This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
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50916 | Are gentle moon, or kindling sun, Or stars unnumbered, given As shrines to burn earth''s incense on-- The altar- fires of heaven? 50916 How long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? 50916 How long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? 50916 O grave, where is thy victory? |
50916 | What am I, that infinite unworthiness and nothingness should be permitted to stand in the presence of infinite purity, majesty, and glory? |
50916 | Where would I have been this night but for_ Him_? |
50916 | what wouldst thou have me to do?" |
50916 | where could I have been this night_ but_ for_ Thee_? |
27344 | Although he fall, yet shall he not be cast down utterly; and why? 27344 Simon, son of Jonas,_ lovest thou me_?" |
27344 | The man,says Augustine,"who says''_ Enough_,''that man''s soul is lost?" |
27344 | Why art thou then cast down, O my soul? 27344 Why tarry the wheels of Thy chariot?" |
27344 | Wilt thou not revive us, O Lord? |
27344 | Wilt thou not revive us, O Lord? |
27344 | --The material sun, which wades through clouds and a troubled sky, sets often in a couch of lustrous gold? |
27344 | Am I living as I should wish I had done when that last hour arrives?" |
27344 | An interceding Saviour was at thy side, saying to every threatening wave,"Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther?" |
27344 | And art thou to claim exemption from the same discipline? |
27344 | And from whom could dying grace come so welcome, as from Thee, O blessed Jesus? |
27344 | And has He not left me to perish? |
27344 | And shall I then, indeed,"_ see God_?" |
27344 | And what, after all, is the severest of thy chastisements in comparison with what thy sins have deserved? |
27344 | And when shall it arrive? |
27344 | Are thy heart''s idols, one by one abolished? |
27344 | Art thou holy? |
27344 | Art thou ready, if called this night to lie down on thy death- pillow, sweetly to fall asleep in Jesus? |
27344 | Art thou to think it strange concerning these same fiery trials that may be trying thee? |
27344 | Art thou wearied with these midnight tossings on life''s tumultuous sea? |
27344 | Believer? |
27344 | But test it in the hour of sorrow; and what can it do for thee when most it is needed? |
27344 | Dost thou murmur under a Father''s correcting love? |
27344 | Has grace begun in thee? |
27344 | Has thy God ever done so? |
27344 | Hast thou closed with these His overtures? |
27344 | Hast thou less conscious nearness to the mercy- seat,--diminished communion with thy Saviour? |
27344 | Having this hope in thee, art thou purifying thyself, even as He is pure? |
27344 | How and where is reviving grace to be found? |
27344 | If the earnest be sweet, what must be the reality? |
27344 | If the rest of thy pilgrimage- way be peaceful and unclouded, rests there a dark and portentous shadow over the terminating portals? |
27344 | If the wilderness table contain such rich provision, what must be the glories of the eternal banqueting house? |
27344 | In a few brief moments after that tear is shed, thy God will be wiping every vestige of it away? |
27344 | Is it loss of health, or loss of wealth, or loss of beloved friends? |
27344 | Is more of thy Saviour''s image impressed on thy character, and thy Saviour''s love more enthroned in thy heart? |
27344 | Is sin crucifying? |
27344 | Is the world less to thee, and eternity more to thee? |
27344 | Is there now some"thorn in the flesh"sent to lacerate thee? |
27344 | Is thy walk less with God, thy frame less heavenly? |
27344 | Is"Salvation"to thee more"the one thing needful?" |
27344 | It tells thee it is no longer a"fearful,"but a_ blessed_ thing to fall into His hands? |
27344 | Leaving all thy false props and refuges, be this thy resolve:"In the Lord put I my trust: why say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?" |
27344 | Like Him!--Hast thou caught up any faint resemblance to that all- glorious image? |
27344 | Like Him!--My soul, art thou waiting this manifestation of the sons of God? |
27344 | Marvel of marvels? |
27344 | My soul, dost not thou love to dwell on that all- abounding grace? |
27344 | My soul, where wouldst thou have been this day, hadst thou not been"_ kept_"by the power of God? |
27344 | Not one stroke of the rod unheeded, or that might have been spared? |
27344 | Not too curiously prying into the"_ Why_ it is?" |
27344 | On the other hand, what though thou hast no other blessing on earth to call thine own? |
27344 | The paths of the Lord? |
27344 | The saddest and sorest of all bereavements, is when the sins which have separated thee from Him, evoke the anguish- cry,"Where is my God?" |
27344 | Thou hast cast off thy God,--might He not oft have"cast out"thee? |
27344 | Thou mayest think thy pilot hath left thee, and be ready continually to say,"Where is my God?" |
27344 | Thy heavenly Father loves thee too much, and too tenderly, to bestow harsher correction than thy case requires? |
27344 | To"walk with God,"--to ask in simple faith,"What wouldst thou have me to do?" |
27344 | What is it? |
27344 | What is the sting of death? |
27344 | What would it have been to have stood the wrath of an unpropitiated Judge, and that, too,_ for ever_? |
27344 | When sight says,"All these things are against me,"let faith rebuke the hasty conclusion, and say,"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" |
27344 | Why wound thy loving Saviour''s heart by these repeated declensions? |
27344 | Will Jesus accept such a heart as mine?--this erring, treacherous, traitor heart? |
27344 | Wilt thou not be among the number? |
27344 | Wilt thou not trust Him, even though thou canst not trace the mystery of His dealings? |
27344 | Wilt thou not, then, humbly and patiently endure"weeping for the night,"in the prospect of the"joy that cometh in the morning?" |
27344 | Wouldst thou know the hour of thy betrothment? |
27344 | and why art thou disquieted within me? |
27344 | art thou among the number of those who"love His appearing?" |
27344 | art thou at times afraid of this, thy last enemy? |
27344 | art thou conscious of thy declining state? |
27344 | has this mystic union been formed between thee and thy Lord? |
27344 | held me up?" |
27344 | is it night with thee here? |
27344 | is it thine? |
27344 | is not this one cause of thy deadness? |
27344 | is the beggar to be"raised from the dunghill, set among princes, and made to inherit a throne of glory?" |
27344 | is the good work begun in thee? |
27344 | is this blessedness thine in prospect? |
27344 | or"_ How_ it is?" |
27344 | ponder that solemn question,"Am I ready to die? |
27344 | shall I gaze on these inscrutable glories, and live? |
27344 | what couldst thou wish more than this? |
27344 | what is there in thee to merit such love as this? |
27344 | what thinkest thou of this Heaven? |
27344 | where is thy sting? |
27344 | where is thy victory? |
27344 | wouldst thou be a star shining high and bright in the firmament of glory?--wouldst thou receive the ten- talent recompense? |
28547 | Why do you ask me,said Simeon, on his deathbed,"what I_ like_? |
28547 | --Are you fearful and agitated in_ the prospect of death_? |
28547 | --Art thou a_ backslider_? |
28547 | --Art thou beaten down with some heavy_ trial_? |
28547 | --Is it some crushing trial, or overwhelming grief? |
28547 | --does the thought ever present itself,"What can I do for this great Being who hath done so much for me?" |
28547 | Ah? |
28547 | And can we wonder at such language? |
28547 | And if the foretaste of this rest be precious, what must be the glorious consummation? |
28547 | And shall I be afraid of a world already conquered? |
28547 | And what, then, should your attitude be? |
28547 | And who are those who can claim the blessedness spoken of under this wondrous imagery? |
28547 | And who has ever repented of that joyful servitude? |
28547 | And who is it that speaks these living"words,""What_ I_ do?" |
28547 | And who is it that speaks this quieting word? |
28547 | Are providences dark, or crosses heavy? |
28547 | Are thy loins girded, and thy lights burning? |
28547 | Are we to infer from this, that He winks at sin? |
28547 | Are your legion sins standing as a barrier between you and a Saviour''s proffered mercy? |
28547 | Art thou even now feeling the strength of thy corruptions, the weakness of thy graces, the presence of some outward or inward temptation? |
28547 | Art thou ready, with Gideon, to say,"If the Lord be indeed with us, why has all this befallen us?" |
28547 | Be not deceived or deluded with the mocker''s presumptuous challenge,"Where is the promise of His coming?" |
28547 | Believer, art thou in trouble? |
28547 | Believer, can you_ now_ say with some of the holy transport of the apostle,"Whom having not seen, we love?" |
28547 | But is not this very conviction of your want an indication of a feeble longing after Christ? |
28547 | But is there not, after all,_ one_ condition mentioned in this"word of Jesus?" |
28547 | Can the same be said of Satan, or sin? |
28547 | Canst thou say with a joyful heart,"O Lord, truly I am Thy servant?" |
28547 | Didst thou once run well? |
28547 | Do I look to the future? |
28547 | Do dark providences and severe afflictions seem to belie the truth and reality of this gracious assurance? |
28547 | Does the Christian''s path lie all the way through Beulah? |
28547 | Does the word, the look, of a suffering child get the eye and the heart of an_ earthly_ father? |
28547 | Dost thou know the blessedness of a vital and living union with a living, life- giving Saviour? |
28547 | Gracious"word"of a gracious Saviour, on which the soul may confidingly repose, and be at peace for ever? |
28547 | Has His word of promise ever proved false? |
28547 | Has His yoke been too grievous? |
28547 | Has bereavement severed earthly ties? |
28547 | Has the grave made forced estrangements,--sundered the closest links of earthly affection? |
28547 | Has thine own guilty apostacy alienated and estranged thee from that face which was once all love, and that service which was once all delight? |
28547 | Have thy tears been unalleviated-- thy sorrows unsolaced-- thy temptations above that thou wert able to bear? |
28547 | Have we"known and believed this love of God?" |
28547 | He led the children of Israel of old out of Egypt to their promised kingdom,--how? |
28547 | How different from other"sons of consolation?" |
28547 | How does He quiet their fears and misgivings? |
28547 | How much more tender is Jesus than the tenderest of earthly friends? |
28547 | Is it a seducing world-- a wandering, wayward heart? |
28547 | Is it"keeping( literally,''_ garrisoning_ as in a citadel'') your heart?" |
28547 | Is it_ bereavement_? |
28547 | Is it_ death_? |
28547 | Is it_ sickness_? |
28547 | Is the thought of thy sins-- the guilty past-- coming up in terrible memorial before thee, almost tempting thee to give way to hopeless despondency? |
28547 | Is there much of uncertainty and mystery hanging over it? |
28547 | Is this thine attitude--"_looking unto Jesus_?" |
28547 | It is He who died for us? |
28547 | Let this last"word"of thy Lord''s send thee to thy knees with the question,--"Am I indeed a servant of Christ?" |
28547 | Long going about"seeking rest and finding none,"does this"word"sound like music in thine ears--"_Come unto Me_?" |
28547 | My soul, is there aught that is disturbing thy peace? |
28547 | On whom does He lavish this unutterable affection? |
28547 | Reader, do you discredit the reality of this gracious offer? |
28547 | Reader, do you know the blessedness of confiding your every want and every care-- your every sorrow and every cross-- into the ear of the Saviour? |
28547 | Reader, do you realize your privilege-- living under the dispensation of the Spirit? |
28547 | Reader, hast thou attained any of this heart- purity and heart- preparation? |
28547 | Reader, hast thou found this blessed repose in the blood and work of Immanuel? |
28547 | Reader, is_ Satan_ assailing thee with tormenting fears? |
28547 | Shall we refuse to love Him more in return, who hath_ first_ loved, and so_ loved us_? |
28547 | The lowly Jewish women feared not; why? |
28547 | To- morrow, He is_ gone_; and the bereft spirit is led to interrogate itself in plaintive sorrow,--"Where is now thy God?" |
28547 | Tried believer, has He ever failed thee? |
28547 | What a heaping together of similar tender"words"with that which is here addressed to us? |
28547 | What are they? |
28547 | What peace is this? |
28547 | Where can a child be safer or better than in a father''s hand? |
28547 | Where can the believer be better than in the hands of his God? |
28547 | Who can tell what muffled and disguised"needs be"there may lurk under these world- tribulations? |
28547 | Why"no separation?" |
28547 | Why? |
28547 | Why? |
28547 | Why? |
28547 | Would Satan try to teach thee so? |
28547 | _ It is the Spirit''s unfolding of Jesus_--glorifying_ Him_ in eyes that before saw in Him no beauty? |
