FRIENDS, CHOICE OF
Depend upon it, a great deal depends upon whom we choose for our companions when
we begin life. CC121
It is true I may be an apparent loser by declining evil company, but I had better leave
my cloak than lose my character; it is not needful that I sh ... read more
FRIENDSHIP
The vanity of all friendship which is not found in true principle, was never more
plainly expressed than in an honest, but heartless, sentence of one of Horace
Walpoles letters. If one of my friends happens to die, I drive down to St. James
Coffee-h ... read more
FRIENDSHIP -WITH GOD
Faith is to credit contradictions, and to believe impossibilities, when Jehovahs word
is to the front. If you and I can do this, then we can enter into friendship with God,
but not else; for distrust is the death of friendship. 1962.272 ... read more
FRUGALITY
Economy is half the battle in life; it is not so hard to earn money as it is to spend it
well. Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste. PT79
Men do not become rich by what they get, but by what they save. PT110
Some b ... read more
FRUIT BEARING
The absence of positive fruit was that which condemned the lost. Every tree, says
John, that beareth not fruit shall be hewn down and cast into the fire. He does not
say, Every tree that bears bitter fruit, or sour grapes, but Every tree that bri ... read more
FULFILLMENT
The man who has a God also has the explanation of a great many things which
puzzle other people, and he has something better still, for he has his God to fall back
upon when he cannot explain anything. 2396.30 ... read more
FUTURE, THE
Whether it be for hope, for joy, for consolation, or for the inspiring of our love, the
future must, after all, be the grand object of the eye of faith. Looking into the future
we see sin cast out, the body of sin and death destroyed, the soul made perf ... read more
GAMBLING
A young gambler is sure to be an old beggar if he lives long enough. PT112
I can never look upon dice except with abhorrence. If you ask me why; I reply,
Because the soldiers at the foot of the cross threw dice for my Saviours garments,
and I have ... read more
GAP THEORY
I will not venture upon any dogmatic theory of geology, but there seems to be every
probability that this world has been fitted up and destroyed, refitted and then
destroyed again, many times before the last arranging of it for the habitation of men.
... read more
GIFTS
There is no person without a talent of some sort or other, no one without some form
of power either given by nature or acquired by education. We are all endowed in some
degree or other, and we must each one give an account for that talent. WE50
... read more
GIVING
Those who are poor in pocket, if rich in faith, will be accepted none the less because
their gifts are small; but, poor reader, do you give in fair proportion to the Lord, or is
the widows mite kept back from the sacred treasury? ME289
Honesty first ... read more
GIVING -GRUDGING
Churlish souls stint their contributions to the ministry and missionary operations,
and call such saving good economy; little do they dream that they are thus
impoverishing themselves. ME600
If we are grateful to God, we shall feel that the first thi ... read more
GLUTTONY
Next, common things may be defiled by an excess in the use of them. This may be
done by gluttony. What a defilement it is of bread, the staff of life, and of those
comforts which God gives to us for food, when a man makes his own belly into a god,
whos ... read more
GOD
It is taken for granted by all theologians that God can neither suffer nor feel. There
is no such thing in the Word of God. TN19
It was said that order is heavens first law; surely variety is the second; for in all
Gods works, there is the most bea ... read more
GOD -BENEFICENCE OF
He is a sun ever-shining; He is manna always falling round the camp; He is a rock in
the desert, ever sending out streams of life from His smitten side; the rain of His
grace is always dropping; the river of His bounty is ever-flowing, and the well-spri ... read more
GOD -CONDESCENSION OF
Sinners, when God stoops, will you not stoop? When from the highest heaven he
seeks you, will you not seek him? 665.704
O think, that he who was master of all heavens majesty came down to be the victim
of all mans misery! 1239.345
Our degrees an ... read more
GOD -CONSISTENCY OF
Among the unrevealed things there cannot be anything in conflict with the revealed
things; none of the secrets can possibly contradict those truths which God has seen fit
to unfold. 1117.337 ... read more
GOD -DISTORTION OF
As long as a man thinks that God is as bad as he himself is, he will never repent of
his sin. It is often the holiness of God that breaks men down under a sense of their
own guilt. This mistaken idea of the character of God also prevents the exercise of ... read more
GOD -FATHERHOOD OF
It is easy for the dear lips of redeeming love to put away the childs offences, since he
has already obtained pardon for the criminals iniquities. If with his hearts blood he
won our pardon from our Judge, he can easily enough bring us the forgivenes ... read more
GOD -GLORY OF
Gods great design in all his works is the manifestation of his own glory. Any aim less
than this were unworthy of himself. He cannot act for the good of his creatures as an
ultimate aim, for that were for God to be impelled by a motive less great than ... read more
GOD -GOODNESS OF
The Lord is infinitely good, essentially. He is growingly good, experimentally. TN72 ... read more
GOD -HATRED
We cannot love God without hating that which he hates. TD97:10
He will not hate his people, but he does hate their sins, and hates them all the more
because they nestle in his childrens bosoms. 738.122
A sinner is disgusting to God. Notwithstandin ... read more
GOD -HOLINESS OF
The most spiritual and sanctified minds, when they fully perceive the majesty and
holiness of God, are so greatly conscious of the great disproportion between
themselves and the Lord, that they are humbled and filled with holy awe, and even
with dread ... read more
GOD -IMMUTABILITY OF
Perfect stability belongs alone to God; he alone, of all beings, is without variableness
or shadow of a turning. He is immutable; he will not change. He is all-wise; he need
not change. He is perfect; he cannot change. 158.405
If we are inclined to g ... read more
GOD -JOY OF
The gospel of the happy God. Have you ever considered how happy God must be!
