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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48349 | Should the King command not to fear the Lord, it is better to endure all that he can inflict, than to do what he commands? |
48349 | TO call any one King, and at the same time to rebel against his authority, what is this but to mock him with an empty title? |
36332 | But where shall we find words to express the depth of our affliction? |
36332 | Where shall we find language to depict the character of the dear departed-- or to administer comfort and support to the beloved survivors? |
25900 | ***** FOOTNOTES:[ A]"Will chloroform make the operation less beneficial?" |
25900 | How, but as a man of principle, shall he stand for- ever in our memory and in the human mind? |
25900 | What is the reason of the wide consequence of this event? |
25900 | Who shall say such as Agassiz and Sumner are dead? |
25900 | _ Cold_ was he indeed? |
36694 | How has Heaven declar''d that he is resolv''d not to bless this immoderate Generation? |
36694 | If any man ask me why these men shou''d not perfect the Nation Peace as well as other men? |
36694 | The Grand dispute in this Quarrelsome Age, is against our Brethren who Dissent from the Church; and from what principle do we act? |
36694 | Where''s all our prospect of success Abroad, or prosperity at home? |
36694 | _ S----_ was kill''d by the like Accident, and he must be singl''d out for Extortion; But think ye that he was a Sinner above all the_ Gallileans_? |
36351 | ***** Had our deceased friend the weakness-- the comparatively pardonable weakness of vanity? |
36351 | ***** What might be expected of such a one as parishioner? |
36351 | ***** What might be expected of such a one as pastor''s wife? |
36351 | Had the characteristic infirmity of old age come upon her,--a fondness for recounting earlier or more recent labors and successes? |
36351 | Have you ever known one who walked more nearly in the steps of our Lord and Saviour, one who did less to please self? |
36351 | What now might be expected of one, with such a character and such antecedents, on becoming our city missionary? |
36351 | While interested in providing employment for each scholar during the session, her chief thought seemed to be,"How can I benefit these immortal souls?" |
36351 | Who ever suspected her of vainglory? |
36351 | Who will say that she was not accustomed to give all glory and praise to God? |
20446 | Are we a nation of foreign drunkards? |
20446 | I ask myself, Who drinks this rum? |
20446 | Native Americans? |
20446 | Now the question, and a serious one, is, Who are those that come? |
20446 | Recognized how far? |
20446 | What are the two great declarations of which England is proud? |
20446 | What is the term now? |
20446 | What is there in this charmed circle, in this favored zone, that brings national power? |
17273 | Doest thou come to heare the sermon? |
17273 | For if he must be praised in all his creatures, how much more in his new creatures? |
17273 | If these be Saints, I pray you who are Scythians? |
17273 | If these bee Catholikes, who are Canibals? |
17273 | _ as in original: short for_"intellege"? |
17939 | And after all, what courage would it take, save that long since displayed by our fathers in this church? |
17939 | And where did this logic hold me, if not to the church? |
17939 | But if this is the case, why should we retain the form? |
17939 | Is it not time, now, that we left this"outgrown shell,"and became at last the full and free community institution of which I speak? |
17939 | To this announcement of my decision in this case, may I make, in closing, some two or three supplementary remarks? |
17939 | Was I wrong when I ventured the assertion at the meeting of our Society, that in this church we have already moved far in this direction? |
17939 | Where could I make plain my spiritual position, or bring to bear my spiritual influence, apart from the church? |
17939 | Why not stay, therefore, in the church, as Theodore Parker stayed, and fight capitalism, as he fought slavery, in the garb of a minister of Christ? |
17939 | Why should I turn elsewhere for the fulfillment of hopes which may be as surely if not as swiftly realized here? |
48370 | And was not this exactly the Case of our_ Royal Sufferer_? |
48370 | But did they enjoy that_ Liberty_ any otherwise than in Name? |
48370 | Did the_ Authors_ of those Troubles find their Account in''em? |
48370 | Was not the nefarious Business in Agitation dignified with the specious Title of_ the Lord''s Work_? |
48370 | Was the Course of the_ Law_ more free and undisturb''d, or_ Justice_ more equitably and impartially Administer''d? |
48370 | Was the Freedom of_ Parliament_, and Right of_ Elections_ more inviolably kept? |
48370 | Was there a greater_ Liberty of Conscience_, when the prevailing Sect for the Time Condemn''d the_ Toleration_ of the rest as_ Anti- christian_? |
48370 | Was there not a Day of_ Humiliation_ appointed? |
48370 | Were there fewer_ Executions_,_ Fines_ and_ Imprisonments_? |
48370 | Were they able at last quietly to Establish their own Way of Worship, and had they not many contending Rivals? |
48370 | Were they less under the Terror of an_ armed Force_? |
10517 | We come now to the question,_ What constitutes rebellion against good government_? |
10517 | What is mine as a citizen, a Christian, a minister of God-- as a man? |
10517 | What is our duty? |
10517 | What is yours? |
10517 | What then, we ask,_ is the duty of all citizens when good government is assailed by rebellion_? |
10517 | Where is our government? |
10517 | _ What constitutes rebellion against such government?_ III. |
10517 | _ What is a good government_? |
10517 | _ What is good government?_ II. |
10517 | _ What is the duty of each citizen when rebellion exists?_ I. |
26035 | [ 11] Where is it not always the true, even if not the prevalent type of religion, to be good and pure, and to approve the things that are excellent? 26035 Am I less a sinner, or less weary with the burden of my own weakness and folly? 26035 Are the latter worse or better Christians on this account? 26035 But are our spiritual wants to wait the solution of such questions? 26035 In what way and by what means does divine grace operate? 26035 Is Christ less a Saviour? 26035 Is there less strength and peace in Him whatever be the answer given to such questions? 26035 What is the Church? 26035 What is the divine nature? 26035 What is the soul? 26035 What is the true meaning of Scripture, and the character of its inspiration and authority? 26035 Whence has man sprung, and what is the character of the future before him? 26035 Who will undertake to settle which is the truer Christian? 27316 Are not even ye, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, at his coming? |
27316 | BUT HOW IS HE GOING TO COME? |
27316 | But some will say:"Do you then make the grace of God a failure?" |
27316 | How did he go up? |
27316 | I will send an angel after you? |
27316 | If I go away I will send death after you to bring you to me? |
27316 | Jesus said unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? |
27316 | LOST OR SAVED? |
27316 | Now let the question go round,"Am I ready to meet the Lord if he comes to- night?" |
27316 | Peter asks the question about John:"Lord what shall this man do? |
27316 | Take 2 Peter 3:4,5:"There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, where is the promise of his coming? |
27316 | Then in 1 Thessalonians, 2:19, he says:"For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? |
27316 | They do not want sinners to cry out in their meeting,"What must I do to be saved?" |
27316 | Were the early Christians disappointed then? |
27316 | What does Christ say to them? |
27316 | Where do you get it? |
27649 | Why? |
27649 | You are n''t going to leave me, Mammy? |
27649 | Having settled and agreed on that fact, how are we to effect that separation so as to do justice to the negro? |
27649 | How did this change affect his religious position? |
27649 | In our own Diocese of East Carolina, the negroes are formally and legally on the same basis as the whites; but is that satisfactory? |
27649 | Of what race should be the Bishop of this negro Missionary Jurisdiction? |
27649 | What are we doing now? |
27649 | What is to become of the negro for the next fifty years? |
27649 | What more shall we do? |
27649 | What of the religious affiliations of the negroes? |
27649 | What ought we to do to meet these conditions? |
27649 | What was the religious condition and teaching of the negroes before the Civil War? |
27649 | Why? |
25894 | And then how many fingers are busily at work in all classes, rich and poor alike, to provide for the comfort of those who go? |
25894 | Are you afraid that your sons and brothers will be cowards merely because they are not duelists? |
25894 | But is it so? |
25894 | But is it well, or right, or tolerable, in times like these, to look round for side motives, when the motive avowed is reasonable and probable? |
25894 | But will our men_ fight_? |
25894 | Did Cromwell''s soldiers flee before the cavaliers because they were sober and God- fearing men? |
25894 | When has religion interested men the most, and the most generally? |
25894 | Who will say that the happiest moments of his existence have not been those in which he was conscious of living for others, and not for himself? |
25894 | because prayers were made at their departure? |
25894 | because they have never been engaged in a street- fight? |
25894 | or because they have carried their bibles with them? |
31670 | And is there any one fact, which the progress of events is now making, more manifest than the oneness of all mankind? |
31670 | But though we will not meddle with public affairs, who shall answer for it that public affairs will not meddle with us? |
31670 | How can it be otherwise? |
31670 | Who can help having his attention arrested and engrossed? |
31670 | Who shall define the circle and the sphere of the private individual? |
31670 | Who would not rather suffer with the Right than prosper with the Wrong? |
31670 | what heart, hitherto cold, will not consecrate itself to the work of its abolition? |
31670 | what if I am political? |
31670 | what if every pulpit in the land should be ringing in these days with political events? |
13824 | And are you diligently preparing for that day? |
13824 | And is not this treating the Gospel as_ foolishness_? |
13824 | And with what scornful hatred are those churches avoided by many, where nothing is heard but_ Jesus Christ and him crucified_? |
13824 | Are any of you conscious of disgust and aversion, produced by such doctrines? |
13824 | Are you escaping for your life? |
13824 | Are you working out your salvation with fear and trembling? |
13824 | Are you_ agonizing_ to enter in at the strait gate? |
13824 | Do any of you habitually hear the preaching of the cross with heartless indifference-- with a light and trifling temper? |
13824 | Do not_ they_ esteem them_ foolishness_? |
13824 | How chilling is the effect, when such discourse is attempted, in many circles of refinement and elegance? |
13824 | In such circumstances, what are worldly honours, or wealth, or all your hopes of enjoyment here? |
13824 | What connexion will it have with our future and eternal condition? |
13824 | What objects is it designed to accomplish? |
13824 | When, if not at that deeply interesting crisis, will all things be ready for the great trial? |
13824 | _ When will the universal Judgment take place?_ The precise time, God has wisely concealed from every intelligent creature. |
13824 | where is it? |
18329 | And all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? |
18329 | And shall these varied powers of resistance and aggression be circumscribed by the walls of individual churches? |
18329 | And where is the strength of our Republic, if not in our cities and large towns? |
18329 | And wherefore so heavy a curse, unless the power of their example was great? |
18329 | But what is that to the present and eternal elevation of these thousand minds? |
18329 | But where are these insuperable difficulties to be found? |
18329 | Do you ask more particularly, how this shall be done? |
18329 | Indeed, what is the book of the Acts, but one continued history of revivals in cities and populous places? |
18329 | Is not this elevation worth more than all the necessary expense, even leaving out of the account all the eternal results? |
18329 | Shall not new temples be opened for their reception? |
18329 | Shall not the tide of dissipation, and crime, that would overflow and mar every thing sacred, be met and turned back? |
18329 | Shall they not rather be combined for raising a higher and higher tone of moral feeling, and Christian enterprise? |
18329 | Shall they not send a strong, concentrated light into every dark retreat of wickedness? |
18329 | Should we not then exult in the privilege of lifting all the degraded portions of our city, and of our land, into intellectual and moral grandeur? |
18329 | What field then offers so rich and large an harvest to faithful labour? |
18329 | What object of ambition could there be, equal to that of thus creating an empire of righteousness-- a world of intellect? |
18329 | What was Babylon? |
18329 | What was Jerusalem in its latter days, when given up accursed of God? |
18329 | What were Sodom and Gomorrah? |
18329 | What were Tyre, and Sidon, and Ninevah? |
18329 | What were they, but sinks of pollution and fountains of ruin? |
18329 | Where the strength of Greece, if not in Athens, the mother of arts and refinement? |
18329 | Where was the strength of Italy, if not in Rome, once mistress of the world? |
18329 | Wherefore should so much stress be laid upon cities, unless it was peculiarly important that they should be converted? |
18329 | Why then should Christians leave to Satan the quiet dominion of cities? |
18329 | Would you see the power of Satan in cities? |
18329 | and shall not"God, even our God, be a wall of fire round about them, and a glory in the midst of them?" |
4052 | And is not this threatening, at least in part, already put into execution? |
4052 | And what has been the event? |
4052 | And why is it that others who see all those things, do not take warning by them, to prepare for their own latter end? |
4052 | And will you still persevere in the road of misery? |
4052 | And, When will the sabbath be ended? |
4052 | But how can you reconcile these prohibitions to your conduct; or your consciences? |
4052 | But to whom? |
4052 | Can it be a question with you, whether the God who made heaven and earth, or Satan, the god of this world, is the best master? |
4052 | For should they be found so at last, what will become of you, if you live and die impenitent? |
4052 | For who amongst us can dwell with everlasting burnings? |
4052 | From whence proceed the infidelity, blasphemy, lying, theft, sabbath- breaking, slandering and the many horrid evils, which every where abound? |
4052 | Have not many of you, for the sake, perhaps, of a few shillings, unjustly obtained, plunged yourselves into misery for the remainder of your lives? |
4052 | Hence the thought of many is, What a weariness is it? |
4052 | Is not this the language of your hearts? |
4052 | Is this acting like rational or accountable creatures? |
4052 | My brethren, what shall I say? |
4052 | Now what must be the end of these courses? |
4052 | Shall not I visit for these things, saith the Lord? |
4052 | Such are all his posterity: for who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? |
4052 | The great point is, how we shall die? |
4052 | Thus it is said, God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son For what purpose? |
4052 | Was it not God? |
4052 | What would a stranger think, who regards the sabbath, if he visited every part of this colony on the Lord''s day? |
4052 | Whence is it that so many in this colony, labour under such sore and complicated disorders, pains, and miseries? |
4052 | Whence is there so much ignorance and contempt of God? |
4052 | Who gave you the powers of reason and speech? |
4052 | Why are so many, both young and old, taken away by death? |
4052 | Why do mankind so eagerly, so universally pursue the vain pleasures and follies of the world, while they seldom think of God their Maker? |
4052 | Will you not pray to be delivered from it? |
4052 | Will you still prefer the chains of your own depraved inclinations, to the service of God, which is perfect freedom? |
27280 | 1, 22_] Brethren_, and by and by he saith:|_ Shall I praise you in this? |
27280 | 1. and accomplish? |
27280 | 13, 30._] Burnings[x]? |
27280 | 13._] But what? |
27280 | 14._] from Ouerthrowing[s]? |
27280 | 16._] Great Treasure_[o]? |
27280 | 27._] because it is_ A fountaine of| Life_[y]: wherefore? |
27280 | 3._] by such a One) what is the Root| that beareth it[l]? |
27280 | 4._] Mercifull Lord God? |
27280 | 8._]| But O my Soule what dost thou? |
27280 | 9._] Praised in respect of her Parents? |
27280 | And can any haue the heart| to heare her groaning pangs,| without renting his owne heart from| his darling pleasure? |
27280 | Or| morer Frater? |
27280 | Paul._] Death? |
27280 | Quicquid est Good of them that haue it,& of| circa te vel in te unde possis their children after them? |
27280 | Quis animæ Dominator, nisi Not that feare which is Worldly,| Deus solus? |
27280 | Quis enim n[=o]_ Feare_ from time to time, and| timet? |
27280 | Quis iste, nisi ignium for this is wicked selfe- Loue, when| comminator? |
27280 | Quod| quid est aliud quàm talis ac tantus| erit Timor meus, quem dabo in cor| eorum, vt mihi perseuerantèr| adhæreant? |
27280 | S. Cyprian Lord? |
27280 | Sed quid ego te( Honourable Lady) any longer? |
27280 | She shall be so; but may not that| labour be spared? |
27280 | Vnde autem timor? |
27280 | Vntill such an| causa est, nisi fortè ea, quia alia Humble Soule be found in Her, She| in specie sunt, Homo in occulto? |
27280 | We haue| not found Her yet; and why not yet? |
27280 | _ Nihil laudabimus these and the like of Hers are| nisi quod proprium est& de commended? |
27280 | _ When she shall be Praise and of whom? |
27280 | as if while I held my peace| and were busied in Her Praises, Her|[ Note m:_ Neq, par[=u] distat inter Death could be deferred? |
27280 | in Vitâ D. Ministers[e]? |
27280 | l. 3._]| I demand then what doe you count|[ Note: The Excellencie of Godly Excellent? |
27280 | quid expectem? |
27280 | remnant of thy Heritage[g]?_ Who|_ Prayer for Godly Feare._] would not Feare Thee such an|_ Almightie, All- seeing, Iust,|[ Note f:_ Reuel. |
27280 | true fruit of Euangelicall| ibid._] Repentance? |
27280 | vt what doe you( Beloued) expect more? |
27280 | | laudabis Homin[=e] prius quàm in| stationem mortis successerit? |
27280 | | nostra tecum c[=o]moriatur et quasi That our speech also should Die| consepeliatur oratio? |
27280 | | quis nefarius? |
10326 | And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? |
10326 | And what if he were indignant, and what if he expressed that indignation? |
10326 | And what of his sons? |
10326 | And what was the fact? |
10326 | And why? |
10326 | And why? |
10326 | And yet, what did he say to the scribes and Pharisees:''Ye go about to kill me, and therefore I am bound to say nothing harsh concerning you''? |
10326 | Are we therefore to say that these utterances of David are uninspired? |
10326 | But crushed by what? |
10326 | But some may ask, What has all this to do with us? |
10326 | But what right have we to use these words? |
10326 | By the discovery that he has offended God? |
10326 | Do we find a hint of any similar conduct on the part of David? |
10326 | Do you think that the Scripture says in vain,''All these things are written for our example''? |
10326 | For in death no man remembereth thee: and who will give thee thanks in the pit? |
10326 | From whence then came that strength? |
10326 | How can he command them when he has not commanded himself? |
10326 | How so? |
10326 | Is this notion uninspired? |
10326 | My soul also is sore troubled: but, Lord, how long wilt thou punish me? |
10326 | Passing the love of woman? |
10326 | Special and extreme? |
10326 | The Lord is my light, and my salvation; whom then shall I fear? |
10326 | The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom then shall I be afraid? |
10326 | The whole question turns on this, Are we to believe in a living God, or are we not? |
10326 | To do with us? |
10326 | What he did say was this:''Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?'' |
10326 | What is it which gives life and reality to the magnificent imagery of the seventh and following verses? |
10326 | What is that but the likeness of Christ? |
10326 | What is the element in that ode, which even now makes it stir the heart like a trumpet? |
10326 | What is there that they may not do, and dare not do? |
10326 | What love can pass that, saving the boundless love of him who stooped from heaven to earth, that he might die on the Cross for us? |
10326 | What love can pass that? |
10326 | What protects such words from the imputation of mere Eastern exaggeration? |
10326 | What wonder? |
10326 | Why should they put restraint on theirs? |
10326 | what hath he done? |
16979 | Auntie, may I say God bless dear mother? |
16979 | 6"Is not this the fast that I have chosen?" |
16979 | All this, you say, is the concern of the State; certainly, but what is the State? |
16979 | Am I retaining my dominion over my body, or is it gradually pushing itself into my place? |
16979 | And now, how stands it in regard to the War? |
16979 | Are you making things any better by neglecting your duty? |
16979 | But can we not get a more evangelical, and at the same time more catholic, view of the matter? |
16979 | But may we not go a step further and try to see Christ, in a measure, in all suffering, even that of the animals? |
16979 | Can we close better than with the thought of the saints in Paradise? |
16979 | Could 1_s._ in the £ income- tax take the place, morally, spiritually, or ethically, of the rich profusion of voluntary aid now being poured forth? |
16979 | Could there be a more ghastly parody on the word honour? |
16979 | Do you suppose that all those who are joining the Services like leaving home, wife, friends, comforts? |
16979 | First of all what is the significance of"I"? |
16979 | God seems to be saying to us, in no uncertain tones,"Is not this the fast that I have chosen?" |
16979 | Have you ever attempted to gauge the mystery, to sound the depth of meaning implied in the simple sentence"I will"? |
16979 | Have you ever read a book to, or written a letter for, anyone else? |
16979 | Have you honestly tried to be reconciled; are you willing to forgive and bury the past? |
16979 | Look at your life, ask yourself the question, boldly and honestly, what is the principle upon which it is being lived, God or self? |
16979 | Now remains the question, Are the results to be permanent? |
16979 | Of what value or power is my feeble little life among the teeming millions that go to make up the nation? |
16979 | Our question to- day is: How shall we discipline that spirit which enables us to realise religion as a fact? |
16979 | So long as I can enjoy myself and get my own way, why should I vex myself with the outworn question,"Am I my brother''s keeper?" |
16979 | Some of the immediate effects are obvious; but what are the lasting results to be? |
16979 | The prayers omitted, curtailed, said carelessly, said or attempted in bed, instead of on your knees: what a grievous failure, is n''t it? |
16979 | The question is often asked:"How often ought I to receive the Holy Communion?" |
16979 | The soul of the nation needed discipline, and it has come suddenly, sharply, but, who shall dare to say, not mercifully? |
16979 | There is a ceaseless temptation to echo the cry of the disciples in regard to the few loaves and fishes:"What are they among so many?" |
16979 | There was no time for argument or explanation, for facing the inevitable"If not, why not?" |
16979 | To whom do you turn in your times of difficulty, doubt, trouble? |
16979 | Vain confidence, for how could One Who had died as a malefactor, Who could not save Himself, rescue His nation from the tyranny of the Roman power? |
16979 | Very practically, then, we must ask ourselves such questions as these: What proportion of my time is spent for others? |
16979 | What hast Thou done for me, O Mighty Friend, Who lovest to the end? |
16979 | What necessity? |
16979 | What''s that to you? |
16979 | Who are the morally strongest? |
16979 | Who can be giddy and careless with darkened streets, trains, trams, all telling of the awful possibilities of the new development of aerial warfare? |
16979 | You may say,"What good will my abstinence do to people with whom I never come in contact?" |
45272 | And he spoke a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind, shall they not both fall into the ditch? |
45272 | How oft shall I or my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? |
45272 | _ How oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? 45272 A passage from the Bible comes immediately to mind, does it not? 45272 And what nation has ever become so enslaved in the process? 45272 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? 45272 Blind men may be excellent guides,( and in the last analysis are n''t we all blind?) 45272 But do n''t you see? 45272 But has n''t it? 45272 But have these curses disappeared from the earth? 45272 But since that time how can man plead ignorance? 45272 But who is there among us now that does not feel the burden of human war and peace? 45272 But will they go through with the whole story? 45272 Ca n''t the welfare of our children be a matter of united action? 45272 Difficult to forgive ourselves? 45272 Do we try and cultivate our ability to agree when we can, to see the scope of our common aims, or are we consistently developing our divergences? 45272 Do you as an individual want to grow in wisdom and stature? 45272 Does n''t the Lord''s prayer set a condition to his forgiveness of trespasses that we forgive those who trespass against us? 45272 Does that come from the suppression of the demands of labor or the abolition of the guidance of management? 45272 Does that signify the end of suffering, or is there here an Easter meaning for these times more potent and impelling than ever Lent has brought? 45272 Finally, will they depart into their own country another way or will they return to Herod? 45272 Have they come primarily to get or to give? 45272 Have they not in many respects grown worse? 45272 Have they the courage of their convictions? 45272 How far do you think you can get without the insights and understanding of others? 45272 How many good people were duped by Franco merely because he proclaimed allegiance to the church and Christianity? 45272 How many of us spoke enthusiastically of Mussolini because Italian trains began running on time and beggars disappeared from the steps of cathedrals? 45272 How many well meaning people are fooled by the devil in all his guises? 45272 How much wisdom have you acquired all by yourself apart from the experiences of humanity that you have met in books or face to face? 45272 Is it just a coincidence that there were two blind men in this story and not just one? 45272 Love''s work is done? 45272 Serfdom and slavery were evil, so men broke away and became free; but free for what? 45272 The battle won? 45272 This being the case, where are man''s unifying efforts particularly needed today? 45272 Till seven times?_When Peter asked this leading question he may have been trying to seem magnanimous. |
45272 | Visions of peace and a world made new-- what greater need today has the strife- ridden world than this? |
45272 | We have proclaimed the magnificence of our reception but have we ever really received him? |
45272 | What then is peace? |
45272 | Who is there that has not needed friendship to take the place of loss, that has not looked for counsel and strength beyond the limits of his own life? |
45272 | Why is it that such extraordinary acts of fortitude in plain can take place in wartime? |
45272 | Why not spend more time and thought rejoicing in and applying the unity that already exists instead of magnifying our differences? |
45272 | Will they come in a spirit of humility or will they come with pride in their own might and sovereignty? |
45272 | Would he be recognized in his true colors? |
44071 | ***** And why else are these caveats in the scriptures, but to warn the godly that they be not tainted herewith? |
44071 | 1. did he himself turn ungodly also? |
44071 | 44. plead, that others did nothing for them? |
44071 | And canst thou see other of thy brethren toil their hearts out, and thou sit idle at home, or takest thy pleasure abroad? |
44071 | And live they not most easily? |
44071 | And thus much I will say for the satisfaction of such as have any thought of going hither to inhabit? |
44071 | And what if others will do nothing for thee, but are unkind and unmerciful to thee? |
44071 | And what is my father''s house? |
44071 | And_ Paul_ sought no man''s gold nor silver, but though he had authority, yet he took not bread of the churches, but labored with his hands: and why? |
44071 | Are they not also for the most part, best fed and clad? |
44071 | Believe it, God can not lie, nor be deceived; He that made the heart, doth not he know it? |
44071 | Did not Satan, who was not content to keep that equal state with his fellows, but would set his throne above the stars? |
44071 | Doth God ever commend a man for carnal love of himself? |
44071 | How is he clad? |
44071 | How is he fed? |
44071 | If all men be evil, wilt thou be so too? |
44071 | If all men were kind to thee, it were but_ publicans''_ righteousness to be kind to them? |
44071 | Is his labor harder than mine? |
44071 | Is this then a time for men to begin to seek themselves? |
44071 | Knowest thou not that they which will be the children of God must be kind to the unkind, loving to their enemies, and bless those that curse them? |
44071 | May you live as retired hermits? |
44071 | Nay, you must seek still the wealth of one another; and enquire as_ David_, how liveth such a man? |
44071 | Remember the example of_ Uriah_, who would not take his ease nor his pleasure, though the King required him, and why? |
44071 | What shall I say? |
44071 | Who then will follow a multitude? |
44071 | Yea_ What is man? |
44071 | _ Obj._ But doth not the Apostle elsewhere say? |
44071 | and look after no body? |
44071 | but who, I pray thee, brought this particularizing first into the world? |
44071 | or dreamest thou that thou art made of other, and better mettle than other men are? |
44071 | or the son of man that thou so regardest him?_ Psal. |
44071 | surely I will ease him; hath he no bed to lie on? |
44071 | that thou shouldest thus bless me?_ 2 Sam. |
44071 | why, I have two, I''ll lend him one; hath he no apparel? |
34632 | Is it? |
34632 | Lord,says he,"why can not I follow thee now?" |
34632 | What is the gentleman''s name? |
34632 | 11,"How much more shall your heavenly Father give good things to them that ask him?" |
34632 | 13,"How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" |
34632 | 16,"How dieth the wise man? |
34632 | 19, 20,"For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? |
34632 | Am I then become your Enemy, because I tell you the Truth? |
34632 | And one of them, viz., Peter, asked him where he was going; verse 36,"Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou?" |
34632 | And what could he mean by those"wondrous things"? |
34632 | Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? |
34632 | Are not your souls as precious as the souls of the people at Suffield,[15] where they are flocking from day to day to Christ? |
34632 | Divine justice says of the tree that brings forth such grapes of Sodom,"Cut it down, why cumbereth it the ground?" |
34632 | Do n''t you see how generally persons of your years are passed over and left in the present remarkable and wonderful dispensation of God''s mercy? |
34632 | God is for them; who then can be against them? |
34632 | How can you rest for one moment in such a condition? |
34632 | Is not my word like as a fire? |
34632 | Might he not have resort to the law and see every word and sentence in it when he pleased? |
34632 | Shall all sorts obtain, shall every one press into the kingdom of God, while you stay loitering behind in a doleful undone condition? |
34632 | Shall every one take heaven, while you remain with no other portion but this world? |
34632 | Upon what account should it seem unreasonable, that there should be any immediate communication between God and the creature? |
34632 | Was he ever blind? |
34632 | Was it the wonderful stories of the creation and deluge, and Israel''s passing through the Red Sea, and the like? |
34632 | Were not his eyes open to read these strange things when he would? |
34632 | What could the Psalmist mean when he begged of God to open his eyes? |
34632 | What is the chaff to the wheat? |
34632 | What reason can be offered against it? |
34632 | Whence then cometh wisdom? |
34632 | Where is then the Blessedness ye spake of? |
34632 | Who is there that has an immortal soul so sottish as not to improve such an opportunity, and that wo n''t bestir himself with all his might now? |
34632 | Why have ye not that savor of the things of God, by which you may see the distinguishing glory and evident divinity of me and my doctrine? |
34632 | Why have ye not that sense of true excellency, whereby ye may distinguish that which is holy and divine? |
34632 | Why should not he that made all things, still have something immediately to do with the things that he has made? |
34632 | Will any mortal amongst us be so unreasonable as to lag behind, or look back in discouragement when God opens such a door? |
34632 | Will you be so stupid as to neglect your soul now? |
34632 | You have followed them in sin, and have perhaps followed them into vain company; and will you not now follow them to Christ? |
34632 | and where is the place of understanding? |
34632 | saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?" |
20430 | Couldst thou not watch with Me one hour? |
20430 | Why are ye fearful? 20430 And as we face it what are we to do? 20430 And do we not constantly see that most unjust tyranny which the ill- tempered or ill- controlled member of the family has over the rest? 20430 And so, once again, looking out upon our ordinary life, what shall we need to put backbone into life? 20430 And what is the secret of that? 20430 And yet, who shall deny that there was an awe about it all? 20430 And, therefore, the whole question is this: Have we got, or do we believe we have got, Jesus in the ship with us? 20430 Are we in the habit of boasting, are we in the habit of lying, are we in the habit of being insincere? 20430 Are we prepared, as a great Christian city, to rise to the self- sacrifice which it involves? 20430 Are we so hopeless and helpless as to have no other power to bring in upon them? 20430 But can we as Christian citizens be content with the arm of the law? 20430 But the point is this: Whatever plan is fixed upon by the experts and those responsible, are we ready to rise to it? 20430 Can any man name the real secret of influence, or analyse the strength of personality? 20430 Can we not in this coming reign, and the century just begun, try and plant in the heart of every Christian worker truth in the inward parts? 20430 Can we not transform them as boys? 20430 Do we hear His voice saying,Be of good cheer; it is I, be not afraid?" |
20430 | Does the law of kindness touch us in our municipal work? |
20430 | For the good of the cause or to see our name in the paper? |
20430 | Have we such a perpetual spring within us, ready and accessible for use in our home lives? |
20430 | How are we, then-- that comes to be the last question-- how are we to attain this wonderful gift, the secret of a strong character? |
20430 | How can we help him, that poor wounded man brought across our path? |
20430 | How often during the past week have you thought of God? |
20430 | How then are we to gain the secret? |
20430 | If the heavenly rainbow is not produced by the light shining upon the tears of human penitence, where is hope for the world? |
20430 | Is such a one seated among us in this church to- day? |
20430 | Is there no other arm, no other law that we are bound to try before these young lads grow up indeed ruffians who must be dealt with by the law? |
20430 | Must we be content to transport them as men? |
20430 | Not"What did we do?" |
20430 | Shall I be liked for this?" |
20430 | That is the one last trial-- be it so; Christ was forsaken, so must thou be too: How couldst thou suffer but in seeming else? |
20430 | Was it done from a true and pure motive? |
20430 | What are we to say to anyone we see who is under that most terrible trial? |
20430 | What are we to say to ourselves if such a misfortune and trial comes to us? |
20430 | What can we say to light up in any degree so vast a problem? |
20430 | What do we need to give a little more strength to it, to enable us to be braver and firmer and stronger? |
20430 | What do we understand by a rainbow? |
20430 | What does he need? |
20430 | What is the secret of moral courage? |
20430 | Why did we do this thing? |
20430 | Why did we give that donation to something? |
20430 | Why? |
20430 | Will you give it? |
20430 | but"Why did we do it?" |
20430 | how about our characters? |
20430 | how about our thoughts? |
20430 | how about our words? |
20430 | what about our lives today?" |
20430 | where is the pristine purity of youth? |
22821 | ''How do you men dare talk to me about going home? 22821 And what is that?" |
22821 | But, officer, are n''t you going to give me a chance to enlist? |
22821 | Children, what is the greatest country in the world? |
22821 | How did I feel? |
22821 | How did you feel, purser, when you heard that cannon roar this morning against that submarine? |
22821 | Is drowning very painful? |
22821 | Should there ever be, children, a vacancy in the Trinity, who is best fitted to fill the position? |
22821 | What could be more wonderful than the heroism, the endurance of the British at Vimy Ridge? 22821 What did Sister Julie say?" |
22821 | What is the greatest city in the world? |
22821 | What is the trouble with the Emerald Isle? |
22821 | Who are the chosen people of the good old German God? |
22821 | Who is the greatest man in the world? |
22821 | Why Are We Outmanned By the Germans? |
22821 | Why Are We Outmanned by the Germans? |
22821 | Why Did You Leave Us in Hell for Two Years? |
22821 | Why Did You Leave Us in Hell for Two Years? |
22821 | Why do you say that? |
22821 | 4. Who Taught the Kaiser That a Treaty Is a Scrap of Paper? |
22821 | 4. Who Taught the Kaiser That a Treaty Is a Scrap of Paper? |
22821 | Aliens began to say,"What will come next?" |
22821 | And this foul thing forced upon her a superior right? |
22821 | And what about Dutch cities and seaports? |
22821 | And what shall be the verdict then pronounced? |
22821 | And where are young McConnell and Rupert Brooke and young Asquith? |
22821 | And where is Shelley? |
22821 | But since that time, all France and Belgium and the lands where there are refugees are discussing the question-- Where does the right lie? |
22821 | But what if Ludendorff gets to Paris? |
22821 | But who is at the head of it? |
22821 | But who succeeded? |
22821 | Can you see that they are at the station to meet him? |
22821 | Each farmer began to ask himself:"Has any one quoted me?" |
22821 | Every visitor to that ruined town asks himself this question:"Why did the Germans allow this building to remain?" |
22821 | Has the French mother, cruelly wounded, no right? |
22821 | How can I go home? |
22821 | How did he find out that there had been a secret meeting of the Germans immediately after war had been declared against Germany? |
22821 | How is it that he celebrates his ancestor, Frederick? |
22821 | Macbeth killed Duncan and went to live in the palace of the dead king, but did Macbeth succeed? |
22821 | Must German Men Be Exterminated? |
22821 | Must German Men Be Exterminated? |
22821 | Now why did the Kaiser over and over again proclaim his allegiance to Frederick the Great? |
22821 | Of course, says Harden, at first that was good diplomacy, but now that we are successful,"Why say this any longer? |
22821 | Or the steel door before your dungeon? |
22821 | Or was it the bad air in your cell? |
22821 | The heart of the question is, Has he any moral right to accept an exemption? |
22821 | Thirty- nine years more to recover ruined France and Belgium, Poland and Rumania? |
22821 | To be sure the old Romans had to become soldiers, but, later, did not each Roman soldier live in the rich gardens around Thebes, Ephesus and Corinth? |
22821 | Two thousand years ago Cicero, sobbing above the dead body of his daughter Tullia, exclaimed:"Is there a meeting place for the dead?" |
22821 | Was This Murder Justified? |
22821 | Was This Murder Justified? |
22821 | Was he a Secret Service man? |
22821 | Was it the cold water or the corn bread? |
22821 | Was not his palace a brief halting place in his journey towards remorse, insanity and the day when Duncan''s friends in turn slew Macbeth? |
22821 | What becomes of our soldier boys who died on the threshold of life? |
22821 | What chance has a babe born of a beast, abhorred and despised, when it comes into the world? |
22821 | What could these things mean? |
22821 | What has regenerated you? |
22821 | What if Paris must decrease? |
22821 | What if the Kaiser does boast of his successes to- day? |
22821 | What illuminated manuscripts?" |
22821 | Where also is that young Carpenter of Nazareth, dead at thirty years of age? |
22821 | Where does the Lord of Right stand? |
22821 | Where is that young Tullia so dear to that gifted Roman orator? |
22821 | Where is that young musician Mozart? |
22821 | Where is young Keats? |
22821 | Which path for the bewildered girl leads to peace? |
22821 | Who can be stupid enough to hesitate in answering this question? |
22821 | Who can explain the obsession? |
22821 | Who can praise sufficiently the heroes of Canada, Australia and New Zealand? |
22821 | Who shall explain to us the reason why German barbarism is not barbarism to the Germans? |
22821 | Who was this Attila who has captured the imagination of the Kaiser? |
22821 | Who was this stranger who was coming into the community? |
22821 | Why are we outmanned? |
22821 | Why not tell the world that we will have failed in the one thing for which we set out if we evacuate Belgium? |
22821 | Why not? |
22821 | Why should n''t we?" |
16856 | And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah? |
16856 | Is there anything in my life--so the question comes to us in our self- examination--"which could be so described? |
16856 | Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, that the Holy Ghost dwelleth in you, and that God''s temple is holy? 16856 What doest thou here, Elijah?" |
16856 | What doest thou here, Elijah? |
16856 | What doest thou here? |
16856 | What doest thou here? |
16856 | What is the aim and purpose of his life? |
16856 | Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? 16856 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?" |
16856 | And do we not acknowledge that this revelation fails, so far as we are concerned, if it gives us no such_ power_? |
16856 | And the question of all questions for each of us to consider is,"How am I to make my life the home and embodiment of this power from above?" |
16856 | And the question rises:"On which of these lines is my life travelling at the present time, and towards which side of the impassable gulf?" |
16856 | Are we to follow the world with its conventions and laws, or to live in personal communion with God? |