28547 | are you a fruit- bearer in your Lord''s vineyard? |
28547 | are you ready to faint under your tribulations? |
28547 | art thou solitary and desolate? |
28547 | art thou troubled and tempted? |
28547 | canst thou subscribe to these closing words of this gracious utterance? |
28547 | do you know this peace which passeth understanding? |
28547 | dost thou know this blessed servitude? |
28547 | has wave after wave been rolling in upon thee? |
28547 | hath the Lord forgotten to be gracious? |
28547 | have thy fondest schemes been blown upon-- thy fairest blossoms been withered in the bud? |
28547 | instead of thus being as weaned children, how apt are we to exercise ourselves in matters too high for us? |
28547 | is this thine attitude, as the expectant of thy Lord''s appearing? |
28547 | is thy life now"hid with Christ in God?" |
28547 | rather canst thou not testify,"The word of the Lord is tried;"I cast my burden upon Him, and He"sustained me?" |
37292 | Children,He asks,"have ye any meat?" |
37292 | --_Selected._= April 15th.=_ Could ye not watch with me one hour? |
37292 | --_Selected._= December 11th.=_ What is your life? |
37292 | 10._ Does not the word come like a soft shower, assuaging the fury of the flame? |
37292 | 10._ Why was this? |
37292 | 13._ Why? |
37292 | 14, 23._ Do we, like Him, combine the two great elements of human character? |
37292 | 14._ O my soul, is not this enough? |
37292 | 18._ Believer, you are anticipating the time when you shall join the saints above in ascribing all glory to Jesus; but are you glorifying Him_ now_? |
37292 | 18._ Have I begun this path of heavenly love and knowledge now? |
37292 | 2._ And how is that to be done? |
37292 | 2._ Dost thou want nothing? |
37292 | 2._ Have we no garments of blue, and purple, and beautiful suggestiveness? |
37292 | 26._ What is thy_ season_ this morning? |
37292 | 27._ Unbelief says,"How can such and such things be?" |
37292 | 28._ Is not God always acting thus? |
37292 | 29._"Who is thy neighbor?" |
37292 | 4._ Are you where God would have you be? |
37292 | 4._ Was the work of the Master indeed done? |
37292 | 9._ Art thou hiding thyself away from Him who would send thee forth to do His own blessed work in His own way? |
37292 | Am I progressing in it? |
37292 | And have we no golden bells? |
37292 | And have we no ornaments? |
37292 | And he cried out from the steeple:"Where art thou, Lord?" |
37292 | And where are they not set? |
37292 | And wherefore does God act thus? |
37292 | Are our_ public_ duties, the cares, and business, and engrossments of the world, finely tempered and hallowed by a_ secret_ walk with God? |
37292 | Are there not others who would dry their tears if we would remind them of past joys, when we were poor as they are now? |
37292 | Are there not those who would taste the joys of heaven if we wrote them words of forgiveness and affection? |
37292 | Are we being embraced by the world by its honors, its pleasures, its applause? |
37292 | Are we compromising with the enemies of God? |
37292 | Art thou remembering thy double parentage, and therefore thy double duty? |
37292 | Behold, this river of God is full for thy supply; what canst thou desire beside? |
37292 | But let the song of the bird cease, and the fruit of the tree fall; and will my heart still go on to sing? |
37292 | By bearing"leaves,"--a_ profession_ of love for Him? |
37292 | By bearing_ some_ fruit? |
37292 | Canst thou meet in contact with the sinful and be thyself undefiled? |
37292 | Canst thou touch the vile and polluted ones of earth and retain thy garments pure? |
37292 | Canst thou walk in white through the stained thoroughfares of men? |
37292 | Did you lose Christ by neglecting the Scriptures? |
37292 | Did you lose Christ by sin? |
37292 | Didst thou ever consider the depth of love in the heart of Jehovah, when God the Father equipped His Son for the great enterprise of mercy? |
37292 | Do I feel some dawnings of the heavenly light, earnests and antepasts of the full day of glory? |
37292 | Do not little strokes fell lofty oaks? |
37292 | Do not the little foxes spoil the grapes? |
37292 | Do we not need the new sense of Christ''s presence in our hearts and the joys of the Holy Ghost? |
37292 | Do you not see it dotted with ten thousand blessings in disguise? |
37292 | Do you want to speak for Jesus to those around you? |
37292 | Does not that voice come to us? |
37292 | Dost thou need more strength than the omnipotence of the united Trinity? |
37292 | Doth not the tiny coral insect build a rock which wrecks a navy? |
37292 | Has not Infinite Love encircled every event with its everlasting arms, and gilded every cloud with its merciful lining? |
37292 | Has your life helped you to do that? |
37292 | Hast thou no mercy to ask of God? |
37292 | Have you lost Christ in the closet by restraining prayer? |
37292 | Have you made up your mind that you will follow your Master everywhere else, save when he ascends the path that leads to the cross? |
37292 | How are the two to be connected? |
37292 | How can He go till He has healed the Magdalene''s broken heart? |
37292 | How can this be done? |
37292 | How was this? |
37292 | If the world were to follow us from its busy thoroughfares, would it trace us to our family altars and our closet devotions? |
37292 | If we often require the sharp blasts of trial to develop our graces, do we not also need the warm south breezes of His mercy? |
37292 | Is Christ born in thee? |
37292 | Is it a season of great heaviness and black clouds? |
37292 | Is it adding joy to other men''s lives? |
37292 | Is it not a poison? |
37292 | Is it not written of the Son of Man that"as He_ prayed_ the fashion of His countenance was altered"? |
37292 | Is it the season of drought? |
37292 | Is not this the miracle of cleansing which our spirits need in such a world as this? |
37292 | Is so commonplace a scene as the life of the family circle fit to be a temple for the service of God? |
37292 | Is so narrow a sphere worthy to be the object of faith? |
37292 | Is that a reason why you should avoid or not undertake the duty? |
37292 | Is that your religion? |
37292 | Is the King''s image visibly, permanently, stamped upon us? |
37292 | Is there no holy of holies where thou canst catch a glow of impulse that will make thee strong? |
37292 | Is there no secret pavilion into which thou canst go and warm thyself? |
37292 | Is there not work waiting for us-- work that no one else can do-- work, too, that the Master has promised to help us perform? |
37292 | Is thy life like that manger-- precious as a casket, because of what it holds? |
37292 | Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? |
37292 | Let us, then, take all our perplexities to Him and say,"Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" |
37292 | May we not find a great truth in the very position in which God placed His chosen people? |
37292 | McLaren._= January 27th.=_ Are there not twelve hours in the day? |
37292 | My soul, art thou living up to thy twofold origin? |
37292 | Now the question is this-- How can these two be reconciled? |
37292 | O my soul, wouldst thou have thy life glorified, beautified, transfigured to the eyes of men? |
37292 | Of what use is a"seal"if it can not be seen? |
37292 | Oh, has not Jesus stood at your side when you knew it not? |
37292 | Or shall the Son of Righteousness, when He appears, find us waiting, as that painter waited, looking and longing for the first gleam of day? |
37292 | Shall He come and find that we still sleep? |
37292 | Sin, a little thing? |
37292 | Sin, a little thing? |
37292 | Sin, a_ little_ thing? |
37292 | The ark was a great undertaking, but what was it undertaken for? |
37292 | They are compelled to bear the cross, but how does it come? |
37292 | Was not its heaviest task yet to come? |
37292 | Was, then, my divine command a delusion? |
37292 | What are you building inside it? |
37292 | What does this teach us? |
37292 | What doubt is there that will not be slain by this two- edged sword? |
37292 | What fear is there which shall not fall smitten with a deadly wound before this arrow from the bow of God''s covenant? |
37292 | What is our pen doing? |
37292 | What kind of a structure will be disclosed when the scaffolding is knocked away? |
37292 | What, then, of the majesty all about us, heights, and depths, and wonders? |
37292 | Who knows its deadliness? |
37292 | Why did He say that His work was done? |
37292 | Why dost thou not retire oftener with thyself? |
37292 | Will I help to bear His cross up the Via Dolorosa? |
37292 | Will I love Him in His own night? |
37292 | Will I stand in God''s house by night? |
37292 | Will I watch with Him even one hour in His Gethsemane? |
37292 | Will not continual droppings wear away stones? |
37292 | Yea, is it not an asbestos armor, against which the heat hath no power? |
37292 | You ask,"What can I do?" |
37292 | You have for your security His exceeding great and precious promises, and may say with the psalmist,"Why art thou cast down, O my soul? |
37292 | and why art thou disquieted within me? |
37292 | but would we dally, go back? |
37292 | have not I sent thee? |
37292 | that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? |
37292 | v. 5._ Is it not one of the difficulties of church work that we have more officers than men? |
37292 | ye who sigh and languish, and mourn your lack of power, Heed ye this gentle whisper,"Could ye not watch one hour?" |
14849 | And is mine one? |
14849 | ''Twas doing nothing was his curse-- Is there a vice can plague us worse? |
14849 | A common friendship-- who talks of a common friendship? |
14849 | A useless flint o''er which the waters flow? |
14849 | All is beauty: And knowing this, is love, and love is duty: What further may be sought for or declared? |
14849 | All the world cries,"Where is the man who will save us?" |
14849 | Am I wrong to be always so happy? |
14849 | And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore art thou thus fallen upon thy face? |
14849 | And do our loves all perish with our frames? |
14849 | And dost thou hear the word ere it be spoken, And apprehend love''s presence by its power? |
14849 | And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? |
14849 | And it is n''t the fact that you''re hurt that counts, But only-- how did you take it? |
14849 | And loved so well a high behavior, In man or maid, that thou from speech refrained, Nobility more noble to repay? |
14849 | And the son of man, that thou visitest him? |
14849 | And they said one to another, Was not our heart burning within us, while he spake to us in the way, while he opened to us the scriptures? |
14849 | And thou sayest, What doth God know? |
14849 | And what of that? |
14849 | And where are thy playmates now, O man of sober brow? |
14849 | And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure of his life? |
14849 | And who will walk a mile with me Along life''s weary way? |
14849 | And why art thou disquieted within me? |
14849 | Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? |
14849 | Are not ye of much more value than they? |
14849 | Are the stars too distant? |
14849 | Are you in earnest? |
14849 | Art little? |
14849 | At rich men''s tables eaten bread and pulse? |
14849 | But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? |
14849 | But the little daughter whispered, As she took his icy hand,"Is n''t God upon the ocean, Just the same as on the land?" |
14849 | But what if I fail of my purpose here? |
14849 | But whoso hath the world''s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him? |
14849 | Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? |
14849 | Can he judge through the thick darkness? |
14849 | Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? |
14849 | Can you add to that line That he lived for it too? |
14849 | Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of the boughs shall be? |
14849 | Didst fancy life was spent on beds of ease, Fluttering the rose- leaves scattered by the breeze? |
14849 | Didst fondly dream the sun would never set? |
14849 | Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? |
14849 | Dost fear to lose thy way? |
14849 | Doth God exact day labor, light denied? |
14849 | Exceeding peace made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said,"What writest thou?" |
14849 | Feeling the way-- and if the way is cold, What matter? |
14849 | For doth not that rightly seem to be lost which is given to one ungrateful? |
14849 | For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? |
14849 | George W. F. Hegel born 1770. Who are thy playmates, boy? |
14849 | God will not seek thy race, Nor will he ask thy birth; Alone he will demand of thee, What hast thou done on earth? |
14849 | Hast thou named all the birds without a gun? |
14849 | Have we not darkened and dazed ourselves with books long enough? |
14849 | Have we not groveled here long enough eating and drinking like mere brutes? |
14849 | Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough? |
