The greatest obstacle to charity in the Christian church today is the fact that men expend so much on their table and women so much on their dress, they have got nothing left for the work of God and the world's betterment. — TALMAGE.
Condensed Comments
He that bath a bountiful eye shall be blessed;
For he giveth of his bread to the poor. — SOLOMON.
We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity. — JOSEPH COOK.
Showing posts with label sentence-sermons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sentence-sermons. Show all posts
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
The Reward of Labor
You never will be saved by works; but let us tell you most solemnly that you never will be saved without works. — T. L. CUYLER.
Nothing is denied to well-directed labor; nothing is ever to be attained without it. — SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.
God does not give excellence to men but as the reward of labor. — SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.
Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties. — C. N. BOVEE.
Nothing is denied to well-directed labor; nothing is ever to be attained without it. — SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.
God does not give excellence to men but as the reward of labor. — SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.
Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties. — C. N. BOVEE.
Know Your Work and Do It
Blessed is the man who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. Know thy work, and do it; and work at it like Hercules. One monster there is in the work — the idle man. — CARLYLE.
Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die. — WHITEFIELD.
God's very service is wages; His ways are strewed with roses, and paved with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory, and with peace that passeth understanding. — THOMAS BROOKS.
We are not to wait to be in preparing to be. We are not to wait to do in preparing to do, but to find in being and doing preparation for higher being and doing. — HENRY GILES.
Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die. — WHITEFIELD.
God's very service is wages; His ways are strewed with roses, and paved with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory, and with peace that passeth understanding. — THOMAS BROOKS.
We are not to wait to be in preparing to be. We are not to wait to do in preparing to do, but to find in being and doing preparation for higher being and doing. — HENRY GILES.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Pithy and Pertinent Paragraphs
1900
Written for The Ram's Horn by W. L. Y. Davis
An aimless life is a nameless life.
The well-rounded Christian keeps square with the world.
Birth sometimes gives a man his berth.
Rome was taken for Christ by a tentmaker.
The life of love is better than the love of life.
He who lives only for himself has little to live for.
Many a man never opens his mouth but he gets his foot in it.
Every aching void in the human heart is part of the "great gulf fixed."
A froward youth is sometimes brought up better by being brought down.
The best beam for the eye is the sunbeam.
Bury your troubles and erect no tombstones.
He who is believing God ought to be leaving the devil.
The most arbitrary king in the world is drinking.
He who gives a piece of his mind has little peace of mind left.
Temperance ought not to lose its temper any more than it ought to drink whiskey.
The phials filled with the prayers of the saints fill the viols of the angels with praise.
The man who is most generous in forgiving others is most generous in giving for others.
—The Ram's Horn, March 17, 1900, p. 7.
Written for The Ram's Horn by W. L. Y. Davis
An aimless life is a nameless life.
The well-rounded Christian keeps square with the world.
Birth sometimes gives a man his berth.
Rome was taken for Christ by a tentmaker.
The life of love is better than the love of life.
He who lives only for himself has little to live for.
Many a man never opens his mouth but he gets his foot in it.
Every aching void in the human heart is part of the "great gulf fixed."
A froward youth is sometimes brought up better by being brought down.
The best beam for the eye is the sunbeam.
Bury your troubles and erect no tombstones.
He who is believing God ought to be leaving the devil.
The most arbitrary king in the world is drinking.
He who gives a piece of his mind has little peace of mind left.
Temperance ought not to lose its temper any more than it ought to drink whiskey.
The phials filled with the prayers of the saints fill the viols of the angels with praise.
The man who is most generous in forgiving others is most generous in giving for others.
—The Ram's Horn, March 17, 1900, p. 7.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Ram's Horn — Sentence Sermons
1900
Rattles win no battles.
Man is dust but still divine.
No man ever found fame by looking for it.
Only the needy are known at the Bank of Faith.
The soul is the mainspring of the human time-piece.
Holiness on earth is better than innocence in Eden.
The fear of the reaping is not repentance for the sowing.
Persecution may be the pathway, but glory is the goal.
