As for those parents who will not use the rod upon their children, I pray God He useth not their children as a rod for them.
- Thomas Fuller -
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No longer I that lives
My brethren, let me say, be like Christ at all times. Imitate Him in “public”. Most of us live in some sort of public capacity — many of us are called to work before our fellow-men every day. We are watched; our words are caught; our lives are examined — taken to pieces. The eagle-eyed, argus-eyed world observes everything we do, and sharp critics are upon us. Let us live the life of Christ in public. Let us take care that we exhibit our Master, and not ourselves — so that we can say, “It is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me.”
- C.H. Spurgeon -
The Way To Be In The World
I ponder my experience and I recognise once more that the way for us to be in the world is to focus on the spiritual life.
- Henri Nouwen -
Are We Prepared?
People are prepared for everything except for the fact that beyond the darkness of their blindness there is a great light. They are prepared to go on breaking their backs plowing the same old field until the cows come home without seeing, until they stub their toes on it, that there is a treasure buried in that field rich enough to buy Texas. They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour’s work as for a day’s. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb…
- Frederick Buechner -
May God Open Our Eyes
Let us learn this lesson from Nehemiah: you never lighten the load unless first you have felt the pressure in your own soul. You are never used of God to bring blessing until God has opened your eyes and made you see things as they are.
- Alan Redpath -
Let me walk in the field
I said, “Let me walk in the field.”
He said, “No, walk in the town.”
I said, “But there are no flowers there.”
He said, “No flowers, but a crown.”
I said, “But the sky is black -
There is nothing but noise and din.”
But He wept as He sent me back.
“There is more,” He said. “There is sin.”
- Author Unknown -
The church the world likes best
That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.
- CH Spurgeon -
How Saints May Help The Devil, 1859
The Unique Legacy of our Saviour
This Jesus of Nazareth, without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caesar, Mohammed, and Napoleon; without science and learning, He shed more light on things human and divine than all philosophers and scholars combined; without the eloquence of schools, He spoke such words of life as were never spoken before or since, and produced effects which lie beyond the reach of orator or poet; without writing a single line, He set more pens in motion and furnished themes for more sermons, orations, discussions, learned volumes, works of art, and songs of praise than the whole army of great men of ancient and modern times.
- Phillip Schaff -
The Person of Christ, (American Tract Society) 1913
A Better Man
Until we solve the human equation called man and get him straightened out, we will never have a peaceful world. You've got to build a better man before you can build a better society.
- Billy Graham -