14849 | Have you an ancient wound? |
14849 | Having eyes, see ye not? |
14849 | He said:"My child, do you yield? |
14849 | He went out, and found others standing; and he saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? |
14849 | How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? |
14849 | How many smiles?--a score? |
14849 | How to constitute oneself a man? |
14849 | I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: From whence shall my help come? |
14849 | If a man die, shall he live again? |
14849 | If heard aright It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they? |
14849 | If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rang the bell, What would you buy? |
14849 | In the hour of distress and misery the eye of every mortal turns to friendship; in the hour of gladness and conviviality, what is your want? |
14849 | Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? |
14849 | Is life a noxious weed which whirlwinds sow? |
14849 | Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? |
14849 | Is n''t it interesting to get blamed for everything? |
14849 | Is not God in the height of heaven? |
14849 | Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment? |
14849 | It is not worth the keeping: let it go: But shall it? |
14849 | Josephine born 1763 Could we by a wish Have what we will and get the future now, Would we wish aught done undone in the past? |
14849 | Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? |
14849 | Look full into thy spirit''s self, The world of mystery scan; What if thy way to faith in God Should lie through faith in man? |
14849 | Loved the wild rose, and left it on the stalk? |
14849 | NOVEMBER Who said November''s face was grim? |
14849 | O God, can I not save One from the pitiless wave? |
14849 | Say, dost thou understand the whispered token, The promise breathed from every leaf and flower? |
14849 | Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? |
14849 | Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights at my side, In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree? |
14849 | Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried, If he kneel not before the same altar as me? |
14849 | Shall I hold on with both hands to every paltry possession? |
14849 | Shall days spring up as wild vines grow, Unheeding where they climb or cling? |
14849 | Shall two walk together, except they have agreed? |
14849 | Shall we have ears on the stretch for the footfalls of sorrow that never come, but be deaf to the whirr of the wings of happiness that fill all space? |
14849 | Summer and flowers are far away; Gloomy old Winter is king to- day; Buds will not blow, and sun will not shine: What shall I do for a valentine? |
14849 | Temptation sharp? |
14849 | The great Gods pass through the great Time- hall; Who can see? |
14849 | Then why, my soul, dost thou complain? |
14849 | Then why, my soul, dost thou complain? |
14849 | There is sunshine without and within me, and how should I mope or be sad? |
14849 | Though you have but a little room, do you fancy that God is not there, too, and it is impossible to live therein a life that shall be somewhat lofty? |
14849 | Thy bountiful care what tongue can recite? |
14849 | Unarmed faced danger with a heart of trust? |
14849 | Was it hard for him? |
14849 | Was it thus that he plodded ahead, Never turning aside? |
14849 | Was the trial sore? |
14849 | Well, what of that? |
14849 | Well, what of that? |
14849 | What do you live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? |
14849 | What doctor possesses such curative resources as those latent in a single ray of hope? |
14849 | What does your anxiety do? |
14849 | What have you done with your soul, my friend? |
14849 | What if no bird through the pearl rain is soaring? |
14849 | What if no blossom looks upward adoring? |
14849 | What is man, that thou art mindful of him? |
14849 | What is the essence and life of character? |
14849 | What is your life? |
14849 | What shall we do with it? |
14849 | What though to- night wrecks you and me If so to- morrow saves? |
14849 | What would be the use of immortality for a person who can not use well half an hour? |
14849 | What''s hallowed ground? |
14849 | When I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of high genius, the first question I ask about him is always-- Does he work? |
14849 | When the heart overflows with gratitude or with other sweet and sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? |
14849 | Whence comest thou?" |
14849 | Where else can we live? |
14849 | Who is the happiest person? |
14849 | Who is wise and understanding among you? |
14849 | Who knoweth not in all these, That the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this? |
14849 | Who said her voice was harsh and sad? |
14849 | Who stands ready to act again and always in the spirit of this day of reunion and hope and patriotic fervor? |
14849 | Who would fail, for a pause too early? |
14849 | Who would fail, for one step withholden? |
14849 | Who would fail, for one word unsaid? |
14849 | Who would not rather have a right to immortality than to be immortal without a right to be? |
14849 | Whose heart hath ne''er within him burned As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand? |
14849 | Why are we so glad to talk and take our turns to prattle, when so rarely we get back to the stronghold of our silence with an unwounded conscience? |
14849 | Why art thou cast down, O my soul? |
14849 | Why comes temptation but for a man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? |
14849 | Why comest thou?" |
14849 | Why drooping seek the dark recess? |
14849 | Why drooping seek the dark recess? |
14849 | Why, why repine, my pensive friend, At pleasures slipped away? |
14849 | Will ye leave the flowers for the crown?" |
14849 | are they thine, When round thy brow the wreaths of glory shine; While rapture gazes on thy radiant way,''Midst the bright realms of clear mental day? |
14849 | each a space Of some few yards before his face; Does that the whole wide plan explain? |
14849 | little loveliest lady mine, What shall I send for your valentine? |
14849 | what do we see? |
14849 | when the eve is cool? |
27852 | Mother,asked a child,"since nothing is ever lost, where do all our thoughts go?" |
27852 | You are never out of temper,was once said to a woman well known to be much tried at home;"is it that you do not feel the injustice, the annoyances?" |
27852 | ***** Is_ Passionately_ the word you long for? |
27852 | ***** Then if we_ are_ slighted, misunderstood, maligned, or persecuted, what does it matter? |
27852 | ***** WHAT WILL BE MY CROSS TO- DAY? |
27852 | ***** Why weep, my child? |
27852 | *****_ Hast thou no favors to ask of Me?_ Give Me, if thou wilt, a list of all thy desires, all the wants of thy soul. |
27852 | *****_ Hast thou no interests which occupy thy mind?_ Tell Me of them all.... Of thy vocation. |
27852 | --"You have, then, some special balm?" |
27852 | A disappointment? |
27852 | A fresh rending of the heart? |
27852 | After all... these little troubles, looked at calmly, what are they? |
27852 | Am_ I_ the type of all that is beautiful and right? |
27852 | And for Me hast thou no ardor? |
27852 | And how do you prove to Him your love? |
27852 | And why not? |
27852 | Are there around thee those seemingly less devout than formerly, whose coldness or indifference have estranged thee from them without real cause?... |
27852 | Are there many who try to be of some little help or comfort to the souls with whom they are brought in contact through life? |
27852 | Are they not very much to be pitied? |
27852 | Are those around you wicked? |
27852 | Are you discouraged? |
27852 | Are you full of peace? |
27852 | Are you tempted? |
27852 | BENEATH THE EYE OF GOD, GOD ONLY As you read these words, are you not conscious of an inward feeling of peace and quietness? |
27852 | Beneath GOD''S protecting Hand, is it possible that you can be sorrowful, fearful, unhappy? |
27852 | But is not this a worry, a continual torment? |
27852 | Can you not hear GOD''S Voice speaking to you? |
27852 | Did JESUS CHRIST hesitate to die for you? |
27852 | Do we help him, unseen, towards that act of charity, humiliation, or self- renunciation? |
27852 | Do we pray to GOD that this soul may become humble, pure, devoted? |
27852 | Do we take as much pains to procure him the little devotional book that will really help him, as we should to obtain a transient pleasure? |
27852 | Do you believe harm was intended? |
27852 | Do you know what you have gained? |
27852 | Do you long at each Communion to receive the grace bestowed by CHRIST that shall little by little fit you for heaven hereafter? |
27852 | Do you not feel moved, as if your whole being in these words went forth to GOD, offering to Him life itself? |
27852 | Do you not feel something soothing and consoling in these thoughts? |
27852 | Do you wish to live at peace with all the world? |
27852 | Do your duty as well as you can, as you understand it, as it is given to you; say sometimes to GOD,"My Master, art Thou satisfied with me?" |
27852 | Does it seem too hard for you? |
27852 | Does not GOD love us? |
27852 | Does not this simple thought explain the reason that there is often so little result from our frequent Communions? |
27852 | Does the future in its turn seem to frighten me? |
27852 | Does the past sometimes rise up to trouble me with the thought of the many years spent without GOD? |
27852 | Dost thou not desire to do some good to the souls of those thou lovest, but who are forgetful of Me? |
27852 | During the week has not the heart been wearied with petty strife and discontent, interests marred, bitter words? |
27852 | Each has a mission to fulfil; and as it comes from GOD, why not let it be accomplished in peace? |
27852 | For what reason? |
27852 | Has not GOD promised His pardon for His blessed SON''S sake, to all who truly repent and unfeignedly believe His Holy Gospel? |
27852 | Have I made a full avowal and entire submission? |
27852 | Have I more faith in GOD, and more calmness and resignation in all the events of life? |
27852 | Have I not always opportunity to give? |
27852 | Have we courage not to spare the soul the trial that we know will purify? |
27852 | Have you any further doubts? |
27852 | Have you fallen? |
27852 | Have you reckoned the number of minutes that have elapsed since your birth? |
27852 | He is with you, and to retain Him close, Who is all Purity, will you not be more modest in your behavior? |
27852 | He says:_ Continue another half- hour the work that wearies thee_; and you would stop? |
27852 | He says:_ Do not that_; and you do it? |
27852 | He says:_ Let us tread together the path of obedience_; and you answer: No? |
27852 | Humiliation? |
27852 | I smile at the foolish fancies of my imagination; is not my future in GOD''S Hands? |
27852 | If so, is it not the greater merit? |
27852 | If your duty seems almost_ impossible_ to fulfil, ask yourself,"Is this GOD''S Will for me?" |
27852 | Is all this_ nothing_? |
27852 | Is it Thy Will that lonely and sorrowful I am left on earth, while those I loved have gone to dwell near Thee above? |
27852 | Is it not absurd to think that because another acts and thinks differently to myself, he must needs be wrong? |
27852 | Is not this thought one to make you tremble? |
27852 | Is there not a thought in this that should make us reflect? |
27852 | Listen to the story of a simple shepherd, given in his own words:"I forget now who it was that once said to me,''Jean Baptiste, you are very poor?'' |
27852 | Make them the subject of our morning prayers, and say to ourselves, Here is my daily cross, do I accept willingly? |
27852 | My child, tell Me of all thy weariness_: who has grieved thee? |
27852 | My friend, do you know why the work you accomplish fails either to give pleasure to yourself or others? |
27852 | Not to bestow thine affection on one who is not devout, and whose presence steals the peace from thy soul? |
27852 | One more solemn thought: How old are you? |
27852 | Poor child, why do you tell a flower the thought that troubles you? |
27852 | Provocation? |
27852 | SATURDAY EARNESTNESS You love GOD, do you not, dear one, whom GOD surrounds with so much affection? |
27852 | Shall I see myself misjudged, falsely suspected, despised? |
27852 | Sufferings? |
27852 | THE POWER OF AN ACT OF LOVE TOWARDS GOD Have you ever reflected upon this? |
27852 | The thought of GOD is never wearisome; why not always cherish it? |
27852 | Then to whom can I speak of Thee this day? |
27852 | Then, why not shake off all this, that only chills affection? |
27852 | To be constantly employed, and never asking,"What shall I do?" |
27852 | To spare them trouble, we sacrifice our own ease and enjoyment.... Oh, that is all very beautiful, very right; but what should we do for the soul? |
27852 | To whom do you owe all this? |
27852 | What counsels can I give? |
27852 | What does it signify if some unexpected command upsets all my previous plans? |