16856 | Are we, then, to trust to some sudden visitation from above, for which we make no preparation, to break down or overthrow a power of this kind? |
16856 | But if this be so, what will your share be in this coming life? |
16856 | But is it so very certain that this would be the case? |
16856 | But the question to- day is, What assurance do you feel that this will continue? |
16856 | But then there rises the question, How are these Divine influences to become powerful in us also? |
16856 | But what if sometimes you feel that you are not equal to all this? |
16856 | But why, you may ask, do I dwell on all this? |
16856 | Do we ask despairingly how it is that we have not been able to cast it out? |
16856 | Do we desire to cast any evil influence or any weakness out of our life? |
16856 | Do we not recognise this as the end of the New Testament revelation? |
16856 | Do you ask why I dwell on this familiar history, or desire that you should contemplate and realise this change in the young man Jacob? |
16856 | Do you wonder at your lack of power over the diseases of the soul? |
16856 | Has any one of us ever shrunk from any post of duty in life, or strayed from any straight course? |
16856 | How are we to account for this? |
16856 | How comes it that you remain in this pitiable condition? |
16856 | How does my common life fit with all this? |
16856 | If the Spirit of God dwelt in them, how does He not dwell likewise in you? |
16856 | If they were God''s husbandry, or God''s building, are not you? |
16856 | In all this there was grief, disappointment, bitterness; for did they not prove that his work was threatened with failure? |
16856 | Is there anything of the spirit or enthusiasm of sacrifice visible in the ordinary tenor of his actions? |
16856 | Is there to be seen in it anything that tends towards the lowering of common standards? |
16856 | Or shall we drift on as the world drifts, a little better, or a little worse? |
16856 | Shall we contribute anything to raise the common type? |
16856 | Then if God has in His mercy visited us with the warning call,"What doest thou here?" |
16856 | Thereupon His disciples came to Him with this inquiry--"Why could not we cast him out? |
16856 | This is indeed a question which never sleeps, and to- day we ask, What is your Whitsuntide answer to it? |
16856 | This voice, following us with the question,"What doest them here?" |
16856 | WHAT DOEST THOU HERE? |
16856 | What if I do not flee from it?" |
16856 | What if I do not pray to be delivered from it? |
16856 | What if I do not resist any fault that has a hold upon me? |
16856 | What is it? |
16856 | What is to be the mission of our generation here? |
16856 | What, then, are our Advent hopes? |
16856 | What, then, are we learning of its practical lessons, and gathering into our life? |
16856 | What, then, are we to say of our hopes? |
16856 | When we go elsewhere, what habits, what tendencies, what fixed bent of spirit and character shall we exhibit? |
16856 | Which is to prevail in it, and fix its character-- traditional custom, or personal inspiration? |
16856 | Who can read unmoved these noble and generous outpourings? |
16856 | any foolish or vulgar estimate of the higher things of life?" |
16856 | any influence, spreading from my conduct, of which men might truly say that it also is helping to debase the moral currency? |
16856 | any misuse of things sacred or holy? |
16856 | if when the voice cries,"What doest thou here?" |
16856 | striving for your growth in holiness and good purpose, and for your salvation from sin and its defilements, as he strove for theirs? |
16856 | you have no answer to give? |
26097 | Have my Children died in the Morning of their Days, and can I promise myself that I shall see the Evening of mine? 26097 _ I said, I was desolate and bereaved of Children, and who hath brought up these? |
26097 | _[*]Could I wish, that this young Inhabitant of Heaven should be degraded to Earth again? |
26097 | And am I now to complain of him, because he has removed not only a Creature of his own, but one of the Children of his Family? |
26097 | And do we now blame ourselves for this? |
26097 | And had I been as diligent as I ought, who can tell what Progress it might have made in Divine Knowledge? |
26097 | And may not that Hope be greatly confirmed from whatever, of an amiable and regular Disposition, we have observed in those that are taken away? |
26097 | And shall We object against the Force of it? |
26097 | And what if he hath chosen to bestow the distinguished Favour on_ that one_ of my little Flock, who was formed to take the tenderest Hold of my Heart? |
26097 | And what shall we say? |
26097 | And when GOD hath done all this for me, is he rashly to be suspected of Unkindness? |
26097 | And, Lord, wilt thou_ open thine Eyes on such a one, to bring_ it_ into_ strict_ Judgment with thee_[c]? |
26097 | Answer, Oh my Heart, dost thou not love thy GOD much better than all the Blessings which Earth can boast, or which the Grave hath swallowed up? |
26097 | Are not the Administrations of his Providence wise and good? |
26097 | Art thou under these Obligations to him, and wilt thou yet complain? |
26097 | Can we tax him with Injustice? |
26097 | Can we then imagine that our dear Children fall into their Graves without his Notice or Interposition? |
26097 | Can we_ teach him Knowledge_[i]? |
26097 | Did I mean in effect to say,_ Lord, I will give it up, if thou wilt not take it? |
26097 | Did I say, Lord, I absolutely insist on its Recovery; I can not, on any Terms or any Considerations whatsoever, bear to think of losing it?" |
26097 | Did he think the Life of this Child too great a Good to grant, when he thought not Christ and Glory too precious? |
26097 | Do I need additional Reasons to justify the Divine Conduct, in an Instance which my Child is celebrating in the Songs of Heaven? |
26097 | How did it learn Language so soon, and in such a Compass and Readiness? |
26097 | How shall we express our Affection to them? |
26097 | I was left alone, and these where have they been?_[k] Was this my Desolation? |
26097 | Is it in the Coffin? |
26097 | Is it in the Grave? |
26097 | Is it not our Language while we can not, like the pious_ Shunamite_ in the Text, bring our afflicted Hearts to say,_ It is well?_ III. |
26097 | Is it well with the Child? |
26097 | Is it well with thine Husband? |
26097 | Is it well with thine Husband? |
26097 | May we not then hope that many little Children are admitted into it? |
26097 | Must you not acknowledge_ it is well_, that you enjoyed so many Years of Comfort in them? |
26097 | My Brethren and Friends, what shall I say to you, who are lamenting over your_ Absaloms_, and almost wishing_ you had died for them_[m]? |
26097 | Nay, are there not many abandon''d Sinners who would tremble at such Expressions? |
26097 | Or have We any new Right to_ reply against GOD_[a], which those eminent Saints had not? |
26097 | Or shall I pretend, after all, to set up a Claim in Opposition to his? |
26097 | Or what if it had been otherwise? |
26097 | Or would it thank me for that With? |
26097 | Shall I then complain of it as a rigorous Severity to my Family, that GOD hath taken it to the Family above? |
26097 | THESE are surely convincing Reasons to the Understanding: Yet who can say, that they shalt be Reasons to the Heart? |
26097 | To borrow the Words of the sacred Writer, in a very different Sense? |
26097 | Was it a Reason to_ David_, and to_ Eli_, and is it not equally so to us? |
26097 | Was there Unkindness in that? |
26097 | What are my narrow Conceptions, that they should pretend to circumscribe infinite Wisdom, Faithfulness, and Mercy? |
26097 | What if that strong Attachment of my Heart to it, had been a Snare to the Child, and to me? |
26097 | Whence does such a Thought come, and whither would it lead? |
26097 | Where is now our Delight? |
26097 | Where is our Hope? |
26097 | Who might not claim the like Exemption? |
26097 | With what Grace, with what Decency canst thou dispute this, or any other Matter, with thy GOD? |
26097 | Would this, my Friends, be the Language of a real Christian? |
26097 | _ He that spared not his own Son_[w], he that gave me with him his Spirit and his Kingdom, why doth he deny, or why doth he remove, any other Favour? |
26097 | gone from our Embraces, and all the little Pleasures we could give it, to everlasting Darkness and Pain?" |
26097 | that you reaped so much solid Satisfaction from them? |
26097 | this my Sorrow? |
3150 | Must we then, forgetting our own interest, as it were go out of ourselves, and love God for His own sake? |
3150 | And can love of power any way possibly come in to account for this desire or delight? |
3150 | And if we go no further, does there appear any absurdity in this? |
3150 | And the sum is no more than this:"Why should we be concerned about anything out of and beyond ourselves? |
3150 | Balak demands,_ Wherewith shall I come before the Lord_,_ and bow myself before the high God_? |
3150 | But allowing that mankind hath the rule of right within himself, yet it may be asked,"What obligations are we under to attend to and follow it?" |
3150 | But disgrace in whose estimation? |
3150 | But it may be said,"What is all this, though true, to the purpose of virtue and religion? |
3150 | But, allowing all this, it may be asked,"Has not man dispositions and principles within which lead him to do evil to others, as well as to do good? |
3150 | But, supposing these affections natural to the mind, particularly the last;"Has not each man troubles enough of his own? |
3150 | Can not this question be answered, from the economy and constitution of human nature merely, without saying which is strongest? |
3150 | Consider, then, what is the latitude and compass of the actions of man with regard to himself, his fellow- creatures, and the Supreme Being? |
3150 | Could the utmost stretch of their capacities look further? |
3150 | Does he less relish his being? |
3150 | Does not every affection necessarily imply that the object of it be itself loved? |
3150 | Does not passion and affection of every kind perpetually mislead us? |
3150 | Does the benevolent man appear less easy with himself from his love to his neighbour? |
3150 | For did ever any one act otherwise than as he pleased? |
3150 | For does not everybody by compassion mean an affection, the object of which is another in distress? |
3150 | Honour in whose judgment? |
3150 | Is desire of and delight in the happiness of another any more a diminution of self- love than desire of and delight in the esteem of another? |
3150 | Is fear, then, or cowardice, so great a recommendation to the favour of the bulk of mankind? |
3150 | Is his mind less open to entertainment, to any particular gratification? |
3150 | Is it certain, then, that there is nothing in these pretensions to happiness? |
3150 | Is it good, or is it evil? |
3150 | Is it possible that it should never come into people''s thoughts to suspect whether or no it be to their advantage to show so very much of themselves? |
3150 | Is it that he went against the principle of reasonable and cool self- love, considered_ merely_ as a part of his nature? |
3150 | Is not the middle way obvious? |
3150 | Is there any peculiar gloom seated on his face? |
3150 | May she not possibly pass over greater pleasures than those she is so wholly taken up with? |
3150 | Must we invert the known rule of prudence, and choose to associate ourselves with the distressed? |
3150 | Nay, is not passion and affection itself a weakness, and what a perfect being must be entirely free from?" |
3150 | Now what is it which renders such a rash action unnatural? |
3150 | Or how does so various and fickle a temper as that of man appear adapted thereto? |
3150 | Or how otherwise can such a character be explained? |
3150 | Or is it not plain that mere fearlessness( and therefore not the contrary) is one of the most popular qualifications? |
3150 | Or need this at all come into consideration? |
3150 | Or that such a person has not consulted so well for himself, for the satisfaction and peace of his own mind, as the ambitious or dissolute man? |
3150 | That the issue, event, and consummation came out such as fully to justify and answer that resignation? |
3150 | Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why, then, should we desire to be deceived? |
3150 | True; but the question is, which ought to have the preference? |
3150 | We own and feel the force of amiable and worthy qualities in our fellow creatures; and can we be insensible to the contemplation of perfect goodness? |
3150 | What are their bounds, besides that of our natural power? |
3150 | What sign is there in our nature( for the inquiry is only about what is to be collected from thence) that this was intended by its Author? |
3150 | Whence come the many miseries else which men are the authors and instruments of to each other?" |
3150 | Whence come the many miseries else-- sickness, pain, and death-- which men are instruments and authors of to themselves? |
3150 | Whence is all this absurdity and contradiction? |
3150 | Whence, then, I say, is all this absurdity and contradiction? |
3150 | Which is to be obeyed, appetite or reflection? |
3150 | Whoever felt uneasiness upon observing any of the advantages brute creatures have over us? |
3150 | Would they be any longer to seek for what was their chief happiness, their final good? |
3150 | Yet let any plain, honest man, before he engages in any course of action, ask himself, Is this I am going about right, or is it wrong? |
3150 | _ How shall I curse_,_ whom God hath not cursed_? |
3150 | _ My soul is athirst for God_,_ yea_,_ even for the living God_:_ when shall I come to appear before Him_? |
3150 | _ Or how shall I defy_,_ whom the Lord hath not defied_? |
3150 | _ Shall I come before him with burnt- offerings_,_ with calves of a year old_? |
3150 | _ Shall I give my first- born for my transgression_,_ the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul_? |
3150 | _ Who can count the dust of Jacob_,_ and the number of the fourth part of Israel_? |
3150 | _ Whom have I in heaven but Thee_? |
3150 | _ Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams_,_ or with ten thousands of rivers of oil_? |
3150 | does He not fill heaven and earth with His presence? |
3150 | must he indulge an affection which appropriates to himself those of others? |
3150 | or, allowing that we ought, so far as it is in our power to relieve them, yet is it not better to do this from reason and duty? |
3150 | which leads him to contract the least desirable of all friendships, friendships with the unfortunate? |
3150 | { 30} But is He then afar off? |
16423 | And shall hee that is all spirit( for whom the Angels are slow and colde enough) take pleasure in thy drowzie and heavie service? |
16423 | Are Idolatries, blasphemies, prophaning of Saboths, no sinns? |
16423 | Are not kings of the earth charg''d to render double to the bloody strumpet of Rome? |
16423 | But what? |
16423 | Can one coale alone keepe it selfe glowing? |
16423 | Can tinne, or hot iron choose but hisse againe, if cold water be cast on it? |
16423 | Can wee suppose worme- wood without bitternesse, a man without reason? |
16423 | Consider and reason thus with thy selfe( O man) canst thou brooke a sluggard in thy worke, if thou bee of any spirit thy selfe? |
16423 | Doe men choose the forwardest Deere in the heard, and the liveliest Colt in the drove? |
16423 | Doe we thinke he will ever digest us, in the temper wee are in? |
16423 | Doe wee love Christ more then ordinary? |
16423 | Doth it not flourish in all those shires and townes, where the Word and Sword doe joyntly cherish it? |
16423 | Doth not_ Paul_ adjure us before him that shall judge the elect Angels, that we preach instantly, in season, and out of season? |
16423 | For singularity, Christs calls for it, and presseth& urgeth it; What singular thing doe you, or what odde thing doe you? |
16423 | For whom doest thou reserve the top of thy affections? |
16423 | Hast thou any sharpnesse of wit, is not dulnesse tedious unto thee? |
16423 | Hee that shall despise or neglect prophesie, must hee not needes quench the spirit? |
16423 | How neare were wee going in 88. and in the powder treason? |
16423 | I can not be a better sacrifice then to God, and for you, if I waste my selfe, so you may have light& heat; what else is the end of my life? |
16423 | If any shall say, friend, what doest thou professe a religion without it; how can hee choose but bee strucke dumb? |
16423 | If fire bee set upon the Beacons, will not the whole Countrey soone be warned and enlightned? |
16423 | If hell bee in an Ale- house, who cryes out of it? |
16423 | If wee should make good their resemblances, how then should wee please the stomacke of God? |
16423 | In others which are the greatest number, how doth it languish and wane away, and hang downe the head? |
16423 | Is it comely what ever we do, to do it with all our might? |
16423 | Is it good to be earnest for a friend,& cold for the Lord of hosts? |
16423 | Is meane and mediocrity, in all excellent Arts excluded, and onely to be admitted in religion? |
16423 | Is not all his delight in the quickest and cheerefullest givers and servitors? |
16423 | It is good to bee zealous in a good things: and is it not best, in the best? |
16423 | May not wee goe too far on the right hand? |
16423 | Or is it not for the sake of the quality of the creature; which hath ever among the Heathens beene an_ Hieroglyphick_ of heavinesse and tardity? |
16423 | Ought not all the springs and brookes of our affection, to runne into this Maine? |
16423 | Shall Gods peculiar people, doe nothing peculiar? |
16423 | Shall all the indignity which hell can cast upon it, make it vile in our eyes? |
16423 | Such as forsake the best fellowship, and wax strange to holy assemblies,( as now the manner of many is) how can they but take colde? |
16423 | The other is_ Cowardice_ and_ Fearfulnes_: which how unfit, and base a quality did_ Nehemiah_ thinke it for a man of his place? |
16423 | This fire may goe out divers wayes: first by subtraction of fewell; if a man forbeare his accustomed meales, will not his naturall heat decay? |
16423 | Wee therefore that know the terrour of that day, What manner of persons ought we to bee? |
16423 | Were it not better to forbeare_ Poetry_ or_ Painting_, then to rime or dawbe? |
16423 | What ayleth the world? |
16423 | What daunger can there bee, of an honest, peaceable, religious forwardnesse? |
16423 | What man would not spue to see God thus worshipped? |
16423 | What manner of persons ought we to bee, burning in spirit, fervent in prayer, thundring in preaching, shining in life and conversation? |
16423 | What would you have us doe? |
16423 | Who would not now wonder, how ever this royall vertue should have lost it grace with the world; how ever any should admit a low thought of it? |
16423 | Who, or what can bee sufficient for him our Maker and Saviour? |
16423 | Why are ther any tounges that dare speake against often or zealous preaching? |
16423 | Why are there yet remaining any Mutes amongst us? |
16423 | Why then doth the hurtfull pitty of our times imbolden and increase their numbers? |
16423 | Why? |
16423 | Will God blesse such, as bid him not so much as good- morrow and good- even? |
16423 | Will true Christianity allow us to beare with any sinne? |
16423 | Will you have us runne before our neighbours, or live without example or company? |
16423 | [ Sidenote: 3] For this present assembly of Ministers, could all the choice and time in the world have better fitted mee then mine ordinarie Lot? |
16423 | _ Herod_ for his pleasure, cares not for halfe his kingdome; what will not some Gentle- men give for hawks and hounds? |
16423 | _ Mine eyes are dimme with wayting: how doe I long for thy salvation?_[ Sidenote: Feare.] |
16423 | and is the backwardest man fittest for God? |
16423 | and were it not better to bee of no religion, then to be colde or lukewarme in any? |
16423 | are not all they punished with death in the Scriptures, as well as breaches of the second table? |
16423 | are not some thinke you, too straight laced, that dare not use their Christian liberty in some recreations? |
16423 | beyond which, if any step a little forward, do not the rest hunt upon the stop? |
16423 | can a righteous soul choose but vexe it selfe at open evill? |
16423 | doth hee not threaten for all that to spue them out of his mouth? |
16423 | for thy gold? |
16423 | for thy_ Herodias_,& c. O yee adulterers and adultresses, can yee offer God a baser indignity? |
16423 | hath not God left many things indifferent, wherein some shew themselves more nice then wise? |
16423 | is not a slothfull messenger as vinegar to thy teeth, and as smoake to thine eyes? |
16423 | may not hee justly disdaine, that the least Riveret should bee drained another way? |
16423 | onely uncomely when wee serve God? |
16423 | or is there any better then God, or the kingdome of heaven? |
16423 | out of what misery, into what happinesse, by what a price, to what end; but that thou shouldest bee zealous of good workes? |
16423 | shall hee not curse those that doe his worke negligently, fearfully& partially? |
16423 | sware by small oathes, or lend money for reasonable use? |
16423 | what love hath hee shewed thee in thy redemption? |
16423 | where is it in diverse places of the land to bee seene? |
16423 | who art thou that condemnest thy brother? |
16423 | would wee give proofe of our trebble love to him? |
26441 | ''But where is your stove?'' 26441 Am I my brother''s keeper?" |
26441 | Am I my brother''s keeper? |
26441 | ''And may I ask what you were thinking about?'' |
26441 | ''But where do you cook your food?'' |
26441 | ''It must be very hard work?'' |
26441 | ''Well, Annie, how do you make a living now?'' |
26441 | --can anybody well get along with all this, without Religion? |
26441 | And are they not both struggling with the realities of life, and moved by quenchless desires, and looking up into the same infinite mystery? |
26441 | And have n''t I been working all the time to fetch in something to eat, and for the fire, and for clothes? |
26441 | And have you ever looked into this matter of crime? |
26441 | And if it is asked--"Why are they not equal?" |
26441 | And what are we, that we dare to cherish this exclusive horror, this pitiless, unrelenting scorn? |
26441 | And whither do they retire at night?" |
26441 | And who can estimate their influence over these busy tides of action, all day long? |
26441 | And who does not perceive how much the character of that influence must depend upon the condition of those homes? |
26441 | And why delineate the features of that other class of homes, whose most significant word is"_ Privation_?" |
26441 | And will not its votaries find now, as then, that it entices with the embrace of death and the fascination of hell? |
26441 | And, doubtless, you have sometimes busied yourself with the speculation--"Where do all these people come from? |
26441 | And, surely, it becomes each of us to consider the tendencies of his own example, and ask--"Is it toward the right or the wrong? |
26441 | And, surely, it is no vain speculation that inquires--"What are they? |
26441 | And, therefore, is not any practice which serves these, a service of God? |
26441 | And, with all this, may we not expect that fierce instinct of selfishness which overwhelms every other impulse, and breaks out in crime? |
26441 | Are not the just, the useful, the beautiful, from God, as well as the good and the holy? |
26441 | Art thou become like unto us?" |
26441 | Art thou become like unto us?" |
26441 | Ask_ Yourself_--"Need he have gone outside this very door to find temptation?" |
26441 | But are these forms of life, is your presence here or mine, any more substantial than those that have sunk away? |
26441 | But how can we regulate an irregularity? |
26441 | But is there nothing but this to explain the power which evil has upon men, in the midst of the great city? |
26441 | But is this really the best plan? |
26441 | But suppose we make the system a strict one, what process should be employed? |
26441 | But what is the precise sentence to be passed upon this prevalent luxury? |
26441 | But, my friends, what do we mean by"public sanction,"or"public neglect?" |
26441 | But, really, one of the most practical questions that can be asked is--"_Why_ is this one, or that one, a criminal?" |
26441 | China, India, Africa, will you not find their features in some circles of the social world right around you? |
26441 | Did it not bear the same Circean cup through the halls of Nineveh and Babylon, and fling CÃ ¦ sars and Alexanders to the ground? |
26441 | Did it not wear the same seductive smile and harlot tinsel when it walked the streets of Tyre, and reclined in the decorated chambers of Egypt? |
26441 | Did n''t He take away my father since before I can remember him? |
26441 | Do I say that the guilt should be imputed to the condition-- that it is all owing to circumstances? |
26441 | Do you think these were made of better texture than those who blacken and fester yonder? |
26441 | For, let me ask, who among these crowds of citizens are really honored? |
26441 | For, whence issues any such thing as_ virtue_, except out of the temptation and antagonism of vice? |
26441 | How can you regulate an obstruction that is involved with the springs of a machine, or the works of a clock? |
26441 | I ask-- what made our Revolution legitimate? |
26441 | If, on the other hand, they are a benefit to mankind; a good gift of Providence, as some seem to think; why should we hamper their circulation? |
26441 | In other words, let us inquire-- in what way do respectable and harmless people, as they deem themselves, become Allies of the Tempter? |
26441 | Into what retreats do the elements of this busy crowd dissolve, night after night?" |
26441 | Is it for, or against the good?" |
26441 | Is it not the same old guilt, the same sophistry and foolishness, here in New York, that it always has been? |
26441 | Is not all the spring of benevolent effort, then, in this single proposition of Religion? |
26441 | Is not the effect of miracle in the electric wire? |
26441 | Nay, all this splendid civilization, what is it but a sparkling ripple in the calm eternity of God? |
26441 | Need I paint the costume and the scenery, and describe the sad and awful drama in which these children play their parts? |
26441 | On the contrary, is not Freedom that old truth, that conceded premise that does_ not_ agitate? |
26441 | Or do you know it only as a monstrous fact in the social mechanism, and in the records of human nature? |
26441 | Or, take the following instance, which I extract from the Records of one of the Benevolent Societies of our own city:"Can you read or write? |
26441 | Shall it be so with this Republic, because false to its ideal? |
26441 | Stepping up to him I said--''Well, my boy, you seem to enjoy the fun very much; but why do n''t you lay down your load of sticks?''... |
26441 | Strike it out of existence to- day, and what would be the condition of the world to- morrow? |
26441 | Sufficient evidence of sin and folly in those who do this, to be sure; but in what way do these allurements present themselves? |
26441 | The bell beats; and what old bugle- strain, what pibroch, what rattling drum, ever sounded a more perilous call? |
26441 | The field for precedence is it not a broad one, and close at hand? |
26441 | The printing- press was not absolutely necessary to Nimrod, or to Julius CÃ ¦ sar, but is it not absolutely necessary now? |
26441 | The printing- press, is it not the gift of tongues? |
26441 | There are times when our thoughts rise above all specific instances, and we take up humanity and existence as a whole, and ask--"What means it all?" |
26441 | War and Captivity in the midst of peace and refinement-- is it not, my friends? |
26441 | Was it not for freedom, based upon the conception of the right and supremacy of freedom? |
26441 | What are the resources and entrenchments of these vices, by which they act upon human appetite and passion? |
26441 | What interpretation should we obtain from the dark creed of the skeptic, what inspiration from the philosophy of annihilation, and of fate? |
26441 | What shall stay it? |
26441 | What were the central ideas that throbbed in the breasts of its heroes and martyrs? |
26441 | Who does not see that not only the interest of the common humanity in its most intimate experiences attaches to them, but the interest of community? |
26441 | Why should we allow one man the privilege of distributing such a blessing, and forbid another who, no doubt, is equally zealous for the public good? |
26441 | Why, who needs to be told of the potency of this our earliest school, to say nothing of other influences, if only a faithful_ mother_ presides there? |
26441 | You may ask--"Who has tempted even my very child?" |
26441 | and do we not discover a counterpart to that saddest feature of all in such circumstances-- a desecration even of the parental instinct? |
26441 | did the Jew behold any hosts more terrible pressing into Jerusalem, than you and I might see if we looked about us? |
26441 | does it not make Dives look very much like Lazarus, and show our common weakness, and reveal the common marvel of this"harp of thousand strings?" |
26441 | were men ever bound by a darker chain, or trampled by a harder heel, than those victims of destitution and of their own passions? |
60915 | AM I THEREFORE BECOME YOUR ENEMY, BECAUSE I TELL YOU THE TRUTH? |
60915 | Am I therefore become your Enemy, because I tell you the Truth? |
60915 | And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come unto his servant? |
60915 | HAVE I BEEN SO LONG TIME WITH YOU, AND YET HAST THOU NOT KNOWN ME, PHILIP? |
60915 | Hath CHRIST, then, been so long time with thee, and yet hast thou not known him? |
60915 | Have I been so long Time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? |
60915 | Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? |
60915 | Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? |
60915 | To whom shall I go? |
60915 | To whom shouldst thou go, but to JESUS CHRIST? 60915 What kind of a Saviour then is it, for whom all nature thus cries aloud, through all her works? |
60915 | Why WILL YE die, O house of Israel? 60915 Will ye also go away?" |
60915 | --Is it so, thou Blessed Apostle? |
60915 | Against the united efforts of such formidable enemies, where shall we find armour of sufficient proof? |
60915 | And are these the blessings, by which thou art to be distinguished from the rest of thy sex? |
60915 | And can these men be said to"prosper in whatsoever they do?" |
60915 | And canst thou not, O Christian, have as much Faith in thy SAVIOUR, as one frail mortal has in another? |
60915 | And now, my brethren, is not such a Knowledge of GOD worth possessing? |
60915 | And what is it that hinders us from having such a view of our real misery? |
60915 | Are not their souls as much bowed down by the weight of their sinful nature, as their bodies by temporal evils and infirmities? |
60915 | Are they not often destitute of spiritual as well as of worldly comforts? |
60915 | But are not many good men afflicted inwardly, as well as outwardly? |
60915 | But didst thou ever attend to the true and only means, by which the Scriptures have assured thee this conquest may be obtained? |
60915 | But here the grand question may be asked-- How doth GOD manifest himself to his creatures? |
60915 | But how is this privilege to be obtained? |
60915 | But if GOD is willing to save all, Why are not all saved? |
60915 | But in what manner was the appearance of this illustrious Babe made known to the world? |
60915 | But shall their conduct have the least influence upon yours? |
60915 | But what could oppress or afflict the heart of the Meek and Innocent JESUS? |
60915 | But where are the ensigns of royalty? |
60915 | But where is his happiness all the while? |
60915 | For, who that looks upon his work as already done, will chuse to labour any longer? |
60915 | Hast thou never coveted, been jealous, angry, revengeful, bitter, and implacable? |
60915 | Hast thou never felt thyself swoln with pride, or burning with envy? |
60915 | Hast thou so? |
60915 | He cries aloud for help?--"What shall I do to be saved?" |
60915 | Here then a serious and inquiring mind may be ready to ask-- How is this BLESSED REDEEMER to become my Righteousness? |
60915 | How sayest thou then, shew us the Father?" |
60915 | I then concluded with asking you, whether such a Knowledge of GOD as I had been describing, was not worth your possessing? |
60915 | In a conflict so long and arduous, where shall we meet with such supplies of strength, as will enable us to contend and finally to overcome? |
60915 | Indeed,"to whom shall we go?" |
60915 | Is this to be"highly favoured?" |
60915 | Must thy spotless Babe, at the very instant of his birth, enter upon his Labour of Love? |
60915 | My business was to plant, Apollos''s to water; but what could it avail to plant or to water, unless GOD gave the increase? |
60915 | Need I, therefore, now call upon you to put in your claim to this vast inheritance? |
60915 | Now, what is Faith? |
60915 | Now, who can deny, that sickness, pain, sorrow and affliction, have in their very nature this tendency? |
60915 | O why, my brethren, why will ye"spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which satisfieth not?" |
60915 | Shall we suffer the Child of GOD, the Redeemed of the HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, to be taken captive by the armies of aliens? |
60915 | Shall we then tamely suffer these Rights of Heaven to be invaded by the powers of darkness? |
60915 | THEN SAID JESUS UNTO THE TWELVE, WILL YE ALSO GO AWAY? |
60915 | THEN SAID JESUS UNTO THE TWELVE, WILL YE ALSO GO AWAY? |
60915 | TO WHOM SHALL WE GO? |
60915 | TO WHOM SHALL WE GO? |
60915 | The awakened sinner"looks up and lifts up his head, for his redemption draweth nigh"--looks up to Heaven-- For what? |
60915 | The plain and obvious meaning of which is undoubtedly this: Hath GOD favoured me with such an astonishing deliverance? |
60915 | Then Simon Peter answered, LORD, to whom shall we go? |
60915 | Then said JESUS unto the Twelve, Will ye also go away? |
60915 | Thus, for instance, the covetous man grasps, and saves, and fills his coffers-- for what? |
60915 | Was each of us to be asked, in a serious and solemn manner, Are you really happy? |
60915 | Was it not by those very sufferings, which seem so diametrically opposite to this triumphant state? |
60915 | Well, but say some, How can this be? |
60915 | What a senseless doctrine this, that would shut us out from all the joys, which earth holds forth for our acceptance?" |
60915 | What have we to do with evil spirits, or possessions, at this day? |
60915 | What was it, but an humble acknowledgment of his own spiritually helpless and indigent condition? |
60915 | What, but that fascinating charm, which these very spirits throw before our eyes to deceive us? |
60915 | When"all things are yours,"why will you take up with the scanty provisions which a poor perishing nature can give? |
60915 | Whence is it then, O sinner, that, though thy SAVIOUR hath been so long time"with thee, yet hast thou not known him?" |
60915 | Whence is it, though he has made thee such frequent offers of his Love, thou hast still slighted or rejected them? |
60915 | Who amongst us, let me ask, hath not, in innumerable instances, given such a rash and impatient answer to the Servant of GOD within us? |
60915 | Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers, by whom ye believed, even as the LORD gave to every man? |
60915 | Who told thee, that GOD created thee for this world; and that thou art to take up thy rest in that visionary happiness, which thou findest here? |
60915 | Who would not wish, then, to become a votary, a pupil, a child of Wisdom? |
60915 | Why shouldst thou despond in the hour of trial? |
60915 | Why then, O Christian, shouldst thou despair of success? |
60915 | Will ye be intimidated by their flight? |
60915 | Will ye suffer your fidelity and perseverance to be shaken by their evil example? |
60915 | Would you know what these fruits are? |
60915 | and must the stable at Bethlehem be the first scene of that awful drama, which was afterwards closed on the trembling top of Calvary? |
60915 | art thou so strangely blind to thy best interests, so amazingly neglectful of thy real happiness? |
60915 | to whom shall I go?" |
60915 | to whom shall we go? |
60915 | to whom shall we go? |
60915 | we are ready to exclaim-- is it thus, that the promises of the Angel are to be accomplished? |
60915 | what conduct must we observe, that will entitle us to be members of her illustrious household? |
60915 | what kind of sensibility was awakened in you at that happy season?--Was it not a sensibility of Love intense, and Meekness unutterable? |
60915 | what path must we pursue, that will lead us to her delightful mansion? |
60915 | where are the tokens of thy illustrious birth? |
60915 | who told thee, that GOD had given thee such corrupt passions, as now solicit for indulgence? |
60915 | why, with deluded Esau,"will you sell your birth- right for a mess of pottage,"an heavenly for an earthly inheritance? |
23096 | And you believe in God, do you? |
23096 | But_ when_? |
23096 | By whose authority? |
23096 | If God be for us who can be against us? |
23096 | Is Jesus divine? |
23096 | Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? |
23096 | Then one of the twelve called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, and said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? 23096 What can I do for you, dear?" |
23096 | What have they seen in thy house? |
23096 | Why must I have this trial or pain or trouble? |
23096 | ( Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? |
23096 | After all, it is not so much a question of the knowledge of the day, or the hour, or the month of one''s conversion as"Do we now know Christ?" |
23096 | And so for those of us whose lives have been such a struggle we cry,"Is there no deliverance?" |
23096 | And then the question came to him as from God,"What do you believe?" |
23096 | And they said, What is that to us? |
23096 | Are there not hundreds and thousands of other men waiting, as the chief justice waited, for some one to speak or write? |
23096 | As has been indicated, the text proves that we may choose life if we will, but I have more especially in mind the question,"Why should we do it?" |
23096 | At the day of Pentecost people were saying,"What do these things mean?" |
23096 | But how about the sins of the past? |
23096 | But on the other hand, what if we should simply be faithful? |
23096 | But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? |
23096 | But"Is there no deliverance that is complete?" |
23096 | Could anything be more inspiring than to know that we have the approval of the Holy Ghost of the things we say or think? |
23096 | Did n''t you notice a fresh little grave near the one with the stone? |
23096 | Do I know when I was converted? |
23096 | Do you reject hell, because it seems to you to be inconceivable? |
23096 | Do you think for a moment that those who gaze at us would imagine that we had the least conviction that people away from Christ were lost? |
23096 | Does your life parallel God''s law or cross it? |
23096 | Finally they met, and the infidel with a sneer said,"So you believe the Bible, do you?" |
23096 | For the angel had said,"The Lord is with thee, Gideon,"and Gideon had said,"If the Lord is with us, then how can these things be?" |
23096 | For this day we hope and pray and cry aloud,"O Lord, how long, how long?" |
23096 | For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? |
23096 | God seemed to say to him,"Have you ever taken that stand where you would say,''I am committed to the right even if it ends in death''?" |
23096 | Has he not said,"Ye shall receive power"? |
23096 | Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?" |
23096 | Have we failed to take both? |
23096 | Have you ever seen a perfect rainbow-- that is, a rainbow in a perfect circle? |
23096 | Have you ever stopped to think what is really associated with the full acceptance of the third Person of the Trinity? |
23096 | He granted Saul of Tarsus a vision of himself as he approached Damascus until he cried,"Who art thou?" |
23096 | He then lying on Jesus''breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it? |
23096 | How about your living? |
23096 | How about your testimony? |
23096 | How could we expect them to have the same experience in coming to Christ? |
23096 | How may I be converted? |
23096 | How may I know certainly? |
23096 | How may we know that he is striving? |
23096 | How may we know that the Bible is the word of God? |
23096 | How may we secure such a possession? |
23096 | How then ought we to live? |
23096 | How wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan? |
23096 | I The natural question that comes to every student of the life of Judas must be,"Why was he chosen?" |
23096 | I What is conversion? |
23096 | I What is the striving of the Spirit? |
23096 | I ask you the question, Do you believe in heaven as a place of rewards? |
23096 | I doubt not the question has often come to us,"How can God be just and be the justifier of them that believe?" |
23096 | I found myself becoming unscrupulous in my business life and now I am wrecked, certainly for time-- oh,"said he,"can it be for eternity? |
23096 | I looked the other day into the face of a man who said to me,"Do you know me?" |
23096 | II Have you really taken all that God meant you should have? |
23096 | II How may I be converted? |
23096 | II Why are we not having revelations to- day as we know they have been given at other times? |
23096 | III Did you ever realize that you were standing in the way of the conversion of your friends? |
23096 | III Do you know when you were converted? |
23096 | III Oh, is there no hope? |
23096 | III What would be the consequences of the Spirit ceasing his work? |
23096 | IV How may we know that we have passed from death into life? |
23096 | IV Why should he cease his striving? |
23096 | If these things are true of us-- and they are, according to the Word of God-- then what prospect is there for us but that of eternal punishment? |
23096 | If this is true then what is consecration? |
23096 | In the twenty- first chapter of John the fifth and sixth verses we read,"Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? |
23096 | Is it not like this with our sins? |
23096 | Is not this written in the book of Jasher? |
23096 | Is such a deliverance as this from individual sins possible? |
23096 | It is indeed a black picture, and with whitened faces and rapidly beating hearts we ask, Is there any hope? |
23096 | It is not giving God something, for how could we give him that which is already his own? |
23096 | It is true that we shall go on from light into darkness, from morning into the night, but is there no final deliverance? |
23096 | It may be that some will say,"Why insist upon conversion when my life is a moral one?" |
23096 | Just what is the burden of this prayer of Paul''s? |
23096 | Man tells the depraved man to change his surroundings; but how about the heart that is unclean? |
23096 | Man tells the sinner to do his best; but how about the will which has been weakened by sinful practices, and which seems unable to act? |
23096 | Napoleon once was asked,"What is the greatest need of the French nation?" |
23096 | Oh, if it be true that the_ way_ of the transgressor is hard, in the name of God what shall we say of the end? |
23096 | Oh, may I say that it is a great sin to be untrue? |
23096 | One man called my attention to it and said,"It is amusing, is n''t it?" |
