Do Not Magnify Trifles
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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