Nothing is so disappointing as the effort to be good without God.
Religion can be no more a Sunday coat than can honesty or truth.
The unchanging Christ is the secret of the Christian who is ever being changed into His likeness.
—The Ram's Horn, March 17, 1900, p. 3.
Rattles win no battles.
Man is dust but still divine.
No man ever found fame by looking for it.
Only the needy are known at the Bank of Faith.
The soul is the mainspring of the human time-piece.
Holiness on earth is better than innocence in Eden.
The fear of the reaping is not repentance for the sowing.
Persecution may be the pathway, but glory is the goal.
Nothing is so disappointing as the effort to be good without God.
Religion can be no more a Sunday coat than can honesty or truth.
The unchanging Christ is the secret of the Christian who is ever being changed into His likeness.
—The Ram's Horn, March 17, 1900, p. 3.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Envy
1910
Envy is incipient murder; no tender feeling can dwell in the same breast with envy. It will drive every good impulse from the heart, and welcome a brood of vipers that will resort to any method to accomplish their diabolical purpose. — Rev. W. P. Hines, Baptist, Louisville.
It takes seed as well as soil to make things grow.
Brotherly boosting helps more than sisterly sympathy.
Envy is incipient murder; no tender feeling can dwell in the same breast with envy. It will drive every good impulse from the heart, and welcome a brood of vipers that will resort to any method to accomplish their diabolical purpose. — Rev. W. P. Hines, Baptist, Louisville.
It takes seed as well as soil to make things grow.
Brotherly boosting helps more than sisterly sympathy.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Spear Points
1902
Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
Circumstances may change, but God never does.
The breadth of Christianity depends on its depth.
God puts consolation only where He has first put pain.
Early athletics will not suffice for the heavenly race.
In this life there is but one sure happiness— to live for others.
Expect God to help you when you have prayed for His assistance.
True greatness is ability to serve coupled with a meek and quiet spirit.
When the Lord is in our hearts His hand will be seen in our works.
Never take your eye off the cross, as all the lines of salvation center there.
Poverty of possessions need not be discreditable; poverty of life always is.
A thousand times better are the men who do than the weaklings who only know.
The loving judgments of friends are harder to bear than the harsh ones of foes.
All God's providences are but His touches of the strings of the great instrument of the world.
When you step up on one promise you will always find a higher and a better one before you.
The self-centered life comes to naught; the Christ-centered life ever continues in enlargement.
There are some lessons which can only be learned in the garden, and beneath the shadow of the cross. — The Ram's Horn.
Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
Circumstances may change, but God never does.
The breadth of Christianity depends on its depth.
God puts consolation only where He has first put pain.
Early athletics will not suffice for the heavenly race.
In this life there is but one sure happiness— to live for others.
Expect God to help you when you have prayed for His assistance.
True greatness is ability to serve coupled with a meek and quiet spirit.
When the Lord is in our hearts His hand will be seen in our works.
Never take your eye off the cross, as all the lines of salvation center there.
Poverty of possessions need not be discreditable; poverty of life always is.
A thousand times better are the men who do than the weaklings who only know.
The loving judgments of friends are harder to bear than the harsh ones of foes.
All God's providences are but His touches of the strings of the great instrument of the world.
When you step up on one promise you will always find a higher and a better one before you.
The self-centered life comes to naught; the Christ-centered life ever continues in enlargement.
There are some lessons which can only be learned in the garden, and beneath the shadow of the cross. — The Ram's Horn.
More Words of Wisdom
1902
Sincerity is the secret of success.
It takes more than money to make a living.
Self-surrender is the secret of soul-satisfaction.
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
To break our mirrors will not make us beautiful.
The heart is only clean when it is wholly clean.
You cannot make an enemy without losing a friend.
Sympathy for others is a salve for our own sorrows.
It is a vain hope that the chains of habit will rust off.
The supreme art of living may be summed up in giving.
When a father is too tender his sons usually balance things.
Life is a man's opportunity for the realization of his ideals.
To be at our best to-morrow we must be at our best to-day.