23096 | Second: Just what, therefore, is this work of sanctification? |
23096 | THE MORNING BREAKETH TEXT:"_ Watchman, what of the night? |
23096 | That is, do you know the exact time? |
23096 | The biography of Helen Kellar[ Transcriber''s note: Keller? |
23096 | The great temperance leader went to speak to him and said"Edward, why do n''t you pray?" |
23096 | The old minister looked at him and said simply,"Well, is that anything to be proud of?" |
23096 | The rest of the verse is a question,"God that justifieth?" |
23096 | The thirty- fourth verse reads,"Who is he that condemneth?" |
23096 | The words"unto them"are in italics, so not in the original, and we ask"added to what?" |
23096 | Then said I, O my Lord, what are these? |
23096 | Then the question for the moralist is this,"Have you ever offended in one point?" |
23096 | Then why not now? |
23096 | They spent the night in the kirk in prayer, when the minister said,"Why not ask God to restore his body?" |
23096 | This appealed to the dying man and he said,"Where shall I read?" |
23096 | V But what must I do to take advantage of all this gracious offer of God? |
23096 | V What is meant by the Spirit not striving? |
23096 | V"_ And the host ran, and cried and fled._"What hosts are against us to- day? |
23096 | Was there ever such a catalogue of mercies? |
23096 | Watts[ Transcriber''s note: Watt?] |
23096 | What hope is there for the moralist when Jesus said,"Except ye be converted"? |
23096 | What if God''s will should be done for but one year in all things in any of our cities; would the result be anything else than perfect joy? |
23096 | What if I had said,"I will decorate the well house that I may change the water?" |
23096 | What if he had hidden behind some great rock and simply waited? |
23096 | What if he had tarried behind some one of those great trees near the city along the way which he should walk, or, possibly on the Emmaus way? |
23096 | What if instead of going out to the scene of his disgraceful death he had waited until after Jesus had risen? |
23096 | What is it, therefore? |
23096 | What should he do with it? |
23096 | When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? |
23096 | When the minister said to the old sea captain,"Why do you do this? |
23096 | Who ever heard of a boy growing in this way? |
23096 | Who ever heard of a doctor who had a prescription for growth? |
23096 | Who knows but one could speak and the other could sing? |
23096 | Who was that Robert? |
23096 | Who, then, would be without it? |
23096 | Why have we not this power of his? |
23096 | Why is not some one in our own land especially working out some of the great plans and purposes of God? |
23096 | Why should God continue when we only spurn his offers of mercy? |
23096 | Why take such a risk?" |
23096 | Will you not come while he calls to- day? |
23096 | With such a work as this, who shall lay anything to the charge of God''s elect? |
23096 | Would God that justifieth do it, or Christ that died consent to it? |
23096 | and he said,"Yes, sir; do you?" |
23096 | and in thy name done many wonderful works?" |
23096 | and in thy name have cast out Devils? |
23096 | and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? |
23096 | who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" |
33515 | And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and said unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? 33515 I say then, hath God cast away His people? |
33515 | Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? |
33515 | _ And what shall I more say? 33515 _ Behold we count them patient which endure._"And who are they? |
33515 | _ Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in._Who is this King of Glory? |
33515 | _ Render unto CÃ ¦ sar the things which are CÃ ¦ sar''s._Why? |
33515 | _ This do, and thou shalt live._What claim can CÃ ¦ sar have on man then, which is not also God''s claim? |
33515 | _ What are these which are arrayed in white robes? 33515 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? 33515 And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? 33515 And what did Jacob win by his birthright-- his rights of the firstborn? 33515 And what does this constructive creative toil imply? 33515 And what has been the history of the kingdom? 33515 And what has been the long and bitter cry of man''s sad history? 33515 And why? 33515 Are slaves and beggars the chief subjects of Messiah''s kingdom? 33515 Are these words part of a curse, or part of a blessing? 33515 Art Thou a king then, poor, worn, tear- stained Outcast, forsaken of every subject, of every friend, in the hour of Thy bitter need? 33515 But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong; didst not thou agree with me for a penny? 33515 But were there truly twelve or thirteen in each case? 33515 But what good did the birthright do to the supplanter who bought it, and filched the blessing with it? 33515 But what matters? 33515 But why should it not end here? 33515 Can anything which is ordained of God be abrogated? 33515 Can the Messiah, the kingly Son of David, be come, while those who follow Him are the world''s outcasts, spoiled, persecuted, and slain? 33515 Can the living God suffer shame, anguish, and death, for such beings as we are, for such a kingdom as this Crucified One maybe able to win? 33515 Can this be the beginning of the kingdom? 33515 Did David, think you, ever look coldly or carelessly on his bold soldier''s bloody grave? 33515 Do not men in all ages tremble as they rejoice in prosperity? 33515 Do not the proverbs of all nations warn us that trouble in such moments is near? 33515 Does God know nothing of them? 33515 Does not Christ in this place seem to recognise some divided allegiance-- man under two masters, owing duty to CÃ ¦ sar, owing duty to God? 33515 For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? 33515 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? 33515 Give us hearts of fire, fire that kindles and flashes from heart to heart, from peak to peak of the human; and what work will wait long for gold? 33515 Have we an eye for that inner glory? 33515 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? 33515 Here is a clear and simple principle: but is it a sufficient guidance? 33515 How about John Hampden''s refusal of the ship- money, and the grand and glorious struggle which it inaugurated, by which our liberties were won? 33515 How about the right of resisting CÃ ¦ sar, when he rules unrighteously? 33515 How did the offence arise? 33515 How does the text decide? 33515 How far am I in contact with idolatry in this eating of meat offered to idols? 33515 How far is the conduct of this great Christian teacher to be regarded as giving the rule to us? 33515 How many Christians understand Christianity better than the Jews understood the Judaism of their times? 33515 How much the pain enters into and exalts the joy, who shall tell? 33515 How say you, careworn, toiling, but rejoicing mothers? 33515 If he is to be counted blessed who works in the vineyard, if his work gladdens, enriches, and ennobles him what room is there for the thought of pay? 33515 If it pleases God to make some men to be saved and other men to be damned, who shall question His rights? 33515 Is it malign or benignant? 33515 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? 33515 Is it, in its very essence, a curse or a blessing to man? 33515 Is not God the sole Lord of his being and of his life? 33515 Is patience no longer beautiful, divine, when it is heaven which has to be waited for, a royal sceptre, an everlasting crown? 33515 Is that tear- stained path He trod, beautiful, transcendently beautiful, in our sight, as it is to the angels and the white- robed choir on high? 33515 Is the solution to be found in the body of the parable, or must we seek it outside in a general study of the ways of God? 33515 Is the symbol of this splendid empire a cross? 33515 Is there not a manifestation of the same law in the history of the universal Church? 33515 Is thine eye evil, because I am good? 33515 Lord, we have seen the seed corn cast into the ground, we have seen it lie there, we have seen it rise, and where is the harvest? 33515 On whom shall we spend our regrets and sorrows? 33515 One would be tempted to ask passionately in that case, Why was not the dire experiment of liberty ended in the hour of the first transgression? 33515 Sons of God, brethren of Christ, citizens of the heavenly state, heirs of everlasting joys and glory, what matters it? 33515 The one question is, Hast thou faith? 33515 The power and the will, said I? 33515 The question is, in which verse of the parable are we to find the key to it? 33515 The tree falls, and who can foresee when it may fall? 33515 Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? 33515 There being this law of calamity at work, defying all calculation and all defence, what is the true policy of life? 33515 Toil may be borne, pain may be borne; but who in his own strength can wrestle with and master care? 33515 Was it not a betrayal of duty to God to consent to it? 33515 Was it not right to suffer any extremities rather than yield to the imperial claims? 33515 Was there no sad shadow, to his eye, around the beauty of Bathsheba''s child, which no murmuredJedidiah"could chase away? |
33515 | Was this His meaning? |
33515 | We may well feel with a wise one of old,"Such knowledge is too wonderful for us: it is as high as heaven, what can we do? |
33515 | What can be CÃ ¦ sar''s, in contradistinction to that which is God''s? |
33515 | What can the pennies in this case mean? |
33515 | What eye can foresee, what brain can forecast, its destiny? |
33515 | What glance can follow it? |
33515 | What good did the birthright do to him? |
33515 | What hand can touch it? |
33515 | What is it which is ordained of God in government? |
33515 | What is its work? |
33515 | What is the Papacy but an endeavour to realize this splendid and prosperous reign of Christ, of which Judaism dreamed? |
33515 | What king''s command could have wrought this miracle? |
33515 | What then? |
33515 | What things are CÃ ¦ sar''s? |
33515 | What things are God''s? |
33515 | What took them there? |
33515 | What tribute can one pay to CÃ ¦ sar, which is not also paid to God? |
33515 | What was the difficulty? |
33515 | Where are the throngs? |
33515 | Where is the kingdom? |
33515 | Where is the throne? |
33515 | Where lie the springs of your sweetest pleasure, where lie the treasures which you would guard with life? |
33515 | Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?_"( Jer. |
33515 | Who are the pitiable ones here? |
33515 | Who has not known something of the agony with which one dark deed of passion, lust, falsehood, knavery, baseness, can torture a human heart? |
33515 | Who has the right to demand it? |
33515 | Who knows the pathway of the storms, the earthquakes, the lava floods, the drought, and the deluge? |
33515 | Who ordains it? |
33515 | Who would not"rather be a dog and bay the moon,"than such a creature? |
33515 | Who would recognise an usurper because he occupies the palace and assumes the signet of the rightful king? |
33515 | Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? |
33515 | Why were these men standing in the market- place? |
33515 | Why were they not lounging idly about the fields, or sleeping at home? |
33515 | Will he not be puzzled perpetually to determine their limits, and to settle what is secular and what is sacred? |
33515 | and whence came they?" |
33515 | does it provide for all the possible exigencies of social and political life? |
33515 | it is as deep as hell, what can we know?" |
33515 | what can withhold the waters from rotting it, and burying the promise of the seed and the hope of the husbandman in their depths? |
33515 | where is it? |
33515 | who can trace it? |
33515 | who knows and rules their times? |
33515 | why was not the free universe, parent of such wrongs and miseries, strangled in its birth? |
16309 | How can these be in a Society that is Divine? 16309 Why is not the religion of you Catholics more in accord with the happy world in which we live? |
16309 | Am I even within an appreciable distance of the saints who knew not Christ? |
16309 | And could religion possibly be made a more intimate, private, and personal matter between the soul and God than the Carthusian or Carmelite makes it? |
16309 | And what can the moderate, self- controlled, self- respecting man of the world know of either? |
16309 | And yet, after all, what is the Contemplative Life except precisely that which the world just now recommended? |
16309 | Are any kings remembered as is the beggar Labrà © who gnawed cabbage stalks in the gutters of Rome? |
16309 | Are there any criminals in history so monumental as Catholic criminals? |
16309 | But the Catholic system has the appearance of enslaving men? |
16309 | But the world does withhold its wealth sometimes? |
16309 | Can this, it is asked, be a follower of the Man of Sorrows? |
16309 | Can you explain away,_ reasonably_, on any other grounds than those which I state, the phenomena of My life?" |
16309 | Certainly human circumstances have developed her, yet what but Divine Providence ordered and developed those human circumstances? |
16309 | Certainly there have been appalling scandals, outrageous sinners, blaspheming apostates-- but what of her saints? |
16309 | Death is certain; is life as certain? |
16309 | Did He not call Himself_ a Door and a Vine_? |
16309 | Did He not speak in metaphors and images continually? |
16309 | Did Newman cease to think when he became a Catholic? |
16309 | Did Thomas Aquinas resign his intellect when he devoted himself to study? |
16309 | Did not Christ Himself sit in bodily form at the table as He spoke them? |
16309 | Earthly kings speak from their thrones and what happens? |
16309 | For how can God be weary by the wayside, labour in a shop, and die upon a cross? |
16309 | For what does the world know of such passions as these? |
16309 | For when is my hand most itself? |
16309 | Granted that one Pope has reversed the policy of his predecessor, then what has saved him from reversing his theology also? |
16309 | Has her policy, then, been so suicidal after all? |
16309 | Has my religion, that is to say, ever inspired me beyond the low elevation of joy into the august altitudes of pain? |
16309 | Have I done anything except hinder the growth of Christ''s Church, anything except drag down her standards, so far as I am able, to my own low level? |
16309 | Have I ever wrestled like Jacob or wept like David? |
16309 | Have your religious, careful, timid lives ever exhibited anything resembling that depth of self- abjection to which the Younger Son has attained? |
16309 | He echoes from the Gospel,"_ What manner of man is this that even the winds and the sea obey Him_? |
16309 | He was too worldly when He allowed His disciples to rub corn in their hands; for does not the Law of God forbid a man to make bread on the Sabbath? |
16309 | He was too worldly when He healed men on the Sabbath; for is not the Law of God of more value than a man''s bodily ease? |
16309 | How can Truth make men anything except more free? |
16309 | How can she modify what she believes to be her Divine Message? |
16309 | How can the Eternal Word be silent for thirty years? |
16309 | How can the Infinite lie in a manger? |
16309 | How can the Source of Life be subject to death? |
16309 | How is it conceivable, then, that she should be content with any standard short of perfection? |
16309 | How is it that she has preserved a unity of which all earthly unities are but shadows? |
16309 | How is it that tales are told of the iniquities of Catholicism such as are told of no other of the sects of Christendom? |
16309 | How should there be, since she is Divine? |
16309 | How then could He hold Himself in His hand? |
16309 | How, after all,"he asks himself,"could a man be born without a human father, how rise again from the dead upon the third day?" |
16309 | How, then, is this Paradox to be reconciled? |
16309 | If Christ be God, how can He proclaim that_ His Father is greater than He_? |
16309 | If Christ be Man, how can He say,_ Before Abraham was, I am_? |
16309 | If Christ be man, how can He say,_ My Father and I are one_? |
16309 | If a marble palace is fit for the President of the French Republic, by what right do men withhold it from the King of kings? |
16309 | If an earthly king wears vestments of cloth of gold, must not a heavenly King yet more wear them? |
16309 | If music is used by the world to destroy men''s souls, may not she use it to save their souls? |
16309 | If she is Divine, whence comes her obvious Humanity? |
16309 | If she is Human, why is she so evidently Divine? |
16309 | If she is merely European, how is it that she alone can deal with the Oriental on his own terms? |
16309 | If she is merely human, why do not the laws of all other human societies appear to affect her too? |
16309 | If she is merely mediaeval, how is it that she commands such allegiance as that which is paid to her in modern America? |
16309 | If this Man were man only, however perfect and sublime, how is it that His sanctity appears to run by other lines than those of other saints? |
16309 | In His Person and His teaching alike there seems no rest and no solution--_What think ye of Christ? |
16309 | Instead of this miserable past, then, what is to come? |
16309 | Instead, have you not had a kind of gentle pride in your religion or your virtue or your fastidiousness? |
16309 | Is Reason, then, to be silent henceforth? |
16309 | Is it any wonder that the world thinks both her Faith and Reason alike too extreme? |
16309 | Is it possible that with me the old is not put away, the_ old man_ is not yet dead, and the_ new man_ not yet_ put on_? |
16309 | Is that New Sacrifice the light of my daily life? |
16309 | Is there a single soul now in the world who owes, under God, her conversion to my efforts? |
16309 | Is there any nation with so fierce a patriotism as she who is Supernational? |
16309 | Is this the kind of talk that we hear from modern leaders of religious thought? |
16309 | Now is it not in accordance with Reason that you should grant My claims? |
16309 | Or,"How even could such marvels be related at all of one who was no more than other men?" |
16309 | She is human? |
16309 | So men ask now, If Christ be Man, how could He cast out devils and rise from the dead? |
16309 | So years ago men asked, If Christ be God, how could He be weary by the wayside and die upon the Cross? |
16309 | Was there ever anything more arrogant? |
16309 | Was there ever so mean a Procession as this? |
16309 | Was there ever such a Paradox, such perplexity, and such problems? |
16309 | Was there ever such meekness and charity? |
16309 | Were men less free when they learned that fact? |
16309 | What is it but Catholicism that lies at the heart of the divided allegiance of France, of the miseries of Portugal, and of the dissensions of Italy? |
16309 | What is that power that so often fills us with delights before we have begun to labour, and rewards our labour with the darkness of dereliction? |
16309 | What is the use of saying,_ Blessed are the Meek_, when the whole world knows that"Blessed are the Self- Assertive"? |
16309 | What is the use of speaking of Heavenly Bread when it is earthly food that men need first of all? |
16309 | What kind of life is that which must always be checked and stunted in this fashion? |
16309 | What kind of salvation can there be that can only be purchased by the sacrifice of so much that is noble and inspiring? |
16309 | What of that amazing scene when He threw the furniture about the temple courts? |
16309 | What, after all, can the sensualist know of joy, or the ruined financier of sorrow? |
16309 | What, then, is Religious Liberty? |
16309 | What, then, is the reconciliation of the Paradox? |
16309 | What, then, is the reconciliation of this Paradox? |
16309 | What, then, is this foolish cry about the slavery of dogma? |
16309 | When does He not? |
16309 | When separated from the body, by paralysis or amputation? |
16309 | Where is there, in me, the New Wine of the Gospel? |
16309 | Who that has suffered can ever doubt it again? |
16309 | Whose Son is He_? |
16309 | Why can He not wait till to- morrow? |
16309 | Why has not she too split up into the component parts of which she is welded? |
16309 | Why is it that she alone shows no incline towards dissolution and decay? |
16309 | Why, then, should your theologians seek to penetrate into regions which He did not reveal and to elaborate what He left unelaborated? |
16309 | Would such language as this be tolerated for a moment from the humanitarian Christian pulpits of to- day? |
16309 | Yet is there in me, up to the present, even one glimmer of what is meant by Sanctity? |
16309 | _ Which of you convinceth me of sin?... |
16309 | _ Whom do you say that I am?... |
8191 | What is that? |
8191 | Who is that-- what did you do? |
8191 | Why did you kiss me? 8191 _ His death?_"Has not the thought more often before us been to conform to_ His life_? |
8191 | _ His death?_Has not the thought more often before us been to conform to_ His life_? |
8191 | _ My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?_Here is a great mystery. |
8191 | A gentle reproach was certainly implied in the words,"Could ye not watch with Me one hour?" |
8191 | A life of selfish ease, or a life of following the Son of Man? |
8191 | Ah, Colonel, Captain, Sergeant, leaders all, whatever name you bear, do you want to lead and rule the people whom God has given you as a charge? |
8191 | All the powers and qualities of your nature growing towards maturity,_ except the powers of your soul_? |
8191 | Am I wrong when I say that JESUS IS THE COMING KING? |
8191 | And did not both the former come out of the latter? |
8191 | And is it not in this same fashion and for this same purpose that Christ is to be formed in us? |
8191 | And is the Lord a man, that He should be behind us in loving with an everlasting love those who thus give up and deny their own loves for Him? |
8191 | And we who know what it means to be loved of Him, what can we say? |
8191 | And would it not transform many of the darkest stretches of our earthly journey into bright memorials of the infinite wisdom and goodness of our God? |
8191 | Are they not buried with Him? |
8191 | Are they not gone on before? |
8191 | Are they not ours still? |
8191 | Are we found asking the old question about sitting on the twelve thrones, judging those around us, and sharing in some way the royal glory of a King? |
8191 | Are we not theirs as really as ever? |
8191 | Are you a self- denying disciple? |
8191 | Are you appointed to serve in what seems like a den of beasts? |
8191 | Are you chained fast to some strange trial? |
8191 | Are you labouring to be a king without the Divine anointing? |
8191 | Are you made to feel helpless and useless without the support of those around you? |
8191 | Are you seeking thus after reasons for making the wrong done to you appear pardonable? |
8191 | Are you so journeying? |
8191 | Are you striving to be a prophet without possessing the spirit of the prophets? |
8191 | Are you trying to be a priest without the priestly baptism? |
8191 | Are you under the compulsion of some injustice? |
8191 | Are you"bound"in some way? |
8191 | Are_ you_ in either of these classes? |
8191 | At My girdle hang the keys of life and death; I, even I, was dead; yes, really, cruelly dead; but I am alive for evermore"? |
8191 | But how, and in what, are we to grow? |
8191 | But is there not also here a suggestion of something more? |
8191 | But what is this sin, the consciousness of which is thus forced upon all-- this determined, persistent, active evil? |
8191 | But what of His rule? |
8191 | By what agency does He extend His_ authority_ until it becomes_ control_? |
8191 | By what, then, does He rule? |
8191 | Can they give peace when it is too late to undo what sin has done? |
8191 | Can they silence the clamours of the night? |
8191 | Can you ever be again content to remain little and narrow, with interests and affections that are little and narrow also? |
8191 | Can you ever be again the same since you learned that He loved you? |
8191 | Can you say He is thus dwelling in you, and working in you, to will and to do of His good pleasure? |
8191 | Comrade, what are you? |
8191 | Conscious of advance, but not of victory? |
8191 | Dear comrade and friend, are you taking care that the Divine Life in you shall grow after this Christ- like fashion? |
8191 | Dear friend, are you"becoming conformed unto His death"? |
8191 | Did I say that sorrow was the commonest of all human experiences? |
8191 | Did ever babe open eyes on such a topsy- turvy condition of affairs? |
8191 | Did we think it would be otherwise? |
8191 | Did we, do we, sometimes wonder why the road is so rough, and the burden so heavy, and the sky so dark? |
8191 | Do I, then, discourage good works? |
8191 | Do you ever pray?" |
8191 | Do you know any of them? |
8191 | Do you really believe it? |
8191 | Do you think it has strength to hold_ them_? |
8191 | Do you think, then, that He will leave them behind? |
8191 | For what says the Apostle? |
8191 | Has man no part to play in his own deliverance? |
8191 | Has not that been the chief influence which has drawn men to Him, and held them in His service? |
8191 | Has not your freedom in prayer, and your desire for it, wavered between this and that until you have not known what to think of yourself? |
8191 | Has not your joy been often so quickly turned to sorrow that you have wondered how you yourself could be the same person? |
8191 | Have I forgotten that"faith without works is dead"? |
8191 | Have you come to this? |
8191 | Have you, my friend, not had to mourn over some strange changes? |
8191 | His exalted throne? |
8191 | His majesty? |
8191 | His royal lineage? |
8191 | How do they meet remorse? |
8191 | How do they treat with guilt? |
8191 | How is it possible we should ever be conformed to such a wonder of love and power? |
8191 | How much of gloom and shadow has come down on hearts and households I have known, from the persistency of that"Why?" |
8191 | How shall he withstand temptation? |
8191 | How, then, is it with you? |
8191 | If Calvary and the Resurrection reveal His power, does not Bethlehem make manifest His love? |
8191 | Indeed, might we not say of a great deal in us, which to- day is, that to- morrow it will be cast away for ever? |
8191 | Is he, after all, only an animal-- the mere creature of circumstance and natural law? |
8191 | Is it His divine purity, His kingly holiness, His might as the supreme Sovereign whose law is good? |
8191 | Is it for any human thing we seek? |
8191 | Is it not to something of the same kind we are called? |
8191 | Is it ours? |
8191 | Is not that the lesson of His burial for every one who sorrows for the loss of loved ones called up higher? |
8191 | Is there no appeal to you to- day from that hill side, without the city wall? |
8191 | Is there not a lesson here for us, my comrade? |
8191 | Is there not a lesson in her example? |
8191 | Is there not a point for us, also, at which we may pass over the line of uncertainty or reserve in our offering, saying for ever-- it is finished? |
8191 | Is there not something here for us? |
8191 | Is there not something that should answer to this in the lives of many of His disciples? |
8191 | Living, so to speak, out of your element-- like a fish out of water? |
8191 | May I offer one or two thoughts on the subject, which, though quite simple, have proved of blessing to my own heart? |
8191 | Nay, what is it all but to tread in the very steps that the Master trod? |
8191 | Now, when we are called upon to suffer in the same way, may we not be brought into very intimate fellowship with Jesus? |
8191 | Of what use could it be to become an Officer, in order to seek the many, if God did not hearken to her cry for the few? |
8191 | Oh, why should it be? |
8191 | On what is His_ rule_ based? |
8191 | Ought I not to have said_ temptation_? |
8191 | Ought he to offer himself for Officership in The Army? |
8191 | Shall we complain because the servant is not above his Lord? |
8191 | The devotee of your own self? |
8191 | The real question for us then is, Can our religion-- does our religion, when tried by the test of human experience-- afford any remedy for these? |
8191 | The servant of a high ideal, but without_ liberty_? |
8191 | To many, even among the chosen spirits of the household of faith, approaching death also starts the great"_ Why_?" |
8191 | To what does He owe the influence He exercises in the minds and hearts of multitudes of these little ones? |
8191 | To whom, then, did our Lord speak on the tree, and what spake He? |
8191 | V. Are_ you_ dead? |
8191 | Was it His dominion from sea to sea? |
8191 | Was it His sovereign throne of power? |
8191 | Was it even His victory over death and His kingly conquest of the grave? |
8191 | Was it her affair? |
8191 | Was it worth while, after all, troubling about sinners? |
8191 | We are, I know, saved by faith; but how shall we believe unless we hear? |
8191 | What about you? |
8191 | What are they in their actual effect on the memories and consciences of men in relation to their sin? |
8191 | What avail is it to contradict those who can answer,"Hereby we know that we dwell in Him, and He in us, because He hath given us of His Spirit"? |
8191 | What do we need? |
8191 | What is it in Jesus Christ that calls the sorely- tempted one to Him? |
8191 | What is the crying agony of our prayers? |
8191 | What is the secret longing of our hearts? |
8191 | What of the thing itself? |
8191 | What special thoughts and beauties of His soul do His words reveal? |
8191 | What was the secret of His influence over them? |
8191 | What, then? |
8191 | Who can think, even now, without a thrill of unmixed delight, of the reunions of those who for long weary years were separated here? |
8191 | Why should she care? |
8191 | Will not you? |
8191 | Will they ever be quite the same? |
8191 | Will they not have lost something? |
8191 | Will you be one? |
8191 | Will you come and join in our great world- mission of making His atonement known? |
8191 | Will you learn of Him? |
8191 | Will_ you_ not have His Cross? |
8191 | With those blessed words of hope and peace in my ears, how can I ever fear that one could be so vile, so far away, so nearly lost, as to cry in vain? |
8191 | Would not this add a whole world of joy to the glory which shall be revealed? |
8191 | You see the lesson? |
8191 | _ Is it not by His compassion_? |
8191 | _ Is it not so_? |
8191 | _ Is it yours_? |
8191 | _ What, then, shall it be that is finished_? |
8191 | and how shall we hear without a preacher? |
8191 | and is there an echo of murmuring at these bonds and infirmities and drudgeries of daily duty and common sorrow? |
8191 | depend upon it, the twentieth century will cry aloud,"_ What shall be done with our sin_?" |
8191 | in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin"? |
44441 | And what, forsooth, have you there? 44441 How,"he asks,"can a man be born when he is old? |
44441 | Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? |
44441 | Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it,''Why hast thou made me thus?'' |
44441 | Shall there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it? |
44441 | Should I have been better prepared, sir,the sailor answered,"if I had shirked my duty?" |
44441 | Tell me, father-- tell me, mother, what is there beyond the sky? |
44441 | Were you ready to die that you jumped into the stormy sea to save that child''s life? |
44441 | What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? 44441 What is liberty?" |
44441 | Again, young men go that they may get forward faster than in old communities-- and who can wonder? |
44441 | Am I to pray for physical blessings and deliverances? |
44441 | Am I to pray only to be made wise, and good, and pure, and true, and holy? |
44441 | Am I to pray then( for men do tell me that I may pray) only for spiritual and for moral gifts? |
44441 | Am I to pray to a law? |
44441 | Am I to pray to a system? |
44441 | Am I to pray to the winds, or to the waves, as men prayed of old? |
44441 | And are you and I exceptions? |
44441 | And does He give comfort to His creatures in order to torment them by its removal? |
44441 | And if He was more than a man shall we not take His own testimony as to His dignity and mission? |
44441 | And is it not so in the spiritual world? |
44441 | And is that all? |
44441 | And now we have seen these, we turn to the third portion of our story; and what is that we see there? |
44441 | And now we turn to the second scene, and what have we there? |
44441 | And the bewildered soul sings:-- And can this mighty King Of glory condescend? |
44441 | And what caused this calamity? |
44441 | And what have we got? |
44441 | And what is equal in persuasive power to the simple utterance of your own intense conviction? |
44441 | And what is the record of our race since? |
44441 | And what mean those wonderful words of His, telling of His intimacy, His sonship, His oneness with the invisible and eternal God? |
44441 | And will He write His name My Father, and my Friend? |
44441 | Are we pilgrims and strangers, worn and weary in our search for the home from which we are exiles? |
44441 | Are we soldiers, beset with foes and required to endure the shocks of battle? |
44441 | Are we voyagers upon a troubled and a dangerous sea? |
44441 | As, then, we turn over the pages of the Bible, must we not say,"The wind of heaven bloweth where it listeth"? |
44441 | But are we, after all, so very helpless before the aggregate of these mighty forces, as materialism loves to represent? |
44441 | But attempt to tell him that beyond is nothing, and not even room for anything, and will he believe you? |
44441 | But can we lay down directions about this and offer suggestions? |
44441 | But how is it in foul weather? |
44441 | But is this any reason for a fierce arraignment of nature, as tho she were execrably ruthless, and execrably indifferent? |
44441 | But is this any reason why we should look on ourselves as victims of dead irresponsible forces? |
44441 | But the Bible asked the question, more than thirty centuries ago,"Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades?" |
44441 | But the question may arise, can we know the precepts and the statutes that God has given to us? |
44441 | But what beyond? |
44441 | By what arithmetic is such a balance cast? |
44441 | Can he enter a second time into his mother''s womb, and be born?" |
44441 | Can we do no better, after so long a time? |
44441 | Can we wonder if the Judge should say to them when they appear at His seat,"I never knew you"? |
44441 | Could it be, perhaps, that such an one might bring us nearer to the inaccessible Light-- might help us to draw nigh as seeing Him who is invisible? |
44441 | Did He not know it all a hundred thousand ages ago, or ever the earth was?" |
44441 | Did the stranger go with the man to the pool, and keep his eye upon him while he was there? |
44441 | Did the stranger who told the tale know the beggar who was said to have been cured? |
44441 | Do I need to describe these bad ways to you? |
44441 | Do we delight in what strengthened Him? |
44441 | Do we then complain in affliction? |
44441 | Does God, then, build up in order to destroy? |
44441 | Does it not gather all the world in the sweep of its mighty purpose of mercy? |
44441 | Does our work rest upon the basis of inward fellowship with God which underlay His? |
44441 | Does the Bible care about weary people? |
44441 | Does the wind then obey no rule; is it a mere symbol of unfettered caprice? |
44441 | Dost Thou sleep, Lord? |
44441 | For each of us, my hearers, this is the question of questions,"What shall I do with Jesus which is called Christ?" |
44441 | For what reason was there this unusual emotion ere He spoke the word which cleansed? |
44441 | For what reason was there this unwonted slowness in Christ''s healing works? |
44441 | Had Bartimeus considered all these difficulties? |
44441 | Had the stranger examined his eyes the very morning of the day on which he received sight? |
44441 | Have we obeyed or have we disobeyed? |
44441 | Have you ever pondered that dark mystery of human nature, the origin of the frightful idolatries of India? |
44441 | Have you ever realized, with heartfelt gratitude to God, the priceless boon which He has granted to this generation in the diminution of pain? |
44441 | Have you not sometimes wished that you could have had that hundred and fifty- fourth fish? |
44441 | He knoweth it altogether? |
44441 | His voice pierced then into the dull cold ear of death, and has it become weaker since? |
44441 | How can we do it? |
44441 | How do we talk? |
44441 | How is that? |
44441 | How is that?--the words exactly the same, the notes identical-- how? |
44441 | How long has it been since the doctrine of the rotundity of the earth has been settled by scientific men? |
44441 | I must do the one or the other; and yet how many are seeking, like Pilate, to evade the question? |
44441 | If God afflicts, how foolish it is to go to the world for relief? |
44441 | If He was only a man, how shall we explain them? |
44441 | Is he to cease to believe in Christ? |
44441 | Is it less mighty or less loving now? |
44441 | Is it upon the misers and the miscreants and the murderers of the race merely? |
44441 | Is the world greater than God? |
44441 | Is there not the most complete demand for the punishment? |
44441 | Is there the slightest claim in us for the reward? |
44441 | It seems as if we might apprehend either of these things singly; but both together-- how can it be? |
44441 | Might not one man have been sent to the pool, and another man have come back to Jerusalem? |
44441 | Now, speaking roughly, what has been the motive for the great Western wave, which is making this garden out of that desert? |
44441 | Now, ye scientific men, what made that gourd wither? |
44441 | On whom does the Judge show his indignation? |
44441 | On whom does the fire fall? |
44441 | Perchance we explain the immediate antecedents of the phenomenon; but can we explain our own explanation? |
44441 | Say, will you learn it? |
44441 | Shall I reject Him and live precisely as if I had never heard His name? |
44441 | Shall we neglect it and pass it by, or shall we take it, study it, seek it, as the verse expresses it, and make it the rule of our lives? |
44441 | The criticism may be vigorous; he may be wholly unable to answer it: but what then? |
44441 | The question of Pilate,"What shall I do, then, with Jesus which is called the Christ?" |
44441 | The sending of the blind man to wash at the Pool of Siloam was suspicious: what could that washing have to do with a miracle? |
44441 | Then, if we are not to pray, may we at least praise? |
44441 | Thou art a ruin, but a grand one,--the majestic ruin of a majestic edifice, for knowest thou not that thou wast the temple of God? |
44441 | To what am I to pray if I see no living God to pray to? |
44441 | To whom is it that we pray? |
44441 | Was it certain that the man was blind? |
44441 | Was it certain that the vision was not gradually returning? |
44441 | Was it not more probable that the stranger''s story should be false than that the miracle should be true? |
44441 | Was it quite certain that the blind beggar who was sent to Siloam was the man who came back to the city and declared that Jesus had healed him? |
44441 | Well, is that all science can say? |
44441 | What did the Spaniards find there? |
44441 | What do we need, then, but Christ the Son of God, the Heart of God, the Love of God? |
44441 | What do we need, then? |
44441 | What is it we see in the first scene? |
44441 | What is it, then, that we see? |
44441 | What is the distinction of the race to which we belong, that it succeeds where these have failed? |
44441 | What is the need of flowers? |
44441 | What is the secret of this influence of Scripture? |
44441 | What proportion of our property should we devote to God? |
44441 | What shall we do with His word? |
44441 | What sin in the whole catalog of sin has been omitted by man? |
44441 | What was it that drew that sigh from the heart of Jesus? |
44441 | Wherefore, then, this unwonted squeamishness of conscience? |
44441 | Why all this reluctance on his part to send Jesus to the cross? |
44441 | Why are the cities of Europe horrified no longer by the hideousness of medieval leprosy? |
44441 | Why can you sing? |
44441 | Why did He do it if there was no need of it, if it were even possible that it should be wrested from its meaning? |
44441 | Why do we not have pestilence, like that great plague of London, which destroyed 7,165 persons in a single week? |
44441 | Why does the Black Death rage no longer, as it raged among the monks of this Abbey four centuries ago? |
44441 | Why has jail fever disappeared? |
44441 | Why has smallpox been stayed in its loathly ravages, and deprived of its hideous power? |
44441 | Why should he? |
44441 | Why so? |
44441 | Why then, again we ask, was his perplexity? |
44441 | Why? |
44441 | Will he pay-- will he''make good''--on the investment if he becomes a drinker? |
44441 | Would it not be well for Bartimeus to suspend his faith in Jesus until he had made further inquiries about the miracle? |
44441 | Yet what do we really know about it? |
44441 | You would lay before God your wretched plight to move His pity? |
44441 | behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?" |
44441 | or shall I accept Him as the Lord from heaven in human nature, trust in Him as my Savior, and obey Him as my King? |
44441 | says science; drag God in to explain anything? |
44441 | to Him to save us, and He has seemed to sleep and to refuse to save? |
22482 | Do you think him beyond further effort? |
22482 | If ye love them who love you, what do ye more than others? |
22482 | Is Saul also among the prophets? |
22482 | Know ye not that whoever will be the friend of the world is the enemy of God? |
22482 | To you is it nothing, all ye that pass by? |
22482 | What is there in him or about him to explain his success? |
22482 | What must I do to be saved? |
22482 | What must I do to be saved? |
22482 | You have been told,says Jesus,"to love your neighbour"; and to the question,"Who is my neighbour?" |
22482 | ''WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?'' |
22482 | A DEVIL''S TRINITY"Know ye not that ye are a temple of God?" |
22482 | And how are we to get it into our possession? |
22482 | And how is it redeemed, even in the case of the latter? |
22482 | And is it not true? |
22482 | And so when the people exclaimed in astonishment:"Is Saul also among the prophets?" |
22482 | And then the further question forced itself-- Why, in so many cases, and to all human seeming, is it just that-- nothing? |
22482 | And what about feeling or emotion, which is usually represented as a vital part of the driving power of Christian life and conduct? |
22482 | And what can not love do? |
22482 | And what does God love in us? |
22482 | And what does it mean when these men are, by the acknowledgment of public sentiment, the representatives of what is called"legitimate business"? |
22482 | And who is responsible for it? |
22482 | And why are they so patient? |
22482 | And why do they not choose? |
22482 | Are they always sure of that? |
22482 | As we can settle nothing but ourselves, why not settle ourselves as comfortably as we can?" |
22482 | But does that which wakes love put it there? |
22482 | But how far is that? |
22482 | But how few people, past a given age, ever do quite conquer the inward foes whose sinister power is of their own cultivation? |
22482 | But how much may have been done, for better or for worse, before we realize that the angels have gone away only because they were never here? |