27852 | What dost thou desire? |
27852 | What dost thou think? |
27852 | What is so often the one thing wanting to some devout person devoted to doing good? |
27852 | What matters the tone or the harshness of the order? |
27852 | What moments may I seize, in which, without wounding the feelings, or parading my zeal, I may be allowed to speak a few words of piety? |
27852 | What must I suffer, LORD? |
27852 | What wilt Thou send me to- day? |
27852 | What wouldst thou this day, My child?... |
27852 | When have I ever been more_ zealous in labor_ than those days when I had fulfilled all my religious duties? |
27852 | When have I felt_ more free, more happy_, than when having fulfilled all the duties of my social position? |
27852 | When more_ loving and devoted_ than on the days of my Communions? |
27852 | Which of us have not felt the same? |
27852 | Who can describe all the joy, strength, and consolation it reveals? |
27852 | Who is anxious for a beloved one''s eternal welfare? |
27852 | Whom wouldst thou have to help thee? |
27852 | Why be anxious about the future? |
27852 | Why cause any one pain? |
27852 | Why imagine evil intentions against yourself? |
27852 | Why need I be disquieted? |
27852 | Why not prepare the heart, even as we do the body? |
27852 | Will you, receiving thus the GOD of_ Peace_ within, have for those around you kind words that shall fill them with calmness, resignation, and peace? |
27852 | Wilt thou go now and be loving and forbearing towards one who has vexed thee?... |
27852 | Would you be at peace with your conscience? |
27852 | Would you become holy? |
27852 | Would you call it_ torture_ or_ constraint_, the energy with which you shatter some poisoned cup you were almost enticed to drink? |
27852 | Would you live peaceably with the members of your family, above all with those who exercise a certain control of you? |
27852 | Would your mother have given you a bitter dose merely for the sake of causing you suffering? |
27852 | Wouldst thou give pleasure to thy mother, thy family, those in authority over thee? |
27852 | _ Art thou fearful of the future?_ Is there in thy heart that vague dread that thou canst not define, but which nevertheless torments thee? |
27852 | _ Art thou fearful of the future?_ Is there in thy heart that vague dread that thou canst not define, but which nevertheless torments thee? |
27852 | _ Art thou resolved to avoid all occasions of sin?_ To renounce that which tempts thee; never again to open the book that excites thine imagination? |
27852 | _ Art thou resolved to avoid all occasions of sin?_ To renounce that which tempts thee; never again to open the book that excites thine imagination? |
27852 | _ Hast thou no promises to make to Me?_ I can read thy heart; thou knowest it; thou mayst deceive man, but thou canst never deceive God. |
27852 | _ Leave my friend always at liberty to think and act for himself in matters of little importance._ Why compel him to think and act with me? |
27852 | am I better? |
27852 | am I happier? |
27852 | and am I not willing to fulfil whatever I am advised in GOD''S Name to do for the future? |
27852 | can I never recall them? |
27852 | can not you see how the thought troubles and disquiets you? |
27852 | have you no mother? |
27852 | have you not GOD to prepare it for you, as tenderly as eighteen years ago your mother prepared your cradle? |
27852 | how can those live peacefully who never pray? |
27852 | however heavy may be the burden you have to bear, does it not at once become light beneath the gaze of that FATHER''S eye? |
27852 | if I try to please and imitate Thee thus, wilt Thou indeed bless me? |
27852 | is it because this word does not please you? |
27852 | no doubt the shame and grief are sharp and keen, but why need they disturb my peace of mind? |
27852 | then what more can I do, good angel, thus addressing me, what can I do to show my love to GOD? |
27852 | to thank? |
27852 | treated thee with contempt? |
27852 | what dost Thou require of me to- day? |
27852 | what matters then ingratitude, forgetfulness, contempt, and scorn? |
27852 | what wouldst thou do for them? |
27852 | when He says:_ Bear this, I am here to aid thee_; you will refuse? |
27852 | who can tell all that passes between the soul and its GOD? |
27852 | why always such seeking for some one to_ see_ me, to_ understand_,_ appreciate_,_ praise_ me? |
27852 | wounded thy self- love? |
20711 | And why not a sudden death, Sir John? 20711 And you ca n''t help being a little fond of him still?" |
20711 | But, Master Yeo, a sudden death? |
20711 | Can you tell me, my pastor, what part of God''s likeness clings to a man longest and closest and best? 20711 Eh? |
20711 | How can we become One? 20711 How do ye expect,"said Sandy,"ever to be happy, or strong, or a man at a'', as long as ye go on only looking to enjoy yersel--_yersel_? |
20711 | How then? |
20711 | Master,said St. John,"we saw one casting out devils in Thy name, and he followeth not us; wilt Thou that we forbid him? |
20711 | Most worshipful sir, you surely would not wish God_ not_ to have mercy on his soul? |
20711 | My welfare? 20711 No-- Eh? |
20711 | Then, my dear sir, if_ you_ feel for him still, in spite of all his faults, how do you know that God may not feel for him in spite of all his faults? 20711 What better can the Lord do for a man, than take him home when he has done his work?" |
20711 | And does not love teach us two things? |
20711 | And even now, in fasting and mortification, am I not sorrowing for my sin and for its dreary chastisement? |
20711 | And how did He keep it? |
20711 | And how_ deep_ is the Cross of Christ? |
20711 | And how_ high_ is Christ''s Cross? |
20711 | And if God honours His servants, shall not we honour them likewise? |
20711 | And if the heart answers impatiently,"My good? |
20711 | And our very griefs and disappointments-- have they been useless to us? |
20711 | And the verra idea of the modern tragedy, man conquering circumstance? |
20711 | And what do they do, these blessed beings? |
20711 | And what is the_ breadth_ of Christ''s Cross? |
20711 | And what is the_ length_ of Christ''s Cross? |
20711 | And who is He? |
20711 | Are there no more worlds? |
20711 | Are we more educated than were the ancient Greeks? |
20711 | Are we selfish? |
20711 | But Himself? |
20711 | But after all, what is speculation to practice? |
20711 | But shall I then despond and die? |
20711 | But what is true rest? |
20711 | But where? |
20711 | But why? |
20711 | Can there be a more glorious truth to carry out-- one which will lead us more into all love and beauty and purity in heaven and earth? |
20711 | Can we go wrong if we keep our Passion- week as Christ kept His? |
20711 | Christ''s cross says still, and will say to all Eternity,"Wouldst thou be good? |
20711 | Content or Happy? |
20711 | Dark, dark night, wilt thou never wear away? |
20711 | Death, beautiful, wise, kind Death, when will you come and tell me what I want to know? |
20711 | Do I mean, then, that this or any text has nothing to do with us? |
20711 | Do we indulge our passions? |
20711 | Do we neglect our duty? |
20711 | Do you wish Him to be any nearer? |
20711 | Does the age seem to you dark? |
20711 | Else why is there a resurrection of the body? |
20711 | Even fools long for a short life and a merry one, and shall not the Lord''s people pray for a short death and a merry one? |
20711 | Fond of him? |
20711 | Fools may hold fast to their scanty stock through life, and we must be very cautious in drawing them from it-- for where can they supply its place? |
20711 | For till then they can find no explanation of the three great human questions-- Where am I? |
20711 | For what more beautiful sight on earth than a young mother with her babe upon her knee? |
20711 | God''s Mercy or Man''s? |
20711 | Has our Lord Jesus Christ answered it, or has He not? |
20711 | Has the evil one touched this alone? |
20711 | Hatred and sin-- is not that hell itself, wherein dwells all that is opposed to God? |
20711 | He who has never loved, what does he know? |
20711 | Heaven and hell-- the spiritual world-- are they merely invisible places in space which may become visible hereafter? |
20711 | How can we attain to the blessed and noble state of mind-- the mind of Christ, who must needs be about His Father''s business, which is doing good? |
20711 | How did St. Paul look on his past life? |
20711 | How shall I get true knowledge? |
20711 | How shall we picture John the Baptist to ourselves? |
20711 | How was He, The blessed One, made perfect? |
20711 | However miraculous they may seem, are they so very much more so than the daily fact of memory? |
20711 | If a man is busy, and busy about his duty, what more does he require for time or for eternity? |
20711 | If we say simply,"I am wretched-- I ought to be wretched;"then we shall perhaps hear a voice,"Who made thee wretched but God? |
20711 | Is it merely a fancy that we are losing that love for Spring which among our old forefathers rose almost to worship? |
20711 | Is it not our business to bring it back to light and joy? |
20711 | Is it not self- conceit which makes us think the redemption of this earth the one event of eternity? |
20711 | Is no the verra idea of the classic tragedy defined to be man conquered by circumstance? |
20711 | Is not that a joy, a prize, which wealth can not give nor poverty take away? |
20711 | Is that a hard word? |
20711 | Is there a Holy One, whom I may contemplate with utter delight? |
20711 | Is there a living God in the universe, or is there not? |
20711 | Is there one such poor soul over whom Christ does not grieve? |
20711 | It is but pride and self- will which says,"Give me something huge to fight and I shall enjoy that-- but why make me sweep the dust?" |
20711 | Know ye not your God is with you, guiding with a Father''s hand? |
20711 | Knowledge which I shall know accurately and practically too, so that I can use it in daily life, for myself and others? |
20711 | Let me ask-- of what period of youth and manhood does it not hold true? |
20711 | Love and righteousness-- is not that the heaven itself wherein God dwells? |
20711 | Mackaye?" |
20711 | Man? |
20711 | May it not be so? |
20711 | May not they be near us though unseen? |
20711 | No? |
20711 | Religion or Godliness? |
20711 | Sacrifices to be made-- are there none now? |
20711 | Shall we therefore be dark too? |
20711 | That inborn delight of the young in all that is marvellous and fantastic-- has that a merely evil root? |
20711 | Then what can He mean but thy good?" |
20711 | There were daring deeds to be done then-- are there none now? |
20711 | Though blind, shall we be afraid to follow? |
20711 | To do God''s will, or merely suffer it? |
20711 | True or False Toleration? |
20711 | Verily, when the Son of God cometh shall He find faith in the earth? |
20711 | What can a man do more than_ die_ for his countrymen? |
20711 | What does God ask? |
20711 | What does God require of us, but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Him? |
20711 | What else is meant by becoming as a little child? |
20711 | What if I had discovered that one law of the spiritual world, in which all others were contained, was Righteousness? |
20711 | What if a man''s idea of"The Church"be somewhat too narrow for the year of grace 18--, is it no honour to him that he has such an idea at all? |
20711 | What is Theology? |
20711 | What is love worth that does not show itself in action? |
20711 | What is sensuality? |
20711 | What is the commonest, and yet the least remembered form of heroism? |
20711 | What is the sin which most destroys all men and nations? |
20711 | What is there in this world worth having without religion? |
20711 | What is this strange thing, without which even the true knowledge of doctrine is of no use? |
20711 | What is true rest? |
20711 | What matter? |
20711 | What must I do? |
20711 | What surely is a woman''s calling but to teach man? |
20711 | What was Christ''s life? |
20711 | Where Christ is they are; and, therefore, if Christ be there, may not they be there likewise? |
20711 | Which is Love? |
20711 | Whither am I going? |
20711 | Who can hear it? |
20711 | Who, save the Cause and Maker and Ruler of all things past, present, and to come? |
20711 | Whom can I love?" |
20711 | Why did Christ take up the cross? |
20711 | Why expect Wisdom with love in all? |
20711 | Why is not eternity to have action and change, yet both like God, compatible with rest and immutability? |
20711 | Why need we suppose that heaven is to be one vast lazy retrospect? |
20711 | Why not in you, my toiling brother? |
20711 | Why not? |
20711 | Why should they not feed our children''s? |
20711 | Why speak of the God of Nature and the God of grace as two antithetical terms? |
20711 | Why these fears? |
20711 | Wild, wild wind, wilt thou never cease thy sighing? |
20711 | Will there not be incident and action springing from these when the fate of this world is decided? |
20711 | Would you be humble, daughter? |