When ambition is the child of envy it will be the mother of sorrows.
The lights of the world are not illumined by the fires of controversy.
He who has friends only to use them will have them only to lose them. — Ram's Horn.
Sincerity is the secret of success.
It takes more than money to make a living.
Self-surrender is the secret of soul-satisfaction.
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
To break our mirrors will not make us beautiful.
The heart is only clean when it is wholly clean.
You cannot make an enemy without losing a friend.
Sympathy for others is a salve for our own sorrows.
It is a vain hope that the chains of habit will rust off.
The supreme art of living may be summed up in giving.
When a father is too tender his sons usually balance things.
Life is a man's opportunity for the realization of his ideals.
To be at our best to-morrow we must be at our best to-day.
When ambition is the child of envy it will be the mother of sorrows.
The lights of the world are not illumined by the fires of controversy.
He who has friends only to use them will have them only to lose them. — Ram's Horn.
Words of Wisdom
Words of Wisdom
1902
In the noonday of life only short shadows are cast.
In order to find out how strong a stick is you must break it.
A good fisherman always provides himself with plenty of bait.
The man who borrows and seldom pays is one who seldom lends.
When you confess a fault to a friend, confess one that you know he also has.
The man who is above imitating the methods of others need never be afraid of being imitated.
Sometimes the loftiest monument towers above the grave of the poet who starved to death.
Women were formed to temper mankind and soothe them into tenderness and compassion. — Addison.
Those who go slowly through life have an opportunity of reading the guideboards along the way. The riches of the world and the
gratifications they afford are too apt when their evil tendency is not opposed by a principle of religion to beget that friendship for the world which is enmity to God.
Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants and God's goodness. — Hugh Miller.
Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasurable, and you create for the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brains of the wildest dreamer. — Sir Walter Scott.
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. — La Fontaine.
Prudence yields to circumstance, folly quarrels with it, pride defies it, wisdom uses it and genius controls it. — J. S. Blackie.
1902
In the noonday of life only short shadows are cast.
In order to find out how strong a stick is you must break it.
A good fisherman always provides himself with plenty of bait.
The man who borrows and seldom pays is one who seldom lends.
When you confess a fault to a friend, confess one that you know he also has.
The man who is above imitating the methods of others need never be afraid of being imitated.
Sometimes the loftiest monument towers above the grave of the poet who starved to death.
Women were formed to temper mankind and soothe them into tenderness and compassion. — Addison.
Those who go slowly through life have an opportunity of reading the guideboards along the way. The riches of the world and the
gratifications they afford are too apt when their evil tendency is not opposed by a principle of religion to beget that friendship for the world which is enmity to God.
Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants and God's goodness. — Hugh Miller.
Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasurable, and you create for the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brains of the wildest dreamer. — Sir Walter Scott.
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. — La Fontaine.
Prudence yields to circumstance, folly quarrels with it, pride defies it, wisdom uses it and genius controls it. — J. S. Blackie.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Words of Wisdom
1902
Pride spells peril.
Deeds are indelible.
Every effort educates.
The call of duty never contradicts itself.
Paint cannot make a picture by its own power.
Charity seldom crawls out of a crowded purse.
It takes much misery to make some men seek mercy.
Obscurity furnishes a good pedestal for lasting fame.
Poverty makes a goodly frame for the picture of purity.
The waiting work furnishes us sufficient warrant to do it.
It doesn't take much gold-leaf to cover the pupil of the eye.
He cannot consecrate his gift who fears to have it consumed.
It is possible to smother the fire of zeal by too much fuel of effort.
Effort does not always produce the best effect in spiritual things.
No amount of culture could make a cabbage grow out of an oak.
If you use a mirror to find your own faults you will forget to use a microscope for those of others. — Ram's Horn.
Comment: I think this one is pretty profound: "Effort does not always produce the best effect in spiritual things." That's today's moment of Zen.
Pride spells peril.
Deeds are indelible.
Every effort educates.
The call of duty never contradicts itself.
Paint cannot make a picture by its own power.