22482 | But some one must speak, and to whom does the duty fall, if not upon him whose calling it is to stand between the quick and the dead? |
22482 | But this is the question: Have they who compose this lonely and sombre procession no claims upon their Maker in the meanwhile? |
22482 | But what proportion do they bear to the legions who, once in Ur of the Chaldees, have neither thought nor desire for a better country? |
22482 | But what, in the next place, is our part in this matter? |
22482 | But what, you ask me, are we to say about sudden conversions, of which we once heard so much, and which we are still taught to seek and expect? |
22482 | But when this is said, the surest and simplest answer to the question, What is it in ourselves we are to love? |
22482 | But who is thy neighbour? |
22482 | But why pile up the odds, that start you never will; or that you will not go far if you do? |
22482 | Can I help you? |
22482 | Can we conceive of it as having any part in the economy of the Kingdom which Jesus came to establish on the earth? |
22482 | Can we marvel why the Christ is still despised and rejected? |
22482 | DOES GOD HAVE FAIR- PLAY? |
22482 | Do we desire life? |
22482 | Do we think that God wills it? |
22482 | Do we want to be saved? |
22482 | Do you believe the first part of this statement? |
22482 | Do you say that you have felt nothing of this convicting and convincing power? |
22482 | Does any one say, I ask again, that he has never had this impulse? |
22482 | For what? |
22482 | From what, I repeat, are we to be saved? |
22482 | Has God been faithful to us; and if so, are we justified in assuming that the same faithfulness is the experience of others? |
22482 | Have we never known lives changed, and indeed transformed by a new affection? |
22482 | Have we to explain to a child the mechanism of its limbs before it can attempt to walk? |
22482 | Have we to wait for something, or have we to do something to make it a real experience? |
22482 | Have you ever tried to know yourself even as you are known? |
22482 | How is this power to come? |
22482 | How many of us have read this man''s life- finish? |
22482 | How may we give the words a useful setting, as a remembrancer and a call to the young men of to- day? |
22482 | How often is it that their chance has been and gone, without their knowing it? |
22482 | How, to use a better term, are we to realize it? |
22482 | I may not be able to explain His grace to the satisfaction of others; but will others explain me to my own?" |
22482 | IX''WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?'' |
22482 | If as the beginning is, so must the end be, what are we to say of a man''s will? |
22482 | If it be asked:"Why the possibility at all?" |
22482 | If this is so, how are we to read those old words that"chance happeneth to them all"? |
22482 | If, then, these latter remarks can carry the weight I want them to bear, what of those that have preceded them? |
22482 | In the meantime, then, instead of asking, how can God be God and permit wrong to be in the world? |
22482 | In weariness and despair we ask:"Why should we war with evil? |
22482 | In what sense is a man to love himself? |
22482 | Instead of multiplying words to no profit over the old question, Why all this misery and suffering? |
22482 | Is it possible to do it? |
22482 | Is it possible, then, to bring down this command and incarnate it in our daily life? |
22482 | Is it wrong to cultivate and indulge a habit that inevitably leads to bad results? |
22482 | Is some new thing added to life? |
22482 | Is there anything mysterious in this; anything we may not understand? |
22482 | It is because we can do wrong that we can do right; and if we think about this, may we not think hopefully? |
22482 | It is to take the sting of death out of the old evil question:"Who does it?" |
22482 | It was a message, so he felt, to shake men, to arouse them, and make them turn on one another and cry:"Men and brethren, what must we do?" |
22482 | Long as men are willingly in their sin-- which means selfishness in all its deadly forms-- can we wonder at the unbelief portrayed on that canvas? |
22482 | May I counsel you to think about what has been said? |
22482 | Must it annex the whole low plane of such a squalid disposition? |
22482 | Must my love for my neighbour include one callous enough, not only to do a thing like that, but to boast about it? |
22482 | Now is your accepted time--"Are you in earnest? |
22482 | Put religion out of the question, and do we find that the prizes of the world offer us easier terms? |
22482 | Rather will it be, Who can afford not to do it? |
22482 | SELF- RESPECT AND COMPANIONSHIPS"Is Saul also among the prophets?" |
22482 | Should any one ask,"Who does it?" |
22482 | So long as men are indifferent about the very question, Why that anguish? |
22482 | Strong in what sense? |
22482 | Take any wrong that happens to appeal to your sense of indignation, and ask why it continues? |
22482 | That circumstances may use him, but they shall not make him? |
22482 | That sounds formidable, but to what does it amount? |
22482 | The battle is hard, at times very hard, but what battle is not hard that is worth winning? |
22482 | Their meaning is better represented in a question like this:"How comes a person of such distinction to find himself in such disreputable company?" |
22482 | Then I ask: Have you ever passed through an hour of serious inquest with your own soul? |
22482 | Then about feeling: Is there one of us who can say, that he, or she, has never had the impulse that should lead to Christian decision? |
22482 | Then what about the end? |
22482 | This hints to us the answer to the question, Have we to do something that salvation may become a known and felt reality? |
22482 | Unless this be so, what are we to say of the multitudes which sit in darkness and the shadow of death? |
22482 | Very well, take the initial letter from the word, and what have you left? |
22482 | Was He original in His teaching, as we use the word, or was He eclectic, gathering together the most luminous things that had been said? |
22482 | We are to be saved from what? |
22482 | We say:"How does this come to pass? |
22482 | Were not the mighty men of the great nineteenth century aged men, if we count age only by shadows on the dial? |
22482 | What are we to say about the power and working of divine grace? |
22482 | What can make me whole again? |
22482 | What is the difference between the two? |
22482 | What is the explanation?" |
22482 | What of that? |
22482 | What other proof of wrong does a right- minded person ask? |
22482 | What was that cause? |
22482 | What was the fashioning hand behind the effect? |
22482 | What, I ask again, can not love do? |
22482 | What, I ask in all faithfulness, are we doing to make real and living to men the presence of a Lord who is ever suffering in their sin and for it? |
22482 | What, or where, is the wrong in such a transaction?" |
22482 | What, then, is our testimony? |
22482 | While always trying to think fairly, and even generously about others, have you the right to think well of yourselves? |
22482 | While there is life, does there ever come a time when it is no longer true to say that out of it can pass the old, or into it can come the new? |
22482 | Why is it that a few have so much more than they can use, and so many have less than they need? |
22482 | Why is it that they do not come unto Him that they may have life? |
22482 | Why should they be so chronically patient? |
22482 | Why should they be so long ignorant? |
22482 | Why should you not? |
22482 | Why wait, then, for what is waiting for us? |
22482 | Why? |
22482 | Will he show that kicked he may be, but ball he is not? |
22482 | Would you hold me true in saying that anybody might have anticipated the discovery of wireless telegraphy? |
22482 | X DOES GOD HAVE FAIR- PLAY? |
22482 | X DOES GOD HAVE FAIR- PLAY? |
22482 | and into what are we to be saved? |
22482 | in what does it get its lease of existence? |
22482 | they did not mean:"How is it that such a worldly- minded man finds himself in the company of such pious people?" |
22482 | vain is the appeal,"To you is it nothing your Saviour should die?" |
12746 | And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? |
12746 | Dear Dick, pr''ythee tell by what passion you move? 12746 The Dean and his merits we every one know, But this skip of a lawyer, where the de''il did he grow? |
12746 | ( 3) Which is the way to stop an offence? |
12746 | ( 7) Of what? |
12746 | ***** And behold a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? |
12746 | 13 For He the artillery directs, What''s that charge? |
12746 | 2 And see who would His being own, What other way is And Him, as God, adore: there of adoring? |
12746 | 2 Lest, like a ravenous lion, they What sort of lions are My captive soul devour, they that devour souls? |
12746 | 2 Sincere, and just, who never lie;_ 3 And so their neighbour ne''er deceive, How_ so_? |
12746 | 2 True mutual kindness they pretend, Did ever any man pretend mutual kindness to another? |
12746 | 8 And to the world from thence ordains( 7) Did anybody ever Impartial equity:(7) hear of_ partial_ equity? |
12746 | And hears when I( 4) complain:( 4) If your requests be granted, why do you complain? |
12746 | And how little good ground would there be to take it? |
12746 | And must these two articles be added henceforward in our national quarrels? |
12746 | And so St Paul concludes,"The powers that be are ordained of God:"For what? |
12746 | And then, for whose sakes do you think it is, that your leaders are so industrious to put into your heads all that party rage and virulence? |
12746 | And why should God be deprived of this right over a Catholic''s conscience any more than over that of any other Dissenter? |
12746 | And, if it should here be objected, Why does not Christianity still produce the same effects? |
12746 | Are the secrets of our families betrayed, and evil repute spread of us? |
12746 | Are they not the majority of both Houses of Parliament? |
12746 | Are they seduced to lewdness or scandalous marriages? |
12746 | Are we engaged in quarrels and misunderstandings with our neighbours? |
12746 | Are we robbed and murdered in our beds? |
12746 | Are_ they_ more just in their dealings? |
12746 | But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour? |
12746 | But of Thy face to us do Thou What is it, to The favour still dispense; dispense the favour of his face? |
12746 | But, from what motives? |
12746 | But, if they have a preacher, and make it a point of wit or breeding not to hear him, what remedy is left? |
12746 | Did any of them ever shew the least reluctance, or make any exception against their officers, whether they were Dissenters or Churchmen? |
12746 | Did ever any conforming gentlemen, or common people, refuse to be arrayed, when the militia was raised, upon the invasion of the Pretender? |
12746 | Did they ever refuse the oath of abjuration, or support any conforming nonjuring teachers in their congregations? |
12746 | Do false accusers rise up against us( an evil too frequent in this country)? |
12746 | Do on themselves return:( 4)( 3) If the mischiefs be in their mind, what need they return on themselves? |
12746 | Do our children discover folly, malice, pride, cruelty, revenge, undutifulness in their words and actions? |
12746 | Do they consider how mixed a thing is every audience, whose taste and judgment differ, perhaps, every day, not only from each other, but themselves? |
12746 | Do_ they_ lead better moral lives than a good Christian? |
12746 | Does not this sound like a demand of the repeal of the Test, at the peril of those, who dare refuse it? |
12746 | Does this mystery of the Trinity, for instance, and the descent of the Holy Ghost, bring the least profit or power to the preachers? |
12746 | Feed me with food convenient for me; lest I be full and deny thee, and say,''Who is the Lord?'' |
12746 | For God, Whom I adore, Why then does he tell us just before that he has prayed in vain, and is afraid of becoming a prey to his enemies? |
12746 | For can there be a more ungrateful thing to a man, than to find that upon a nearer view he is not that person he took himself to be? |
12746 | For first, what can be a greater honour than to be chosen one of the stewards and dispensers of God''s bounty to mankind? |
12746 | For instance: Ask any of those who differ from the worship established, why they do not come to church? |
12746 | For we all know what it is to repent, but whether he repents him truly of his sins or not, who can know it? |
12746 | For what end? |
12746 | For where are there more cloudy brows, more melancholy hearts, or more ingratitude to their great Benefactor, than among those who abound in wealth? |
12746 | For, why do men love darkness rather than light? |
12746 | Had they not at that time a mental reservation for power and employments? |
12746 | He said unto him, What is written in the law? |
12746 | How many great princes have been murdered by the meanest ruffians? |
12746 | How many grow considerable by breach of trust, by bribery and corruption? |
12746 | How many have sold their religion, with the rights and liberties of themselves and others, for power and employments? |
12746 | How many obscure men have been authors of very useful inventions, whereof the world now reaps the benefit? |
12746 | How much of the seed then sown would be found to fall by the way- side, upon stony ground or among thorns? |
12746 | How readest thou? |
12746 | However, in personal dislikes of a particular preacher, are these men sure they are always in the right? |
12746 | If I then your Lord and Master wash your feet, how much more ought ye to wash one another''s feet?" |
12746 | In lively verdure still appear; verdure, beside the Such blessings always shall attend leaves? |
12746 | Is it not to make you the tools and instruments, by which they work out their own designs? |
12746 | Is our house burnt down to the ground? |
12746 | Is this to deal like a judge,( I mean like a good judge) to listen on one side of the cause, and sleep on the other? |
12746 | Knock him down,& c."And, when this is over, we''ll make him amends, To the Dean he shall go; they shall kiss and be friends: But how? |
12746 | Knock him down,& c."What care we how high runs his passion or pride? |
12746 | Lice from your body suck their food; But is a louse your flesh and blood? |
12746 | Now, sir, in answer to your question, whether if an attempt should be made here for repealing the Sacramental Test, it would be likely to succeed? |
12746 | Or has the man sinned out of custom? |
12746 | Or, lastly, has a false opinion betrayed him into a sin? |
12746 | Or, suppose I share my fortune equally between my own children, and a stranger whom I take into my protection; will that be a method to unite them? |
12746 | Qu: Whether stupidity makes men devour saints, or devouring saints makes a man stupid? |
12746 | That a very little pain, for instance, putteth him out of patience, and as little pleasure softens and disarms him into ease and wantonness? |
12746 | That he had neither the courage, nor the honesty, nor the piety, nor the humility that he dreamed he had? |
12746 | That he has been at more pains, and labour, and cost, to be revenged of an enemy, than to oblige the best friend he has in the world? |
12746 | That practice such iniquity,( 3) What is the meaning of For Thou wilt punish those that word,_ such_, in this place? |
12746 | The great question, long debated in the world, is, whether the rich or the poor are the least miserable of the two? |
12746 | Therefore, Why should the rights of conscience, whereof God is the sole lord, be subject to human jurisdiction?" |
12746 | Thus are the last efforts of reforming mankind rendered wholly useless:"How shall they hear,"saith the apostle,"without a preacher?" |
12746 | Thus, for instance; does the ill he knows of a man proceed from an unhappy temper and constitution of body? |
12746 | To make the poor( 6) their prey: Does this verse end according to the more modern art of poetry, as the author speaks in his preface? |
12746 | Was this their course of proceeding during the dominion of the saints? |
12746 | What if I had produced their absurd notions about God and the soul? |
12746 | What is there, that can give a generous spirit more pleasure and complacency of mind, than to consider that he is an instrument of doing much good? |
12746 | What methods shall we take to hold open his eyes? |
12746 | Where then is this matter likely to end, when the obtaining of one request is only used as a step to demand another? |
12746 | Whether the Dissenters ever pretended, until of late years, to desire more than a bare toleration? |
12746 | Whether the bishops and clergy will be content to give up Episcopacy, as a point indifferent, without which the Church can well subsist? |
12746 | Whether the sectaries will ever agree to accept ordination only from bishops? |
12746 | Whether the sectaries, whenever they come to prevail, will not ruin the Church as infallibly and effectually as the Papists? |
12746 | Whether, by necessary consequences, the several expedients among the sectaries to constitute their teachers, are not absolutely null and void? |
12746 | Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? |
12746 | Who are these absurd politicians? |
12746 | Who first passed, and secondly continue the Sacramental Test, in all the preceding attempts of the Dissenters to repeal it? |
12746 | Why? |
12746 | Will he be moved by considerations of common civility? |
12746 | Would you have it stopped like a bottle, or a thief? |
12746 | Yet critics may object, why not? |
12746 | _ To conclude:_ These considerations may, perhaps, have some effect while men are awake; but what arguments shall we use to the sleeper? |
12746 | are they not there already? |
12746 | more chaste, or temperate, or charitable? |
12746 | says he,"is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?" |
12746 | that great numbers owe to him, under God, their subsistence, their safety, their health, and the good conduct of their lives? |
12746 | very sublimely? |
11760 | Children, have ye any meat? |
11760 | Hast thou not known? 11760 Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? |
11760 | Seekest thou great things for thyself? |
11760 | A man says:"Ca n''t I do as I like with my own?" |
11760 | A ransom must be paid to somebody-- to whom was this ransom paid? |
11760 | About His dying-- how did He die? |
11760 | And Faraday, weeping, said:"Why will people go astray when they have this blest book to guide them?" |
11760 | And I put it to you this morning whether you can any longer tolerate that omission? |
11760 | And what did they mean? |
11760 | And what is the object of connecting man with God? |
11760 | And what to him is the resultant enfranchisement? |
11760 | And where is Christ? |
11760 | And who are Christ''s? |
11760 | And why is it greater than charity? |
11760 | And why not? |
11760 | Are there any in whom the immortal hope burns low? |
11760 | Are there any merchants here who are despondent? |
11760 | Are there any parents whose children have wandered far? |
11760 | Are you anxious for your children? |
11760 | Are you hopeless and despondent because of your fainting strength? |
11760 | Are you sick with hope long deferred? |
11760 | Are you weak, oh, patriot? |
11760 | Art thou one of the old prophets of Israel, escaped from his rocky tomb? |
11760 | Besides, do we know whether voices that seem to be lost, are so in reality? |
11760 | Brethren, does our common thought of redemptive glory reach back into this august and awful presence? |
11760 | But are we right? |
11760 | But has reverence no relationship to the practical? |
11760 | But how did you destroy it? |
11760 | But what is the fact? |
11760 | But what made Luther? |
11760 | But when the thrones of Rome were occupied with men who held the same opinion of the Bible as he does today, what was the freedom of the race? |
11760 | But: What end have you in view? |
11760 | By Thomas DeWitt Talmage Moody, Dwight Lyman, What Think ye of Christ? |
11760 | By what interest are you led? |
11760 | By whom have you been bought? |
11760 | Can the trees of the field, as they clap their hands and sing in the freshening breeze, do other than refer it to heaven? |
11760 | Can we safely exile it from our moral and spiritual culture? |
11760 | Can you tell me anything that is going to last? |
11760 | Christianity does not ask:"What think ye of the Bible?" |
11760 | Did you ever notice how continually John associates love and faith with eternal life? |
11760 | Did you ever think what he meant by that? |
11760 | Dine on what? |
11760 | Do you find yourselves face to face with the fact that Christ died for our sins? |
11760 | Do you recall those wonderful sentences, scattered here and there about the apostle''s writings, and beginning with the words"but now"? |
11760 | Do you think that that is a fair explanation? |
11760 | Do you wonder that from that day to this the"carpenter''s son"of the Bible has been scoffed at by this infidelity? |
11760 | Do your days of service seem short, until your life is scarcely longer than the flower that blooms to- day and is gone tomorrow? |
11760 | Does the thought of the modern disciple journey in this distant pilgrimage? |
11760 | Everyone has asked himself the great question of antiquity as of the modern world: What is the_ summum bonum_--the supreme good? |
11760 | Has slavery worn man''s strength to nothingness until he is as weak as the broken reed and the withered grass? |
11760 | Hath not God pledged His strength to the worker, that God whose arm strikes out worlds as the smith strikes out sparks upon the anvil? |
11760 | Have the sons of the fathers never heard of the everlasting God, the Lord, Creator of the ends of the earth? |
11760 | Have troubles driven happiness from thee, as the hawk drives the young lark or nightingale from its nest? |
11760 | Have we not here, on the contrary, the image of human life? |
11760 | Have you ever noticed how much of Christ''s life was spent in doing kind things-- in merely doing kind things? |
11760 | How did it go? |
11760 | How does that touch you as a revelation of magnificence in strength? |
11760 | How does the Roman Catholic Church do it? |
11760 | How is it that she pursues her conquering way, in spite of stupidities and blunders that would have killed any other institution? |
11760 | How is it that this prophet and poet has become companion of the great ones of the earth? |
11760 | How many of you will join me in reading this chapter once a week for the next three months? |
11760 | How shall he care for these, when he returns to his ruined estate? |
11760 | How then are we to have this transcendent living whole conveyed into our souls? |
11760 | How? |
11760 | I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder than we are? |
11760 | If Christ was indeed a ransom, the question naturally arose, who paid the price? |
11760 | If we could have forecast the training of such a life, how should we have pictured it? |
11760 | If you and I could have imagined the introduction of this life of lives to the world, how should we picture that? |
11760 | In the event of death, what arm shall lift a shield above these little ones? |
11760 | Is any one prepared to dissociate this contemplation from the apostle''s cheery optimism? |
11760 | Is it not a complete justification of our plea? |
11760 | Is it not significant of what a great man of affairs found needful for the enkindling and sustenance of a courageous hope? |
11760 | Is it the delusion of the sleeper, or the whisper of God? |
11760 | Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? |
11760 | Is not man''s helper that God who dippeth up the seas in the hollow of His hand? |
11760 | Is not rather the thought of coming glory one of its abiding springs? |
11760 | Is not that yet more pathetically significant? |
11760 | Is the Shepherd and Leader of His little flock unequal to their guidance across the desert? |
11760 | Is the ladder set up from the earth, or is it let down from above? |
11760 | Is the way long and through a desert? |
11760 | Is there one of us long tossed on sunless seas of doubt, long conscious of failure and disappointment in life? |
11760 | It asks:"What think ye of Christ?" |
11760 | It is David singing:"Why art thou cast down, O my soul?" |
11760 | It is Jesus saying to Mary, and, in her, to all those whom grief afflicts:"Why weepest thou?" |
11760 | Man''s hand unequal to the task of rebuilding Jerusalem? |
11760 | Now how? |
11760 | Now, what are the secrets of this courageous and energetic optimism? |
11760 | Oh, brother, is it true of you, that after all the painful years happiness is not yours? |
11760 | Oh, how can I fulfil it? |
11760 | Or art thou perchance He whom we await? |
11760 | Or do we now regard it as unpractical and irrelevant? |
11760 | Roaming then through the entire records of his life and teachings, do we discover any significant emphasis? |
11760 | Roman Catholics go to mass; what is the mass? |
11760 | Shall I tell you what the cause is? |
11760 | Shall we discard it as an irrelevant factor in the purposes of common life? |
11760 | Shall we go forward with our Bible or backward without it? |
11760 | The wisdom of the ancients, where is it? |
11760 | There is the root, there the stem, and there are the leaves, and there is everything; but where is the flower? |
11760 | They had toiled all night and caught nothing; is not that a significant description of many human lives? |
11760 | They no longer say to any one who now lifts up his voice: Who are you? |
11760 | Thine enemies too strong for thee? |
11760 | To all this wretched state of man what offers came from Seneca, whom skepticism quotes as a moralist? |
11760 | To what shall we refer this sublime, transfiguring dream? |
11760 | We have the boat and the nets, all this elaborate organization of the Church, but have we caught anything this year? |
11760 | We men and women sometimes feel burdened because of the sin we see around us; shall not the heavenly Father be as sensitive and responsive as we men? |
11760 | We must arise with courage undismayed, and join in the cry of the ages: When wilt thou save the people, O God of mercy, when? |
11760 | Well, pray, what is practical preaching? |
11760 | What are the spacious issues of the glorious work? |
11760 | What are the things in this Man''s life? |
11760 | What are these, arrayed in white, Brighter than the noonday sun? |
11760 | What can we do with that which is the true life of man? |
11760 | What can we say of that which is the highest wisdom, the widest sympathy, the divinest love, and the mightiest power in human history? |
11760 | What do you think of that? |
11760 | What does this prophet on the Isle of Patmos see and hear, as he looks out into future ages and coming worlds? |
11760 | What good are we if it is good for nothing, since it is at the root of all our institutions? |
11760 | What if their language had decayed and their institutions had perished? |
11760 | What is behind it? |
11760 | What is it made of? |
11760 | What is life? |
11760 | What is the Lord''s Supper? |
11760 | What is the noblest object of desire, the supreme gift to covet? |
11760 | What is the secret of the strength of the Roman Catholic Church? |
11760 | What is the soul of that amazingly beautiful and seemingly fantastic mythology of the Greeks? |
11760 | What is the truth? |
11760 | What is the use of having faith? |
11760 | What makes a man a good artist, a good sculptor, a good musician? |
11760 | What makes a man a good cricketer? |
11760 | What makes a man a good linguist, a good stenographer? |
11760 | What party do you serve? |
11760 | What was Christ doing in the carpenter''s shop? |
11760 | What was His spirituality? |
11760 | What was that? |
11760 | What was this spirit in him? |
11760 | What will be the joy of that harvest? |
11760 | When did it go? |
11760 | When you go into the average church to- day, what great idea meets you? |
11760 | Where are the men and women saved by our triumphant effort? |
11760 | Where did He get it? |
11760 | Where is the draft of fishes? |
11760 | Wherever we look, this gospel is the master light of all our seeing; and once more, is it not light from heaven? |
11760 | Who believed in freedom then? |
11760 | Who is Christ? |
11760 | Who then art thou, mysterious preacher? |
11760 | Who weighs the mountains with scales and the hills in the balance? |
11760 | Whose program for the production of intellectual and spiritual liberty can liberals accept? |
11760 | Why did they not know Him? |
11760 | Why do they worship Apollo and Aphrodite, Hermes and Athene? |
11760 | Why do we want to live tomorrow? |
11760 | Why is love greater than faith? |
11760 | Why? |
11760 | Why? |
11760 | Why? |
11760 | Why? |
11760 | Will you come? |
11760 | Will you observe what its elements are? |
11760 | Would he ever dream of taking His name in vain if he loved Him? |
11760 | Would he not be too glad to have one day in seven to dedicate more exclusively to the object of his affection? |
11760 | You could only insult him if you suggested that he should not steal-- how could he steal from those he loved? |
11760 | but"How have I loved?" |
11760 | that is, to bring Christ down; or who shall descend into the abyss? |
21987 | Charity thinketh no evil,but how is it with you? |
21987 | How live ye as Christians? |
21987 | I am come,said Christ,"to send fire on the earth: and what will I, if it be already kindled?" |
21987 | What knowest thou, O wife,says S. Paul,"whether thou shalt save thy husband? |
21987 | What shall I do to inherit eternal life? |
21987 | What think ye of Christ? |
21987 | What think ye of Christ? |
21987 | What think ye of Christ? |
21987 | What will ye? 21987 Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?" |
21987 | Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts? |
21987 | Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts? |
21987 | Whose is this image? |
21987 | Whose is this image? |
21987 | Whose is this image? |
21987 | Whose is this image? |
21987 | Whose is this image? |
21987 | Whose is this image? |
21987 | Whose is this image? |
21987 | 25"What shall I do to inherit eternal life?" |
21987 | All these little springs of vigorous life are bubbling up round us, and whither shall they flow? |
21987 | Am I drawing a fanciful picture? |
21987 | And here is a goodly picture; of whom is it? |
21987 | And if I have done anything towards it, how has it been done? |
21987 | And is the time just measure? |
21987 | And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? |
21987 | Any assurance of His goodwill towards you? |
21987 | Are not these rockets figures of the life of man? |
21987 | Are we likely to do it if half- hearted? |
21987 | Are we likely to keep His commandments, if we care just a little to please Him, but only a little? |
21987 | Are we likely to win our wage, Eternal Life, if we do not work zealously, but waste the time of work in half- hearted trifling with our task? |
21987 | Are you at all aware? |
21987 | Are you docile to His will? |
21987 | Are you eager that all should be beautiful and seemly in the temple of God? |
21987 | Are you grateful? |
21987 | Are you thankful? |
21987 | Are you thankful? |
21987 | Are your thoughts at all taken up with God''s church, God''s altar, God''s worship? |
21987 | Ask any little boy whom you see in rags,''My child, why are you in rags? |
21987 | Ask yourself each day, What have I done to- day towards this work set me? |
21987 | But consider, do you always act justly with your employers? |
21987 | But do you act thus to God? |
21987 | But where is your Christianity in the week? |
21987 | But why do I say the preacher? |
21987 | Can I see anything like Christ in you? |
21987 | Can he not leave us alone? |
21987 | Could He make better promises? |
21987 | Did he send them hunters, expert in killing lions? |
21987 | Did he supply them with snares, and teach them how to make pitfalls for the lions? |
21987 | Do I not hear angry words and quarrelling? |
21987 | Do I not see an eager following of your own wills? |
21987 | Do they last? |
21987 | Do you eat that heavenly food He has prepared for you in the pastures of his Church? |
21987 | Do you know the fable of the crab and his children? |
21987 | Do you know what that meant to the early Christians? |
21987 | Do you mean to tell me it is not a delight, a joy to you, to have this little bit of iniquity to talk about? |
21987 | Do you not always suspect that the motives of people are bad, do you not always think people are worse than they really are? |
21987 | Do you notice the words of S. Peter? |
21987 | Do you show any fruit of the Spirit? |
21987 | Do you want any token of the love of Christ? |
21987 | Do you want them to be God- fearing, pious, consistent Christians? |
21987 | Do you want them to be quiet, to stay at home, and be neat, modest, unselfish girls? |
21987 | Does any desire sustaining food by the way? |
21987 | Does any man need direction, guidance, help in the way of life? |
21987 | Does it pain you above every other pain when you know of something which is to the dishonour of God and of His Church? |
21987 | For what? |
21987 | Have you any self- forgetfulness in what concerns His honour, like that of the nameless wife of Phinehas? |
21987 | Have you any such zeal in you? |
21987 | Have you any zeal at all like that of David? |
21987 | Have you ever seen fireworks? |
21987 | How are we to acquire this? |
21987 | How do you show your thankfulness? |
21987 | How does God deal with those who have gone beyond this measure? |
21987 | How he was tormented with questions, When was the great boat to be launched? |
21987 | How is it with you? |
21987 | How many are there now who act like Abraham? |
21987 | How many who fear lest it should be said of them that they had been enriched by those whose money they had no right to take? |
21987 | How much prayer? |
21987 | How much self- restraint? |
21987 | How much thought of God? |
21987 | How should they know without a teacher? |
21987 | How was he to bring the sea up to it? |
21987 | How will the hearers like that? |
21987 | How would you like to be paid in clipped coin, that was not full weight? |
21987 | How, then, were they false witnesses? |
21987 | I say to you: when you are inclined to cast blame, even when just, think,"Am I without sin, that I should judge and condemn another?" |
21987 | INTRODUCTION.--David says in the 8th Psalm,"What is man, that Thou art mindful of him: and the son of man that Thou visitest him? |
21987 | If He loves us, will He not care for us? |
21987 | If I were to go into a Temple of the Hindoos, or into a Synagogue of the Jews, and were to ask,"What think ye of Christ?" |
21987 | If I were to put the question to you,"What think ye of Christ?" |
21987 | If we knew that an inheritance of a thousand pounds was ours if we applied for it, should we not apply? |
21987 | In what did this sanctification consist? |
21987 | In your manhood, what have you done in your family, what example have you set? |
21987 | Is God not our Father? |
21987 | Is God short of Names that He should be thus designated? |
21987 | Is all done? |
21987 | Is all done? |
21987 | Is any in sorrow, and heart sore? |
21987 | Is it a wonder and grief to a mother that her girls become giddy, frivolous, and unsteady, and perhaps cause her shame? |
21987 | Is it in any degree so with you? |
21987 | Is it not very much the same with us? |
21987 | Is it not with you as with Balaam? |
21987 | Is it sad? |
21987 | Is it those who are conscientious and scrupulous to drive away evil thoughts? |
21987 | Is it wasted in lounging about, ferreting rabbits, idle talking? |
21987 | Is not this enough to make man proud, to exalt him in his own conceit? |
21987 | Is not this very much like what takes place among men? |
21987 | Is such a battle to be won when we go into it without any desire to be conquerors? |
21987 | It was Cain who said,"Am I my brother''s keeper?" |
21987 | Might He not be better termed Almighty, Everlasting, Jehovah? |
21987 | Nature even in its decay is beautiful, and what was it in spring? |
21987 | Now I want to know further, are you Christians in heart and affection? |
21987 | Now for you!--Whither are you going? |
21987 | Now if this be so, how ought we to live? |
21987 | Now what are some of these effects? |
21987 | Now, how did Hanun act? |
21987 | Now, what should Hanun have done? |
21987 | Now, what would he say?--He would lift up his hands in horror, and say,"What is this? |
21987 | On whose side was the laugh now? |
21987 | On whose side was the laugh then? |
21987 | Or dogs to drive them? |
21987 | Or is there much idling and talking when you are unobserved? |
21987 | Or those who allow their heads and hearts to be hives in which they dwell? |
21987 | Ought it to disquiet us in our work? |
21987 | Ought it to mar our happiness? |
21987 | Ought we to thrust the thought away from us as horrible? |
21987 | She was a good kind- hearted woman, who had shown much hospitality to the prophet Elijah[ Transcriber''s note: Elisha?]. |
21987 | Some while after, Philip said to his courtiers,"How does Nicanor speak of me now?" |
21987 | Take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? |
21987 | The master has a strong suspicion where they have been: however, he asks,"Why were you not at school this morning?" |
21987 | Then David answered,"Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? |
21987 | Then Philip said,"Do you not see? |
21987 | Then!--how was it with those men and women who had made fun of Noah? |
21987 | Then, what do you suppose Metabus resorted to? |
21987 | This seems a curious proceeding, does it not? |
21987 | To Life or to Death? |
21987 | To the right or to the left? |
21987 | To whom should it apply? |
21987 | Toss it away on your road home, and make no use at all of it? |
21987 | Was he with his three sons to put their shoulders to it, and push it down to the seashore? |
21987 | Was it so? |
21987 | Was there any such pride of place in the angel host? |
21987 | Were they very eager to gather up the Angels''food? |
21987 | Were they very grateful? |
21987 | What became of them? |
21987 | What chance was there for them? |
21987 | What could He have done more? |
21987 | What course did Shalmanezar adopt, on hearing this? |
21987 | What dearer to a mother than the little infant to whom she has given life? |
21987 | What do you do with your Sunday? |
21987 | What followed? |
21987 | What follows from all this? |
21987 | What good father will neglect his child, and deny it those things that are necessary for it? |
21987 | What is His purpose in bringing back the straying sheep? |
21987 | What is that but a mark- stone or memorial that God''s Good Spirit has been given you to be a guide? |
21987 | What is the meaning of this? |
21987 | What is to be done? |
21987 | What next? |
21987 | What said the people in return for the blessing? |
21987 | What says S. Paul? |
21987 | What says the sacred text? |
21987 | What should he do? |
21987 | What then is it that you should do? |
21987 | What then ought Hanun to have done? |
21987 | What use do you make of it? |
21987 | What use do you make of the talent committed you? |
21987 | What was the consequence? |
21987 | What was the purpose of this? |
21987 | What was to be done? |
21987 | What will you do to get a new suit? |
21987 | What will you do with it? |
21987 | When Christ comes and searches among the leaves of your profession, does He find any fruit of good works there? |
21987 | When a child is hungry, whither should it go? |
21987 | When you are hired for a day''s work, do you give good work? |
21987 | Where are the traces of the divine image? |
21987 | Where is this quietness and unobtrusiveness in you? |
21987 | Where is this readiness to submit to the will of God? |
21987 | Where is your meekness? |
21987 | Whither are you being led? |
21987 | Whither? |
21987 | Who feeds them? |
21987 | Who is dead? |
21987 | Who is it? |
21987 | Who is this? |
21987 | Who speak thus? |
21987 | Whose is the image? |
21987 | Why is this? |
21987 | Why then do not we trust our Heavenly Father as any little child will trust its father on earth? |
21987 | Why when falsely? |
21987 | Why? |
21987 | Will He not then care for us far more, who are His noblest creatures? |
21987 | Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Hell? |
21987 | Your actions when young,--did you yield to your passions or conquer them? |
21987 | how do we show that we love God''s worship? |
21987 | or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?" |
21987 | or what shall we drink? |
21987 | or wherewithal shall we be clothed? |
21987 | shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?" |
21987 | who is to beheld accountable for them? |
14497 | Is it easy or is it hard, this religion of yours? |
14497 | Must I believe this doctrine in order that I may be saved? |
14497 | Oh, but,you say,"is not this slavery over again? |
14497 | What is it that you can not believe in? |
14497 | What shall I do about this? |
14497 | Again I say, The child of God, and this which you have been, what is it? |
14497 | An unseen presence? |
14497 | And if He came to- morrow morning, would not this whole world lift itself up and answer Him? |
14497 | And if you want me to, is there any possibility of my doing it? |
14497 | And where is that? |
14497 | And why should not you, my friends, why should not you? |
14497 | And yet am I not their servant? |
14497 | And yet their servant? |
14497 | And yet, have you never seen a breathless man, a man in whom the breathing was almost stopped, a drowning man, an exhausted man? |
14497 | Are you and I going to be such creatures of our senses that we shall not believe that there are powers that touch us that we can not see? |
14497 | Are you living that life now? |
14497 | But does he stop? |
14497 | But does not it come to seem to us so strange, so absurd, if it was not so melancholy, that man should say such a thing as that? |
14497 | But the years between? |
14497 | But what, then, is the Christian religion? |
14497 | But when did sin begin to be wise? |
14497 | But where is the sceptical soul? |
14497 | But who doubts that among us the spirit of slavery lived and thrived? |
14497 | Can I, can you, have Christ in human history, Christ in the world, and live as if He were not here? |
14497 | Can it be that so wise a devil was so foolish here? |
14497 | Can it meet all these human problems, and relieve all these human miseries, and fulfil all these human hopes? |
14497 | Can not we contribute something that it has not to- day? |
14497 | Can not we make its life diviner? |
14497 | Can we give it as we draw toward our last moment? |
14497 | Can you do this which the world unmistakably needs to be done? |
14497 | Do I doubt-- I, who see myself called upon to be the slave of these conditions which are around me-- to do this thing? |
14497 | Do I want to believe anything that can not be proved to be true, anything that my intelligence shall not receive? |
14497 | Do n''t you know it? |
14497 | Do we worship God? |
14497 | Do you not think how full of hope it is? |
14497 | Do you wonder at the patriot, the hero, when he rushes into the battle to do the good deed which it is possible for him to do? |
14497 | Does not the baser part of him cling to the old prison, to the ease and the provision for him, to the absence of anxiety and of energy? |
14497 | Does that sound to you all unreasonable? |
14497 | Has it not manifested itself in the experience of mankind? |
14497 | Have you ever thought of how the world has stood in glory and honor before the sinless humanity of Jesus Christ? |
14497 | How about the sins that you did when you were young men? |
