Deep thoughts and reflections on life, hope, love, forgiveness, God’s grace, charity, courage, conversion, etc. by prominent preachers.
If a man should fire a house to destroy the mice in it, we should think him to be fairly mad. Yet those who consider themselves to be reasonable men will set the church in a blaze about the merest trifle. Meeting after meeting will be called, and angry discussions provoked, and holy work overturned … Read more
Do you ask, “Why not do away with the church, if its members make so many mistakes?” Would you take away the light-house because careless mariners, through wrong observations, run their ships high and dry upon the shore? Would you put out the lamps in your house because moths and millers burn their wings in … Read more
The church ought to be the leader, the inspirer of the age. It is all folly for us to be discussing old issue—arraigning Nero, hanging Absalom, striking the Philistines with Shamgar’s ox-goad—when all about us are iniquities to be slain—a corrupt legislature, a rotten judiciary, and a whiskey ring!—TALMAGE.
Have you ever watched the deteriorating effects of sin even upon the personal appearance? Take a youth of extreme beauty, and let him, little by little, be led into wicked practices; in proportion as he is so led, will the register of his descent be written upon his face, and upon his whole attitude and … Read more
Like snow drift when it has leveled the church-yard mounds, and glistening in the winter sun, lies so pure and fair and beautiful above the dead, who fester and rot below, a very plausible profession, wearing the semblance of innocence, may conceal from human eyes the foulest heart-corruption. The grass grows green upon a mountain … Read more
As certain as we are lost in sin, so certain can Christ gave us from our sins. He will save us if we will let Him. A story is told of Rowland Hill, the great preacher. Lady Ann Erskine was passing by in her carriage, and she asked her coachman who that was that was … Read more
Sins seldom come alone; where there is room for one devil, seven other spirits more wicked than himself will find a lodging. We may say of sins as Longfellow says of birds of prey, in his Song of Hiawatha.—. “Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded … Read more
There was but one crack in the lantern, and the wind has found it out and blown out the candle. How great a mischief one unguarded point of character may cause us. One spark blew up the magazine, and shook the whole country for miles around. One leak sank the vessel and drowned all on … Read more
Sin is not only strong to seduce, but heartless to sustain its victims. It will exhaust your means, teach you to despise the God of your fathers, and then when the inevitable disaster of wickedness begins to overwhelm you, it will abandon whom it has debauched. When at length, death gnaws at your bones, and … Read more
It is high time to get out of your sins. You say, “I have committed no great transgressions.” But are you not aware that your life has been sinful? The snow comes down on the Alps flake by flake, and it is so light that you may hold it on the tip of your finger … Read more