Charity seldom crawls out of a crowded purse.
It takes much misery to make some men seek mercy.
Obscurity furnishes a good pedestal for lasting fame.
Poverty makes a goodly frame for the picture of purity.
The waiting work furnishes us sufficient warrant to do it.
It doesn't take much gold-leaf to cover the pupil of the eye.
He cannot consecrate his gift who fears to have it consumed.
It is possible to smother the fire of zeal by too much fuel of effort.
Effort does not always produce the best effect in spiritual things.
No amount of culture could make a cabbage grow out of an oak.
If you use a mirror to find your own faults you will forget to use a microscope for those of others. — Ram's Horn.
Comment: I think this one is pretty profound: "Effort does not always produce the best effect in spiritual things." That's today's moment of Zen.
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Sermonograms
1935
Adversity tries faith; prosperity tries fidelity.
The man who has a right to boast does not have to.
A beauty not explicable is dearer than the beauty which we can see the end of. — Emerson.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. — Emerson.
It is much wiser to steer well than to honk your horn.
It takes brains to make money; it takes character to use it right.
Church membership is not an elevator into heaven.
If you hold your religion lightly, you are sure to let it slip.
God never reveals what man can discover.
A pessimist is a person who is seasick during the entire voyage of life.
When it comes to coddling imaginary wrongs, the average person is a faithful nurse.
Even if you are too deaf to hear the preacher, the Church is still a good place for listening to God. — Holmes.
Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
The less of it they have, the more people seem obsessed with the inclination to speak their mind.
Action unaccompanied by thought is folly, but thought unaccompanied by action is vain.
Unless we can learn the supremacy of spiritual forces, the pall bearers that have carried out dead civilizations wait at our door. — Fosdick.
Don't throw mud; you might miss your mark, and you are sure to get your hands dirty.
Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough.
The duty of the many should not be the task of the few. Many a man saves everything but his soul.
Adversity tries faith; prosperity tries fidelity.
The man who has a right to boast does not have to.
A beauty not explicable is dearer than the beauty which we can see the end of. — Emerson.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. — Emerson.
It is much wiser to steer well than to honk your horn.
It takes brains to make money; it takes character to use it right.
Church membership is not an elevator into heaven.
If you hold your religion lightly, you are sure to let it slip.
God never reveals what man can discover.
A pessimist is a person who is seasick during the entire voyage of life.
When it comes to coddling imaginary wrongs, the average person is a faithful nurse.
Even if you are too deaf to hear the preacher, the Church is still a good place for listening to God. — Holmes.
Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
The less of it they have, the more people seem obsessed with the inclination to speak their mind.
Action unaccompanied by thought is folly, but thought unaccompanied by action is vain.
Unless we can learn the supremacy of spiritual forces, the pall bearers that have carried out dead civilizations wait at our door. — Fosdick.
Don't throw mud; you might miss your mark, and you are sure to get your hands dirty.
Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough.
The duty of the many should not be the task of the few. Many a man saves everything but his soul.
Seven Sentence Sermons
1935
Adversity is the first path to truth. — Byron.
* * *
It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused. — Davenant.
* * *
Riches that the world bestows,
She can take and I can lose:
But the treasures that are mine
Lie afar beyond her line.
—Isaac Watts.
* * *
When you put on your clothes, remember the labor of the weaver; when you eat your daily bread, think of the hardships of the husbandman. — Chinese Proverbs.
* * *
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. — Prov. 15:17.
* * *
Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard;
Some do it with a bitter-look,
Some with a flattering word;
The coward does it with a kiss.
The brave man with a sword.
—Oscar Wilde.
* * *
The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow. — Johnson.
Adversity is the first path to truth. — Byron.
* * *
It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused. — Davenant.
* * *
Riches that the world bestows,
She can take and I can lose:
But the treasures that are mine
Lie afar beyond her line.
—Isaac Watts.
* * *
When you put on your clothes, remember the labor of the weaver; when you eat your daily bread, think of the hardships of the husbandman. — Chinese Proverbs.
* * *
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. — Prov. 15:17.