20711 | Wouldst thou be like God? |
20711 | Wrongs to be redrest-- are there none now? |
20711 | Yes, great railroads, and great railroad age, who would exchange you, with all your sins, for any other time? |
20711 | You ask,"What is the Good?" |
20711 | You will not see people as they seem-- as they have become, no doubt; but why? |
20711 | and God frowning, and the devil grinning? |
20711 | and if so, where is He? |
20711 | and more, which does not show itself in_ passion_ in the true sense of that word: namely, in suffering? |
20711 | and to teach him what? |
20711 | and why does the Eucharist"preserve our body and soul to everlasting life?" |
20711 | canna ye see it there? |
20711 | dreary March month, is this then a time for building wearily? |
20711 | for am I not''a part of all I see''? |
20711 | how long before Thou come again? |
20711 | in daring, in struggling, in grieving, in agonising, and, if need be, in dying for the object of its love? |
20711 | is there no the heaven above them there, and the hell beneath them? |
20711 | oh, where? |
20711 | or are they not rather the moral world of right and wrong? |
20711 | that righteousness, and it alone, was the beautiful, righteousness the sublime, the heavenly, the God- like-- ay, God Himself? |
20711 | that thou hadst known-- even thou-- at least in this thy day-- the things which belong to thy peace"? |
20711 | where art Thou? |
20711 | why crush that voice in any heart? |
20711 | without which either a man or a nation is poor, and blind, and wretched, and naked in soul, notwithstanding all his religion? |
8534 | Do n''t you see,he said to her,"that by giving up your own way, you will be virtually putting a cross on the grave? |
8534 | What is my next duty? 8534 What shall I do to gain eternal life?" |
8534 | Who is thy neighbor? |
8534 | ''Tis enough that Thou wilt care; Why should I the burden bear? |
8534 | ''Tis true, He hath chastened thee with rods and sore afflictions; but did He ever take away His loving- kindness from thee? |
8534 | 1, is our"bodies"? |
8534 | A myriad homes,--a myriad ways,-- And God''s eye over every place? |
8534 | Am I acting in simplicity, from a germ of the Divine life within, or am I shaping my path to obtain some immediate result of expediency? |
8534 | Among so many, can He care? |
8534 | And am I what I am pretending? |
8534 | And doth not the love, the rest, the peace, the joy felt, swallow up all the bitterness and sorrow of the outward condition? |
8534 | And how shall we know this? |
8534 | And sound my word and thought the same? |
8534 | And what will thy heavenly Father do but what that father did in the parable? |
8534 | And when any special thing is repugnant to you, ask"Wouldst Thou have me do it? |
8534 | Any cup at our home- table whose sweetness we have not fully tasted, although it might yet make of our daily bread a continual feast? |
8534 | Appear I always what I am? |
8534 | Are they not almost the staple of our daily happiness? |
8534 | Art thou not the"Living Garment"of God? |
8534 | As to what may befall us outwardly, in this confused state of things, shall we not trust our tender Father, and rest satisfied in His will? |
8534 | Ask"What should I like myself, if I were hard- worked, or sick, or lonely?" |
8534 | August 23_ Seekest thou great things for thyself? |
8534 | Be quiet, soul: Why shouldst thou care and sadness borrow, Why sit in nameless fear and sorrow, The livelong day? |
8534 | Be quiet, why this anxious heed About thy tangled ways? |
8534 | Because you are forced to be outwardly inactive, do you think you, also, may not be, in your years of quiet,"about your Father''s business"? |
8534 | Because you are not sent out yet into your labor, do you think God has ceased to remember you? |
8534 | Believ''st thou in eternal things? |
8534 | Bore I not helm of pride and glittering sword? |
8534 | But how will you find good? |
8534 | But let that love flow out upon all around you, and what could harm you? |
8534 | But shall we be less ready for these, if any of them are His appointments for to- day? |
8534 | But what says the Psalmist? |
8534 | But you will go forth, and what will you find, my daughter? |
8534 | Can special love be everywhere? |
8534 | Can we be unsafe where He has placed us? |
8534 | Can we walk with God in the shop, in the office, in the household, and on the street? |
8534 | Can you not cease to regard whether you do or not, whether you be bewildered, whether you be happy? |
8534 | December 19_ And now, Lord, what wait I for? |
8534 | December 21_ Hast thou not known? |
8534 | Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them,--that it was a vain endeavor? |
8534 | Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly toward an object and in no measure obtained it? |
8534 | Difficult enough, you think? |
8534 | Do thy steps drag heavily? |
8534 | Do we not already know that the name of the Infinite is GOOD, is GOD? |
8534 | Do you not see that a person who truly loves is one with the Infinite Being-- cannot be uncomfortable or unhappy? |
8534 | Does any one complain, that the best affections are transient visitors with him, and the heavenly spirit a stranger to his heart? |
8534 | Dost thou ask when comes His hour? |
8534 | For who is he that shall hinder thee from being good and simple? |
8534 | Have you ever thought seriously of the meaning of that blessing given to the peacemakers? |
8534 | His children,--how can he make the day sweeter to them? |
8534 | His wife,--what needs has she for help, for sympathy, that he can meet? |
8534 | How are you to attain self- control, if you shun all occasions of practising it? |
8534 | How can charity towards all men fail to follow, being the mere affectionateness of innocence and peace? |
8534 | How can we come to perceive this direct leading of God? |
8534 | How couldst thou hang upon the cross, To whom a weary hour is loss? |
8534 | How do you know what you may lose by neglecting this duty, which you think so trifling, or the blessing which its faithful performance may bring? |
8534 | How does our will become sanctified? |
8534 | How shall thou bear the cross that now So dread a weight appears? |
8534 | How shall we rest in God? |
8534 | I looked thereon with the eye of my understanding, and thought,"What may this be?" |
8534 | I would have you, one by one, ask yourselves, Wherein do I take up the cross daily? |
8534 | If He appoints me to wait in- doors to- day, am I to be annoyed because I am not to work out- of- doors? |
8534 | If He appoints me to work there, shall I lament that I am not to work here? |
8534 | If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? |
8534 | If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldest, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking? |
8534 | If we can not work out the will of God where God has placed us, then why has He placed us there? |
8534 | If we forget them not, shall they not remember us with God? |
8534 | If we have a cold heart towards a servant or a friend, why should we wonder if we have no fervor towards God? |
8534 | In"pastures green"? |
8534 | Is it Thy will that I should be in a public or a private condition, dwell here, or be banished, be poor or rich? |
8534 | Is it not His own precious treasure, and a small thing with Him to forgive thee thy trespasses, if thou believe in Him? |
8534 | Is it possible for any of us in these modern days to so live that we may walk with God? |
8534 | Is it want of strength? |
8534 | Is not such self- choosing a greater fault than those into which you fear to fall? |
8534 | Is there nothing you know you ought not to do? |
8534 | Is there nothing you neglect? |
8534 | Is this, indeed, the tone and tenor of your prayers? |
8534 | Is thy burden hard and heavy? |
8534 | Is thy cruse of comfort wasting? |
8534 | July 4_ Look at the generations of old, and see; did ever any trust in the Lord, and was confounded? |
8534 | July 7_ The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? |
8534 | June 10_ Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of His servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? |
8534 | June 23_ Why art than cast down, O my soul? |
8534 | June 8_ Who hath despised the day of small things_? |
8534 | Know I what way my course is bending? |
8534 | Let us lift up our hearts and ask,"Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do?" |
8534 | May 5_ If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? |
8534 | Never delay To do the duty which the hour brings, Whether it be in great or smaller things; For who doth know What he shall do the coming day? |
8534 | November 30_ Why art thou cast down, O my soul? |
8534 | November 9_ Say not thou, I will hide myself from the Lord: shall any remember me from above? |
8534 | Now, Lord, what wait I for? |
8534 | O God, what offering shall I give To Thee, the Lord of earth and skies? |
8534 | O Heavens, is it, in very deed, He then that ever speaks through thee; that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? |
8534 | O child, hast thou fallen? |
8534 | October 17_ Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? |
8534 | Oh, ask not thou, How shall I bear The burden of to- morrow? |
8534 | Oh, how shall I, most gracious Lord, This mark of true perfection find? |
8534 | Oh, my friend, look not_ out_ at what stands in the way; what if it look dreadfully as a lion, is not the Lord stronger than the mountains of prey? |
8534 | Oh, my soul, why art thou vexed? |
8534 | Or how the thorns and scourging brook, Who shrinkest from a scornful look? |
8534 | September 15_ Can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? |
8534 | September 30_ Lord, who shall abide in Thy tabernacle? |
8534 | Shall anything hurt us? |
8534 | Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? |
8534 | Shall they forget us because they are"made perfect"? |
8534 | Shall they love us the less because they now have power to love us more? |
8534 | So here hath been dawning another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it slip useless away? |
8534 | So, whether on the hill- tops high and fair I dwell, or in the sunless valleys, where The shadows lie, what matter? |
8534 | Still heavy is thy heart? |
8534 | Still sink thy spirits down? |
8534 | Supposing that you were never to be set free from such trials, what would you do? |
8534 | Take Thy hand, and fears grow still; Behold Thy face, and doubts remove; Who would not yield his wavering will To perfect Truth and boundless Love? |
8534 | That Thy great love should shelter me, And guide my steps so tenderly Through every changing day? |
8534 | Thou knowest what is best; And who but Thee, O God, hath power to know? |
8534 | To whom? |
8534 | Unhappy am I, because this has happened to me? |
8534 | Was I not girded for the battle- field? |
8534 | What can come amiss to a soul which is so in accord with God? |
8534 | What can cross your will, when it is one with His will, on which all creation hangs, round which all things revolve? |
8534 | What can harm thee, when all must first touch God, within whom thou hast enclosed thyself? |
8534 | What can make so much as one jarring tone in all its harmony? |
8534 | What channel needs our faith, except the eyes? |
8534 | What duties have I left undone? |
8534 | What had she done? |
8534 | What have I done that''s worth the doing? |
8534 | What have I learnt where''er I''ve been, From all I''ve heard, from all I''ve seen? |
8534 | What have I sought that I should shun? |
8534 | What heart can comprehend Thy name, Or, searching, find Thee out? |
8534 | What if the wicked nature, which is as a sea casting out mire and dirt, rage against thee? |
8534 | What is Nature? |
8534 | What is fulness of joy but_ peace_? |
8534 | What is it that makes us unable to persevere? |
8534 | What is the thing that lies nearest to me?" |
8534 | What know I more that''s worth the knowing? |
8534 | What matter how miserable one is, if one can do that? |
8534 | What shall be our reward for loving our neighbor as ourselves in this life? |
8534 | What was the secret of such a one''s power? |
8534 | When did we ever set ourselves sincerely to any work according to the will of God, and fail for want of strength? |
8534 | When the shore is gained, who will heed the toil and the storm? |
8534 | When thou hast thanked thy God For every blessing sent, What time will then remain For murmurs or lament? |
8534 | Where then is_ our_ God? |
8534 | Which of us feels or knows that he wants peace? |
8534 | Who art thou that complainest of thy life of toil? |
8534 | Who hath created these things-- that bringeth out their host by number? |
8534 | Why go about to grieve and to despair? |
8534 | Why is it that we are so busy with the future? |
8534 | Why make a real calamity of it by resistance? |
8534 | Why seek it afar forever, When it can not be lifted away? |
8534 | Why should I start at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? |
8534 | Why should I vex myself because another hath vexed me? |