how supremely happy? No care, no sorrow, can ever pass across his infinite mind. He
is serenely blessed evermore. Now, when a man is miserable, and of a miserable turn
of mi ... read more
GOD -JUSTICE OF
Gods mill grinds slowly, but it grinds to powder. Justice loiters to commune with
mercy, but it speedily makes up for its lingering. 1125.434
A God who could pardon without justice might one of these days condemn without
reason. 1173.285
God woul ... read more
GOD -KNOWLEDGE OF
I do not know how much a gnat understands, but I feel sure that a gnat understands
a far larger proportion of what I know, than I can comprehend of what God knows. 2862.607 ... read more
GOD -LONGSUFFERING OF
There is no greater proof of the omnipotence of God, than his longsuffering; for it
shows the greatest possible power for God to be able to control himself, to be able to
keep in an anger which naturally must boil, and restrain a fury which else must
b ... read more
GOD -LOVE OF
Divine love had no beginning. Yon stars are babes whose eyes but yesterday were
open to the light, and yonder mountains are infants newly born; but as for Gods love,
it is coeval with His own existence, and the objects of it are always the same. BA158 ... read more
GOD -MAJESTY OF
It is not possible that mortal men should be thoroughly conscious of the divine
presence without being filled with awe. 1474.278
It is not given to such frail creatures as we are to stand in the full blaze of Godhead,
even though it be tempered by th ... read more
GOD -MERCY OF
Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of
yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and I sought the Lord, the Lord
sought us. 1182.393
Though the woman was made to feel great sorrows, yet those were connec ... read more
GOD -OMNIPOTENCE OF
Every conversion is a display of omnipotence. 1314.522 ... read more
GOD -OMNIPRESENCE OF
He is no petty deity, presiding, as the heathen imagined their gods to do, over some
one nation, or one department of nature. TD96:4
Wherever thou art, and whatever thou lookest upon, thou art in Gods workshop,
where every wheel is turned by his han ... read more
GOD -OMNISCIENCE OF
Man is all outside to God. With heaven there are no secrets. That which is done in
the private chamber of the heart is as public as the streets before the all-seeing eye. PT62
Hide nothing from him, for you can hide nothing. TD62:8
God knows us bef ... read more
GOD -POWER OF
Huge as this great universe is, God has complete power over it, as you have over the
ball which you toss in your hand. 1466.188 ... read more
GOD -PROMISES OF
Every honest man has a right to credence, and much more does the God of truth
deserve it. AP46
Moreover, it is a charming thought that our good God designedly gives us
promises of good things that we may enjoy them twice; first by faith, and then by ... read more
GOD -PROVIDENCE OF
To suppose that temporal things are too little for our condescending God, is to forget
that he observes the flight of sparrows, and counts the hairs of his peoples heads.
Besides, everything is so little to him, that, if he does not care for the littl ... read more
GOD -PROVISION OF
Each day, though it bring its trouble, shall bring its help; and though you should live
to outnumber the years of Methuselah, and though your needs should be as many as
the sands of the seashore, yet shall Gods grace and mercy last through all your
ne ... read more
GOD -PUNCTUALITY OF
How strikingly punctual providence is! You and I make appointments, and miss
them by half-an-hour; but God never missed an appointment yet. God never is before
his time, though we often wish he were; but he never is behind, no, not by one tick of
the c ... read more
GOD -SOVEREIGNTY OF
We are too insignificant to be of any great importance in Gods vast universe; He can
do either with us or without us, and our presence or absence will not disarrange His
plans. AM62
If the disposal of the lot is the Lords, whose is the arrangement ... read more
GOD -THOUGHTS OF
These, then, are the thoughts of God concerning us,certain, numerous, tender, and
infinitely wise. 2609.76
He was always thinking upon us; and he is always thinking upon us. The infinite
mind of God can think of all things at once. 2654.616
Flowe ... read more
GOD -VERACITY OF
Friendship only flourishes in the atmosphere of confidence, suspicion is deadly to it:
shall the Lord God, true and immutable, be day after day suspected by his own
people? TD95:9
Beloved, should we not have strong faith who believe in a God whose ve ... read more
GOD -WARNINGS OF
God tries words before he comes to blows, he said that he would destroy them; but
his words are not to be trifled with, for he means them, and has power to make them
good. TD106:23 ... read more
GOD -WILL OF
We read in Scripture of several instances where God apparently changed, but I think
the observation of the old Puritan explains all these; he says, God may will a
change, but he cannot change his will. 568.258
My supremest will shall be not to will ... read more
GOD -WISDOM OF
Our Creator is infinitely good, and his will is love: to submit to one who is to wise to
err, too good to be unkind, should not be hard. 1276.61 ... read more
GOD -WORDS OF
Many words and little sensethis is too often the rule of mans speech. Few words
and much meaningthis is the rule with God. We give gold beaten out into leaf: God
giveth ingots of gold when He speaketh. We use but the filings of gems: God droppeth
pe ... read more
GOD -WORKMANSHIP OF
When our Lord has accomplished in us what he is aiming at, the result will be to
empty us out and to make us discover the utter vanity of self. 1287.200
God is making, by his grace, beings who will stand next to his throne, but will remain
reverently ... read more
GODLINESS
Godliness makes a man like God. 2088.307 ... read more
GOSPEL, THE
After the gospel has been found effectual in the eternal salvation of untold
multitudes, it seems rather late in the day to alter it; and, since it is the revelation of
the all-wise and unchanging God, it appears somewhat audacious to attempt its
impro ... read more
GOSSIP
I learned his character at once from what he said about others (a mode of judging
which has never misled me), and I made up my mind how to act. 2LS164
Remember that, as the receiver is as bad as the thief, so the hearer of scandal is a
sharer in the ... read more
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