* * *
Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard;
Some do it with a bitter-look,
Some with a flattering word;
The coward does it with a kiss.
The brave man with a sword.
—Oscar Wilde.
* * *
The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow. — Johnson.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Development of Man
1911
Man does not develop in the highest sense until he comes into a conscious need of spiritual attainment, until there is a hungering and thirsting after the fruits of the spirit — gentleness, long suffering, goodness, temperance, love. — Rev. Gay Arthur Jamieson, New York.
Seed of the Church
The blood of the martyrs is the church, the giving up of life is at heart in all great movements, expiatory. — Rev. Allyn K. Foster, Baptist, Brooklyn.
Man does not develop in the highest sense until he comes into a conscious need of spiritual attainment, until there is a hungering and thirsting after the fruits of the spirit — gentleness, long suffering, goodness, temperance, love. — Rev. Gay Arthur Jamieson, New York.
Seed of the Church
The blood of the martyrs is the church, the giving up of life is at heart in all great movements, expiatory. — Rev. Allyn K. Foster, Baptist, Brooklyn.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Trumpet Calls — Sentence Sermons
1896Ram's Horn Sounds Warning Note to Unredeemed
Wine opens the damper to let all the fires of evil in a man burn.
God sends danger only where he has first sent courage.
To love an enemy is a sure way to please Christ.
A brewer's horse fares better than a drunkard's child.
Bridget starts her fire with coal oil. The devil uses alcohol.
The man who does not look ahead will soon have to fall back.
There is no sign that a man inflamed with drink may not commit.
Every moderate drinker is leading an army of boys toward the pit.
If we not hear God to-day, he may refuse to hear us to-morrow.
Appetite for drink is the devil's iron chain on the drunkard's neck.
The easiest time to let drink alone is before the first drink is taken.
It is when we are most helpless that Christ is most willing to help us.
The sparkle in the wine is made by one of the devil's sharpest teeth.
It is a long step toward heaven to be born in a home where Christ is loved.
One of the hardest things for some men to forgive is a difference in creed.
The man who serves the devil has to begin his day's work before breakfast.
Many a man puts his family in the dark to help the saloon pay its gas bill.
Many a man has started out to reform the world, and stopped at the first house.
The devil has gained his point when he convinces us that little sins work no ill.
The man who begins by drinking some time may end by having to drink all the time.
No man can grind down another without first placing his own soul under the millstone.
The Christian should never complain of his hard fortune while he knows that Christ is his friend.
If you would teach children to hate drink, give them the first lesson before they leave the cradle.
The man who has not decided that he will never drink, has more than half decided that he will drink.
When a man gets up early in the morning to drink, he is apt to spend the day in doing nothing else.
Our money is not doing us the good God would have it do us, if it is not doing anybody else any good.
If you are in the habit of going to sleep in church, you do not help the preacher any by occupying a front seat. — Ram's Horn.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Sermons In A Few Lines
1900
The Church — The church shall have life and it shall grow. Growth is life and the growth of the church is the natural result of the life which Christ has given it. — Rev. P. C. Yorke, R.C., San Francisco, Cal.
Indifference — Arouse yourselves from the lethargy of indifference and be earnest in the fight for good. Insist that the public billboards shall be decently clothed. — Rev. Dr. Frohock, Methodist, Akron, Ohio.
Reform Society — The only way to reform society is to reform the individual. Slavery has been lessened, but the sweat shop remains, and politics is not free from corruption. — Rabbi Krauskopf, Hebrew, Philadelphia, Pa.
Higher Civilization — The people of Great Britain have ever been imbued with the idea of their mission to establish the higher civilization, and they have pushed on with confidence. — Rev. Dr. Carson, Presbyterian, Brooklyn, N.Y.
The Bible — The Bible presents a great combination. It is the union of Christ with the believer. By that union we become partners with Christ in the great divine "trust" for the glory of God. — Rev. C. F. Wishart, Presbyterian, Allegheny, Pa.