8534 | Why should we desire to meet difficulties prematurely, when we have neither strength nor light as yet provided for them? |
8534 | Why shouldst them fill to- day with sorrow About to- morrow, My heart? |
8534 | Why weep now through thy Future''s eyes, and bear In vain to- day to- morrow''s load of care?" |
8534 | Will not the same love which prompts you to give a good, prompt you to keep back an evil, thing? |
8534 | Will then this which has happened prevent thee from being just, magnanimous, temperate, prudent, secure against inconsiderate opinions and falsehood? |
8534 | Would you know the blessing of all blessings? |
8534 | Wouldst Thou have me serve Thee in the lowest ministries of Thy house? |
8534 | You are surprised at your imperfections-- why? |
8534 | _ There be many that say, Who will show us any good? |
8534 | _ Whither shall I go from Thy spirit? |
8534 | _ Who can understand his errors? |
8534 | _ Who_ is it that is your shepherd? |
8534 | _ Why are ye so fearful? |
8534 | _ Why dost thou judge thy brother? |
8534 | and why art thou disquieted in me? |
8534 | and why art thou disquieted within me? |
8534 | hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? |
8534 | how many of_ you_ are content with_ such_ faithfulness as this on the part of your heavenly Father? |
8534 | if a little pain overcomes us, how could we endure a cross? |
8534 | in what sorrow lose yourself in His"more exceeding"joy? |
8534 | my way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?" |
8534 | or did His faithfulness ever fail in the sorest, blackest, thickest, darkest night that ever befell thee? |
8534 | or did any abide in His fear, and was forsaken? |
8534 | what am I, that all Thy mercies sweet like sunlight fall So constant o''er my way? |
8534 | whether we have slavish fears, or are possessed of that perfect love which casteth out all fear that hath torment? |
8534 | who shall dwell in Thy holy hill? |
8534 | why by passing clouds oppressed, Should vexing thoughts distract thy breast? |
40482 | Ca n''t you? |
40482 | Dreamer of dreams? 40482 Good morning,"said the friend,"and how is John Quincy Adams today?" |
40482 | My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? |
40482 | Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? |
40482 | Oh, why,said a young professional man, whom Professor Coe quotes,"why did my parents try to equip me with a doctrinal system in childhood? |
40482 | Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? |
40482 | What will_ you_ do it with? |
40482 | Why was there ever anything at all? |
40482 | Why? |
40482 | [ 4] Is one of these answers more true than the other? 40482 ''How long were you looking into the water?'' 40482 15:13.== For in hope were we saved: but hope that is seen is not hope: for who hopeth for that which he seeth? 40482 5:8);If_ God_ is for us, who is against us?" |
40482 | 63:9);"Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? |
40482 | = And what shall I more say? |
40482 | = But what think ye? |
40482 | = Canst thou bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion? |
40482 | = Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast it out? |
40482 | = Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the high God? |
40482 | ="My brothers, what is the use of anyone declaring he has faith, if he has no deeds to show? |
40482 | An outgrown custom of the early Church does not now seem so strange as it did a generation ago:= Is any among you suffering? |
40482 | And his sisters, are they not all with us? |
40482 | And if you say, Saved from Hell-- what is Hell but the final subjugation of the soul to such sins as you now are cherishing? |
40482 | And the religious man answers: What world is this I am to bow before? |
40482 | And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that even forgiveth sins? |
40482 | And when one turns to the supreme Character, could the dark background be eliminated and still leave Him? |
40482 | And when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? |
40482 | And when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? |
40482 | And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure of his life? |
40482 | And why are ye anxious concerning raiment? |
40482 | Are not ye of much more value than they? |
40482 | Are we asking for a perfectly happy world? |
40482 | Ask_ now_ the question, What makes it rain? |
40482 | Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat? |
40482 | Browning''s bishop asks his friend:"Like you this Christianity or not? |
40482 | But are we not also sure that it is wrong to lie and right to tell the truth? |
40482 | But in much of the universe we do see meaning; and how can intelligence find sense where intelligence has not put sense? |
40482 | But is Christian faith thus the child of man''s happy days? |
40482 | But is belief in God always such a blessing as we have pictured? |
40482 | But look at the innumerable schools of medicine-- shall one on their account decide that health is a fruitless study? |
40482 | But prove it by the methods of a laboratory? |
40482 | But so understanding the sea, shall the pool claim equality with it? |
40482 | But supposing that the facts of science were all of reality and the laws of science all of truth, what sort of prayer could Carlyle have offered? |
40482 | But who, considering our generation''s life as a whole, would call it diffident or desperate? |
40482 | But will you understand, you senseless fellow, that faith without deeds is dead? |
40482 | By what analogies? |
40482 | By what other element in their experience could they interpret the greatness of their Lord? |
40482 | Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? |
40482 | Can his faith save him? |
40482 | Can it be that this intelligible world, readable by mind, is itself essentially mindless? |
40482 | Can one who has seen a home be happy in a hovel? |
40482 | Can the same spring send forth sweet water and bitter? |
40482 | Canst Thou not visit us again?__ We hush our thoughts to silence, we school our spirits in sincerity, and here we wait. |
40482 | Canst thou establish the dominion thereof in the earth? |
40482 | Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? |
40482 | Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? |
40482 | Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? |
40482 | Canst thou send forth lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are? |
40482 | Consider the infinite variety of taste in food-- shall we say that therefore hunger and its satisfaction is a futile question to discuss? |
40482 | Couldst thou refrain the earth from quaking And rest thy heart on_ Me_?" |
40482 | Cries Jeremiah from the Old Testament,"Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God afar off? |
40482 | Deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?" |
40482 | Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? |
40482 | Do not I fill heaven and earth?" |
40482 | For now when we face our universe of magnificent distances and regal laws has religion really suffered? |
40482 | For what am I destined? |
40482 | For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? |
40482 | For who hath known the mind of the Lord? |
40482 | For who hath known the mind of the Lord? |
40482 | From the time when Gideon, in a mood like that of multitudes today, cried,"Oh, my Lord, if Jehovah is with us, why then is all this befallen us?" |
40482 | Get warm, get food,''without supplying their bodily needs, what use is that? |
40482 | Has a flat and stationary earth proved essential to Christianity, as Protestants and Catholics alike declared? |
40482 | Has it your vote to be so if it can?" |
40482 | Hast thou not known? |
40482 | He and his Hell were the nightmare of my childhood; I hated him while I still believed in him, and who could help but hate? |
40482 | He has come appealing to our little insight with his own clear vision,"Why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?" |
40482 | His God was compassionately concerned for Africa, spoke about black folk as Hosea heard him speak concerning Israel,"How can I give thee up? |
40482 | How am I to give thee up? |
40482 | How am I to let thee go, O Israel? |
40482 | How can I let thee go?" |
40482 | How did we come by this significant knowledge that the immoral system was dispensable? |
40482 | How reasonable and how assured shall they be? |
40482 | How shall a man be seriously in earnest about great causes in a world like that? |
40482 | How shall they try otherwise to describe the universe? |
40482 | How should they name this greatness in their Lord? |
40482 | How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? |
40482 | How then shall we turn back again and see with eyes that fear has filmed? |
40482 | How was the world made? |
40482 | I believe in all the Christian truths, says one; and the curious question rises, how did these beliefs of his come into his possession? |
40482 | If the Psalmist, in an exultant mood, sang,"Jehovah is my shepherd,"he also cried,"Jehovah, why casteth thou off my soul? |
40482 | If we turn to the prophets, we find Hosea, interpreting the beating of God''s heart:"How am I to give thee up, O Ephraim? |
40482 | If we_ affirm_ God, then_ evil_ is a mystery, for why, we ask, should love create a world with so much pain and sin? |
40482 | In what terms? |
40482 | Is any among you sick? |
40482 | Is any cheerful? |
40482 | Is anyone in a position to deride that? |
40482 | Is it not life at its sublimest elevation? |
40482 | Is it not the universe which my mind knows and whose laws my intellect has grasped? |
40482 | Is it not thou that didst cut Rahab in pieces, that didst pierce the monster? |
40482 | Is it not thou that driedst up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that madest the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over? |
40482 | Is man responsible for that? |
40482 | Is not its solacing power a deceptive sleight of hand, by which our pleasing fancies and desires are made to look like truth? |
40482 | Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment? |
40482 | Is not this always the right missionary method? |
40482 | Is not this the carpenter''s son? |
40482 | Is one perplexed that God, who is invisible, should be pictured in the similitude of human persons? |
40482 | Is the God of such a universe to be conceived in terms of a magnified man? |
40482 | Is there any doubt, then, what we most believe in when we are at our best? |
40482 | Is there not a thin veil laid over Thy Word, which is more rarified by reading, and at last wholly worn away? |
40482 | It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? |
40482 | It may be false, but will you wish it true? |
40482 | Jehovah is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid? |
40482 | Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? |
40482 | Met with derision by a doubter, as though his experience were no proof at all, how shall he proceed? |
40482 | Moses cries:"Lord, wherefore hast thou dealt ill with this people? |
40482 | Music once had stirred the depths, but now our spirits tally with the scoffer''s jest,"What are you crying about with your Wagner and your Brahms? |
40482 | O, what means this strange bewilderment, this never- ending war between our worse and better thoughts? |
40482 | One need only read such books of his as"Can the Old Faith Live with the New?" |
40482 | Or canst thou guide the Bear with her train? |
40482 | Or who hath given understanding to the mind? |
40482 | Out of what, then, did the Master make his apostles? |
40482 | Plenty of folk of elevated character and admirable lives grant, sometimes impatiently, that the Christian faith is beautiful-- but is it_ so_? |
40482 | Preachers delight to illustrate their thought of God with figures drawn from nature''s invisible energies--"Who has seen the wind? |
40482 | Said the other, seeing how little this negation solved the problem,"Well, what_ is_ it that ai n''t?" |
40482 | Saved from what? |
40482 | Saved from_ what_? |
40482 | Says Oliver Wendell Holmes,"Did you ever happen to see that most soft- spoken and velvet- handed steam- engine at the Mint? |
40482 | Shall the practical unserviceableness of such an idea for the purpose of life, awaken no suspicion as to its truth? |
40482 | Shall they quarrel because they do not all come alike? |
40482 | Stevenson sings in"the saddest and the bravest song he ever wrote":"God, if this were faith?... |
40482 | Such folk want to believe in God, but-- can they? |
40482 | The curious"Why?" |
40482 | The further our thought proceeds the more clear it becomes that the question is not, shall we have churches? |
40482 | The question is rather-- By what faiths shall we live? |
40482 | Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, and fed thee? |
40482 | There man enquires,"Canst thou by searching find out God? |
40482 | They may not dare to say what James Thomson did, but they think it--"Who is most wretched in this dolorous place? |
