doing a good deed for someone who does not appreciate it, and justify your course in that passage: ‘Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw pearls before swine, lest they trample them down and turn again and make yourself;’ but be reasonably certain of two things: 1. that what you are throwing are ‘pearls’, and 2. that those at whom you are throwing them are ‘pigs.’ Before citing this passage as justification, just make sure of these two points “. Anonymous.
“It seems to me that there is no other worthy pursuit than the idea of doing something good for the world. Some do it with their society, some with their wit, some with benevolence, some with a kind of power to confer pleasure and humor. in everything they find”. John Keats. (1917.)
Lloyd George’s response to someone who complained about his small size: “I am sorry to hear that our President is disappointed in my size. But this is because of the way they measure a man here. In North Wales we measure a man from the chin up, but obviously you measure him from the chin down.
TWELVE THINGS TO REMEMBER: 1. The value of time. 2. The success of perseverance. 3. The pleasure of working. 4. The dignity of simplicity. 5. The value of character. 6. The power of kindness. 7. The influence of example. 8. The obligation of duty. 9. The wisdom of economics. 10. The virtue of patience. 11. The improvement of talent. 12. The joy of originating.
“We cannot serve God and riches, but we can serve God with riches.” Robert E. Speer.
“Try to be happy in this very present moment, and do not leave it for a time to come, as if that time belonged to another man than this one who has already come and is ours.” Fuller.
“If the day and night are such that you welcome them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and aromatic herbs, that is your success.” Maeterlinck.
“One cannot be bound to do more than one’s duty, but one is bound to do up to the extent of one’s duty.” Rev. J.Clark.
“There are continually things to be forgiven. Intentionally and unintentionally, by design and lack of thought, for things said and done, and for things not said or done. We must have the spirit and attitude of forgiveness at all times for everyone. things, on our part, and as far as it is possible for us, it is always already done, since the action of the heart is the true action and is always already done, it may not be appreciated by others, but it is already freely forgiven. of heart and the kindness of action are related as the source to the current.Movement carries the conditions that impel it.Where the heart is full of trust, tenderness springs indigenous to activity.
For this there is only one sufficient cause, the reparative blood of Jesus that gives ‘a heart in every thought renewed and full of divine love’. This is the pattern shown to us in heavenly places. In our prayers we say “forgive as God forgave you in Christ.” How rich and full is the forgiveness of infinite love in the atoning blood. How we appropriate it, how free and full we find it. So with us, he must flow to everyone who wants it. ” Selected.