In God's Hands — We have no right to do as we like with anything, unless we like to do right. No man's life or death is at his own disposal. Our times are in God's hands. This is good morals, good law and good sense. — Rev. Ira Billman, Evansville, Ind.
War — The war spirit has transformed Christianity. Jesus Christ proclaimed himself the prince of peace and on earth established the kingdom of peace. Christianity in its pristine purity was peace itself. — Rev. Dr. Wylie, Presbyterian, New York City.
Inconsistent — In religion, as in most matters, we are strangely inconsistent. We run to one or both of two extremes — we are often over particular about minor matters and utterly careless about great things. — Rev. N. H. Lee, Methodist, Denver, Colo.
The Church — The church shall have life and it shall grow. Growth is life and the growth of the church is the natural result of the life which Christ has given it. — Rev. P. C. Yorke, R.C., San Francisco, Cal.
Indifference — Arouse yourselves from the lethargy of indifference and be earnest in the fight for good. Insist that the public billboards shall be decently clothed. — Rev. Dr. Frohock, Methodist, Akron, Ohio.
Reform Society — The only way to reform society is to reform the individual. Slavery has been lessened, but the sweat shop remains, and politics is not free from corruption. — Rabbi Krauskopf, Hebrew, Philadelphia, Pa.
Higher Civilization — The people of Great Britain have ever been imbued with the idea of their mission to establish the higher civilization, and they have pushed on with confidence. — Rev. Dr. Carson, Presbyterian, Brooklyn, N.Y.
The Bible — The Bible presents a great combination. It is the union of Christ with the believer. By that union we become partners with Christ in the great divine "trust" for the glory of God. — Rev. C. F. Wishart, Presbyterian, Allegheny, Pa.
In God's Hands — We have no right to do as we like with anything, unless we like to do right. No man's life or death is at his own disposal. Our times are in God's hands. This is good morals, good law and good sense. — Rev. Ira Billman, Evansville, Ind.
War — The war spirit has transformed Christianity. Jesus Christ proclaimed himself the prince of peace and on earth established the kingdom of peace. Christianity in its pristine purity was peace itself. — Rev. Dr. Wylie, Presbyterian, New York City.
Inconsistent — In religion, as in most matters, we are strangely inconsistent. We run to one or both of two extremes — we are often over particular about minor matters and utterly careless about great things. — Rev. N. H. Lee, Methodist, Denver, Colo.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
America's Oldest Lutheran Divine
Nov. 1900
Rev. Dr. Daniel J. Hauer, who has just celebrated the ninety-fourth anniversary of his birth at his home in Hanover, Pa., is the oldest Lutheran minister in America.
With perfect health, in full possession of all his faculties, his interest in current events as lively as ever, Dr Hauer is spending his old age in calm enjoyment and soothing retrospect.
He is surrounded by his children, his grandchildren and his great grandchildren, who lovingly anticipate his few wants and brighten the evening of his days with their affectionate solicitude.
The aged clergyman was born in the famous old town of Frederick, Maryland.
Shorts
Solomon when arrayed in all his royal glory never wore a shirt waist.
The worst Christian watchers are those who are taking cat-naps.
To repel one's cross is to make it heavier. — Amiel.
Goliath was the first man to wear a bang on his forehead.
The dice of God are always loaded.
When a fellow borrows trouble there is often the devil to pay.
Too often we value outward show more than inward worth.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Sentence Sermons - "The Way of Life"
1900
Ram's Horn Wrinkles
Real religion remedies irreligion.
Doing is the proper end of doctrine.
The way of life is the way from death.
Deeds furnish the best answer to doubt.
Loose living and fast living are the same.
The truly spiritual man is always practical.
A feeble faith is better than a mighty feeling.
You may oppress truth, but you cannot suppress it.
The gospel is the heart of God seeking the heart of man.
God has not cast the world adrift; it has wandered away.
Men need a Bible conscience more than a Bible commentary.
Love, rather than legislation, rules in the kingdom of God.
It is always easier to forget bad habits than to forgo them.
No song, or sermon, or sacrament is acceptable without service.