40482 | They might easily steady their hearts to endure and overcome, were only one question''s answer clear-- is there any_ sense_ in life''s suffering? |
40482 | They said therefore unto him, What must we do, that we may work the works of God? |
40482 | They stand rather like unconverted Gideon, facing backwards and lamenting,"Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of?" |
40482 | Third Week, Sixth Day= For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not men? |
40482 | Thou art turned to be cruel to me; With the might of thy hand thou persecutest me....== Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? |
40482 | To many such, were candor courteous, one would wish to say: Saved? |
40482 | To one in perplexity about belief, this proper question therefore rises: What do we think about the Christlike character? |
40482 | Was not my soul grieved for the needy? |
40482 | Was such clemency an occasion for lax character? |
40482 | Was this Thyself, and have we turned from Thee? |
40482 | What could such a mind understand of modern science''s faith in the universal regularity of law? |
40482 | What is a pebble? |
40482 | What is a sunset? |
40482 | What range and depth and quality shall they have? |
40482 | What recourse is there in such a case? |
40482 | What then is Apollos? |
40482 | What unto me is the multitude of your sacrifices? |
40482 | What wonder that inexpressible devotion has been felt for him by all his people? |
40482 | What wonder that the physicist acknowledged to a friend that the retort nettled him, for he did not see just how to answer it? |
40482 | Whatever, therefore, affects_ that_ is his concern, and what is there that does not affect it? |
40482 | When has man ever found solid knowledge in this most important realm of human possibilities, without faith as the pioneer? |
40482 | When our father Abraham offered his son Isaac on the altar, was he not justified by what he did?" |
40482 | When we pray we say"Our Father"; when we seek our duty we ask,"What wilt thou have me to do?" |
40482 | When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample my courts? |
40482 | Whence then hath this man all these things? |
40482 | Where does the restlessness in nature have its source? |
40482 | Where, then, have the men of faith found the immovable center of their confidence? |
40482 | Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? |
40482 | Whether is all- God or occasional God the nobler theory?" |
40482 | Which of the two did the will of his father? |
40482 | Who can avoid seeing the patent contrast between the Father of Jesus and the Creator of such a world? |
40482 | Who can number the clouds by wisdom? |
40482 | Who does not sometimes fall into the Slough of Despond? |
40482 | Who has seen the wind? |
40482 | Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? |
40482 | Whom have I in heaven but thee? |
40482 | Why hidest thou thy face from me?" |
40482 | Why now, and no sooner, did I see it? |
40482 | Why, therefore, should we wonder that his disciples at their best have called Jesus divine? |
40482 | Wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?" |
40482 | With what accuracy his fingers travel the keys, who can tell? |
40482 | Would not the sixteenth chapter of Romans have a similar effect on those who read it? |
40482 | You believe in one God? |
40482 | _ Are we to trust for our guidance the testimony of our worse or better hours?_ We have low moods; so, too, we have cellars in our houses. |
40482 | _ But it does mean that to him reality must be fundamentally spiritual, not physical._ What other hypothesis possibly can fit the facts? |
40482 | _ Is yours the only heart where God is to be found? |
40482 | _ O Thou who art of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, canst Thou bear to look on us conscious of our great transgression? |
40482 | and his brethren, James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas? |
40482 | and how shall they believe in him whom they have not heard? |
40482 | and how shall they hear without a preacher? |
40482 | and how shall they preach, except they be sent? |
40482 | and what is Paul? |
40482 | and where is the fury of the oppressor? |
40482 | and wherein have I wearied thee? |
40482 | and your labor for that which satisfieth not? |
40482 | but if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?" |
40482 | but rather, since churches are inevitable, of what sort shall they be? |
40482 | hast thou not heard? |
40482 | is not his mother called Mary? |
40482 | or athirst, and gave thee drink? |
40482 | or naked, and clothed thee? |
40482 | or who hath been his counsellor? |
40482 | or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? |
40482 | or, What shall we drink? |
40482 | or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? |
40482 | shall I come before him with burnt- offerings, with calves a year old? |
40482 | when will the church to which I belong in heart rise into being? |
40482 | will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? |
23241 | Do ye not remember the miracle of the loaves? |
23241 | Do ye not remember the miracle of the loaves? |
23241 | Gethsemane can I forget? |
23241 | Has He been seen of thee also? |
23241 | He has promised, and shall He not do it? |
23241 | He may not need us; but does He want us? |
23241 | How many loaves have ye? |
23241 | I will make thee,saith the Lord,"and shall He not do it?" |
23241 | If God be for us, who can be against us? |
23241 | Know ye not that ye are the body? |
23241 | Know ye not that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit? |
23241 | Lord, how oft shall I forgive? 23241 Lovest thou Me?" |
23241 | O death, where is thy sting? 23241 Said I not unto thee that, if thou wouldst believe, thou shouldst see the glory of God?" |
23241 | Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell it thee of Me? |
23241 | The Lord is on my side, whom shall I fear? |
23241 | The Lord is on my side, whom shall I fear? |
23241 | The bruised reed--is it the impaired musical reed, that can not now emit a musical sound, and can only be thrown away? |
23241 | Untowhat? |
23241 | Where''s thy victory, O grave? |
23241 | Who is he that overcometh... but he that believeth? |
23241 | Who is made to stumble, and I burn not? |
23241 | Why art thou cast down, O my soul? |
23241 | _ And He made a scourge of cords._And is this"the Lamb of God"? |
23241 | _ And the life was the light of men._And what did He not light up? |
23241 | _ And when He rose up from His prayer_--what then? |
23241 | _ Are ye able to drink of the cup that I drink of?_They wanted to be the King''s cup- bearers; He offers them to drink of His cup. |
23241 | _ Art thou willing_ to be made whole? |
23241 | _ I dwell with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit._And who are the contrite? |
23241 | _ My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?_In that agonizing cry I am led to the real heart of the atonement. |
23241 | _ My sheep wandered... and none did seek after them._How can we seek them if we have never missed them, if we have no sense that they are lost? |
23241 | _ Wilt Thou not revive us again?_It is the next step in the returning spring. |
23241 | _ Your old men shall dream dreams._And what shall they dream about? |
23241 | 31- 39. Who can get between the love of Christ and me? |
23241 | 31- 39. Who else is worth naming? |
23241 | A day is of immeasurable preciousness, for what high accomplishment may it not witness? |
23241 | AUGUST The Ninth_ GOD''S REQUIREMENTS_"_ What doth the Lord require of thee?_"--MICAH vi. |
23241 | AUGUST The Twenty- fifth_ IMPOTENT ENEMIES_"_ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?_"--ROMANS viii. |
23241 | AUGUST The Twenty- seventh_ WHAT ABOUT TO- MORROW?_ JOSHUA xxiv. |
23241 | Am I an evil leaven, like the Pharisees, or a holy leaven like the Lord? |
23241 | Am I moving toward the time when nothing shall be particularly hallowed because all will be sanctified? |
23241 | Am I rich in these things or pathetically poor? |
23241 | Am I the nutriment of vice or the sustenance of virtue? |
23241 | Am I thus concerned only with a small section of Jerusalem, or does my intercession sweep the entire city? |
23241 | And did He shut Himself up with the Father? |
23241 | And do I remember her perils, especially those parts of her walls where the defences are very thin, and can be easily broken through? |
23241 | And do I sufficiently remember my own providences,"_ all the way my God has led me_"? |
23241 | And do I sufficiently remember that I, too, am making history for my fellows who shall succeed me? |
23241 | And doth my Lord call me one of His brethren? |
23241 | And how about places? |
23241 | And how can I attain unto this spiritual delight? |
23241 | And how do we recover our lost estate? |
23241 | And how does the Lord comfort us? |
23241 | And how is it with me? |
23241 | And how must he take heed? |
23241 | And how shall we expect the sentence to finish? |
23241 | And how will He guide us? |
23241 | And in what shall their blessedness consist? |
23241 | And is it not well, for thee and me, that our Lord is thus fiercely hostile to our sins? |
23241 | And is the_ entire_ Jerusalem the subject of my supplication? |
23241 | And what does it sing about? |
23241 | And what if that Companion be God? |
23241 | And what is this? |
23241 | And what is to be the spirit of the surgeon? |
23241 | And what shall I think of men who are contented to"search the Scriptures"and"will not come"to the Lord? |
23241 | And what sort of meat is this? |
23241 | And what then? |
23241 | And what then? |
23241 | And what when sorrow or persecution comes? |
23241 | And what will He say to the externalist? |
23241 | And when the red stain has soaked into the very texture of the character, and every fibre is stupefied, what can we do then? |
23241 | And where is he to get it? |
23241 | And who is to be the surgeon? |
23241 | And yet what is the quality of our faith? |
23241 | And"if God is for us, who can be against us?" |
23241 | And( shall I reverently say it?) |
23241 | And, therefore, everyone may apply a clinical test to his own life:"What is the character of my speech? |
23241 | Are my ecclesiastical sympathies large enough to include"outsiders"from afar? |
23241 | Are my foes able to maim my spirit as well as my body? |
23241 | Are my intercessions private enclosures, intended only for the select among my friends? |
23241 | Are the six days of the week becoming increasingly like the seventh, until people can see no difference between my Monday manners and my Sunday mood? |
23241 | Are they spoken in faith? |
23241 | Art thou afraid to"lift high His royal banner"? |
23241 | Before all the doubts and hesitancies of man enable me to answer,"Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord?" |
23241 | But can I share his witness,"_ I know that my Redeemer liveth_"? |
23241 | But how are we to love the Lord? |
23241 | But how can we become"children of light,"holy homes of protective and saving radiance? |
23241 | But is it not a strange thing that men can be"at ease in Zion"? |
23241 | But is this God''s way of dealing with His people? |
23241 | But what is a man to do who has got a perverted palate, and who calls sweet things bitter and bitter things sweet? |
23241 | But where shall we get the love wherewith to make our enemy lovely? |
23241 | But why"_ follow_"me? |
23241 | Can He afford to lose a soul? |
23241 | Can He communicate with the world through me? |
23241 | Can I be trusted? |
23241 | Can I confidently give thanks before I receive the gifts of God, before the dish- covers are removed? |
23241 | Can I trust Him? |
23241 | Can I, too, calmly and confidently claim the experience? |
23241 | Can we think of a more beautiful figure than this--"_children of light_"? |
23241 | Could He not have rent the heavens and sent His ministers of calamity and disasters? |
23241 | Could He not have sent fire from heaven? |
23241 | Could any two things be in greater contrast than a worm and an instrument with teeth? |
23241 | Could anything be more tenderly gracious than this figure of hiding under the shadow of God''s wings? |
23241 | Could there be a sweeter chime than the opening music of this psalm? |
23241 | DECEMBER The Fifteenth_ WHAT IS MY TENDENCY?_"_ Whether we live, we live unto_...."--ROMANS xiv. |
23241 | Did He use it that He might reveal its ugliness, and so banish it from human speech? |
23241 | Did I need them? |
23241 | Did I want them?... |
23241 | Did they want to make Him a King? |
23241 | Did you need it?... |
23241 | Did you want it?" |
23241 | Do I carry her on my heart? |
23241 | Do I do it before I begin to live the day? |
23241 | Do I ever open the door to anyone outside my family circle? |
23241 | Do I exercise a sensitive and sanctified imagination, and enter somewhat into the pangs of their cravings? |
23241 | Do I praise God for her heritage, and for her endowment of spiritual glory? |
23241 | Do I reverently listen to the"great voice behind me"? |
23241 | Do I share the compassion of the Lord? |