14497 | How about the time when they plunged into baseness and made their soul like a dog''s soul? |
14497 | How did the sun rise on our city this morning? |
14497 | How do you get within the power of any force, my friends? |
14497 | How do you get within the power of any force? |
14497 | How does all this affect that which we are continually conscious of, urging upon ourselves and upon one another? |
14497 | How does it affect the whole question of a man''s sins? |
14497 | How is it now? |
14497 | How shall he do it? |
14497 | How will you make that storm a true thing for yourself? |
14497 | I go to a certain man and ask him,"Why do you not believe in Christianity?" |
14497 | I know you say;"Is this all in the clouds? |
14497 | If I asked a man where he was going and he told me he was not going to Washington, what could I know about where he was going? |
14497 | If he can not, if he can not, what business have you to be doing them? |
14497 | If he can, what business have you to be doing them so poorly, so carnally, so unspiritually, that men look on them and shake their heads with doubt? |
14497 | Independent of them? |
14497 | Is it a throne from which a ruler utters his decrees? |
14497 | Is it not clear and simple, whether it be true or not? |
14497 | Is it not glorious, this absolute simplicity of the Christian faith? |
14497 | Is it not written in the historical record? |
14497 | Is life a hard thing for him? |
14497 | Is there anything I can do in the right way?" |
14497 | Is there no lingering? |
14497 | Is there the man alive who thinks that Abraham Lincoln was shot just for himself; that it was that one man for whom the plot was laid? |
14497 | It is the old story over again, when John the Baptist, puzzled in his prison, said to Jesus,"Art thou He that should come? |
14497 | It seems to me that the Christian Church is hearing that cry in its ears to- day:"Art thou He that should come?" |
14497 | May I read to you a few words from the eighth chapter of St. John? |
14497 | Must it not have been the act of one poor madman, born and nursed in his own reckless brain?" |
14497 | Not until the soul says,"What will come if I do obey Jesus Christ?" |
14497 | Now, a question that comes in the Christian''s mind is"Why do n''t people believe this?" |
14497 | Read an old story that my life in these new days shall be regenerated and saved? |
14497 | Shall I believe that God has nothing to do with him until he acknowledges God? |
14497 | Shall I care about how they criticise the outside of my life? |
14497 | Shall I care about their little whims and oddities? |
14497 | Shall I peer into their faces as I meet them in the street, to see whether they approve of me or not? |
14497 | Shall I say it? |
14497 | Shall I throw away my truthfulness simply for the sake of holding what I want, what I choose to call the truth? |
14497 | Shall I trust myself to the ship merely because I have refused to examine its timbers, when men tell me that it is unsound? |
14497 | Shall a man cultivate himself? |
14497 | Shall a man serve the world, strive to increase the kingdom of God in the world? |
14497 | Shall he simply think of himself as one who has crushed this passion, shut down this part of his life? |
14497 | Shall he simply think of himself as one who has taken a course of self- denial? |
14497 | Shall not man bring his nature out into the fullest illumination, and surprise himself by the things that he might do? |
14497 | Shall not they open themselves somehow to us to- day, my friends? |
14497 | Shall there be no Christ for the strong men who have before them the duties of their life, and who want the strength with which to do them? |
14497 | Shall there be no Christ for the young men, the young men standing in danger, but also standing in such magnificent and splendid chances? |
14497 | Shall there be no Christ for those who for the moment seem to need no comfort? |
14497 | Therefore, not"Must we believe?" |
14497 | They answered Him, We be Abraham''s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest Thou, Ye shall be made free? |
14497 | They answered Him, We be Abraham''s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest Thou, Ye shall be made free? |
14497 | They answered him, We be Abraham''s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? |
14497 | They answered him, We be Abraham''s seed, and were never in bondage to any man; how sayest Thou, ye shall be made free? |
14497 | They are asking everywhere this question:"Is it possible for a man to be engaged in the activities of our modern life and yet to be a Christian? |
14497 | To have outgrown the boy''s faith, and not to have come to the man''s faith? |
14497 | Was ever man so independent in Jerusalem as Jesus was? |
14497 | Was it he for whom the murderer lurked with a mere private hate? |
14497 | What are they? |
14497 | What can keep you from committing that sin? |
14497 | What do you think of your young men of fifteen, twenty, twenty- five, and thirty years old? |
14497 | What evidence is there of it?" |
14497 | What has become of my personality, of my independence, if I am to live thus?" |
14497 | What has become of that boy to- day? |
14497 | What has happened to that man? |
14497 | What is a liberal faith, my friends? |
14497 | What is easier than for a man to breathe? |
14497 | What is my impression in regard to him? |
14497 | What is the Christian? |
14497 | What is the glory of that world? |
14497 | What is the meaning of this sort of talk that we hear about a faith that they held once, but they have outgrown? |
14497 | What new life has come into him?" |
14497 | What ruler ever won it like this dead President of ours? |
14497 | What shall I say to my friend who is an atheist? |
14497 | What shall be our universal law of life? |
14497 | What shall he do who is to my humanity what the perfect is to the absolutely and dreadfully imperfect? |
14497 | What shall the divine man do? |
14497 | What shall we think about those sins? |
14497 | What then? |
14497 | What time is there for me to be a Christian? |
14497 | What time is there, what room is there for Christianity in such a life as mine?" |
14497 | What, read a book to save my soul? |
14497 | When did the fool stop saying in his heart,"There is no God,"and acting godlessly in the absurdity of his impiety? |
14497 | When did wickedness learn wisdom? |
14497 | When he says,"God,"shall I not believe Him? |
14497 | When my friend turns over some new leaf, as we say, and begins to live a new life, what shall we think of him? |
14497 | Where is the ruined woman whom you sent forth into the world out of the shadow of your sin years ago? |
14497 | Who dares to dream that human life has lived its completest and shown the noblest power of receiving God into itself? |
14497 | Who dares to think that these few thousand years have exhausted this majestic and mysterious being that we call man? |
14497 | Why do I believe in God? |
14497 | Why should I believe it? |
14497 | Why should they not? |
14497 | Will you call it free? |
14497 | Will you know it? |
14497 | Will you let Christ teach it to you? |
14497 | Will you let Christ tell you what is the perfect man? |
14497 | Will you let Him set His simplicity and graciousness close to your life, and will you feel their power? |
14497 | Will you not give yourself to that of Him which you know to- day? |
14497 | Wonderful? |
14497 | You say,"How can a man believe that? |
14497 | You say,"Must I?" |
14497 | You say,"What can I do?" |
14497 | but"May I believe?" |
14497 | or look we for another?" |
14497 | what are you? |
11713 | Beloved, what manner of love is this,wherewith God hath loved us? |
11713 | Shall we receive good at the hand of the Lord, and shall we not receive evil? |
11713 | What pledge dost thou give for the performance of these conditions? |
11713 | When wilt thou perform them? |
11713 | Where,and Justice,"is the Son of God?" |
11713 | Why canst thou not enter? |
11713 | Addressing Himself to Justice, He said:"What are thy demands?" |
11713 | After so long a preparation of goodness, could He mean to deny forgiveness to the penitent and the humble? |
11713 | Again: Had there been neither natural nor moral evil in the world, what must have become of patience, meekness, gentleness, long- suffering? |
11713 | Age may perhaps have calmed your passions, but what was your youth? |
11713 | Age, disgust, and establishment for life, fix the heart and withdraw it from debauchery: but where are those who are converted? |
11713 | And can you now say from your heart Lord, thou mayest justly damn me for the best duties that ever I did perform? |
11713 | And did He not know the baneful consequences which this must naturally have on all his posterity? |
11713 | And is not an inveterate evil very difficult to cure? |
11713 | And is this sentiment combined with a sacred resolution to go and sin no more,--to devote yourself to the service of your divine Benefactor? |
11713 | And now stand forth ye righteous:--where are ye? |
11713 | And pray what is that? |
11713 | And this effeminate habit I have of refining on pleasure, will it render me only the more sensible of my destruction and anguish? |
11713 | And what a glorious spectacle is this? |
11713 | And what can be my hopes in eternity? |
11713 | And what is still more awful, does He not daily come without either warning or messenger? |
11713 | And what is that? |
11713 | And who can censure this delay? |
11713 | And why then did He permit that disobedience? |
11713 | Are these the only benefits you can receive without gratitude, and suffer to pass unregarded How, then, can any love of God dwell in your bosom? |
11713 | Are we in our senses, my dear hearers? |
11713 | Are you innocent? |
11713 | Are you penitent? |
11713 | But I again ask you-- Where, among us, are penitents of this description? |
11713 | But are we not mistaken concerning Felix? |
11713 | But do sinners owe nothing beyond this? |
11713 | But is the"kingdom of God within you?" |
11713 | But is there no mercy? |
11713 | But what are we to conclude from these awful truths? |
11713 | But what became of the Church? |
11713 | But what would it serve to limit the fruits of this instruction to the single point of setting forth how few persons will be saved? |
11713 | But where are her tyrants, and where their empires? |
11713 | But who can here supply the brevity of the historian, and report the whole of what the apostle said to Felix on these important points? |
11713 | But who has assured me that at a future period I shall have opportunities of conversion? |
11713 | But who has told me that God at a future period will accompany His word with the powerful aids of grace? |
11713 | But who has told me that I shall ever desire to be converted? |
11713 | But who has told me that I shall live to a future period? |
11713 | But with what am I taking up time? |
11713 | Canst thou look upon that scene and not pity? |
11713 | Canst thou pity, and not relieve?" |
11713 | Could you ever say, My sins are gone over my head as a burden too heavy for me to bear? |
11713 | Did He excite in the hearts of His creatures such encouraging hopes, without any intention to fulfil them? |
11713 | Did Jesus Christ ever convince you in this manner? |
11713 | Did Jesus Christ ever give Himself to you? |
11713 | Did ever any such thing as this pass between God and your soul? |
11713 | Did he ever convince you of your inability to close with Christ, and make you to cry out to God to give you faith? |
11713 | Did not the speech of St. Paul make a deeper impression upon him than we seem to allow? |
11713 | Did peace ever flow in upon your hearts like a river? |
11713 | Did you ever close with Christ by a lively faith, so as to feel Christ in your hearts, so as to hear Him speaking peace to your souls? |
11713 | Did you ever experience any such thing as this? |
11713 | Did you ever feel that peace that Christ spoke to His disciples? |
11713 | Did you ever feel the want of Jesus Christ, upon the account of the deficiency of your own righteousness? |
11713 | Did you ever feel the want of a dear Redeemer? |
11713 | Did you ever see that God''s wrath might justly fall upon you, on account of your actual transgressions against God? |
11713 | Do not habits become confirmed in proportion as they are indulged? |
11713 | Do you believe that the number would at least be equal? |
11713 | Do you believe that there would even be found ten upright and faithful servants of the Lord, when formerly five cities could not furnish that number? |
11713 | Do you not see that this was the very ground of His coming into the world? |
11713 | Does he not assail the prince in his palace and the peasant in his cottage? |
11713 | Does not death advance every moment with gigantic strides? |
11713 | For it is possible to believe that such great operations, as I have endeavored to describe, were carried on by the Almighty in vain? |
11713 | For who could have returned good for evil, had there been no evil- doer in the universe? |
11713 | Has not your heart, and probably your lips too, joined in the general charge? |
11713 | Hath he said it, and will he not do it? |
11713 | Hath he spoken it, and shall it not come to pass?" |
11713 | How can you ascend to the very sun itself, when you can not enjoy even the faint reflection of its glory? |
11713 | How could it be otherwise? |
11713 | How had it been possible, on that supposition, to overcome evil with good? |
11713 | How shall this phenomenon be explained? |
11713 | How, then, do you regard these decided followers of God? |
11713 | If God so loved us, how ought we to love one another? |
11713 | If I can not bear the excision of a slight gangrene, how shall I sustain the operation when the wound is deep? |
11713 | If the features of holiness and grace in the creature are not attractive to your view, how can your affections rise to the perfect essence? |
11713 | If you could only be exempt from its afflictions, would you wish it to be your lasting home? |
11713 | If you could surround yourself with all its advantages and enjoyments, would you be content to dwell in it forever? |
11713 | If, on the contrary, Paul had truth and argument on his side, why did Felix send him away? |
11713 | In all these traits, do you not recognize the Christian walking in the narrow way, the way of tribulation, marked by his Master''s feet? |
11713 | Is the Lord Jesus"in you the hope of glory?" |
11713 | Is there no means of salvation? |
11713 | Long and habitual infirmities may perhaps have disgusted you with the world; but what use did you formerly make of the vigor of health? |
11713 | Might we not thence infer that the truths discust by St. Paul were not of serious importance? |
11713 | My dear friends, were you ever married to Jesus Christ? |
11713 | My dear friends, what is there in our performance to recommend us unto God? |
11713 | Now are they penitent? |
11713 | Now permit me to ask where are the penitent? |
11713 | Now who would not rather be on the footing he is now; under a covenant of mercy? |
11713 | Now, can anything be more capable of alarming a soul, in whom some remains of care for his salvation shall exist? |
11713 | Now, my dear friends, did God ever show you that you had no faith? |
11713 | Now, of which party are you? |
11713 | Now, who are the just and faithful assembled here at present? |
11713 | Of wicked men? |
11713 | Or, rather, far from finding in them occasions of penitence, do you not turn them into the objects of new crimes? |
11713 | Our persons are in an unjustified state by nature; we deserve to be damned ten thousand times over; and what must our performance be? |
11713 | Shall I have neither delicious meats nor voluptuous delights? |
11713 | Shall I, accustomed to indulgence and pleasure, become a prey to the worm that dieth not and fuel to the fire which is not quenched? |
11713 | Shall I, who avoid pain with so much caution, be condemned to eternal torments? |
11713 | Shall it not expand our views, and warm our hearts, and nerve our arm in our efforts to exalt His fame? |
11713 | Tear it to pieces, and scatter it to the winds? |
11713 | That all must despair of salvation? |
11713 | The angels asked,"Why wilt thou not suffer Mercy to enter?" |
11713 | The question is not whether you have any sins,--none can admit a doubt on this point; the only inquiry is, how you are affected by those sins? |
11713 | The simple question, then, to which I would call your attention, is this:"Am I, or am I not, a sincere lover of the Author of my being?" |
11713 | Transfer this representation to your conduct in relation to God:"If I,"says He,"am a father, where is my fear? |
11713 | Unto which of them said he, at any time, Thou art my son?" |
11713 | Upon what claim? |
11713 | Was ever the remembrance of your sins grievous to you? |
11713 | Was it ever the language of your heart, Lord, give me faith; Lord, enable me to lay hold on Thee; Lord, enable me to call Thee my Lord and my God? |
11713 | Was it not easy for the Almighty to have prevented it?" |
11713 | Was it not to remedy this very thing that"the Word was made flesh"? |
11713 | Was the burden of your sins intolerable to your thoughts? |
11713 | We are all desirous of peace; peace is an unspeakable blessing; how can we live without peace? |
11713 | We are, at the present moment, witnesses of the fact; but who can unfold the mystery? |
11713 | Well, and is it not, to our sorrow, with the new life that is like Christ''s resurrection life? |
11713 | Were you ever in all your life sorry for your sins? |
11713 | Were you ever made to bewail a hard heart of unbelief? |
11713 | What am I doing for heaven? |
11713 | What are the causes which render salvation so rare? |
11713 | What consolation amid their losses and their sufferings, but that of the fellow- sufferers plunged in the same abyss of ruin? |
11713 | What did He do with it? |
11713 | What do I say? |
11713 | What hast thou done unto Him? |
11713 | What hour? |
11713 | What is a penitent? |
11713 | What is the necessary consequence of this? |
11713 | What reception will they meet with, and where? |
11713 | What room could there be for trust in God if there was no such thing as pain or danger? |
11713 | When the sinner is first awakened, he begins to wonder, How came I to be so wicked? |
11713 | When they had thus given an account of who others said He was, Christ asks them, who they said He was? |
11713 | Whence proceeded this fear, and this confusion? |
11713 | Where are those who expiate their crimes by tears of sorrow and true repentance? |
11713 | Where are those who, having begun as sinners, end as penitents? |
11713 | Where can you find such an assemblage of high virtues, and of great events, as concurred at the death of Christ? |
11713 | Where so many testimonials given to the dignity of the dying person by earth and by heaven? |
11713 | Where, then, is the man that presumes to blame God for not preventing Adam''s sin? |
11713 | While Paul may plant and Apollos may water, is it not God who gives the increase? |
11713 | Who am I? |
11713 | Who are they? |
11713 | Who can look for pure water from such a fountain? |
11713 | Who even knows them? |
11713 | Who has assured me that God will continue to call me, and that another Paul shall thunder in my ears? |
11713 | Who might not say then,"The cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?" |
11713 | Who of us would not immediately apply to his conscience, to examine if its crimes merited not this punishment? |
11713 | Who of us, seized with dread, would not demand of our Savior, as did the apostles, crying out,"Lord, is it I?" |
11713 | Who shall be daunted by difficulties, or deterred by discouragement? |
11713 | Who shall be saved? |
11713 | Who shall be saved? |
11713 | Who shall be saved? |
11713 | Who will merit salvation? |
11713 | Who would wish to hazard a whole eternity upon one stake? |
11713 | Who, indeed, will pretend to salvation by the chain of innocence? |
11713 | Why was he so weak as to admit this panic of terror? |
11713 | Why, then, do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? |
11713 | Why, then, do you hesitate to yield yourselves and your interests to the guidance of your Maker? |
11713 | Will you say,"But all these graces might have been divinely infused into the hearts of men?" |
11713 | You are penitent to the world, but are you so to Jesus Christ? |
11713 | always to remain immersed in the shadows of time-- entombed in its corruptible possessions? |
11713 | canst thou not enter? |
11713 | how little are the terrors of Thy law known to the world? |
11713 | if I am a master, where is my honor?" |
11713 | is Thy ear heavy, that Thou canst not hear? |
11713 | never to ascend up on high to God and Christ and the glories of the eternal world? |
11713 | or Thy arm shortened, that Thou canst not save? |
11713 | or are you? |
11713 | or, with the beloved disciple,"We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren"? |
11713 | that he was destitute of extraneous aids? |
11713 | that"as in Adam all died, so in Christ all might be made alive"? |
11713 | where is thy sting? |
11713 | where is thy victory"? |
11713 | who fulfils them? |
11713 | who thus livest so tranquil? |
11713 | who will deliver me from this body of death, this indwelling corruption in my heart?" |
11713 | who will give them a welcome when they enter an eternal state? |
11713 | will be entitled to salvation? |
28464 | But,you may say,"shall evil go unpunished? |
28464 | Did one ever hear of such a thing,they might exclaim,"as children born of God? |
28464 | Oh yes,you say,"but where would we be then?" |
28464 | Who is weak, and I am not weak? |
28464 | 20 For what glory is it, if, when ye sin, and are buffeted for it, ye shall take it patiently? |
28464 | 20 For what glory is it, if, when ye sin, and are buffeted for it, ye shall take it patiently? |
28464 | 21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? |
28464 | 22 Are they Hebrews? |
28464 | 23 Are they ministers of Christ? |
28464 | 24 Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? |
28464 | 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? |
28464 | 30 Howbeit what saith the scripture? |
28464 | 32. Who revealed to Peter the nature of Christ''s thoughts upon the cross? |
28464 | 35 But some one will say, How are the dead raised? |
28464 | 5 And who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? |
28464 | 55 O death, where is thy victory? |
28464 | 6 They therefore, when they were come together, asked him, saying, Lord, dost thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? |
28464 | 7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying, Behold, are not all these that speak Galilæans? |
28464 | 8 And how hear we, every man in our own language wherein we were born? |
28464 | 9. Who can prevent our office being vilified? |
28464 | Again, when you see one living in great splendor, in pleasure and presumption, following his own inclinations, think thus:"What has he? |
28464 | And again,"Or what man is there of you, who, if his son shall ask him for a loaf, will give him a stone?" |
28464 | And it is just and right, for why did we not honor the Gospel by accepting and preserving it? |
28464 | And must this mighty apostle, O merciful God, be subject to trials lest he exalt himself because of his great revelations? |
28464 | And what can it harm me to suffer when I know it is God''s will? |
28464 | And what is the extent of his forgiveness? |
28464 | And who knows but it may, in the Greek, have been altered to harmonize with Galatians 5, 22, where Paul speaks of the"fruit of the Spirit"? |
28464 | And why should we complain? |
28464 | Are they Israelites? |
28464 | Are they the seed of Abraham? |
28464 | Are they to hear his Word? |
28464 | Are we to live utterly idle, practically dead? |
28464 | Are you mad or foolish?" |
28464 | But how are we born? |
28464 | But how are we to flee the world? |
28464 | But how does Paul make this text prove the resurrection of Christ? |
28464 | But how is indifference to this life to be accomplished? |
28464 | But in the case of one who endorses and honors the Gospel, observe Paul''s comment( Rom 14, 4):"Who art thou that judgest the servant of another? |
28464 | But tell me, where do the Scriptures speak thus of Christians? |
28464 | But what are we to do? |
28464 | But what cause has Paul at heart that he dares so boldly condemn the judgment of these exalted officials? |
28464 | But what does Paul teach? |
28464 | But what does the resurrection advantage us? |
28464 | But what is the significance of Paul''s phrase"with grace"? |
28464 | But what is the use of multiplying words on the subject when the evil prevails to such extent as to be common custom in the land? |
28464 | But what manner of love has God manifested toward us? |
28464 | But where is this perfect man, and what is his name? |
28464 | But where would be forthcoming a sermon forcible enough to restrain the shameful sottishness and the drink devil among us? |
28464 | But who can fully portray this blind, perverted, abominable folly? |
28464 | But who is vigilant enough to elude such knavery and to make the children of the devil honest? |
28464 | But who would care to recount the full extent of this vice in all dealings and interests of the world between man and man? |
28464 | But you may say:"What? |
28464 | Can you locate the failure of such an individual? |
28464 | Christ testifies( Jn 5, 44),"How can ye believe, who receive glory one of another, and the glory that cometh from the only God ye seek not?" |
28464 | Could I be said to suffer innocently if I am obliged to confess I am well treated? |
28464 | Dear man, what but his own blindness can lead him to such a conclusion? |
28464 | Did they but regard it, what need have they of books, teachers or laws? |
28464 | Do not even wicked knaves and opposers of Christians often suffer at the hands of one another what they are not pleased to endure? |
28464 | Do you ask, What is the great necessity therefor? |
28464 | Do you imagine yourself able to endure that wrath of God, or to withstand it if you will not consider this and accept it? |
28464 | Do you wish to have assurance of eternal life? |
28464 | For what could they benefit if one possessed not the Word of salvation and eternal life? |
28464 | God says in Isaiah 66, 1- 2:"What manner of house will ye build unto me?... |
28464 | Had he been mere man, what would have been the occasion for saying that he became like a man and was found in the fashion of other men? |
28464 | Has a king of David''s glorious rank occasion to speak thus? |
28464 | He says( 1 Tim 3, 5):"If a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?" |
28464 | How and from what was creation effected when there was nothing to start with? |
28464 | How can it be otherwise when they who should restrain and punish commit the same sins themselves? |
28464 | How can one be under obligation when he does not, and can not, possess anything? |
28464 | How can one whom the fire of heavenly love and grace can not melt, be rendered cheerfully obedient by laws and threats? |
28464 | How can there be unity of mind concerning spiritual offices and blessings with people so at variance upon trivial, contemptible worldly matters? |
28464 | How can these Corinthians be as true, unleavened wafers, or sweet dough, when they have yet to purge out the old leaven? |
28464 | How can they pray one for another who feel no interest in a neighbor''s wants, who rather are enemies, entertaining no good will toward one another? |
28464 | How can we be dead and at the same time risen? |
28464 | How can we live here with wives and children, houses and lands, and being citizens under a temporal government, and yet not be at home? |
28464 | How can we make the two claims harmonize? |
28464 | How could Christ approve such malice? |
28464 | How could he speak plainer and more forcibly? |
28464 | How could he utter anything more severe, more terrifying? |
28464 | How does the offering of a penny compare with that of the body? |
28464 | How else should we gentiles get the idea of cakes on Easter, when at our Passover we, by faith, eat the Paschal Lamb, Christ? |
28464 | How is a dead man profited, however much life may be preached to him, if that preaching does not make him live? |
28464 | How is it consistent with royal citizenship in a celestial country to be a pilgrim on earth? |
28464 | How is it possible to reconcile these seeming inconsistencies? |
28464 | How is it, then, Paul speaks as if faith without love were possible? |
28464 | How is that? |
28464 | How is this paradox to be explained? |
28464 | How shall we who are dead to sin live any longer therein? |
28464 | How should he do otherwise, knowing that his persecutors treated him unjustly and yet maintained the contrary? |
28464 | How will it compare with the death and shed blood of the Son of God, with the power of his resurrection? |
28464 | How will it divide honors with him in having merit to secure remission of sin and redemption from death? |
28464 | How will you fare with God if you do not love your neighbor? |
28464 | How would this read,"I am signified by a spiritual vine"? |
28464 | I will behave peculiarly, smashing windows and turning things upside down, for this is not my abiding- place"? |
28464 | If it is not too humble to be honored with his presence, why should we his servants not honor it? |
28464 | In the text Paul deals with the question, How are the dead raised, and with what body do they come? |
28464 | Is it merely a doctrine of words, or one of life and operating power? |
28464 | Is it not wonderfully comforting to the beggar to have servants and lovers of such honor? |
28464 | Is not this a superior, a noble, commandment, which completely levels the most unequal individuals? |
28464 | Is that what you mean, Paul, when you say we are not to seek the things of earth, though all these are essentially incident to life? |
28464 | Is the truth not to be preached at all? |
28464 | It is said of them( Ps 14, 4- 5):"Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon Jehovah?" |
28464 | Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? |
28464 | Must we be silent and permit all mankind to go direct to hell? |
28464 | Now, how could God have pointed you to an example dearer, more pleasing and more to the purpose than this example-- the deep instinct of your nature? |
28464 | Now, how was it with them? |
28464 | Now, if you yield to him, suffering yourself to be seduced, what will it profit you to boast of the Gospel faith? |
28464 | Now, since God has so greatly blessed you as to make you his own begotten children, shall he not also give you every other good? |
28464 | Now, what is the process of the life and death mentioned? |
28464 | Now, who is to judge and decide the question? |
28464 | O death, where is thy sting? |
28464 | One hundred years ago, what were you and I and all men now living but absolutely nothing? |
28464 | Or of what use is it to preach righteousness to a sinner if he remain in sin? |
28464 | Paul would say:"What will you do, beloved Christians? |
28464 | Paul''s admonition begins:"Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?" |
28464 | Shall he be their God? |
28464 | Shall they believe? |
28464 | Similarly, also:"What unto me is the multitude of your sacrifices? |
28464 | Such a course is essential to the honor of God and the salvation of souls; for if the truth were to be ignored, who would come to God? |
28464 | Tell me, what would you think of such a one? |
28464 | The test is, are we risen in Christ-- is his resurrection effective in us? |
28464 | Then how should others, how should such infirm beings as we, be free from self- exaltation? |
28464 | Therefore, James says:"Why trouble yourselves about earthly blessings, which though God- given are transitory? |
28464 | We read in a book of the ancient fathers that on a certain occasion of their assembling, the question was raised, which is really the noblest work? |
28464 | What are death, the devil and all creatures as a match for Christ? |
28464 | What are the means and process the Spirit employs to change and renew the heart? |
28464 | What are we to do? |
28464 | What are we to understand here? |
28464 | What can be said for us? |
28464 | What can it advantage me for them to burn eternally in hell? |
28464 | What can you say to the fact that Christ the Lord is, himself, with us on earth? |
28464 | What greater love and blessing could be shown? |
28464 | What human heart would not melt at the joy- inspiring thought? |
28464 | What injury can the world render, what help can it offer, so long as you hold the treasure of the Word? |
28464 | What is a slight injury or the loss of some temporal blessing in comparison with these? |
28464 | What is meant here? |
28464 | What is the need of further inquiry and investigation or discussion of this theme? |
28464 | What is the sum of all suffering and misfortune compared to this light? |
28464 | What is their theory? |
28464 | What matters to us the insignificance of the seat the Lord chooses? |
28464 | What meaneth this? |
28464 | What more can we do? |
28464 | What more could be desired? |
28464 | What more would one, or could one, offer than himself, all he is and all he has? |
28464 | What shall we say to these things? |
28464 | What sort of foolish, perverted individuals are they who so teach? |
28464 | What would be the result were all evil to be tolerated and covered up? |
28464 | What, according to the world''s construction, is implied by the statement,"Whatsoever is begotten[ born] of God overcometh the world?" |
28464 | What, then, is the teaching of the commandment? |
28464 | Whence, then, do you derive sonship? |
28464 | Where would be the sense in my saying to you,"You are like a man, are made in the fashion of a man, and take upon yourself the form of a servant"? |
28464 | Where would the wealthy and powerful be if there were no poor and humble? |
28464 | Where, then, does Paul stand, who says( Rom 3, 31):"Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? |
28464 | Who could be worthy such service from such a one? |
28464 | Who could or would heap upon himself the guilt of such negligence? |
28464 | Who ever heard of weak strength? |
28464 | Who is so daring and haughty he will not be restrained and humbled by so remarkable an example of divine judgment? |
28464 | Who would have thought to find so much precious virtue and power ascribed by Paul to this one excellence as counterpart of so much that is evil? |
28464 | Who would not shrink from occupying the uppermost seat and from lording it over others when he sees the Son of God humble and eliminate himself? |
28464 | Who would not suppose the Holy Spirit to dwell visibly where such wisdom, such discernment of the Scriptures, is present? |
28464 | Why does he so? |
28464 | Why not much rather rejoice in the comforting prospect of the great heavenly blessings already abundantly yours and which can not be taken from you?" |
28464 | Why should Paul reverse the seemingly proper order? |
28464 | Why, then, did the Jews persecute and crucify him-- put him to death? |
28464 | Why, then, need you take any account of the world, and anything it may do, whether good or evil? |
28464 | Why, then, should I be impatient or desire revenge? |
28464 | Why, then, should you complain of your suffering or refuse to suffer what your sins really deserve? |
28464 | Why, then, yield to the devil, allowing yourself to be robbed of salvation and eternal life? |
28464 | Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves? |
28464 | Will you live in the world and not encounter any persecution because of your good deeds? |
28464 | Will you rage at the wickedness of the world, and in your rage become wicked yourself and commit evil? |
28464 | Would it not encourage them in their wickedness until life would not be safe to anyone?" |
28464 | Would not that be giving the wicked opportunity to carry out their evil designs? |
28464 | Would not that be the natural rejoinder to such a foolish statement? |
28464 | Yes, and have we not further reason for checking the evil when even the young practice it without fear or shame? |
28464 | Yes, what would be his judgment of those who in public preaching clinch and claw, attack and calumniate each other? |
28464 | and that he assumed the form of a servant though he was in form divine? |
28464 | and with what manner of body do they come? |
28464 | or more absurd still, that strength is increased by weakness? |
28464 | or to an erring, factious individual if he forsake not his error and his darkness? |
28464 | or to have instruction enabling me rightly to interpret a single psalm? |
28464 | that to his sores and wounds are subject the crown of wealth and the sweet savor of royal splendor? |
28464 | who is caused to stumble, and I burn not? |
28464 | wonderful that his poverty commands the services of a king in his opulence? |
17122 | Can a woman forget her sucking child? |
17122 | Except a man be born of_ water_, and of the spirit,& c. What is here meant by"_ water_"? |
17122 | Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into_ his death_? 17122 --that you was born of faith, and by faith was in the kingdom of God? 17122 16 And now why tarriest thou? 17122 All the fear lies in the first, and thunders out to ever sinner,cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the law to do them?" |
17122 | And except those days should be shortened there should no flesh be saved;"[ Saved from what? |
17122 | And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?" |
17122 | And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?" |
17122 | And if we are_ scarcely saved_ from this impending destruction, by fleeing to the mountains of Judea, where will our thoughtless and sinful appear? |
17122 | And if we the righteous are scarcely saved from this long- predicted destruction, where will the ungodly and the sinner appear? |
17122 | And if we the righteous who are innocent, have to endure so many"fiery trials,"what will the dreadful punishment be of our disobedient persecutors? |
17122 | And now, my young friends, which will you choose? |
17122 | And that he should again, as suddenly, drop this subject, and hasten right back to the coming of Christ at the destruction of Jerusalem? |
17122 | And why? |
17122 | Are her children exposed to danger, and full in her view? |
17122 | Are they racked with pain? |
17122 | Are they sick? |
17122 | Are you not satisfied without arguing that they ought to suffer endless misery in addition to their woes? |
17122 | But In what sense are they unbelievers? |
17122 | But admit that it is; we would further inquire, did the last judgment begin as early as the days of Peter? |
17122 | But asks the objector, are we not to_ realize_ our pardon in this world? |
17122 | But asks the reader, what matter is it which is first in order, whether_ love, faith_ or_ works_? |
17122 | But can not a man be justified_ here_? |
17122 | But can not a man be_ sanctified_ while_ here_? |
17122 | But can not a man pass from death to life while on earth? |
17122 | But can their unbelief make God''s promise of none effect? |
17122 | But can we not enjoy it here? |
17122 | But can we not enjoy it_ here_? |
17122 | But do you believe that he will exert his power so as to accomplish it? |
17122 | But do you not perceive that by so doing you would give the king the lie? |
17122 | But does not the objector see that he has stated no fact for them to believe in order to make Christ their Saviour? |
17122 | But how can God give you what he has not himself? |
17122 | But how can he be the Saviour of a man, he never saves? |
17122 | But how did Peter know that it was at hand? |
17122 | But how good is he? |
17122 | But if we make a wrong application of any scripture, why do not our opposers point out the error? |
17122 | But in what sense do they experience it? |
17122 | But inquires the objector, does God punish for the good of his creatures? |
17122 | But inquires the objector, how do you know that God has promised eternal life to all? |
17122 | But inquires the reader, where do the scriptures teach that Christ was ever born again? |
17122 | But inquires, the reader, why do you pray that God would pardon our sins? |
17122 | But is the_"last judgment"_ to begin at them? |
17122 | But shall their unbelief make God''s promise of eternal life of none effect? |
17122 | But suppose they should all reject it saying we do not believe one word of it, would their_ unbelief_ make the promise or record false? |
17122 | But the question arises, in what sense can the violation of that_ condition_ have any effect upon the length of life? |
17122 | But the question presents itself-- were any of the human family raised immortal before that period? |
17122 | But what consolation can you impart, if you are yourself ignorant of the doctrines of the gospel of Christ? |
17122 | But what is all this compared with the character that thousands ascribe to the God, who rules above? |
17122 | But what is that perfect work, which faith produces? |
17122 | But what is the_ record_? |
17122 | But what prize was this? |
17122 | But where, I again ask, is revealed a_ third_ coming of our Saviour? |
17122 | But will the sinner''s love make God his friend-- will it cause his Creator to love him? |
17122 | But, asks the youth, shall I live longer for subduing my passions and doing good, for seeking peace and pursuing it? |
17122 | But, inquires the reader, were those who died in the cause of Christ raised immortal at his coming? |
17122 | By what then are we to be saved? |
17122 | Can he look upon the beautiful objects of creation, or contemplate these countless wonders of the Almighty before he is born into being? |
17122 | Can it put that truth out of existence and make it a falsehood? |
17122 | Can this be true? |
17122 | Can you call yourself the saviour of those two men from temporal death? |
17122 | Could we now say-- if there be no resurrection, he is fallen asleep in Christ and perished? |
17122 | Do not the Scriptures declare that God chose us_ in Christ_ before the foundation of the world? |
17122 | Do they endeavor to effect this, by ceasing to mind high things, and by condescending to men of low estate? |
17122 | Do we then make void the law through faith? |
17122 | Do you ask why not? |
17122 | Do you grant, that God has given eternal life in Christ to every man? |
17122 | Do you intend to make him kind, tender, and forgiving_ here_, but unkind, unforgiving, and hard- hearted to a part of his offspring_ hereafter_? |
17122 | Do you say because he disbelieves the truth of God''s promise? |
17122 | Do your kindness, tenderness, and forgiveness extend to all, and desire the happiness of the universe? |
17122 | Does God command us to do more than he is willing to do himself? |
17122 | First, I ask, what do you call a believer? |
17122 | From what source, then, did you derive so much tenderness and love? |
17122 | From whom did you receive all those compassionate feelings of heart? |
17122 | God calls upon men to believe, what-- That Christ is their Saviour? |
17122 | God is kind to the evil and to the unthankful, and ought we to be unkind to them? |
17122 | Has God given the mother all these noble affections, and does he feel less to his helpless, sinful and erring children? |
17122 | Have any of you thus far spent your days in striving to find perfect bliss in the various pursuits of life? |
17122 | Have you aspired to one object, abandoned it, and taken up another? |
17122 | Here let the question be asked-- Was this sheaf called the_ first- fruits_ because it was ripe before the whole harvest? |
17122 | Here let the question be asked;--how do we establish the law by_ faith_? |
17122 | Here then we see the beauty and propriety of our text:"What man is he that desireth life and loveth many days that he may see good? |