The impartation of righteousness is better than its imputation.
It is the Christian and not the critic who comes to know Christ.
A lie feels easy only when it forgets that it has a truth on its track.
Crooked men cannot expect to agree with the straight truths of the Bible.
The damp fogs of doubt are found only where the sun of love does not shine. — Ram's Horn.
Ram's Horn Wrinkles
Real religion remedies irreligion.
Doing is the proper end of doctrine.
The way of life is the way from death.
Deeds furnish the best answer to doubt.
Loose living and fast living are the same.
The truly spiritual man is always practical.
A feeble faith is better than a mighty feeling.
You may oppress truth, but you cannot suppress it.
The gospel is the heart of God seeking the heart of man.
God has not cast the world adrift; it has wandered away.
Men need a Bible conscience more than a Bible commentary.
Love, rather than legislation, rules in the kingdom of God.
It is always easier to forget bad habits than to forgo them.
No song, or sermon, or sacrament is acceptable without service.
The impartation of righteousness is better than its imputation.
It is the Christian and not the critic who comes to know Christ.
A lie feels easy only when it forgets that it has a truth on its track.
Crooked men cannot expect to agree with the straight truths of the Bible.
The damp fogs of doubt are found only where the sun of love does not shine. — Ram's Horn.
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Wise Words — "The Wise Man Can Learn"
1896
A little religion is hard to keep.
When love works, it always does its best.
Sin always feels the safest in the dark.
Humility dies the moment it looks in the glass.
The man who hates light, will run from a shadow.
A city's righteous men are a better safeguard than its police.
Don't be a saint in church and a heathen on the street car.
The wise man can learn something from the mistakes of a fool.
In nine cases out of ten the man who has riches paid too much for them.
Give a lie one day the start, and truth will have to chase it around the world.
If there is any dog in a man, it is sure to growl when his food is not to his taste.
Many a man whose prayers are too long, sells goods by a measure that is too short.
If the sun never went down, there are some crimes that would not be committed.
Many a man will fight for his creed, who never has a word of encouragement for his wife. — Ram's Horn.
A little religion is hard to keep.
When love works, it always does its best.
Sin always feels the safest in the dark.
Humility dies the moment it looks in the glass.
The man who hates light, will run from a shadow.
A city's righteous men are a better safeguard than its police.
Don't be a saint in church and a heathen on the street car.
The wise man can learn something from the mistakes of a fool.
In nine cases out of ten the man who has riches paid too much for them.
Give a lie one day the start, and truth will have to chase it around the world.
If there is any dog in a man, it is sure to growl when his food is not to his taste.
Many a man whose prayers are too long, sells goods by a measure that is too short.
If the sun never went down, there are some crimes that would not be committed.
Many a man will fight for his creed, who never has a word of encouragement for his wife. — Ram's Horn.
Monday, May 28, 2007
Words of Wisdom — "A Beggar at God's Door"
1906
Art thou a beggar at God's door, be sure thou gettest a great bowl, for as thy bowl is so will be thy mess. According to thy faith, saith He, be it unto thee. — John Bunyan.
Kind looks, kind words, kind acts and warm handshakes — these are secondary means of grace when men are in trouble and are fighting their unseen battles. — John Hall.
I have looked up every Scripture where anything like meditation is mentioned, and I find that we are never once told to meditate upon sin. — W. H. Griffith Thomas.
Who is meant by our neighbors we cannot doubt; it is every one with whom we are thrown into contact, he or she, whosoever it be, whom we have the means of helping. — Dean Stanley.
You can help your fellow men; you must help them, but the only way you can help them is by being the noblest and the best man that it is possible for you to be. — Phillips Brooks.
Who could believe that from that unpromising bulb would spring the gorgeous flower enveloped in its sheltering leaves? Yet such shall be our body then compared with our body now. — E. H. Bickersteth.
The cure for heartache is to be found in occupations which take us away from our petty self regardings or self pityings, our morbid broodings, and which connect our life with other lives and with other affairs; or merge our individual interest in the larger whole. — Charles G. Ames.