23241 | Do I sufficiently remember the witness of history? |
23241 | Do I"learn wisdom"from experience? |
23241 | Do my sympathies remain confined within my cedar walls, or do they go out to God''s neglected ones in every land and clime? |
23241 | Do they comprehend my brother''s good as well as my own? |
23241 | Do they go forth in great expectancy? |
23241 | Do they just contain our own families, or is China in them, and India, and"the uttermost parts of the earth"? |
23241 | Do they win their end by making me a smaller man? |
23241 | Does it range over mighty spaces seeking benedictions for a multitude? |
23241 | Does my discipleship multiply His powers of expression? |
23241 | Does my discipleship offer my Lord a limb? |
23241 | Does that seem a weak ending to a powerful beginning? |
23241 | For how else can we cast out evil? |
23241 | For is there any murderer so destructive as carnality? |
23241 | For what is the kingdom? |
23241 | For what song can there be where there is languor and fainting? |
23241 | Grim and full of warning, like the pillar of salt, or winsome and full of heartiness, like some"sweet Ebenezer"built by life''s way? |
23241 | H. P. FAUNCE, D.D._ What Does Christianity Mean? |
23241 | Has He more eyes, more ears, more hands because I am a member of His Church? |
23241 | Has he any place at all? |
23241 | Has that great word been spoken concerning me in the Father''s home of light? |
23241 | Have I a calm assurance that my ruler is not caprice, and that my comings and goings are not determined by unfeeling chance? |
23241 | Have I never preferred him, and sent my Lord to be"crucified afresh,"and"put Him to an open shame"? |
23241 | Have I not sometimes heard the phrase--"He''s just a lump of pride"? |
23241 | Have we been so busy with our preparations, so concerned with many things, and everybody, that we have forgotten our greatest possible Ally? |
23241 | Here is a sentence which describes the anger of the Apostle Paul:"Who is made to stumble and I burn not?" |
23241 | How big are they? |
23241 | How can the Lord sit down at such a table, or make One at such a fireside? |
23241 | How can they when the apportionment is so perverse, when everything is topsy- turvy? |
23241 | How can we deal with glaring sin, with sin that is"scarlet,"that is"red like crimson"? |
23241 | How can we gain this disposition of love? |
23241 | How could it be otherwise? |
23241 | How do I regard them? |
23241 | How do they lose it? |
23241 | How do we complete the sentence? |
23241 | How does it fit me for ordinary affairs? |
23241 | How does my life trend when it touches my brother? |
23241 | How has it all come about? |
23241 | How is he influenced by my example? |
23241 | How is it with our love? |
23241 | How is it with our prayers? |
23241 | How much bird- music is heard in the chambers of my heart? |
23241 | How much does anybody count? |
23241 | How much grace can our unbelief withstand? |
23241 | How much is it ready to spend? |
23241 | How much pure laughter rings in my life? |
23241 | How much will it bleed? |
23241 | How shall we touch this lovely psalm and not bruise it? |
23241 | How we impoverish ourselves by separating these precious gifts from their Giver? |
23241 | How will He do it? |
23241 | How will He let me know which path to take? |
23241 | How, then, shall we live to- day in prospect of the eternal morrow? |
23241 | How? |
23241 | I am a Congregationalist; do I remember the Anglican? |
23241 | I am an Anglican; do I remember the Quaker? |
23241 | I dwell in England, but what about the folk on the Congo? |
23241 | I dwell in a land of ample religious freedom, but what about Armenia? |
23241 | I lay the coping- stone, but who turned the first sod? |
23241 | I lead the water into new ministries, but who first dug the well? |
23241 | I said to the good man who lived in it,"Can you see the castle?" |
23241 | I wonder if I have the manner of a king''s son? |
23241 | I wonder if there is anything in my very"walk"which indicates distinguished lineage and royal blood? |
23241 | I wonder if this word"dogs"was my Saviour''s word, or had He picked it up from the disciples that He might cast it away again for ever? |
23241 | I yearn for"the flesh- pots,""He sends me manna,""Was there ever kindest shepherd half so gentle, half so sweet?" |
23241 | If one golden promise had turned out to be counterfeit, how then? |
23241 | If the sun be on my side, why should I be dismayed at any icy obstacle that may rear itself in my way? |
23241 | If two men are at the wheel with opposing notions of direction and destiny, how will it fare with the boat? |
23241 | In the morning do I thank my God for what I am about to receive? |
23241 | In what direction are we living? |
23241 | In what way does he move because of the impact of my example? |
23241 | Is God on the field, taking sides with us? |
23241 | Is He therefore looking for thee and me? |
23241 | Is He therefore looking for thee or me? |
23241 | Is He therefore seeking thee or me? |
23241 | Is it a thing of the tent or of the sky? |
23241 | Is it all to me as though it had never been, or is it part of the store of counsel by which I shape and guide my life? |
23241 | Is it hallowed with thy Lord''s approval and seal? |
23241 | Is it incited by our own wrongs or by the wrongs of another? |
23241 | Is it set on fire by self- indulgence or by a noble sympathy? |
23241 | Is mine? |
23241 | Is not this"consuming fire"the friend of my soul? |
23241 | Is the note of praise to be found in the streets of my soul? |
23241 | Is there any reasonable ground for assuming that they can accomplish anything? |
23241 | Is there not therefore something half- ironical in our Saviour''s use of the word? |
23241 | Is this my way? |
23241 | Is thy place empty? |
23241 | JULY The Eighth_ WHAT MANNER OF MAN?_ MATTHEW xi. |
23241 | JUNE The Fifteenth_ THE KING''S GUESTS_"_ Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord?_"--PSALM xxiv. |
23241 | MAY The Fifteenth_ GOD IS WIDE- AWAKE_"_ Jeremiah, what seest thou? |
23241 | May I not do this for my Lord? |
23241 | May I not make a place for Him in all my affairs-- my choices, my pleasures, my times of business, my season of rest? |
23241 | May we reverently wonder if it was a season of temptation? |
23241 | My soul, art thou secretly ashamed of thy Lord? |
23241 | O grave, where is thy victory?" |
23241 | On what quiet farm is the coming deliverer now labouring? |
23241 | Or am I altogether depending upon another man''s sight, and are my own eyes unillumined? |
23241 | Or am I in the pay of the evil one? |
23241 | Or am I like a vagrant who has no possessions and no heartening expectations? |
23241 | Or am I magnanimous even on the cross? |
23241 | Or are my prayers weighted with sincere desire? |
23241 | Or do I only think of a corner of it, just that part where my own little synagogue is placed? |
23241 | Or do they become relaxed and demoralized? |
23241 | Or does it dwell in selfish seclusion, imprisoned in merely selfish quest? |
23241 | Or----? |
23241 | Possibly"Vision of Sin"was meant? |
23241 | SEPTEMBER The Tenth_ CRITICISM AND PIETY_"_ Thinkest thou, that judgest them that do such things, that thou shalt escape?_"--ROMANS ii. |
23241 | Shall I find it a castle of gloom, or is there another gate through which I shall emerge into the fair, sweet paradise of God? |
23241 | Shall I travel north or south? |
23241 | Shall we know Him? |
23241 | Shall we say that in that palm there was something akin to the pierced hands of the Lord? |
23241 | Supposing one word had failed, how then? |
23241 | That they can play the beast in the holy place? |
23241 | Then why do so many spiritual cripples leave the synagogue cripples still? |
23241 | There is rottenness in its foundations, and there is built into it"wood, and hay, and stubble,"How can it stand? |
23241 | These hands of mine, the symbols of conduct, the expression of the outer life, what are they like? |
23241 | Till seven times?" |
23241 | To the swamps of transgression or to the fields of holiness? |
23241 | Towards liberty or towards license? |
23241 | Unto what? |
23241 | Was our human Lord assailed by"the destruction that wasteth at noonday"? |
23241 | What about peace and joy, and hallowed and blessed carelessness? |
23241 | What am I doing in the kingdom? |
23241 | What are my prayers like? |
23241 | What are my treasures of contentment? |
23241 | What brave music can be born in an organ which is short of breath? |
23241 | What can a branch do apart from the vine? |
23241 | What do I do with"the stranger"? |
23241 | What do my words indicate? |
23241 | What do they suggest as to the depths and background of the soul?" |
23241 | What has He done for thee and me? |
23241 | What if I see"no pastures green"? |
23241 | What if the Transfiguration was the type of the purposed consummation of every life? |
23241 | What if the two are one? |
23241 | What if they are only two names for the same thing? |
23241 | What is He doing? |
23241 | What is left in the circle of obedience? |
23241 | What is my stock of godliness? |
23241 | What is the quality of our anger? |
23241 | What is the size of my sanctuary? |
23241 | What kind of a witness will it be? |
23241 | What kind of forgiveness is this? |
23241 | What kindles it? |
23241 | What matter? |
23241 | What part of us will remain alive, singing or jarring in men''s remembrance? |
23241 | What shall I say when death comes, to me or to my loved one? |
23241 | What shall be the issue of so vast a consciousness? |
23241 | What shall he find in the ways of obedience? |
23241 | What shall it be? |
23241 | What shall we do to escape this great disaster? |
23241 | What sharp dividing minister can cleave the two in twain, and leave me like a dismembered and dying branch? |
23241 | What then? |
23241 | What then? |
23241 | What will men hear when they turn their thoughts toward us? |
23241 | What will the Lord do with my sin, if in true humility I come into His Presence? |
23241 | What, then, am I called to do? |
23241 | What, then, can we do? |
23241 | What, then, shall we do in the days of our prosperity, when all our trees are in full leaf? |
23241 | When He spake of the woman as a"dog,"and of the disciples as"the children,"would there not be something significant in His very looks and tones? |
23241 | When a day is over, do I carry its helpful lamp into the morrow? |
23241 | When death knocked at my door, did I know that the King had sent him? |
23241 | When little children feed on my presence do they grow in strength and beauty? |
23241 | When new circumstances confronted him, his first question was this--"Where is Christ in all this?" |
23241 | When some cherished scheme toppled into ruin, had I any thought that the Lord''s hand was concerned in the shaking? |
23241 | Where are the morally and spiritually anà ¦ mic? |
23241 | Where has the truth its waving flag? |
23241 | Where''s the piccolo?" |
23241 | Which of the causes provides a tent for the Lord of Hosts? |
23241 | Which of the two opposites shall I love-- God or the world? |
23241 | Whither are we going? |
23241 | Who can lead us into the bright realm where smiles are born? |
23241 | Who can trace the real springs of a tear and lay his hand on the emotion that gave it birth? |
23241 | Who cares for food if presented by unclean hands? |
23241 | Who has a cup of bitterness to drink? |
23241 | Who knoweth the way of a frown, or who can uncover the secrets of fear? |
23241 | Who knows? |
23241 | Who shall be permitted to pass into the sanctuary of the cloud, and have communion with the Lord in the holy place? |
23241 | Who will build his house at the foot of Mount Sinai? |
23241 | Who will feed upon me to- day, and what will be the end of it? |
23241 | Who would have expected that Goliath''s antagonist would emerge from the quiet pastures? |
23241 | Who would have had sufficient daring of imagination to conceive that God Almighty would have appeared among men as a little child? |
23241 | Why choose a man when the arch- angel Gabriel stands ready at obedience? |
23241 | Why did He weep? |
23241 | Why not"go before"? |
23241 | Why seek for palms in arctic regions, or for icebergs in the tropics? |
23241 | Why should I fear? |
23241 | Why should I fume and fret and worry as to what the sealed envelope contains? |
23241 | Why, then, not seek it in the right place? |
23241 | Will a tent contain them, or do they move with the scope and greatness of the heavens? |
23241 | With what voice shall we speak when we are dead? |
23241 | Yes, but how can I keep them? |
23241 | Yes, but over what area shall I look for them? |
23241 | Yes, has my Church any place in my prayer, or am I robbing her of part of her intended possessions? |
23241 | Yes, indeed, what space has"the stranger"in my supplications? |
23241 | _ If I were God, could I listen to them?_ Are they mere pretences at prayer, full of nothing but sound? |
23241 | _ If I were God, could I listen to them?_ Are they mere pretences at prayer, full of nothing but sound? |