17122 | How can you extricate yourself from this difficulty? |
17122 | How do you know that-- who told you so? |
17122 | How is that-- To hold a grudge one day, and if they ask our pardon, to forgive them the next? |
17122 | How many did he love? |
17122 | How many does God forgive? |
17122 | How many is that? |
17122 | How then can their eternal salvation be denominated_ scarce_? |
17122 | How then could Paul tell his brethren,"by the word of the Lord,"that they were to be thus changed? |
17122 | How would you preach to such persons? |
17122 | How, we ask, are all those_ sincere_ opposing petitions to be answered? |
17122 | How? |
17122 | I ask what does God call upon them to believe? |
17122 | I would then ask whether eternal life was not promised, and given in Christ to the_ believer_ before he believed it? |
17122 | If God promised his creatures eternal life before the world began, will they not obtain it? |
17122 | If so, can you say that you have found the happiness you anticipated, and so earnestly sought? |
17122 | If so, how are we judged in the present day? |
17122 | If the judgment day, which_ then_ commenced, has not yet ended, why may not the resurrection day be still progressing? |
17122 | If the objector will not allow these facts unalterably to exist_ previous_ to believing, what then will he call upon us to believe? |
17122 | If you insist that he has given it to you, has he not in such case, given you more than he originally possessed? |
17122 | In view of news, what is the first thing necessary? |
17122 | Is he detected? |
17122 | Is he stretched upon a bed of pain? |
17122 | Is not this the day of redemption when we are set free? |
17122 | Is such a father absent-- far distant on land or ocean where duty calls? |
17122 | Let God answer--"Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? |
17122 | Let us do good in our day and generation, and render ourselves blessings to mankind, by living soberly, righteously and peaceably in the world? |
17122 | Must not man be born of a woman in order to see this world? |
17122 | Must they believe that Christ is their Saviour, or that they have an eternal life in him? |
17122 | Now if we disbelieve the record will that make it false? |
17122 | Now will public conduct place them on an equality? |
17122 | Now, where did you get it? |
17122 | Our object is happiness; and amidst all the various pursuits of life, what is the reason so many fail of obtaining it? |
17122 | Perhaps someone may feel disposed to ask-- whether faith is all that is necessary? |
17122 | Reader, do you not love the Lord for his wonderful goodness to his children? |
17122 | SERMON II"What man is he that desireth life and loveth many days that he may see good? |
17122 | SERMON V"For what if some did not believe, shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? |
17122 | SERMON VI"For what if some did not believe, shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? |
17122 | SERMON VII"For what if some did not believe, shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? |
17122 | Should they propose a public measure for the good of the town, would the one be listened to, with the same attention as the other? |
17122 | Suppose, further, that some of us had rejected it; would this circumstance have prevented our being born? |
17122 | The disciples immediately asked him saying,"tell us when shall these things be, and what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the world?" |
17122 | The gospel being good tidings, or news, are you satisfied that thing necessary? |
17122 | The next thing, to be determined, was, what doctrine do you believe, and what church will you join? |
17122 | The question here arises, how many does God command us to forgive? |
17122 | The question now arises, when does this new birth take place? |
17122 | The question now arises; do not some experience the new birth in this life? |
17122 | The question returns, are our sins washed away in a stream of water? |
17122 | The reader may, perhaps, here inquire whether the scriptures do not clearly describe the resurrection of all mankind to be at one instant of time? |
17122 | Then, let the question be put to him-- from whence did you derive all those noble qualities of love, mercy and goodness? |
17122 | This being granted, we would ask, whether they will not come in possession of it, if God''s promise stands? |
17122 | This was his_ second_ coming; but where but where is there a_ scrap_ of scripture to prove his_ third_ coming at the end of time? |
17122 | This would be believing a lie, because you say that God has not made them that promise? |
17122 | To whom does this"_ all_"refer? |
17122 | Very well; the judgment was to be at the coming of Christ to the destruction of the Jewish state, and does not this designate some particular period? |
17122 | Was it not a_ reality_ that the three disciples saw Jesus transfigured, and though in that condition was it not still their_ identical_ Lord? |
17122 | We ask-- till he believes what? |
17122 | We here inquire of the objector-- do you then grant that he is the Saviour of all men-- the Saviour of the world as the scriptures declare? |
17122 | We now ask the reader, whether it would not be folly to give to the word_ birth_ such an explanation? |
17122 | We then ask, what truth do you wish him to believe, so that he may obtain this eternal life? |
17122 | We then ask-- are our sins to be wished in a stream of water? |
17122 | We will now introduce the question-- If God has not forgiven a man today, will he ever forgive him? |
17122 | We would ask the objector, what will they not believe? |
17122 | We would then inquire, what is it that constitutes him an_ unbeliever_? |
17122 | Well do not_ redemption, remission, and forgiveness_ mean the same thing? |
17122 | Well, could we be chosen_ in Christ_ without being pardoned? |
17122 | Well, has God the power to do it? |
17122 | Well, shall his unbelief make the king''s promise of none effect? |
17122 | Well, what can be assigned as the reason, why this rich man stands so far above the other in the public opinion? |
17122 | Well, what was he at that time? |
17122 | What is the meaning of gospel? |
17122 | What is the reason? |
17122 | What propriety is there in saying,"_ when all things are subdued unto him_,"after he has resigned his kingdom? |
17122 | Where are they? |
17122 | Where is sudden destruction to come upon any in that day? |
17122 | Where is thy sting? |
17122 | Where is thy sting? |
17122 | Where is thy sting? |
17122 | Where is thy victory"? |
17122 | Where is thy victory? |
17122 | Where is thy victory? |
17122 | Where then is revealed that_ third_ coming of our Lord, at the end of time, to raise the dead? |
17122 | Where then? |
17122 | Where then? |
17122 | Who can tell the value of existence, or number its countless joys? |
17122 | Why are they then baptized for the dead?" |
17122 | Why do you call him an_ unbeliever_? |
17122 | Why is it when misfortune falls upon the rich, that they, so often, resort to the intoxicating draught? |
17122 | Will God change in some future day? |
17122 | Will God? |
17122 | Will they both be treated with the same politeness and attention by their neighbors? |
17122 | Will they both move in the same social circle? |
17122 | Would he possess so much influence in society? |
17122 | Would not then the record prove true? |
17122 | Would they run such an awful risk, unless, by a certain course of education, they had been made to believe that there was happiness in transgression? |
17122 | Would you forgive all, and bring them home to glory? |
17122 | Would you live long that you may see good days? |
17122 | Would you now go and tell that man- sir, because you will not_ believe_, you shall never come forth from prison? |
17122 | Would you save all men from sin and its attendant misery if you could? |
17122 | [ Why? |
17122 | [ Why? |
17122 | xv:29"Else what shall they do, which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? |
30657 | ''I fast twice a week;''''I give tithes of all I possess;''I am a wonderfully good man, am I not, Lord? |
30657 | Are you lost? |
30657 | Did you not honor the draft? |
30657 | Do you not know,replied the Emperor,"that he honors me and my kingdom by making a large draft?" |
30657 | Do you not remember when Mr. Rainsford called to see you, you were very rude to him? 30657 Dost thou remember me,"said the Quaker,"how I had thee fined for swearing?" |
30657 | For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace? |
30657 | Has not God answered your prayer? |
30657 | How many do you want? |
30657 | Indeed,I said,"how is that?" |
30657 | My child,he said,"what are you crying about?" |
30657 | Tell me,said he,"what did that man say to you?" |
30657 | Well, but what do you suppose I would think? |
30657 | Well, did it do thee any good? |
30657 | Well,he says,"if you will give me$ 500, I will be careful about it; but how can I be careful in spending what I have not got?" |
30657 | What do you do when the devil tempts you? |
30657 | Whence to me this tranquil spirit-- Me all sinful as I am? 30657 Where are you, then, if you are neither saved nor lost?" |
30657 | Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of His servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? 30657 Why do you say that?" |
30657 | Why, I always thought that if I kept on trying, God would save me at some time; and now you tell me to stop trying: what, then, am I to do? |
30657 | You can not do that: for my treasure is laid up on high, where you can not get at it? |
30657 | And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? |
30657 | And what have we that we can offer to God in return for His free gift of salvation? |
30657 | Are there any thirsty ones here? |
30657 | Are you hungering to get rid of your sinful selves? |
30657 | But you will ask, What is the law given for? |
30657 | Can Christ save him all at once? |
30657 | Can there be hope for me?" |
30657 | Can you conceive of the loving Saviour sending away a poor troubled one who comes to Him? |
30657 | Certainly the attempt to work our way up to heaven is"climbing up some other way,"is it not? |
30657 | Dear friend, do you not need rest? |
30657 | Dear friends, let me put this question to you: Are you full of grace? |
30657 | Did He tell them to go and feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to visit the widow and the fatherless in their affliction? |
30657 | Did the Lord ever say anything similar to what the hymn says? |
30657 | Do we thirst for a deeper work of grace in our hearts?--for the anointing of the Spirit? |
30657 | Do you say you are sinners? |
30657 | Do you think Christ would have gone? |
30657 | Do you think God is going to reason with a man whose hands are dripping with blood, and before he asks forgiveness and mercy? |
30657 | Do you think the great God will do less than He commands us to do? |
30657 | Does God intend to mock us, and make game of us? |
30657 | For what? |
30657 | God has given us Christ; and He has given us His Spirit, and His Word: what need is there to wait? |
30657 | God invites you to come and take it: will you come? |
30657 | Have they, ever done their very best? |
30657 | He addressed them and said"Children, have ye any meat?" |
30657 | Hear you now His loving voice? |
30657 | How can we be emptied? |
30657 | How can you work out what you do not possess? |
30657 | How would the Queen feel, if I were to insult her in that way? |
30657 | How would you deal with him? |
30657 | I CAN imagine some one asking: What does that passage mean--"Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling?" |
30657 | I am afraid if some of us had been in her place we would have answered somewhat in this fashion:"You call me a Gentile dog, do you? |
30657 | I can imagine they said to each other,"What good is that going to do? |
30657 | I could in that case turn round and say:"Great God, why did you expect me to believe a promise that was not true for me?" |
30657 | I said to a man one day,"Does the well never run dry?" |
30657 | I said to him:"My friend, does the devil never tempt you to doubt God, and to think He is a hard master?" |
30657 | I said to the mother:"How is it with your skepticism now?" |
30657 | I want to ask you this question: If sin needs forgiveness-- and all sin is against God-- how can you work out your own forgiveness? |
30657 | If He could set a table for His people in the wilderness, and feed three millions of Israelites for forty years, can He not give us our daily bread? |
30657 | If I am going to live perhaps for fifteen or twenty years, what do I want with dying grace? |
30657 | If I stole$ 100 from a friend, I could not forgive myself, could I? |
30657 | If I told you, Mr. Moody, that I had found a hymn- book last night you would believe me, would you not? |
30657 | Is He a liar? |
30657 | Is it not a time of need now? |
30657 | Is it the fault of the minister? |
30657 | Is it thus descends the merit Of the sin- atoning Lamb? |
30657 | Is not this our own comment and reflection on life''s retrospect? |
30657 | Is there grace for me?" |
30657 | Is there room for me?" |
30657 | It has been a hard battle, has it not? |
30657 | It is offered to all: who will have it? |
30657 | MR. MOODY-- What is it to be a child of God? |
30657 | Many of you have tried hard to save yourselves; but what has been the end of it all? |
30657 | May I be saved by Him?" |
30657 | Mr. M.--A good place to start in would be the kitchen, would it not? |
30657 | Mr. M.--All the sinner has to do is to repose in the promises of God? |
30657 | Mr. M.--Are there not many who give an intellectual assent to all these things; and who yet have no power, and no divine life? |
30657 | Mr. M.--Believe what? |
30657 | Mr. M.--Can a drunkard or a blasphemer be saved all at once? |
30657 | Mr. M.--Can all these friends here believe the promises? |
30657 | Mr. M.--Can he get that to- day if he repents? |
30657 | Mr. M.--Do we get any help by believing that? |
30657 | Mr. M.--Do you not think there are a good many here who believe that Jesus Christ is the Saviour of the world; and yet they are not saved? |
30657 | Mr. M.--Does not the Scripture say that the devils believe? |
30657 | Mr. M.--For whom, then, did Christ die? |
30657 | Mr. M.--Has a man the power to believe these things, if he will? |
30657 | Mr. M.--Have these friends the power to believe? |
30657 | Mr. M.--How are they to begin? |
30657 | Mr. M.--How are we"cleansed by_ the Blood?_"Mr. R.--"The blood is the life." |
30657 | Mr. M.--How do you get faith? |
30657 | Mr. M.--How do you get the Holy Ghost? |
30657 | Mr. M.--How do you obtain that? |
30657 | Mr. M.--How long does it take God to justify a sinner? |
30657 | Mr. M.--How may a man know if he has eternal life? |
30657 | Mr. M.--How much is there in Christ for us who believe? |
30657 | Mr. M.--I understand, then, that if a man rejects Christ to- night, he passes judgment on himself as unworthy of eternal life? |
30657 | Mr. M.--If a man is forgiven, will he go out and do the same thing to- morrow? |
30657 | Mr. M.--If a man receives the word of God into his heart, what benefit is it to him, right here to- night? |
30657 | Mr. M.--If any one here wants to please God to- night, how can he do it? |
30657 | Mr. M.--If people say they are"going to try,"what would you say to them? |
30657 | Mr. M.--If the friends here do not come and get this salvation, what will be the true reason? |
30657 | Mr. M.--If they truly come, will they have the desire to do the things they used to do before? |
30657 | Mr. M.--Is it available now? |
30657 | Mr. M.--Is it not said that if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth,"there remaineth_ no more_ sacrifice for sins?" |
30657 | Mr. M.--Is salvation within the reach of every man here tonight? |
30657 | Mr. M.--Is the Word of God addressed to all here? |
30657 | Mr. M.--Is unbelief a sin? |
30657 | Mr. M.--Should a man not break off from some of his sins before he comes to God? |
30657 | Mr. M.--Should not a man repent a good deal before he comes to Christ? |
30657 | Mr. M.--Some say they have no power to overcome a besetting sin? |
30657 | Mr. M.--Suppose a man say he is not"elected?" |
30657 | Mr. M.--Suppose the people do"come,"and that they fall into sin tomorrow? |
30657 | Mr. M.--To whom are we to confess our sins? |
30657 | Mr. M.--Was the blood shed for us all? |
30657 | Mr. M.--What about those people who say their hearts are so hard, and they have no love to Christ? |
30657 | Mr. M.--What do you consider to be the great sin of sins? |
30657 | Mr. M.--What do you mean by the New Birth? |
30657 | Mr. M.--What do you mean by the Word of God? |
30657 | Mr. M.--What do you mean by"coming"to Christ? |
30657 | Mr. M.--What if any of them should fall into sin after they have come to Christ? |
30657 | Mr. M.--What if he should fall into sin after he has believed in Christ? |
30657 | Mr. M.--What is it to be born of the Spirit? |
30657 | Mr. M.--What is it to believe God? |
30657 | Mr. M.--What is it to believe on His name? |
30657 | Mr. M.--What is it to"receive the Kingdom of God like a little child?" |
30657 | Mr. M.--What is it to"trust?" |
30657 | Mr. M.--What is meant when we are told that Christ saves"to the uttermost?" |
30657 | Mr. M.--What is the Gospel? |
30657 | Mr. M.--What is the best definition of Faith? |
30657 | Mr. M.--What is the meaning of being"saved by the Blood?" |
30657 | Mr. M.--What is the means by which the New Birth we were speaking of is effected? |
30657 | Mr. M.--What is the salvation He comes to proclaim and to bestow? |
30657 | Mr. M.--What is there between the sinner and Christ? |
30657 | Mr. M.--What is your meetness for heaven? |
30657 | Mr. M.--What is your title to heaven? |
30657 | Mr. M.--What is"the gift of God?" |
30657 | Mr. M.--What reason does the Scripture give tor the Gospel being hid to some? |
30657 | Mr. M.--What would you advise your converts to do? |
30657 | Mr. M.--What would you say to a man who says he has tried a good many times and failed; and who has become discouraged? |
30657 | Mr. M.--What would you say to any one who thinks he has no power to believe? |
30657 | Mr. M.--What, then, should they wait for? |
30657 | Mr. M.--Who is it that judges a man to be unworthy of eternal life? |
30657 | Mr. M.--Why is salvation obtained by faith? |
30657 | Mr. M.--Will Christ crowd out the world if He comes in? |
30657 | Mr. M.--Would you advise people to come to God as they are, with their unfeeling, treacherous, hard hearts-- with any kind of heart? |
30657 | Mr. M.--Would you make a distinction between Christ''s work for us and the Spirit''s work in us? |
30657 | Mr. M.--You mean it is just as powerful to- day as it was eighteen hundred years ago when He shed it? |
30657 | Mr. M.--You would advise them, then, to trust in the Lord, whether they have the right kind of feeling or not? |
30657 | Mr. R.--A gentleman asked me that in the inquiry- room;"What do you mean by the shed Blood?" |
30657 | Mr. R.--Do you remember the story of the woman of Canaan? |
30657 | Mr. R.--How long? |
30657 | Mr. R.--They believe the truth, do they not? |
30657 | My brother, my sister-- are you hungry? |
30657 | No; what do I want with martyr''s grace? |
30657 | Paul said, when he had that famous interview with Christ on the way to Damascus,"Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?" |
30657 | Paul says to the Galatians:"Is the law then against the promises of God? |
30657 | Rainsford, how can one make room in their heart for Christ? |
30657 | Rainsford.--First, do we really want Christ to be in our hearts? |
30657 | Say"Lord, I come to thee as a poor sinner; wilt Thou not save me and help me?" |
30657 | She held up her hands and exclaimed,"Was that you? |
30657 | Suppose he swears or has a bad temper, should he not get a little control over his temper, or stop swearing, before he comes to Christ? |
30657 | Suppose you wish to get the air out of this tumbler; how can you do it? |
30657 | Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most? |
30657 | That is plain language, is it not? |
30657 | The cry of the world is,"Where can rest be found?" |
30657 | The king said,"What are you going to do with such a fanatic as that?" |
30657 | The last time I was in Chicago, I said to him,"Are you still lingering around Sinai?" |
30657 | The law of works? |
30657 | The little fellow said he would not,"Charlie, do you know what that word means?" |
30657 | The question is: Will you let Christ come in and save you? |
30657 | The rest of the class looked on in amazement; and one of them said:"Teacher, you do n''t mean that the watch is his? |
30657 | The river of God''s grace flows on without ceasing; why should we not partake of it, and go on our way rejoicing? |
30657 | Then they asked Him,"What shall we do that we may work the works of God?" |
30657 | Therefore on the cross He cried out,"My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" |
30657 | We have been fishing here all night, and have got nothing? |
30657 | What did Jesus tell them to do? |
30657 | What does this Gentile woman say? |
30657 | What fills the places of amusement-- the dance houses, the music halls, and the theaters, night after night? |
30657 | What had Paul ever done that could merit salvation? |
30657 | What is God''s command? |
30657 | What is it to be converted? |
30657 | What is the best way to get full of grace? |
30657 | What is the first step? |
30657 | What is the trouble? |
30657 | What kind of feeling should they have? |
30657 | What says Christ? |
30657 | What will become of me, think you?" |
30657 | What would you say of a man dying of thirst on the banks of a beautiful river, with the stream flowing past his feet? |
30657 | What would you say to such? |
30657 | When a man gets to that point, do you tell me that God can not use him to build up His kingdom? |
30657 | Who will accept it now? |
30657 | Who will come and take it? |
30657 | Who will come? |
30657 | Who will open their hearts, and let the Saviour come in? |
30657 | Who would not feel highly honored if they were invited to some fine residence, to the wedding of one of the members of the President''s family? |
30657 | Why do we not believe Him? |
30657 | Why do we not believe him? |
30657 | Why may I not expect the same when pain and anguish are upon me?" |
30657 | Why not a Demas or a Judas? |
30657 | Why should we go on asking and beseeching God to have mercy upon us, when He has already given His Son, and given His Holy Spirit? |
30657 | Why should we go reeling and staggering under the burdens and cares of life when we have such prospects before us? |
30657 | Why, this woman and her boys have been carrying vessels into the house all day; what can be the matter? |
30657 | Will God reason with a man living in rebellion against Him? |
30657 | Will you let Him? |
30657 | Will you let him do it? |
30657 | Would not the same thing move the heart of any parent here? |
30657 | Would you advise any one who wants to become a Christian to start right here by confessing Christ with the mouth? |
30657 | Would you insult the Almighty by offering Him the fruits of this frail body to atone for sin? |
30657 | Would you not show him the document signed in the name of the President? |
30657 | Would you not take him to your bosom and forgive him? |
30657 | Yet the moment he said,"Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?" |
30657 | You do n''t mean that he has n''t to give it back to you?" |
30657 | You say you are not fit to come? |
30657 | are you not longing to see your children won to Christ? |
30657 | granting that there_ might_ be a chance for them if they had, was there ever a time when they could not have done a little better? |
30657 | has Abraham Lincoln pardoned me? |
30657 | what did he mean? |
30657 | why shouldst thou wander From such a loving Friend? |
7786 | ''What''s that?'' 7786 But if it should rain?" |
7786 | How do you know? |
7786 | How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? |
7786 | Is it dark without you, darker still within? 7786 What is it? |
7786 | What is there then? |
7786 | What meanest thou, O sleeper? 7786 11] What does an abundant entrance mean? 7786 1] The victory is sure, but whose victory? 7786 6] What will be the result of their preaching? 7786 A little girl named Molly said to her aunt who was teaching her about Jesus,How can I be sure that my sins are forgiven?" |
7786 | A very long time ago the question was asked,"Canst thou by searching find out God?" |
7786 | A young man whom I know described it as follows:"I heard the voice of God saying to me,''Who told thee that thou wast naked?'' |
7786 | And I fell to the ground and I heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? |
7786 | Are we preparing for it? |
7786 | Are you asking, What must I do? |
7786 | Are you constantly thinking to yourself, Can God? |
7786 | Are you living in the reality of it? |
7786 | Are you longing to find God? |
7786 | Are you not surprised that none of these men ever thought of finding out the real value of that pearl? |
7786 | Are you quite sure?" |
7786 | Are you saying,"My soul thirsteth for God, for the Living God"? |
7786 | But is it not stranger still that scarcely any one ever stops to inquire who Jesus Christ really is, and the meaning of His death on the Cross? |
7786 | But what if God''s heart_ was_ broken? |
7786 | But_ why_ did He show them the wounds in His hands and side? |
7786 | By and by you will have to face another question,"What will He do with me?" |
7786 | Can you reply,"This is my Beloved Saviour and He is everything to me"? |
7786 | Can you say the same? |
7786 | Can you say,"God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into my heart,"and now I can call Him my Father? |
7786 | Can you say,"He is the Son of God"? |
7786 | Can you say,"Thy Word hath quickened me"? |
7786 | Can you say--"O GOD, THOU ART MY GOD"? |
7786 | Can you think of any other as wonderful? |
7786 | Did God fail him? |
7786 | Did you ever hear about Moody''s torch? |
7786 | Do the children speak of it as"Mother''s book"? |
7786 | Do we make it a habit to be constantly referring to God about everything? |
7786 | Do we not read in the 69th Psalm,"Reproach hath broken my heart? |
7786 | Do you ask Where? |
7786 | Do you believe in God? |
7786 | Do you ever doubt God''s love? |
7786 | Do you ever doubt His wisdom and think you might have been treated better? |
7786 | Do you feel anxious to know whether you will have a share in the glory? |
7786 | Do you feel that you are like a lost sheep? |
7786 | Do you find your faith failing sometimes? |
7786 | Do you judge things from His standpoint? |
7786 | Do you keep your Bible where you can take it up whenever you have a few spare moments? |
7786 | Do you know? |
7786 | Do you offer Him your heart''s devotion and praise, or is it only lip- worship? |
7786 | Do you turn to it for strength and comfort? |
7786 | Do you value it? |
7786 | Does it all seem too good to be true? |
7786 | Does not this simple testimony teach us all a lesson? |
7786 | Does the child need the mother''s constant, watchful care? |
7786 | First, What think ye of Christ, whose Son is He? |
7786 | First, where did He come from? |
7786 | God is now willing; are you willing? |
7786 | God is still saying,"Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing?" |
7786 | God knows just what you are and what you have been, and He Himself has asked the question,"How shall I put you among the children?" |
7786 | Had you any idea that there are as many as five thousand precious promises for the believer in God''s Word? |
7786 | Has your name been entered in the Book of Life? |
7786 | Have we ever felt this need of drinking into that One Spirit? |
7786 | Have we learnt to depend only on the Power of the Holy Ghost? |
7786 | Have you claimed them? |
7786 | Have you ever asked whether there has been a beginning of His life_ in your heart_? |
7786 | Have you ever been conscious of the Presence of the living God? |
7786 | Have you ever grasped that truth? |
7786 | Have you ever put your weak hand into God''s strong loving Hand so as to let Him do the holding up? |
7786 | Have you ever thanked Him for the unspeakable gift of His dear Son? |
7786 | Have you ever tried to understand why the Church is called"the Body of Christ"? |
7786 | Have you ever watched the battleships on a dark night, anchored a little way off from the coast? |
7786 | Have you received Him? |
7786 | Have you received them? |
7786 | He spoke openly of His Kingdom to Pilate, for when Pilate asked Him,"Art Thou a King then?" |
7786 | Holding it up in his fingers, he looked round and asked,"Will any one give me a penny for it?" |
7786 | How can we know that the Bible is the Word of God? |
7786 | How can you and I know what the Lord Jesus found in His Father''s love? |
7786 | How did this love of God show itself? |
7786 | How do we know this? |
7786 | How does God commend His love? |
7786 | How does God speak to us now? |
7786 | How does He do it? |
7786 | How does the Holy Spirit prepare our hearts? |
7786 | How is it that you say your prayers and yet you do not expect to get an answer direct from God? |
7786 | How many does it number now? |
7786 | How was it done? |
7786 | How was it started? |
7786 | How? |
7786 | How? |
7786 | How? |
7786 | I said,''What do you want me for?'' |
7786 | If not, why not? |
7786 | If not, why not? |
7786 | If so, what for, and for how much? |
7786 | Is Christianity a failure? |
7786 | Is God''s presence so real to you that it makes you control your temper and keeps you from saying unkind things? |
7786 | Is He real to you? |
7786 | Is He so close to you that it is like speaking into His ear? |
7786 | Is His compassion for sinners beaming in your eye? |
7786 | Is His purity seen in your daily life? |
7786 | Is it a_ living_ book to you? |
7786 | Is it grace you need for some special trial? |
7786 | Is it only what you read about, or is it a personal experience in your soul? |
7786 | Is it precious to you? |
7786 | Is it ready at hand so that you can read it before you go to bed at night? |
7786 | Is it so with you? |
7786 | Is it trusting God, or is it doubting God? |
7786 | Is it victory over temptation you long for? |
7786 | Is the link on? |
7786 | Is there this link between you and God? |
7786 | Is this searching necessary for every one? |
7786 | Is this true of you? |
7786 | Is this your happy portion? |
7786 | Jesus said to Nathaniel,"Because I said unto thee I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? |
7786 | Let me ask you one more question, Has God''s Voice ever stopped calling? |
7786 | My heart fell broken at His feet, Who could such love withstand? |
7786 | Now, therefore, why speak ye not a word of bringing the King back? |
7786 | Only a touch-- is it not like the touch of faith? |
7786 | Perhaps you ask me,"Who is God?" |
7786 | Perhaps you ask, Will God really come and dwell in me for I am so unworthy? |
7786 | Perhaps you ask,"How can I know?" |
7786 | Perhaps you wonder, how can the death of One atone for the sin of the many? |
7786 | Secondly, When did He come? |
7786 | Still God is looking for His friend and calling him,"Where are you?" |
7786 | THE SON OF GOD IS COME_ Where_ did He come from? |
7786 | The LORD said,"Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?" |
7786 | The fountain is still flowing-- has it cleansed you? |
7786 | The great question for each one in life is, What is my relation to God? |
7786 | The great question is, What is God to me? |
7786 | The other question which you have to answer is,"What shall I do with Jesus?" |
7786 | The question is sometimes asked, Has the Gospel lost its power? |
7786 | The question was once asked at a meeting,"Can you point to any text in the Word of God which makes you sure you are saved and safe?" |
7786 | The question was raised,"Who was to rule, Satan or God?" |
7786 | The sheep knows the shepherd''s voice; the child is quick in recognizing its mother''s voice; why do we turn a deaf ear to God''s Voice? |
7786 | Think of the cost of this great salvation, and then ask yourself, how much is it worth to me? |
7786 | Thirdly, Why did He come? |
7786 | Trusting or worrying? |
7786 | Unbelief asks,"_ Can He?_"Faith says,"_ He can._"Dear friends, let me ask you to stop and ask yourself, Where do you put that little word"can"? |
7786 | Unbelief asks,"_ Can He?_"Faith says,"_ He can._"Dear friends, let me ask you to stop and ask yourself, Where do you put that little word"can"? |
7786 | Was Christ going into the cave? |
7786 | Was it not wonderful that she was the first to tell the good news that He is"the Saviour of the world"? |
7786 | We have heard how the sun shines over the whole world, but is it not wonderful that every little drop of water can reflect the whole of its light? |
7786 | We limit God''s power to save, by asking,_ Can_ God? |
7786 | We listen to the good news about peace and forgiveness, but are we willing to make Jesus King in our hearts? |
7786 | We look on and on into the Eternity that is coming( and it is a wonderful outlook) and what do we find? |
7786 | What answer will you give? |
7786 | What did Jesus do? |
7786 | What has been going on during all these years? |
7786 | What is His Name? |
7786 | What is faith? |
7786 | What is friendship? |
7786 | What is righteousness? |
7786 | What is the Church? |
7786 | What is the natural man? |
7786 | What is this new experience, this seeking after God? |
7786 | What is this personal experience of the life of Christ in the soul? |
7786 | What shall we say? |
7786 | What was it that changed this man? |
7786 | What was the price to be paid? |
7786 | What will be the final winding up of Earth''s suffering and struggles? |
7786 | What will it all be like? |
7786 | When Blondin came down he went up to the lad and said to him,"You saw me carry that big man across, do you believe I could take you?" |
7786 | When did He come? |
7786 | When did He come? |
7786 | When did this special"_ calling out_"begin? |
7786 | When was the beginning? |
7786 | When you pray do you realise His Presence? |
7786 | When you speak to God, is it an effort, or do you look up into His face with confidence and tell Him all? |
7786 | When your child wants you to hold him up he slips his little hand in yours, does n''t he? |
7786 | When? |
7786 | Where is the Bible? |
7786 | Where were they wounded? |
7786 | Where? |
7786 | Which are you doing, dear friends? |
7786 | Who can inspire them with faith and hope? |
7786 | Who can point them to the Rock of Ages which can not be moved? |
7786 | Who can speak a word of cheer and encouragement? |
7786 | Who can tell how precious? |
7786 | Who can tell the good news so well as these restored and converted ones? |
7786 | Who is the Word? |
7786 | Who is this Some One? |
7786 | Who will be the preachers? |
7786 | Why did He call to the crowds so earnestly to repent? |
7786 | Why did He die? |
7786 | Why did He show them the nail prints in His hands and the deep wound in His side? |
7786 | Why did you give up listening? |
7786 | Why does He invite the weary ones to come to Him? |
7786 | Why has this Gospel been written? |
7786 | Why is the Bible like no other book? |
7786 | Why is there so much unrest, so much ungodliness, and lawlessness in our midst? |
7786 | Why was His blood poured out? |
7786 | Why? |
7786 | Why? |
7786 | Why? |
7786 | Will you ask yourself, Have I received Him? |
7786 | Will you say it now very solemnly in your heart to God? |
7786 | Would you neglect getting these priceless gifts if you believed they were the real offers of a real Person? |
7786 | Yea, they spake against God, they said,"Can God furnish a table in the wilderness; can God give bread also; can He provide flesh for His people?" |
7786 | You first put the speaking tube to your mouth and then you say"Are you there?" |
7786 | You have prayed many years perhaps for the conversion of some one near and dear to you, but are you limiting God because you doubt His power to do it? |
7786 | _ When_ did He come? |
7786 | _ Why_ did He come? |
7786 | you say, but I am so far off, how can I find my way to Him? |
2458 | He which spared not his own Son, but gave him for us all, how shall he not with him give us all things also? |
2458 | What manner of card is this? |
2458 | What? |
2458 | When? |
2458 | Which way? |
2458 | Who think you is a wise and faithful servant? 2458 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? |
2458 | And in those days, what did they when they helped the scholars? |
2458 | And now I would ask a strange question: who is the most diligentest bishop and prelate in all England, that passeth all the rest in doing his office? |
2458 | And what a deputy must he be, trow ye? |
2458 | And what had our blessed lady been the worse for this? |
2458 | And what shall we in this case do? |
2458 | And wherefore are magistrates ordained, but that the tranquillity of the commonweal may be confirmed, limiting both ploughs? |
2458 | And who will sustain any damage for the respect of a public commodity? |
2458 | And will ye know who it is? |
2458 | As Cain said,"Have I the keeping of my brother? |
2458 | At length the king asked him,"Sir, how liketh you your fare?" |
2458 | Be all things here so without abuses, that nothing ought to be amended? |
2458 | Be not all things well done, that are done with good intent, when they be profitable to us? |
2458 | Be these the Christian and divine mysteries, and not rather the dreams of men? |
2458 | Be these the faithful dispensers of God''s mysteries, and not rather false dissipators of them? |
2458 | But I pray you, how much is this supper of Christ regarded amongst us, where he himself exhibiteth unto us his body and blood? |
2458 | But I pray you, what sauce had David, how was he humbled? |
2458 | But I pray you, wherefore was it ordained principally? |
2458 | But at the last, what became of so good a constitution? |
2458 | But here some man will say to me, What, sir, are ye so privy of the devil''s counsel, that ye know all this to be true? |
2458 | But how cometh this regeneration? |
2458 | But how hath this truth over- rusted with the pope''s rust? |
2458 | But how shall I speak well of them? |
2458 | But now methinketh I hear one say unto me: Wot ye what you say? |
2458 | But now you will ask me, whom I call a prelate? |
2458 | But what doth the people on these holidays? |
2458 | But what shall be their reward which refuse to come? |
2458 | But what the devil mean I to go about to describe particularly the devil''s nature, when no reason, no power of man''s mind can comprehend it? |
2458 | But who are these callers? |
2458 | But who be those now- a- days that can clear themselves of these manifest murders used to their children and servants? |
2458 | But you will say to me, Why make ye all these interrogations? |
2458 | But you will say,"I pray you, tell me what is my cross?" |
2458 | But, I pray you, what is to be looked for in a dispenser? |
2458 | But, I pray you, what thanks had they for their calling, for their labour? |
2458 | But, peradventure, you will say,"What, shall a preacher teach foolishness?" |
2458 | Can there be any mirth, where these two courses last all the feast? |
2458 | Can you find in your hearts thus to abuse my goodness, my benignity, my gentleness? |
2458 | Do they evermore correct vice, or else defend it, sometime being well corrected in other places? |
2458 | Do they evermore rid the people''s business and matters, or cumber and ruffle them? |
2458 | Do they give themselves to godliness, or else ungodliness? |
2458 | Do they not more regard now a testoon than Christ? |
2458 | Do ye see nothing in our holidays? |
2458 | Do you think that this preferring of picture to picture, image to image, is the right use, and not rather the abuse, of images? |
2458 | Doth this noble doctor doubt therein? |
2458 | For Christ saith,_ Quis putas est servus prudens et fidelis_? |
2458 | For what have ye done hitherto, I pray you, these seven years and more? |
2458 | For what man will let go, or diminish his private commodity for a commonwealth? |
2458 | For what shall I look for among thorns, but pricking and scratching? |
2458 | For who can offer him but himself? |
2458 | Had it not been better we had not been called together at all? |
2458 | Have I not five wits? |
2458 | Have not our forefathers complained of the ceremonies, of the superstition, and estimation of them? |
2458 | Have ye thus deceived me? |
2458 | Have you thus deceived me? |
2458 | Here is my appetite, my lust, my will: but what must I do? |
2458 | How came it thus? |
2458 | How can that be found that was not lost? |
2458 | How chanced this? |
2458 | How many be there, think ye, which regard this supper of the Lord as much as a testoon? |
2458 | How many receive it with the curate or minister? |
2458 | How many sentences be given there in time, as they ought to be? |
2458 | How much, I say, is it regarded? |
2458 | How shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard? |
2458 | How shall they hear without a preacher? |
2458 | How then hath it happened that we have had so many hundred years so many unpreaching prelates, lording loiterers, and idle ministers? |
2458 | I would here ask one question: I would fain know who controlleth the devil at home in his parish, while he controlleth the mint? |
2458 | If men say truth, how many without bribes? |
2458 | If the apostles might not leave the office of preaching to the deacons, shall one leave it for minting? |
2458 | In court, in cowls, in cloisters, in rochets, be they never so white; yea, where shall ye not find them? |
2458 | Is all well here? |
2458 | Is it a labour? |
2458 | Is it a work? |
2458 | Is it so hard, is it so great a matter for you to see many abuses in the clergy, many in the laity? |
2458 | Is there any man that will feed upon me, that will eat my flesh and drink my blood? |
2458 | Is there never a wise man in the realm to be a comptroller of the mint? |
2458 | Is this a meet office for a priest that hath cure of souls? |
2458 | Is this his charge? |
2458 | Is this their calling? |
2458 | Is this their office? |
2458 | Last of all, how think you of matrimony? |
2458 | Lo, what false pretence can the devil send amongst us? |
2458 | Nothing to be amended? |
2458 | Now if your forefathers made this constitution, and yet thereby did nothing, the abuses every day more and more increased, what is left for you to do? |
2458 | Now then, seeing thou art a christian man, what shall be thy answer of this question,"Who art thou?" |
2458 | Now then, what is Christ''s rule? |
2458 | Now what is it to be our God? |
2458 | Now what manner of meat was prepared at this great feast? |
2458 | Now what saith he? |
2458 | Now what shall we say of these rich citizens of London? |
2458 | Now, I pray you in God''s name, what did you, so great fathers, so many, so long a season, so oft assembled together? |
2458 | O Lord, whither shall we flee from them? |
2458 | Oh, what hear I of you? |
2458 | On the contrary, a slothful servant, when his master commandeth him to do any thing, by and by he will ask questions,"Where?" |
2458 | Or if all things be well done there, what do men in bishops''Consistories? |
2458 | Or why are they not sent to the universities, that they may be able to serve the king when they come to age? |
2458 | Ought we to thank you, or the king''s highness? |
2458 | Ponder, whether yet many of them be as they should be or no? |
2458 | See ye nothing, brethren? |
2458 | Shall I call them proud men of London, malicious men of London, merciless men of London? |
2458 | Shall we evermore in ministering of it speak Latin, and not in English rather, that the people may know what is said and done? |
2458 | Shall you often see the punishments assigned by the laws executed, or else money- redemptions used in their stead? |
2458 | Should we have ministers of the church to be comptrollers of the mints? |