If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress. If there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of evil — Lacon.
By giving to the repetition of an act of duty a fixed regularity, I can multiply my moral power in that direction as much as a man multiplies his material power when he gets hold of a lever. By faithful habit I can make that which was at first laborious come to be after a while less difficult, then easy, and perhaps at last spontaneous and delightful. — G. S. Merriam.
Art thou a beggar at God's door, be sure thou gettest a great bowl, for as thy bowl is so will be thy mess. According to thy faith, saith He, be it unto thee. — John Bunyan.
Kind looks, kind words, kind acts and warm handshakes — these are secondary means of grace when men are in trouble and are fighting their unseen battles. — John Hall.
I have looked up every Scripture where anything like meditation is mentioned, and I find that we are never once told to meditate upon sin. — W. H. Griffith Thomas.
Who is meant by our neighbors we cannot doubt; it is every one with whom we are thrown into contact, he or she, whosoever it be, whom we have the means of helping. — Dean Stanley.
You can help your fellow men; you must help them, but the only way you can help them is by being the noblest and the best man that it is possible for you to be. — Phillips Brooks.
Who could believe that from that unpromising bulb would spring the gorgeous flower enveloped in its sheltering leaves? Yet such shall be our body then compared with our body now. — E. H. Bickersteth.
The cure for heartache is to be found in occupations which take us away from our petty self regardings or self pityings, our morbid broodings, and which connect our life with other lives and with other affairs; or merge our individual interest in the larger whole. — Charles G. Ames.
If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress. If there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of evil — Lacon.
By giving to the repetition of an act of duty a fixed regularity, I can multiply my moral power in that direction as much as a man multiplies his material power when he gets hold of a lever. By faithful habit I can make that which was at first laborious come to be after a while less difficult, then easy, and perhaps at last spontaneous and delightful. — G. S. Merriam.
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Wise Words — Souls Occupied with Great Ideas
1896
Instead of praying for effects, let us pray that we may be enabled to fulfill causes! — Professor Drummond.
Only he who puts on the garment of humility finds how worthily it clothes his life. — Phillips Brooks.
The best cure for sorrow is to sympathize with another in his sorrow. The cure for despondency is to lift the burden from some other heart. — Anon.
A soul occupied with great ideas best performs small duties; the divinest views of life penetrate most clearly into the meanest emergencies. — James Martineau.
There is no action of man in this life which is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as that no human providence is high enough to give us a prospect to the end. — Thomas of Malmesbury.
We are never without help. We have no right to say of any good work, it is too hard for me to do; or of any sorrow, it is too hard for me to bear; or of any sinful habit, it is too hard for me to overcome. — Elizabeth Charles.
There is no such thing as patriotic art and patriotic science. Both art and science belong, like all things great and good, to the whole world, and can be furthered only by a free and general interchanges ideas among contemporaries, with continual reference to the heritage of the past as it is known to us. — Goethe.
Exert your talents and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing while he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. — Dr. Johnson.
Instead of praying for effects, let us pray that we may be enabled to fulfill causes! — Professor Drummond.
Only he who puts on the garment of humility finds how worthily it clothes his life. — Phillips Brooks.
The best cure for sorrow is to sympathize with another in his sorrow. The cure for despondency is to lift the burden from some other heart. — Anon.
A soul occupied with great ideas best performs small duties; the divinest views of life penetrate most clearly into the meanest emergencies. — James Martineau.
There is no action of man in this life which is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as that no human providence is high enough to give us a prospect to the end. — Thomas of Malmesbury.
We are never without help. We have no right to say of any good work, it is too hard for me to do; or of any sorrow, it is too hard for me to bear; or of any sinful habit, it is too hard for me to overcome. — Elizabeth Charles.
There is no such thing as patriotic art and patriotic science. Both art and science belong, like all things great and good, to the whole world, and can be furthered only by a free and general interchanges ideas among contemporaries, with continual reference to the heritage of the past as it is known to us. — Goethe.
Exert your talents and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing while he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. — Dr. Johnson.
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