2458 | So that he must at all times convenient preach diligently: therefore saith he,"Who trow ye is a faithful servant?" |
2458 | So this feast, this costly dish, hath its sauces; but what be they? |
2458 | So, England, I speak it to thy shame: is there never a nobleman to be a lord president, but it must be a prelate? |
2458 | St. Paul saith,_ Qui proprio Filio suo non pepercit, sed pro nobis omnibus tradidit illum, quomodo non etiam cum illo omnia nobis donabit_? |
2458 | Then further we must say to ourselves,"What requireth Christ of a christian man?" |
2458 | Then to pope Alexander''s holy water, to hallowed bells, palms, candles, ashes, and what not? |
2458 | Then why happened this? |
2458 | Then you must again ask unto yourself, What Christ requireth of a christian man? |
2458 | These benefits I gave you, and do you give me these thanks? |
2458 | Think you not that the king doth use justice unto him, and all his posterity and heirs? |
2458 | Think you not that this our enemy, this prince with all his potentates, hath great and sore assaults to lay against our armour? |
2458 | This rich man called his steward to him and said, What is this that I hear of thee? |
2458 | To what end have we now excelled other in policy? |
2458 | To whom was he married? |
2458 | Was not he vexed? |
2458 | Well, well, is this their duty? |
2458 | Were it not the office of good prelates to consult upon these matters, and to seek some remedy for them? |
2458 | What among stones, but stumbling? |
2458 | What do they there? |
2458 | What fruit is come of your long and great assembly? |
2458 | What have we brought forth at the last? |
2458 | What have we to do then but_ epulari in Domino_, to eat in the Lord at his supper? |
2458 | What have ye brought forth? |
2458 | What have ye engendered? |
2458 | What is done in the Arches? |
2458 | What is that? |
2458 | What is that? |
2458 | What is this but a new learning; a new canker to rust and corrupt the old truth? |
2458 | What man hath any thing, I pray you, but he hath received it of his plentifulness? |
2458 | What manner of masses saw they, trow ye? |
2458 | What of baptism? |
2458 | What other oblation have we to make, but of obedience, of good living, of good works, and of helping our neighbours? |
2458 | What other service have we to do to him, and what other sacrifice have we to offer, but the mortification of our flesh? |
2458 | What priests saw they? |
2458 | What saw they that made this decree? |
2458 | What saw they, that made this constitution? |
2458 | What say ye by these images, that are so famous, so noble, so noted, being of them so many and so divers in England? |
2458 | What say ye? |
2458 | What shall I say of them? |
2458 | What shall we do now or imagine to thrust down these Turks and to subdue them? |
2458 | What substance, what virtue, what goodness art thou of, by thyself?" |
2458 | What think ye of these mass- priests, and of the masses themselves? |
2458 | What was the chiefest dish at this great banquet? |
2458 | What was the feast- dish? |
2458 | What went you about? |
2458 | What would ye have brought to pass? |
2458 | What( I had almost said) among serpents, but stinging? |
2458 | What, not one of all that can judge between brother and brother; but one brother goeth to law with another, and that under heathen judges? |
2458 | When should she go far off to these famous images? |
2458 | Whensoever it shall happen you to go and make your oblation unto God, ask of yourselves this question,"Who art thou?" |
2458 | Whereas you might say, What was the cause that Christ declared more the pains of hell by these terms than by any other terms? |
2458 | Whether stirred other first, you the king, that he might preach, or he you by his letters, that ye should preach oftener? |
2458 | Which thing when Astyages heard, what doth he? |
2458 | Which words are as much to say in English,"Who art thou?" |
2458 | Who is a true and faithful steward? |
2458 | Who is so blind but he seeth this clearly; except perchance there be any that can not discern the children of the world from the children of light? |
2458 | Who made thee so bold to meddle with my silly beasts, which I bought so dearly with my precious blood? |
2458 | Who should be his spouse? |
2458 | Who was Abraham''s seed? |
2458 | Who was he now that was married? |
2458 | Who was the bridegroom? |
2458 | Why are they not set in schools where they may learn? |
2458 | Why do ye divide him? |
2458 | Why make you of him more sacrifices than one? |
2458 | Why then mingle ye him? |
2458 | Why, I pray you? |
2458 | Ye have oft sat in consultation, but what have ye done? |
2458 | You, that ought to be my preachers, what other thing do you, than apply all your study hither, to bring all my preachers to envy, shame, contempt? |
2458 | _ Tu quis es_? |
2458 | and why, in these your demands, do you let and withdraw the good devotion of the people? |
2458 | had he not sauces? |
2458 | or have ye rather deceived yourselves? |
2458 | or shall I answer for him and for his faults? |
2458 | or what derogation is this to heaven? |
2458 | or what dishonour was this to our blessed lady? |
2458 | shall we company with them? |
2458 | shall we not company with them? |
2458 | that is to say,"Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord, shall be saved: but how shall they call upon him, in whom they believe not? |
2458 | will some say:"Why, what have I to do with my neighbour''s or brother''s malice?" |
44420 | And is this the doctrine which men call a contracted one? 44420 Doth he not speak parables?" |
44420 | Doth he not speak parables? |
44420 | Is not this written,they have said,"for the ages to come? |
44420 | May we not speak of eternal blessedness? |
44420 | May we speak in the pulpit of slaves? |
44420 | Monotonous is this theme? 44420 Now, what is the meaning of this plain term''Christ''? |
44420 | Shall we not converse, then, on endless misery? |
44420 | Understandest thou what thou readest? |
44420 | --this is the reply--"and you consider this topic a limited one, whose height, depth, length, breadth, no finite mind can measure? |
44420 | All else might go-- it were little;"Why hast thou forsaken me?" |
44420 | And have you still a favorite theme which you have not suggested?" |
44420 | And he said unto me,"Son of man, can these bones live?" |
44420 | And how can this be said? |
44420 | And meantime what is becoming of the countries in which these different confessions are established? |
44420 | And on whom does Jesus pronounce His beatitude? |
44420 | And the first that you hear of him as a penitent man is:"Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" |
44420 | And what are all these aspirations? |
44420 | And what are they? |
44420 | And what is it to sleep awhile if I am Christ''s? |
44420 | And what is the burden of her strain? |
44420 | And who have they to assist them? |
44420 | And yet when such trial has been passed we involuntarily say-- has not a foundation been laid? |
44420 | Art thou thyself saved? |
44420 | As the Pharisees said:"Who can forgive sins but God only?" |
44420 | As they said to the apostles so they will say to us:"If this be triumph, what can be defeat? |
44420 | But has such a Church been realized? |
44420 | But how can I verify this assertion? |
44420 | But how can we appreciate the King, unless we learn the nature of the beings over whom He rules? |
44420 | But if Christ desired that His Father''s name should be glorified, how was this to be accomplished? |
44420 | But is the human mind an end worthy of all the contrivances in nature? |
44420 | But is this an ultimate object? |
44420 | But still was He not our brother; the son of man, as we are; the son of God, like ourselves? |
44420 | But the question is further suggested, What is this qualification? |
44420 | But what if this should take place? |
44420 | But when we are long gone to our rest, who can say what shall be the great draft of souls which shall be miraculously taken in England? |
44420 | But who are you? |
44420 | By what medium, or means? |
44420 | Can I not die, since Christ died? |
44420 | Can I not suffer, since Christ suffered? |
44420 | Can the visible Church indeed afford to do without these motives? |
44420 | Can these bones live? |
44420 | Can we by searching find out the whole of atoning love? |
44420 | Can you not speak of Medes and Parthians, Indians and Arabians? |
44420 | Could it ever be renovated? |
44420 | Deliverer? |
44420 | Did you not dispute with the Roman sergeants, plead your cause before the Roman courts? |
44420 | Do they exist for elucidating His power? |
44420 | Do we adopt a Ptolemaic theory in morals, that man is the center of the system, and other worlds revolve round him? |
44420 | Do you appreciate Christ''s matchless excellences? |
44420 | Does the load of earth above me and beneath which I am placed press upon me? |
44420 | Does the present generation believe that which its fathers believed? |
44420 | Does the sun, with all its retinue of stars, pursue its daily course with no aim ulterior to man''s welfare? |
44420 | For how is pure and undefiled religion defined? |
44420 | For if He were not a man, but a god, what are all these things? |
44420 | From what? |
44420 | Had he not told them the plan and method of His own government? |
44420 | Has there ever been a visible organized body of men who carried out this sublime purpose? |
44420 | Have they, or have they not, immortal souls? |
44420 | Have you experienced such a change? |
44420 | Having cast away every sin to embrace him, do you set him above your chiefest joy? |
44420 | His excellence-- was it not human excellence? |
44420 | His knowledge? |
44420 | His love? |
44420 | His wisdom, love, piety,--sweet and celestial as they were,--are they not what we also may attain? |
44420 | How can you prove that there ever was a book called the Word of God? |
44420 | How could they help themselves? |
44420 | How do you know the Scriptures were ever written? |
44420 | How long shall human power exalt itself? |
44420 | How long shall the powers of darkness hold jubilee? |
44420 | How low down in a man sometimes( not always) lies the fundamental motive which sways his life? |
44420 | How will persons sacrifice themselves to their objects? |
44420 | I hear them say"How long shall man triumph? |
44420 | If I might so speak, would you be proud to carry His shoes? |
44420 | If Paul and Jesus could read our books of theological doctrines, would they accept as their teaching what men have vented in their name? |
44420 | If this be triumph, what is defeat? |
44420 | In how much more respect, in how much holier veneration should we hold this body? |
44420 | Is Christianity then to perish out of the heart of the nations, and vanish from the memory of the world, like the religions that were before Abraham? |
44420 | Is all this preaching a mere idle theory of life? |
44420 | Is he like a follower of the Lamb who is raging like a roaring lion? |
44420 | Is he like a pardoned criminal who sits moping with a cloud upon his brow? |
44420 | Is he like an heir of heaven, like a man destined to a crown, who is vexed and fretted with some petty loss? |
44420 | Is he like one in whose bosom the dove of heaven is nestling, who is full of all manner of bile and bitterness? |
44420 | Is it an unspiritual motive? |
44420 | Is it cold? |
44420 | Is not this one of parables concerning the kingdom of God?" |
44420 | Is there some keen passion connected with this world at the bottom? |
44420 | Is there such a heart in you? |
44420 | It is this:"Should a Christian minister out of the pulpit, as well as in the pulpit, know nothing save the Crucified One? |
44420 | It is well to know Christ, but in all the varying scenes of life is it well not to know anything else? |
44420 | Must not everyone conduct business, and sustain cares, which draw his mind away from the atonement?" |
44420 | Must we not call in our minds from Christ and Him crucified, so as to concentrate all our emotions on the simple fact of Christ crucified?" |
44420 | My soul thirsteth after thee as a thirsty land"? |
44420 | Nevertheless, there is a triumph in the Christian world and there is a triumph in the anti- Christian world; and what is it? |
44420 | Of what would you speak?" |
44420 | Of what, then, would you speak?" |
44420 | Oh grave, where is thy victory?" |
44420 | One had asked him,"Father, do you remember me?" |
44420 | Or if not, where is the life itself? |
44420 | Our first inquiry would be:"Is not your theme too contracted? |
44420 | Rather than part with Him, would you part with a thousand worlds? |
44420 | Sent whom? |
44420 | She bends over him, and as her tears fall thick upon his face, she cries,"Do you not remember me?" |
44420 | She stood wondering, when she heard a voice behind her which said,"Woman, why weepest thou?" |
44420 | Since these notions are so fleeting, why need we accept the commandment of men as the doctrine of God? |
44420 | The errors which were once dominant, lordly, confident, and persecuting-- where are they now? |
44420 | The first that you hear of him as a convicted man is in the words:"Who art thou, Lord?" |
44420 | The way in which man bears temptation is what decides his character; yet how secret is the system of temptation? |
44420 | Then, again, unless man received a new nature, how could he sing the new song? |
44420 | There is an accusation which is repeated from age to age against the Catholic and Roman Church; and what is it? |
44420 | They have piled their own rubbish against the temple of truth where piety comes up to worship; what wonder the pile seems unshapely and like to fall? |
44420 | They may well have said to him,"What is this triumph you speak of? |
44420 | This may be latent, not at first sight apparent, nor suspected, but how soon does it appear when put to the proof? |
44420 | To die, if I am like Christ in dying? |
44420 | Too large a theme is the atonement? |
44420 | True, it may not emerge from the struggle of bare endurance here, but has not the seed been sown? |
44420 | Vile in one sense it may be; yet what, although it be covered with sores? |
44420 | Was He ashamed of the lowly and the down- trodden, and those who have become the reproach of men and the despised of the people? |
44420 | Was Jesus, or was He not, crucified for them? |
44420 | Was it possible even for that country which God had blest above all others and man had curst above all others, to breathe and live again? |
44420 | Was there ever a life of less ease and security, yet of more buoyant and rejoicing spirit than his? |
44420 | We are then perhaps at first surprized at the sternness of their sentence, and are ready to say with the trembling disciple,"Who then shall be saved?" |
44420 | Well might He still say,"Have I been so long with you, and yet hast thou not known me?" |
44420 | Were He now on earth, would you leave a throne to stoop and tie His latchet? |
44420 | What His words, His life, His excellence of achievement? |
44420 | What are these men who are rising up to purify the Church? |
44420 | What could all this mean? |
44420 | What do they believe? |
44420 | What else, then, do you prefer for your topic of conversation?" |
44420 | What hath produced such a wonderful difference in public feeling? |
44420 | What is meant by this oneness, or this union? |
44420 | What is the cause of this great change?--how brought about? |
44420 | What is the meaning of it? |
44420 | What is the secret of their power? |
44420 | What is their appeal? |
44420 | What is this which men must possess in order to accomplish Christ''s purpose of inducing the world to believe? |
44420 | What its issue was? |
44420 | What populations are growing up in them? |
44420 | What the real ordeal has been? |
44420 | What then? |
44420 | What tie of home or nation did he not break, that he might join in one of the whole family of God? |
44420 | What was to occur? |
44420 | What weight did he not cast aside, to run the race that was set before him? |
44420 | What wonder the fabric is in peril when tried by fire? |
44420 | What would you have, then, for your theme?" |
44420 | What would you have, then, what can you think of for your choice topic of discourse?" |
44420 | What, although it be clothed in rags? |
44420 | What, although, in unseemly decrepitude, it want its fair proportions? |
44420 | What, for example, can we know in its most important bearings, unless we know the history and office of our Redeemer? |
44420 | Who dared dispute it? |
44420 | Who knows what is going on? |
44420 | Who told you all these things? |
44420 | Why not then of Africans? |
44420 | Why send a message to him? |
44420 | Why this change? |
44420 | Why? |
44420 | Will he not be thus led to"believe the record that God has given us eternal life, and that this life is in his Son?" |
44420 | Will not the pulpit become wearisome if, spring and autumn, summer and winter, it confine itself to a single topic? |
44420 | Will the next generation believe anything?" |
44420 | Will you not be a slave to your unswerving purpose? |
44420 | Will you propose, then, some other theme for your remark?" |
44420 | Would not those modest writers themselves be confounded at the idolatry we pay them? |
44420 | Would you leave father, mother, wife, children, to follow Him, with bleeding feet, over life''s roughest path? |
44420 | You speak of taking your stand, adhering to your decision; but this dry, stiff resolve- comes any genial spirit from it? |
44420 | You speak of your stern purpose, but can you depend upon the continuance of it? |
44420 | Your inflexible rule, will it not be a hard one, wearisome to yourself, disagreeable to others? |
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44420 | a thirsting for the presence of Jesus Christ upon the altar--"Where can I find Him?" |
44420 | and be buried, if I am like Christ in being buried? |
44420 | death is passed forever; we shall then put our feet on the neck of the monster and shall be able to say:"Oh death, where is thy sting? |
11981 | And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters? |
11981 | For the Lord Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, What wilt ye that I shall do unto you? 11981 Again, what eyes did He look for when He spake to those who saw indeed, but who saw only with the eyes of the flesh? 11981 Also Christ saith,I am a very vine; wherefore then worship ye not the vine God, as ye do the bread? |
11981 | And He answered and said,"Woman, thou wottest not what thou asketh; then He said to them, May ye drink of the cup that I shall drink? |
11981 | And how is it possible, you ask, not to grieve, since I am only a man? |
11981 | And how wretched do they seem who can not see this light? |
11981 | And if thou choosest to take him, why dost thou command me to slay him and to pollute my right hand? |
11981 | And to the angel you say as Balaam said:"What wilt thou that we should do?" |
11981 | And what are the two blind men by the wayside but the two people to cure whom Jesus came? |
11981 | And what is it that disorders the eye of the heart? |
11981 | And what said the Lord to him who now confest and said,"My lord, and my God?" |
11981 | And what then, beloved hearers? |
11981 | And wherefore? |
11981 | And why did He not suffice? |
11981 | And why was He not seen? |
11981 | Are not other men Christians? |
11981 | Are these the men who reason about a resurrection? |
11981 | Are we so delicate as to be unwilling to endure anything? |
11981 | Art Thou not cast out from comfort of all creatures? |
11981 | As an infant He was suckled; is He suckled always? |
11981 | As such a trifler with holy things how should I dare rise up? |
11981 | As the smitten beast asked Balaam, so I ask you:"Tell me, am I not your ass? |
11981 | Because he was a bad man? |
11981 | Because he was a youth? |
11981 | Because he was an aged man? |
11981 | Because he was good and kind? |
11981 | Brethren, do you see my meaning? |
11981 | But Jesus was willing to die for the truth of what He said; should we forsake the truth in order not to displease men? |
11981 | But do you miss his society, and therefore lament and mourn? |
11981 | But here, perhaps, thou wilt say, what is needful to be done? |
11981 | But how is it possible, you ask, that a bereaved person, being a man, should not grieve? |
11981 | But if God can not will us to Himself by gentle means, must we not be mere blocks if His threatening also fail? |
11981 | But now I shall ask you a word; answer ye me, Whether is the body of the Lord made at once or at twice? |
11981 | But reason asks, Was darkness created with the world? |
11981 | But since we know that believers are blind, ought we not to have better eyes than they? |
11981 | But we must believe that there is a mysterious reason for this? |
11981 | But what were those who have trodden the path before us? |
11981 | But when Balaam beat his fallen beast, it said to him:"What have I done to thee?" |
11981 | But when we see that Jesus Christ is our pattern, ought we not, without inquiring further, to esteem it great happiness that we are made like Him? |
11981 | But where is a father or a mother that can say I have led their son into sin; one that can say I have ruined her husband or his wife? |
11981 | But whose eyes? |
11981 | By what means shall I become righteous and acceptable to God? |
11981 | By what reason then say ye that are sinners that ye make God? |
11981 | Can the Papists assure me, or any other man, which were the forty days that Christ fasted? |
11981 | Concerning Christ, however, he did not speak thus; but how? |
11981 | Could not the Lord have risen again without scars? |
11981 | Did Christ fast those forty days to teach us superstitious fasting? |
11981 | Did I for this exhibit every parental virtue, that they should endure such a death?" |
11981 | Didst thou not promise me that from this son thou wouldst fill the earth with my descendants? |
11981 | Do I not teach you according to the Gospel? |
11981 | Do we think it has been said in vain that if we die with Jesus Christ we shall also live with Him? |
11981 | Do ye not know how I explained the revelation of St. John? |
11981 | Do you ask me still what you ought to do? |
11981 | Does this Spirit mean the diffusion of air? |
11981 | Either make they again the spiritual body which is risen from death to life or make they the fleshy body as it was before he suffered death? |
11981 | For Christ saith, What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where He was before? |
11981 | For He took bread and blest, and yet what blest He? |
11981 | For he did not say, Concerning them that are dead: but what did he say? |
11981 | For how are our eyes made whole? |
11981 | For of what advantage was it to him that he had many children? |
11981 | For on what account, tell me, do you thus weep for one departed? |
11981 | For what bitterness is there in this cup which He hath not drunk? |
11981 | For what will they not say? |
11981 | For who are we, I pray, to be witnesses of the truth of God, and advocates to maintain His cause? |
11981 | For who was standing before Him without his bodily ears? |
11981 | For who would not have then thought that the promise which had been made him of a numerous posterity was all a deception? |
11981 | For whom do you imitate and emulate? |
11981 | Forasmuch as Thou hast said,"He who hath seen Me hath seen the Father also?" |
11981 | Furthermore, if they say that Christ made His body of bread, I ask, With what words made He it? |
11981 | Has he done so? |
11981 | Have they His cognizance? |
11981 | Have we any cause then to decline the struggle? |
11981 | He did not give way to dejection, nor ask,"What does this mean? |
11981 | He ran through the successive ages of life until man''s full estate; doth He grow in body always? |
11981 | He was born of the Virgin Mary; is He being born always? |
11981 | How can it therefore be that our hearts should not hear this cry and testimony of the Spirit? |
11981 | How can we worthily praise light after the testimony given by the Creator to its goodness? |
11981 | How dost thou promise me a posterity, and yet order me to slay my son? |
11981 | How great is thought to be the unhappiness of men who do not see this bodily light? |
11981 | How may ye then say that ye are worthy to make His body, and yet your works bear witness that ye are less than the prophets? |
11981 | How shall I attain to this perfect justification? |
11981 | How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? |
11981 | How wilt thou give the fruits, then, if thou pluck up the root? |
11981 | How, then, did the Spirit of God move upon the waters? |
11981 | How, then, is it that the heavens are perfect whilst the earth is still unformed and incomplete? |
11981 | How, then, was it that no part of the earth appeared through the water? |
11981 | If I go about with lies, then I have Christ against me; therefore I have heaven and earth against me, and how then could I stand? |
11981 | If I had wished to deceive you, why should I have given you as the chief of my gifts the means of discovering my fraud? |
11981 | If good is the stronger, what is there to prevent evil from being completely annihilated? |
11981 | If they so endured for the truth which was at that time so obscure, what ought we to do in the clear light which is now shining? |
11981 | If, then, evil is neither uncreated nor created by God, from whence comes its nature? |
11981 | In a word, not to dwell long on this, He was crucified; is He hanging on the cross always? |
11981 | In one word, what was the unfinished condition of the earth and for what reason was it invisible? |
11981 | Is it not because He wished to employ them for such a purpose? |
11981 | Is it older than light? |
11981 | Is not this to cast pearls before swine? |
11981 | Is the Father such as I see Thee to be? |
11981 | Is this the recompense for my kindness? |
11981 | Make they the glorified body? |
11981 | May it not be said that we do not think we have to do with God? |
11981 | May not this consideration alone well inflame us to offer ourselves to God to be employed in any way in such honorable service? |
11981 | No doubt the apostles said: How can we believe these women? |
11981 | Now what is it, brethren, to cry out unto Christ, but to correspond to the grace of Christ by good works? |
11981 | Now what thing more precious can we have than the eye made whole? |
11981 | O man, why wander thus from the truth and imagine for thyself that which will cause thy perdition? |
11981 | O wise man, do you think the poor fishermen were not clever enough for this? |
11981 | Of whom spake He, brethren, but of us? |
11981 | On the contrary, I ask, how is it that being a man he should grieve, since he is honored with reason and with hopes of future good? |
11981 | Or dost thou believe? |
11981 | Others run together thither, but perhaps they are heathens or Jews? |
11981 | Philip might, of course, have answered and said, Lord, do I see Thee? |
11981 | Preach first of all to your knowledge, and say to it: If you draw near this truth, you will have much faith; wherefore do you hesitate to use it? |
11981 | Since, therefore, in all other things we differ from them, shall we agree with them in our sentiments respecting death? |
11981 | So I say to you:"Come here and tell me: what have I done to you? |
11981 | Some will say, What do we gain by confessing our faith to obstinate people who have deliberately resolved to fight against God? |
11981 | Tell me, pray, whether in so doing are we worthy of having anything in common with Him? |
11981 | There are some who say, What will our death profit? |
11981 | Therefore man is able only imperfectly to know an incorporeal substance; how much less can he know the uncreated infinite being of God? |
11981 | Therefore, to you also I say: If you believe, where are your works? |
11981 | They are not at this hour in the hands of tyrants, but how do they know what God means to do with them hereafter? |
11981 | To whom did He say this? |
11981 | Was it for this that I opened my house, that I might see it made the grave of my children? |
11981 | Were God to deal with us according to our desserts, would He not have just cause to chastise us daily in a thousand ways? |
11981 | What do ye fear? |
11981 | What do ye say to that, ye wise men of this world? |
11981 | What do you intend to do? |
11981 | What is invisible? |
11981 | What is meant by"Jesus passeth by?" |
11981 | What is meant by"Jesus passeth by?" |
11981 | What is this"passing by?" |
11981 | What is"the deep?" |
11981 | What language can describe his fortitude? |
11981 | What means"the divinity standeth still?" |
11981 | What other ears, then, did He seek for, but those of the inner man? |
11981 | What shall we say, then? |
11981 | What should prevent us from making the confession which He requires? |
11981 | What then should be done in order to inspire our breasts with true courage? |
11981 | What was that? |
11981 | What will they not declare concerning us? |
11981 | What wilt thou have of us, brother? |
11981 | What wilt thou? |
11981 | What, then, is that light which disappeared suddenly from the world so that darkness should cover the face of the deep? |
11981 | When and at what time? |
11981 | When we do not take it into account, and are intent on a brutish life, which is worse than a thousand deaths, what can we allege for our excuse? |
11981 | Where are the signs of His love? |
11981 | Where are thy works? |
11981 | Where then becometh your ministrations? |
11981 | Wherein was Christ a very vine, or wherein was the bread Christ''s body, in figurative speech, which is hidden to the understanding? |
11981 | Which of them was in the better light? |
11981 | Who could have trusted that, so many torments as Job suffered, he should not speak in all his great temptation one foolish word against God? |
11981 | Who ever saw such things, or heard of the like? |
11981 | Who is he that crieth out unto Christ? |
11981 | Who is there, you ask again, that has not been subdued by this weakness? |
11981 | Who then are the two people? |
11981 | Who will dare to try to gain access to the innermost shrine? |
11981 | Who will look into its secrets? |
11981 | Why do ye not come to serve Christ? |
11981 | Why do you beat me? |
11981 | Why do you hesitate and go not into the service of the Lord? |
11981 | Why does Scripture say"one day,"not"the first day?" |
11981 | Why dost thou delay about them? |
11981 | Why dost thou wish to live according to the remonstrances of the multitude who would hinder them, and not after the steps of the Lord who passeth by? |
11981 | Why is this? |
11981 | Why is this? |
11981 | Why not rather as the Gospel ordains? |
11981 | Why now did he use the term death in reference to Christ, but in reference to us the term sleep? |
11981 | Why standest thou so uncertain and irresolute? |
11981 | Why, in spite of its inferiority, has it preceded it? |
11981 | Why? |
11981 | Will it not rather prove an offense? |
11981 | Would not the symmetry in light be less shown in its parts than in the pleasure and delight at the sight of it? |
11981 | Would you hear of a sixth stroke? |
11981 | Yet doth He call them dead; where but in the soul within? |
11981 | You suffer emotions and shed tears at merely hearing of these things: what must he have endured at the sight of them? |
11981 | and will not the heavenly life compensate for this? |
11981 | and, how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? |
11981 | and, how shall they hear without a preacher? |
11981 | and, how shall they preach except they be sent?" |
11981 | is there such a company of priests, monks, and nuns, and is not faith known? |
11981 | who knoweth not what he ought to believe? |
33340 | But, Mr. Moody,you say,"how can I check myself? |
33340 | Do you swear when you get angry? |
33340 | Does not your Bible say that if your ass falls into a pit on the sabbath, you may pull him out? |
33340 | How did you stop? |
33340 | How do I know whether a man or a camel passed my tent last night? |
33340 | Oh,I said,"tell me, have you ever sworn since that night you knelt in your drawing- room, and asked God to forgive you?" |
33340 | Then,I asked,"are you ready to meet God?" |
33340 | Well, what is it? |
33340 | What do you mean? |
33340 | What law of justice forgives the obscene bird of prey, while it kicks out of its path the soiled and bleeding dove? |
33340 | Where is the crime,he asked,"of turning a few ounces of blood out of their channel?" |
33340 | Why did you send your daughter out of the room before you said this? |
33340 | Why, you do n''t swear now, do you? |
33340 | Would you come up and see my wife? |
33340 | _ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? 33340 --that is splendid reading for Sunday, is n''t it? 33340 ARE YOU GUILTY? 33340 ARE YOU READY? 33340 After he prayed he got up and said:What shall I do now?" |
33340 | After the meeting I said to a gentleman:"Who is that man who drives up here every night? |
33340 | Again, what does John say? |
33340 | And what is it used in connection with? |
33340 | And why? |
33340 | And you,_ employee_, have you been honest with your employer? |
33340 | Are n''t they vanity? |
33340 | Are there not men whose characters have been utterly ruined for this life through this accursed sin? |
33340 | Are there not wives who would rather sink into their graves than live? |
33340 | Are we obeying God with all our heart? |
33340 | Are you fit for the kingdom of heaven? |
33340 | Are you guilty of adulterating what you sell? |
33340 | Are you innocent or guilty? |
33340 | Are you like those who said:"When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? |
33340 | Are you ready to step into the scales and be weighed against this first commandment? |
33340 | Are you ready to step into the scales? |
33340 | Are you trusting Him alone? |
33340 | Are your advertisements deceptive? |
33340 | Are your cheap prices made possible by defrauding your customers either in quantity or in quality? |
33340 | As a child said, when reproved by her mother and told that she ought to do right:"How can I do right when there is no''right''in me?" |
33340 | But does this mean that the detailed precepts of the Decalogue are superseded, and have become back numbers? |
33340 | But have you kept them? |
33340 | But if a man makes money, and yet his sons are ruined and his home broken up, what has he gained? |
33340 | But if he wins her affection and ruins her, and then casts her off, is n''t he worse, than a murderer? |
33340 | But some one says:"Mr. Moody, what are you going to do? |
33340 | But you ask,"What are we to do? |
33340 | Ca n''t a man read enough news on week days without desecrating the sabbath? |
33340 | Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? |
33340 | Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? |
33340 | Can pleasure or riches fill the soul that is empty of God? |
33340 | Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? |
33340 | Can we not all recall cases where men and women have died under the wounds of calumny and misrepresentation? |
33340 | Can you draw a picture of your own soul or spirit or will? |
33340 | Can you step on the scales and take that harlot with you? |
33340 | Can you, young man? |
33340 | Can_ you_ say that you observe the sabbath properly? |
33340 | Christians have tried to paint the Trinity, but how can you depict the Invisible? |
33340 | Come, are you killing them? |
33340 | Come, now, are you ready to be weighed? |
33340 | Did He not set an example of true filial love and care when in the midst of the agonies of the cross He mode provision for His mother? |
33340 | Did it not bring fire and brimstone from heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah? |
33340 | Did n''t David fall into foolish and hurtful lusts? |
33340 | Did you ever get so angry that you wished any one harm? |
33340 | Did you ever in your heart wish a man dead? |
33340 | Did you ever stop to think that the world has not a single picture of Christ that has been handed down to us from His disciples? |
33340 | Do n''t selfish riches always bring hurt? |
33340 | Do we keep the law, the_ whole_ law? |
33340 | Do we render Him a full and willing obedience? |
33340 | Do you believe that God will allow this infernal thing to go on,--women bearing all the blame while guilty men go unpunished? |
33340 | Do you call them old- fashioned, and sneer at their advice? |
33340 | Do you disobey them just as much as you dare? |
33340 | Do you ever think how those little stealings may bring you to ruin? |
33340 | Do you give short weight or measure? |
33340 | Do you know how often the word"reverend"occurs in the Bible? |
33340 | Do you love Him above father or mother, the wife of your bosom, your children, home or land, wealth or pleasure? |
33340 | Do you substitute inferior grades of goods? |
33340 | Do you teach your clerks to put a French or an English tag on domestic manufactures, and then sell them as imported goods? |
33340 | Do you tell them to say that the goods are all wool when you know they are half cotton? |
33340 | Do you try to deceive them? |
33340 | Does a father cease to give children rules to obey because they love him? |
33340 | Does a nation burn its statute books because the people have become patriotic? |
33340 | Does he have peace of mind? |
33340 | Does n''t it look as if Christ left no relics lest they should be held sacred and worshipped? |
33340 | Does n''t that touch sabbath travel? |
33340 | Does that look as if the law of Moses was becoming obsolete? |
33340 | Doth a fountain send forth at the same time sweet water and bitter? |
33340 | God''s statutes are just, are they not? |
33340 | Has n''t the church to contend with the same difficulty to- day? |
33340 | Has n''t the time come to call a halt if men want power with God? |
33340 | Has the human heart ever been satisfied with these false gods? |
33340 | Have we fulfilled all the requirements of the law? |
33340 | Have we not had the desire to increase our possessions or to change our lot in accordance with what we see in others? |
33340 | Have you been taking God''s name in vain to- day? |
33340 | Have you defrauded the hireling of his wages? |
33340 | Have you fulfilled, or are you willing to fulfil, all the requirements of this law? |
33340 | Have you no other God? |
33340 | Have you paid starvation wages? |
33340 | Have you robbed him of his due by wasting your time when he was not looking? |
33340 | His master heard of it, and sent for him, and said:"I understand you are preaching?" |
33340 | How about the atheist, the deist, the pantheist? |
33340 | How are we to get to church?" |
33340 | How are you treating your parents? |
33340 | How can men claim that this one commandment has been done away with when they will admit that the other nine are still binding? |
33340 | How could God order something that broke this second commandment? |
33340 | How did he learn to beware of covetousness? |
33340 | How did you spend it? |
33340 | How do you treat that venerable father and praying mother? |
33340 | How does He begin? |
33340 | How long is it since you wrote to your mother? |
33340 | How many sons treat their parents with contempt, and make light of their entreaties? |
33340 | How would the president feel if Americans made such hideous objects to resemble him as they make of their gods in heathen countries? |
33340 | I asked him:"Do you ever get angry?" |
33340 | I began to tell him about Christ in the heart; how that would take the temptation to swear out of a man,"Well,"he said,"how am I to get Christ?" |
33340 | I have been thinking, Where did Moses get that law? |
33340 | I stepped up to him and said:"This is Mr.--, I believe?" |
33340 | I want a little more time to prepare, to turn the matter over in my mind?" |
33340 | If Christ is in our hearts, why need we set Him before our eyes? |
33340 | If God should summon you into His presence now, what would you say? |
33340 | If God should weigh us by them, would we be found wanting or not wanting? |
33340 | If God should weigh you against this commandment, would you be found wanting? |
33340 | If Paul was alive to- day, could he have described the present state of affairs more truly? |
33340 | If a man will sell his principles for gold, is n''t he making it a god? |
33340 | If he saw the streets of our large cities filled with harlots, would he believe that the worship of Venus had ceased? |
33340 | If he trusts in his wealth to keep him from want and to supply his needs, are not riches his god? |
33340 | If some old Greek or Roman came to life again and saw men in a drunken debauch, would he believe that the worship of Bacchus had died out? |
33340 | If the King Himself is present, why need we bow down before statues supposed to represent Him? |
33340 | If they can not have your regard through life, what reward are they to have for all their care and anxiety? |
33340 | If we take hold of that promise by faith, what need is there of outward symbols and reminders? |
33340 | If you lie about the value of things you buy, are you not trying to defraud the storekeeper? |
33340 | Is all your hope centred on God in Christ? |
33340 | Is he interested?" |
33340 | Is his rock as our Rock? |
33340 | Is his rock as our Rock? |
33340 | Is it not right that He should have the first and only place in our affections? |
33340 | Is n''t it a condemnation that men have to be put under oath in order to make sure of their speaking the truth? |
33340 | Is n''t it a terrible condemnation that swearing held its own until it came to be recognized as a vulgar thing, a sin against society? |
33340 | Is n''t it extraordinary that Jethro, the man of the desert, should have given this advice to Moses? |
33340 | Is n''t that a proof that their rock is not as our Rock? |
33340 | Is n''t that true of many business- men to day? |
33340 | Is n''t that true? |
33340 | Is n''t there a crying need for that same feeling to- day? |
33340 | Is the covetous man ever satisfied with his possessions? |
33340 | Is there a swearing man ready to put this commandment into the scales, and step in to be weighed? |
33340 | Is there a swearing man who reads this? |
33340 | Is your heart set upon God alone? |
33340 | Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? |
33340 | Let your mind go back to the time when you were ill. Did your mother neglect you? |
33340 | Lot coveted the rich plains of Sodom, and what did he gain? |
33340 | Men often ask:"How can I keep from swearing?" |
33340 | My friend, are you ready to be weighed against this commandment? |
33340 | My friend, can you say that sincerely? |
33340 | My friend, have you got Him? |
33340 | My friend, how is it? |
33340 | Next day the young man said:"Who was that I saw you talking to yesterday?" |
33340 | Now God turns to our relations with each other, and is n''t it significant that He deals first with family life? |
33340 | Now the question for you and me is-- are we keeping these commandments? |
33340 | Now, my friend, are you ready to be weighed by this law of God? |
33340 | PUNISHMENT OR BLESSING? |
33340 | Paul said:"Do we then make void the law through faith? |
33340 | Sabbath- breaker, are you ready to step into the scales? |
33340 | See what God says in His Word:"Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? |
33340 | Some one asked an Arab:"How do you know that there is a God?" |
33340 | Some one said that when the prodigal son came home he had the best robe and the fatted calf, but what does the prodigal daughter get? |
33340 | Suppose God''s scales should drop down before you, what would you do? |
33340 | The Handwriting Blotted Out We have now considered the Ten Commandments, and the question for each one of us is-- are we keeping them? |
33340 | The law is all right, but are we right? |
33340 | The prophet Amos hurled his invectives against oppressors who said,"When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? |
33340 | The question at once arises-- is this commandment intended to forbid the use of drawings and pictures of created things altogether? |
33340 | Then he straightened up and asked--"What do you want?" |
33340 | There is no open question on Monday morning--''John, will you go to work to- day?''" |
33340 | Two people were once arguing upon this point, and one said:"Well, you will not contend that a theft of a pin and of a dollar are the same to God?" |
33340 | Was n''t Belshazzar cut off suddenly? |
33340 | We are not gaining much in turning away from this old law, are we? |
33340 | Were n''t they a snare? |
33340 | What are you going to do, blasphemer? |
33340 | What artist can tell us? |
33340 | What care I for all the glories and treasures of heaven? |
33340 | What carried Rome into ruin? |
33340 | What did Christ say? |
33340 | What did the thirty pieces of silver do for Judas? |
33340 | What do they look forward to? |
33340 | What does the child of God want more than this? |
33340 | What has made the difference in the price of humanity? |
33340 | What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? |
33340 | What would you do if you were put into the balances of the sanctuary, if you had to step in opposite to this third commandment? |
33340 | When Ananias kept back part of the price of the land, Peter asked him--"Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie unto the Holy Ghost?" |
33340 | When a neighbor came in and said,"Now, mother, you go and lie down; you have been up for a week; I will take your place for a night"--did she do it? |
33340 | When any one spoke evil of another in the presence of Peter the Great, he used promptly to stop him, and say:"Well, now, has he not got a bright side? |
33340 | When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes? |
33340 | Where did Moses obtain that law, which surpasses the wisdom and philosophy of the most enlightened ages? |
33340 | Where did he obtain it? |
33340 | Where do they stand to- day? |
33340 | Where were you last sabbath? |
33340 | Wherein Have We Robbed God? |
33340 | Which master will you choose to follow? |
33340 | Which would you rather be-- a Joseph or an Absalom? |
33340 | Who ever heard it confessed as a sin? |
33340 | Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? |
33340 | Who knows what He was like? |
33340 | Why do you not respect all women as you do your mother and sister? |
33340 | Why does n''t the atheist preach no hereafter, no heaven, no God, in the hour of affliction? |
33340 | Why then should they give them to my children and to yours? |
33340 | Will any one deny that the house of the strange woman is"the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death,"as the Bible says? |
33340 | Will such a young man ever amount to anything? |
33340 | Will you incur God''s displeasure by rejecting Christ too? |
33340 | Will you remain as you are and be found wanting, or will you accept Christ and be ready for the summons? |
33340 | Will you step into the scales and be weighed one by one by the Ten Commandments? |
33340 | Would he be wise or foolish in putting up a photograph of her on the window- frame before him, as a help to bear her in as he looks for her coming? |
33340 | Would he have believed that that was going to be his last night, that he would never see the light of another sun? |
33340 | Would he have sent his daughter out if he really believed what he said? |
33340 | Would n''t it be a grand thing to have a martyr in the nineteenth century? |
33340 | Would you like to have your boy one of them? |
33340 | Would you like your sabbath taken away from you? |
33340 | Would you not be found wanting? |
33340 | Yes, because what will not men be guilty of when prompted by the desire to be rich? |
33340 | You ask me how you are to cast this unclean spirit out of your heart? |
33340 | You do n''t like to have any one bear false witness against you, or help to ruin your character or reputation: then why should you do it to others? |
33340 | You may be a professed Christian: are you obeying this commandment? |
33340 | You used to swear?" |
33340 | You want Holy Ghost power? |
33340 | You want power in your Christian life, do you? |
33340 | You want the dew of heaven on your brow? |
33340 | You want to see men convicted and converted? |
33340 | Young lady, can you say:"I am ready to be weighed by the law?" |
33340 | Young man, are you leading an impure life? |
33340 | Young man, young woman, are you guilty, even in thought? |
33340 | Young man, young woman, how do you treat your parents? |
33340 | _ Employer_, are you guilty of sweating your employees? |
33340 | _ Extortioner_, are you ready to step into the scales? |
33340 | and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? |
33340 | and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat?" |
33340 | either a vine figs? |
33340 | he asked;"how did you stop?" |
33340 | how can I overcome the habit of lying and gossip?" |
33340 | that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?" |
26760 | And doth the Saviour weep Over His people''s sin, Because we will not let Him keep The souls He died to win? 26760 Fled on wings of love to the succour of His loved friend; hurried in eager haste by the shortest route from Bethabara?" |
26760 | Hath He forgotten to be gracious? |
26760 | If these things were done in the green tree, what will be done in the dry? |
26760 | If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the Father chasteneth not? |
26760 | Say, ye who tempt The sea of life, by summer gales impell''d, Have ye this anchor? 26760 What need is there, Lord,"she seems to say,"for this redundant labour? |
26760 | When He had heard THEREFORE that he was sick,--what did He do? |
26760 | Why, Lord,seemed to be the expression of her inner thoughts,"wert Thou absent? |
26760 | Why,as if He said,"Why distrust me? |
26760 | [ 13] Art thou really looking to this exalted life- giving Saviour? 26760 [ 18]"_ Who_ touched me?" |
26760 | [ 33] But does the parable stop here? 26760 [ 47] But, after all, can Angels really impart comfort? |
26760 | [ 50] Did they live to survive the destruction of Jerusalem? 26760 _ Said I not unto thee_,"interposes this voice of mingled reproof and love,"My grace is sufficient for thee?" |
26760 | --lifting your furrowed brow and tearful eye to Heaven, you may exclaim,"Who shall separate me from the love of Christ?" |
26760 | 10- 12.--"And when He was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? |
26760 | After_ what_ things? |
26760 | Am I conscious of doing nothing that would lead me to be ashamed before Him at His coming? |
26760 | Am I shaping my course in life-- my plans-- my schemes-- my wishes with what I feel would be in accordance with His will? |
26760 | And is it not the same evidence we exult in still? |
26760 | And is not this still the way Jesus deals with His people? |
26760 | And what is the spot which he selects as the place of Ascension?--What the favoured height or valley that is to listen to His farewell words? |
26760 | And what was it that constituted the value of this tribute-- the beauty and expressiveness of the action? |
26760 | And yet-- how is He employed? |
26760 | Are there no foreshadowed glories found in the pages of Holy Writ, which include this lowly village-- gilding it with the beams of a Millennial Sun? |
26760 | Are they to be left alone? |
26760 | Are we willing to give our Lord the best of what we have-- to consecrate time, talents, strength, life, to His service? |
26760 | Are you even now enjoying, through your tears, this blessed persuasion, and exulting in this blessed creed? |
26760 | Are you to mock His tender sympathy still with cold formalism, or persisted- in impenitency? |
26760 | Are you to think of Bethany and its tear- drops and still go on in sin? |
26760 | Are_ we_ faithfully fulfilling our Lord''s farewell Apostolic Commission? |
26760 | Ask them why they believe? |
26760 | Believest thou this? |
26760 | But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to Him, and said, Lord, dost Thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? |
26760 | But a momentary feeling of unbelief( shall we say, of reproach and upbraiding?) |
26760 | But does the love and affection of that household find expression in nothing but words? |
26760 | But have we known, in our experience, the value of the great compensating boon here spoken of? |
26760 | But how many Christian disciples, in their Olivets of sorrow, have been able to tell the same experience? |
26760 | But was the word of Jesus in vain? |
26760 | But was there on this account any effort on his part relaxed to secure their safety? |
26760 | But what are they, after all, in comparison with those of Paul''s Lord? |
26760 | But what will the heart not do to meet such a Comforter? |
26760 | But will Jesus leave His people to their own guilty unbelieving doubts? |
26760 | But"_ beginning_"at Jerusalem, the Gospel Commission did not_ end_ there? |
26760 | Can it be that the unwelcome intruder is so nigh at hand?--that their now joyous dwelling is so soon to echo to the wail of lamentation? |
26760 | Can the messenger have mistaken them? |
26760 | Can we anticipate, in the resurrection of Lazarus, our own happy history? |
26760 | Can we dare to imagine His sensations and feelings when passing_ now_? |
26760 | Can we imagine that they could linger behind, unconcerned, in their dwelling, when their Best Friend was in the hands of His murderers? |
26760 | Can we participate in the joy of the family of BETHANY? |
26760 | Can we suppose a remonstrance to so strange a summons? |
26760 | Can we,_ dare_ we doubt it? |
26760 | Christian,"Believest_ thou this_? |
26760 | Could it be written on our hearts in life? |
26760 | Did that fig- tree take up a responsive parable, and say,"Who made Thee a ruler and a judge over me?" |
26760 | Did you ever note, in the 6th verse of this Bethany chapter, the strangely beautiful connexion of the word THEREFORE? |
26760 | Do we know anything of the words of this message? |
26760 | Do you know the secret of that twofold solace,"the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings?" |
26760 | Does He proceed forthwith to speak the word, and to accomplish the giant deed? |
26760 | Had Bethany been revisited during that mysterious interval? |
26760 | Had he been the unseen witness of the tears and groans of his anguished sisters? |
26760 | Had he conversed with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob? |
26760 | Had he mingled in the goodly fellowship of prophets? |
26760 | Has he ever failed us? |
26760 | Has not that occasion occurred now? |
26760 | Hast thou in some feeble measure realised this resurrection- life as thine own? |
26760 | Hast thou the joyful consciousness of participating in this vital union with a living Lord? |
26760 | Have our hearts become living temples thrown open for His reception? |
26760 | Have we known, in the midst of our weakness and wants, our griefs and sorrows, the power and grace of the promised Paraclete? |
26760 | Have we seen in His death the secret of our life? |
26760 | Have we, like them, followed Christ to His cross and His tomb, and listened to the angelic announcement,"He is not here, He is risen?" |
26760 | Have you tasted and seen that the Lord is gracious? |
26760 | Have_ we_ no part in these solemn monitions? |
26760 | He seemed to mean to say,''Is not this the true joy of the Feast of Tabernacles? |
26760 | He, the head, and support, and stay of two helpless females? |
26760 | How shall we hear it? |
26760 | How stands our faith? |
26760 | How was he cured? |
26760 | How we might think could love give a more truthful exponent of its reality than hastening instantaneously to the relief of one so dear to Him? |
26760 | How, too, can the infant Church spare him? |
26760 | IF Thou_ hadst_ been here?" |
26760 | If even for"_ the Jerusalem sinner_"there is mercy, can there be ground for one human being to despair? |
26760 | Is Elijah trembling in the dark cave of Horeb? |
26760 | Is Hagar in the desert? |
26760 | Is He to accept of the crown? |
26760 | Is death to hold that prey? |
26760 | Is it destined to remain as it now is-- a wreck of vanished loveliness? |
26760 | Is it not more likely the message of the sisters was this:--"Go and tell Him,''Lord, he whom_ we_ love,''or else,''he who loveth_ Thee_ is sick?''" |
26760 | Is it not to the feeble realisation of the quickening, life- giving power of this Divine Agent? |
26760 | Is it the House of God-- the gates of Zion-- the Holy place of Solemnities? |
26760 | Is not the Lord here?''" |
26760 | Is not the symbolic answer here given? |
26760 | Is that tear to flow in vain? |
26760 | Is the absent Saviour not to be sought? |
26760 | Is the departure of the immortal soul to the spirit- world so trivial a matter that the life- giving God takes no cognisance of it? |
26760 | Is the grave to retain in gloomy custody that immaculate frame? |
26760 | Is the living temple to lie there an inglorious ruin, like other crumbling wrecks of mortality? |
26760 | Is the world, that had so disowned Him, disowned now in return? |
26760 | Is there not the same music in that name-- the same solace and joy in that presence still? |
26760 | It was at this precise point, as he drew near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives,( may it not have been from the sight thus opening upon them?) |
26760 | Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? |
26760 | Lazarus, whom Jesus tenderly loved? |
26760 | Let_ us_ ask, have_ we_ received Jesus as_ our_ King?--have_ our_ palm branches been cast at His feet? |
26760 | May we not think of it as oft and again visited by Martha, and Mary, and Lazarus? |
26760 | Might not He who has"the keys of the grave and of death"have Himself unlocked the portals preparatory to the vaster prodigy that was to follow? |
26760 | O faithless disciple, wherefore didst thou doubt? |
26760 | O grave, where is thy victory?" |
26760 | O man, who art thou that repliest against God?" |
26760 | Or do other questions involuntarily arise? |
26760 | Or shall we leave the death- chamber and visit the grave? |
26760 | Or would you have Jesus made more precious to your_ own_ soul? |
26760 | Our befitting attitude and language_ now_ is that of simple confidingness--"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" |
26760 | Reader, is this your experience? |
26760 | Shall fancy pour her strange and mysterious queries into the ear of him who has just come back from that land"from whose bourne no traveller returns?" |
26760 | Shall we follow the family group within the hallowed precincts of the Bethany dwelling? |
26760 | Solemn, then, ought to be the question with every one of us-- every Fig- tree in the Lord''s plantation-- How does it stand with_ me_? |
26760 | The Sinner just awoke from his moral slumber, and in the agonies of conviction, exclaiming,"What must I do to be saved?" |
26760 | The demand and scrutiny of Jesus will on that day be, not what is the number of your leaves, the height of your stem, the extent of your branches? |
26760 | The joy and solace of a common orphanhood,--a brother evidently made and born for their adversities? |
26760 | The messenger has reached-- what is his message? |
26760 | These mighty thoughts and words of consolation-- are they really believed, felt, trusted in, rejoiced over? |
26760 | They were to proclaim His name through the wide world; but was JERUSALEM( the scene of His ignominy) to form an exception? |
26760 | This family blank-- why permitted? |
26760 | This sickness-- why prolonged? |
26760 | This thorn in the flesh-- why still buffeting? |
26760 | Those words which first the bier''s dread silence broke-- Came they with revelation in each tone? |
26760 | Thou hast often gladdened our home in our season of joy-- why this forgetfulness in the night of our bitter agony? |
26760 | Though many a gorgeous palace was at that era adorning the earth, where was the spot, what the dwelling, half so consecrated as this? |
26760 | Was Martha''s then a blind unmeaning faith? |
26760 | Was it of that majestic world unknown? |
26760 | Was the joy of that moment confined to these two bosoms? |
26760 | Was there no voice but for the ear of Judah and Jerusalem? |
26760 | We think of Him as true to His_ promises_, do we think of Him, also, as_ true to His threatenings_? |
26760 | Were we to die, could it be inscribed on our tombs,"This is one whom_ Jesus loved_?" |
26760 | What evidence is there that you have profited by My admonitions, listened to My voice, and accepted My salvation? |
26760 | What must be, to the bereft and lonely Christian, the thought of being restored, and that_ for ever_, to his long- absent Saviour? |
26760 | What the scenery of that bright abode? |
26760 | What was the nature of his happiness while"absent from the body?" |
26760 | What was the secret of that calmest of sunsets amid a blood- stained and storm- wreathed sky? |
26760 | What was their message now? |
26760 | What will Martha be unprepared to encounter if the intelligence brought her be indeed confirmed? |
26760 | What, then, does the Saviour here figuratively, but significantly, teach His people? |
26760 | What, then, is the explanation? |
26760 | Whence, then, we again ask, this strange and mysterious grief? |
26760 | Where are your proofs of love to Myself, delight in My service, obedience to My will? |
26760 | Where is now my God?" |
26760 | While the language of earth is"Friend after friend departs-- Who hath not lost a friend?" |
26760 | Who so faint as these disciples? |
26760 | Why dwell on the shattered casket, and not rather on the jewel which is sparkling brighter than ever in a better world? |
26760 | Why excite vain expectations in my breast which never can be realised? |
26760 | Why is Omniscience tarrying elsewhere, when His presence and power are above all needed at the house of His friend? |
26760 | Why is this? |
26760 | Why the most treasured and useful life taken-- the blow aimed where it cut most severely and levelled lowest? |
26760 | Why this distinction? |
26760 | Why this summoning in any feeble human agency when His own independent fiat could have effected the whole? |
26760 | Will it be with joy? |
26760 | Would it sound in our ears like the sweet tones of the silver trumpet of Jubilee? |
26760 | Would they not be the same as that of every Christian still, while passing through memories of trial,"It was good for me to be here?" |
26760 | Would you weep him back if you could from his early crown? |
26760 | You for whose comfort these pages are specially designed, is there no lesson of consolation to be drawn from this solemn"memory?" |
26760 | You may be often tempted to say with Gideon,"If the Lord be with me, why has_ all_ this befallen me?" |
26760 | [ 50] Is it lawful to think of Bethany in connexion with the Church of the Future? |
26760 | _ And how did they return?_ What were their feelings as they rose to pursue their way? |
26760 | _ And how did they return?_ What were their feelings as they rose to pursue their way? |
26760 | _ Could_ He fail--_can_ He fail to prove Himself now a"Brother born for_ adversity_?" |
26760 | _ Her_ exclamation is--"Why this_ unkind_ absence?" |
26760 | _ if_ Thou hadst been here?" |
26760 | am I_ now_ bringing forth fruit to God? |
26760 | if He_ may_ come_ soon_--if He MUST come at some time, how shall I meet Him? |
26760 | or hath he spoken, and shall he not bring it to pass?" |
26760 | why their faith is so firm-- their love so strong? |
11627 | But what evil has He done, and what reason hast thou to abandon Him in this manner? |
11627 | Do you see him,he says,"this conqueror; with what rapidity he rises from the west by bounds, as it were, and touches not the earth?" |
11627 | Know ye not, that they which run in a race run all, but one obtaineth the prize? 11627 Know you that they which run in a race run all, but one obtaineth the prize? |
11627 | O Lord, what wilt thou give me? |
11627 | What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? |
11627 | Why should it be thought a thing incredible( that is, impossible) with you, that God should raise the dead? |
11627 | Adore leeks and garlic, and shed penitential tears at the smell of a deified onion? |
11627 | All that is liable to question is, whether we are to conceive in Him any like resentments of such cases, in His present glorified state? |
11627 | And for this he appeals to his judges, Festus and Agrippa:"why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead?" |
11627 | And how if thou shouldst come but one quarter of an hour too late? |
11627 | And is He not now worth your highest estimation and dearest affection? |
11627 | And is not Christ worth the seeking? |
11627 | And is not evil come upon all the world for one sin of Adam? |
11627 | And is not the Savior still a subject of ridicule to the libertine spirits which compose them? |
11627 | And is this faith? |
11627 | And shall we not bear our punishment with patience? |
11627 | And what do we, when, possest of the spirit of the world, we resist a grace which solicits us, which presses us to obey God? |
11627 | And why should God make it known? |
11627 | And why should he appeal to them concerning the credibility of this matter if it be a thing incredible to natural reason? |
11627 | Angels admire them, whom they less concern, and shall redeemed sinners make light of them? |
11627 | Are all that hear me this day certain they shall be saved? |
11627 | Are not the ordinances always losers when anything of your own cometh in competition? |
11627 | Are we not happy, indeed, in being able to obtain so great a blessing by only asking for it? |
11627 | Are you no more near or dear to yourselves than to make light of your own happiness or misery? |
11627 | Are you so hasty? |
11627 | Art thou resolved to strip? |
11627 | As a man, what art thou but a worm to God? |
11627 | Ask the question, by what power was it whereby Abraham was enabled to yield obedience to the Lord? |
11627 | Because you know, that tho a man do run, yet if he do not overcome, or win, as well as run, what will they be the better for their running? |
11627 | Behold thy pleasure on the one hand, and thy God on the other: for which of the two dost thou declare thyself? |
11627 | Bow himself before a cat? |
11627 | But how should a poor soul do to run? |
11627 | But is not this a shame for them that are such? |
11627 | But must we confess that this filial confidence is wanting in all our prayers? |
11627 | But the tears wept over others, as lost and past hope, why should they not yet melt thee, while as yet there is hope in thy case? |
11627 | But when hear we such questions? |
11627 | But wherein, then, according to their opinion, did this image of God consist? |
11627 | But you will say, may not a man have faith, and not that fruit you speak of? |
11627 | Can He demand less of us than that we should think of what we say to Him? |
11627 | Can not men be saved without so much ado? |
11627 | Can you escape without a Christ? |
11627 | Can you find fault if you miss of the salvation which you slighted? |
11627 | Can you make this prayer-- you who disturb His reign in your heart by so many impure and vain desires? |
11627 | Can you not do as your neighbors do, carry the world, sin, lust, pleasure, profit, esteem among men, along with you? |
11627 | Can you not stay and take these along with you? |
11627 | Canst thou think His deceitful tears? |
11627 | Conscience, which, in spite of ourselves, presides in us as judge, said inwardly to us,"What art thou going to do? |
11627 | Consider, 4. Who is it that sends this weighty message to you? |
11627 | Dare we hope that He will listen to us, and think of us, when we forget ourselves in the midst of our prayers? |
11627 | Did not God strike Korah and his company with fire from heaven? |
11627 | Do not some of your consciences by this time smite you, and say, I am the man that have made light of my salvation? |
11627 | Do not these make light of Christ and salvation? |
11627 | Do not those men make light of Christ and salvation that shun the mention of His name, unless it be in a vain or sinful use? |
11627 | Do not those then make light of Christ and salvation that think of them so seldom and coldly in comparison of other things? |
11627 | Do you not see by this time what a case that soul is in that maketh light of Christ and salvation? |
11627 | Do you see him as he rushes on to victory or death? |
11627 | Do you think that Christ shed His blood to save them that continue to make light of it? |
11627 | Doth it not behoove you beforehand to think of these things? |
11627 | Doth not prayer pay for it? |
11627 | Doth not that soul make light of all these that thinks his ease more worth than they? |
11627 | Doth not the Word pay for it? |
11627 | For is it not strange that a rational man should worship an ox, nay, the image of an ox? |
11627 | For who can resist Him who is almighty? |
11627 | God will judge impartially; why should not we do so? |
11627 | God''s people wish well to the souls of others, and wilt not thou wish well to thine own? |
11627 | Has there ever been beheld in two men virtues such as these in characters so different, not to say diametrically opposite? |
11627 | Hath he no cause to fear lest the things of his peace should be forever hid from his eyes? |
11627 | Have you a secret of importance? |
11627 | Have you found a better friend, a greater and a surer happiness than this? |
11627 | Have you gone to them, and told them the doubtfulness of your case, and asked their help in the judging of your condition? |
11627 | Have you nobody to inquire of, that might help you in such a work? |
11627 | His, who never knew guile? |
11627 | How can He grant you, says St. Augustine, what you do not yourself desire to receive? |
11627 | How do you tremble at the wrath and threatenings of a mortal man? |
11627 | How much more will it perplex thee to think that thou hadst not a care of thine own? |
11627 | How shalt thou look upon Him that fainted and died for love of thee, and thou didst scorn His miraculous mercies? |
11627 | How will these despisers of Christ and salvation be able one day to look Him in the face, and to give an account of these neglects? |
11627 | If he be accurst that sets light by father or mother, what then is he that sets light by Christ? |
11627 | If thou now say, Which is the way? |
11627 | If we look into hearts, shall we not find that we ask of God as if we had never before received benefits from Him? |
11627 | Is Dives, then, any better than Lazarus? |
11627 | Is it not God Himself? |
11627 | Is it not evident, then, that you are not under the command of the Word? |
11627 | Is it not your own? |
11627 | Is not Abraham contented with this? |
11627 | Is not everlasting salvation worth more than all this? |
11627 | Is not prayer our resource only when all others have failed us? |
11627 | Is not virtue either unknown or despised? |
11627 | Is self- love lost? |
11627 | Is that a man or a clod of clay that can rise or lie down without being deeply affected with his everlasting estate? |
11627 | Is that a man or a corpse that is not affected with matters of this moment? |
11627 | Is the mystery of the cross then nothing to you? |
11627 | Is there not another way besides this? |
11627 | Is this the man who carried cities by storm and won great battles? |
11627 | It is no less than miracles of love and mercy that He hath showed to us; and yet shall we slight them after all? |
11627 | It may be thou hast a father, mother, brother, etc., going post- haste to heaven, wouldst thou be willing to be left behind them? |
11627 | May not a man have a good heart to Godward, altho he can not find that ability in matter of fruitfulness? |
11627 | No; mark how he pleadeth with God:"Lord God( saith he), what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless?" |
11627 | O Lord, that men did but know what everlasting glory and everlasting torments are: would they then hear us as they do? |
11627 | Oh, what thoughts have drunkards and adulterers, etc., of Christ, that will not part with the basest lust for Him? |
11627 | Or art thou not? |
11627 | Or how shall a man know what is the true fruit of faith, indeed, whereby he may discern his own estate? |
11627 | Ought we to complain if God sometimes leaves us to obscurity, and doubt, and temptation? |
11627 | Shall not the Redeemer''s tears move thee? |
11627 | Shall the God of heaven speak and men make light of it? |
11627 | Shall we not discover there a secret infidelity that renders us unworthy of His goodness? |
11627 | So here, when several have had the same body, whose shall it be at the resurrection? |
11627 | So that I say, the question being, whence came it that Abraham was so fruitful a Christian, what enabled him to do and to suffer what he did? |
11627 | So that the meaning of St. Paul''s question is,"why should it be thought a thing impossible that God should raise the dead?" |
11627 | That all these people wish to improve, desire to perform their duty toward God and man better, and yet fail? |
11627 | That he should fawn upon his dog? |
11627 | That the case is in itself most deplorable, who sees not? |
11627 | That the next time you go prayerless to bed, or about your business, conscience might cry out, Dost thou set no more by Christ and thy salvation? |
11627 | The devils never had a savior offered to them; but thou hast, and dost thou yet make light of Him? |
11627 | The effect of this consideration is this: That if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the wicked and the sinner appear? |
11627 | The saints of old, they being willing and resolved for heaven, what could stop them? |
11627 | The words of this author are admirable: Jesus Christ complains, says this learned prelate, but of what does He complain? |
11627 | Then Paul answered,"What, mean ye to weep, and to break my heart?" |
11627 | Then who will prove the loser by thy contempt? |
11627 | They worship Him externally, but internally how do they regard His maxims? |
11627 | To whom should we speak with attention if not to God? |
11627 | Trembling and astonished, Paul cries out,"Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?" |
11627 | Upon this ground then, what exhortation could be more proper than this? |
11627 | Was that also done to deceive? |
11627 | Was this like the rest of His course? |
11627 | Well, then, sinner, what sayest thou? |
11627 | What are these things you set so much by as to prefer them before Christ and the saving of your soul? |
11627 | What could a man desire more? |
11627 | What do we see in the passion of Jesus Christ? |
11627 | What do we, my dear hearers, when borne away by the immoderate desires of our hearts to a sin against which our consciences protest? |
11627 | What do you think when you repeat the creed, and mention Christ''s judgment and everlasting life? |
11627 | What does not the kingdom owe to a prince who has honored the house of France, the French name, his century, and, so to speak, all mankind? |
11627 | What idea have they of His humility, of His poverty, of His sufferings? |
11627 | What is it like? |
11627 | What is it that is presented to my vision? |
11627 | What is that? |
11627 | What matter is it at judgment, whether you be to answer for the life of a rich man or a poor man? |
11627 | What must we learn from all this darkness? |
11627 | What need this waste? |
11627 | What needs all this? |
11627 | What other created a Cyrus if it is not God, who named him two hundred years before his birth in the Prophecies of Isaiah? |
11627 | What part of the inhabited world has not heard of the victories of the Prince de Condà © and the wonders of his life? |
11627 | What think you now, friends, of this business? |
11627 | What toys are they that are daily taken up with, while matters of life and death are neglected? |
11627 | What unprejudiced mind might not perceive it to be so? |
11627 | What will become of me so long as I go childless, and so Saviorless, as I may so speak? |
11627 | What will we not do, what are we not willing to suffer, to possess dangerous and contemptible things, and often without any success? |
11627 | What, do you think that every heavy- heeled professor will have heaven? |
11627 | What, every lazy one? |
11627 | What, think they, may not a man be saved without all this ado? |
11627 | What, will you go, saith the devil, without your sins, pleasures, and profits? |
11627 | When He calls for fasting, and weeping, and mourning, who regards it? |
11627 | When the Savior from the height of His cross, ready to give up His spirit, raised this cry toward heaven,"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" |
11627 | When the gospel pierceth the heart indeed, they cry out,"Men and brethren, what shall we do to be saved?" |
11627 | Whence comes it that these resolutions are so frail? |
11627 | Where is thy heart? |
11627 | Who can evade His scrutiny that knows all things? |
11627 | Who can hope for pity of Him that is inflexible? |
11627 | Who can think to be exempted when the Judge is righteous and impartial? |
11627 | Whose salvation is it that you make light of? |
11627 | Why doth not the apostle say, Examine whether faith be in you, but"whether ye be in the faith"? |
11627 | Why will you not judge now as you know you shall judge then? |
11627 | Why, sirs, do you not care whether you be saved or damned? |
11627 | Why, sirs, if you had every one a kingdom in your hopes, what were it in comparison of the everlasting kingdom? |
11627 | Why, so it is here; art thou inquiring the way to heaven? |
11627 | Will He reject those who bring all their treasures to Him, and repose everything upon His goodness? |
11627 | Will He then be worth ten thousand worlds? |
11627 | Will it not be a dishonor to thee to see the very boys and girls in the country to have more with them than thyself? |
11627 | Will not God love the heart that trusts in Him? |
11627 | Will not this blood which He has so abundantly shed have the virtue to sanctify you?" |
11627 | Will you leave your friends and companions behind you? |
11627 | Will you therefore see the point confirmed by reason? |
11627 | Wilt thou run? |
11627 | You that are gentlemen and tradesmen, I appeal to your souls whether the Lord and His cause is not the loser this way? |
11627 | You will say, what fruit is it then? |
11627 | You, in fine, who fear the coming of His reign, and do not desire that God should grant what you seem to pray for? |
11627 | and how shall they be supplied that have it not? |
11627 | and the earth opened and swallowed up the congregation of Abiram? |
11627 | and to save them, that value a cup of drink or a lust before His salvation? |
11627 | and what is it that you neglect? |
11627 | and yet, when you hear the Lord thunder judgments out of His Word, who is humbled? |
11627 | are you turned your own enemies? |
11627 | as if he had said, What wilt Thou do for me? |
11627 | how many such runners will there be found in the day of judgment? |
11627 | if the blood of the prophets has drawn down the scourge of God upon men, what may we not expect from the blood of Jesus Christ? |
11627 | my God, shall I eternally appear in thine eyes polluted with that blood which washes away the crimes of others? |
11627 | or will a despised Christ save you then? |
11627 | that can be readier to sleep than to tremble when he heareth how he must stand at the bar of God? |
11627 | that can follow his worldly business and make nothing of the great business of salvation or damnation; and that when they know it is hard at hand? |
11627 | that provide outward necessaries so carefully for their families, but do so little to the saving of their souls? |
11627 | what dung is it that men make so much of, while they set so light by everlasting glory? |
11627 | what is it you run after? |
11627 | which way went he? |
11627 | would they read and think of these things as they do? |
11627 | xxxii., 34:"Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? |
44439 | How is it that ye sought me? 44439 I wish,"said a great man of our day,"that some one would preach under the dome of St. Paul''s, on the text,''Where art thou, Adam?''" |
44439 | The Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? |
44439 | The Lord called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? |
44439 | We thus judge, that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him who--owns them? |
44439 | Where art thou? |
44439 | Where art thou? |
44439 | Who that has felt its glance of dread Thrill through his heart''s remotest cells, About his path, about his bed, Can doubt what spirit in it dwells? |
44439 | A musical instrument may discourse sacred melodies better than the holiest lips can sing them, but who thinks of commending it for its piety? |
44439 | Am I not availing myself of the faculties which Thou has given to make myself respectable, and useful, and exemplary in my generation? |
44439 | Am I not discharging the duties of my station? |
44439 | Am I not doing Thy work? |
44439 | Am I not setting an example of diligence and sobriety? |
44439 | And can we not trust Him? |
44439 | And did He not do the same in the sixteenth century? |
44439 | And do they not speak to us? |
44439 | And have they already collapsed and gone, like last year''s flowers struck with frost, back again to the mold? |
44439 | And hell? |
44439 | And if not so controlled, is not the alternative as to His character even more fearful? |
44439 | And if this be our human judgment, what must the divine judgment be? |
44439 | And is not man''s soul a part of nature-- the highest part? |
44439 | And is there not a presumption, following the line of a man''s best manhood, that immortality is true? |
44439 | And now-- How is the earth shaken, and the heavens likewise, in that very sense in which the expression is used by him who wrote to the Hebrews? |
44439 | And whence came this earnestness? |
44439 | And why may not the highest of all hopes and joys possess the same all- pervading influence? |
44439 | And with these thoughts come others about moral retribution--"What is its purpose? |
44439 | And you will rejoice-- will you not? |
44439 | And"can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? |
44439 | Are there any here present-- God grant that they be many!--who have yet one other answer to return to the question on which we have dwelt? |
44439 | Are they not as true now as when they struck upon the shivering ear of Nicodemus? |
44439 | Are they not rising toward the ineffable? |
44439 | Art thou doing the work I gave thee to do? |
44439 | Art thou happy? |
44439 | Art thou safe? |
44439 | Art thou useful? |
44439 | Brethren, are you of that happy family? |
44439 | But is this the highest, the religious sanction of morality? |
44439 | But we ask, perhaps, thirdly: How does God call to us? |
44439 | But what God has cleansed, why should we call common or unclean? |
44439 | But what is anything that is organized in life worth in comparison with the soul of a man? |
44439 | But who is equal to the task of handling it? |
44439 | But yet, indeed, am I not providing for that other world in making a proper use of this? |
44439 | Can God, in this respect, be at once less merciful and less powerful than men? |
44439 | Can a parent go back from the grave where he has laid his children and say,"I shall never see them more?" |
44439 | Can it, can any punishment have any right purpose save the correction, or the annihilation, of the criminal? |
44439 | Can such a love do other than yearn for immortality? |
44439 | Can there be one morality for God, and another for man, made in the image of God? |
44439 | Claims them? |
44439 | Did He not then sweep from the minds and hearts of half Christendom beliefs which had been sacred and indubitable for a thousand years? |
44439 | Do you know God by His"new name"? |
44439 | Does not our experience of the friendship of Jesus correspond with what we are taught of it in the Scriptures? |
44439 | Does not the nature of every man that is high and noble revolt at flesh and matter? |
44439 | Does not"the Spirit witness with our spirit that we are born of God"? |
44439 | Does one need to go into a rigorous logical examination of this subject? |
44439 | Easy? |
44439 | Easy? |
44439 | Easy? |
44439 | Easy? |
44439 | Easy? |
44439 | Easy? |
44439 | Easy? |
44439 | Easy? |
44439 | From whence did their conscience and judgment come? |
44439 | Had not even the heathens believed as much, and said so, by the mouth of the poet Virgil? |
44439 | Have we not the foretokens of it? |
44439 | Have we, if our religion be real, no anticipation of happiness in the glorious future? |
44439 | Have you entered upon it, or are you now willing to enter upon it? |
44439 | Have you learned to say,"Our Father which art in heaven"? |
44439 | Have you obtained life from the dead through His name? |
44439 | Heaven? |
44439 | How can I do all this, and yet be religious? |
44439 | How can I find time for both worlds at once? |
44439 | How can we help believing in it, while we see it working around us, in many a fearful shape, here, now, in this life? |
44439 | How could He, if He be the same yesterday, to- day, and for ever? |
44439 | How could He, who said of Himself,"My Father worketh hitherto, and I work"? |
44439 | How is it calculated to influence our manhood? |
44439 | How is it here briefly exprest? |
44439 | How is it? |
44439 | How shall it be used to work most effectually in the direction of civilization and refinement? |
44439 | I know not how else to express the force of the inquiry,"Where art thou?" |
44439 | I must not accept the dictates of my own conscience; for is it not my own, and is not trust in self the great fault of our fallen nature?" |
44439 | In what way shall it be employed to lead man God- ward? |
44439 | Is He so controlled by necessity that He is forced to bring into the world beings whom he knows to be incorrigible, and doomed to endless misery? |
44439 | Is it enough to have been born, to have lived till one is of age, and then to be launched out to founder in mid- ocean? |
44439 | Is it not a strange thing? |
44439 | Is it not rather the anarchy of hate, injustice, impurity, uselessness; wherein abides all that is opposed to God?" |
44439 | Is it well with thee in the future? |
44439 | Is it well with thee in the present? |
44439 | Is it yours? |
44439 | Is not that the eternal heaven wherein God abides for ever, and with Him those who are like God? |
44439 | Is not the analogy of the faculties one that leads us to believe that there is some such thing? |
44439 | Is not the human soul, then, itself a witness of the truth of immortality? |
44439 | Is not the thought revolting to every instinct of manhood? |
44439 | Is not the true and real heaven the kingdom of love, justice, purity, beneficence? |
44439 | Is not this"the witness of the Spirit,"the"earnest of the promised possession"? |
44439 | Is that His justice, that His love, which if we copied, we should call each other, and deservedly, utterly unjust and unloving? |
44439 | Is that only a thin film which reflects the transient experiences of a life of joy or sadness, and goes out? |
44439 | Is there any matter outside of mind that produces thought and feeling such as we see evolved among men? |
44439 | Is there no"rest that remaineth for the people of God,"no home and loving heart awaiting us when the toils of our hurried day of life are ended? |
44439 | Is this enough in the day of distress and bankruptcy? |
44439 | It might have been put, it is put in the Bible, in different forms-- but how is it here exprest? |
44439 | It says,"What is thy present place as a man with a soul, as an immortal being? |
44439 | It was the voice of the Lord God within, calling to Adam, and saying,"Where art thou?" |
44439 | Men are asking questions about the heaven, the spiritual world, and saying,"The spiritual world? |
44439 | My friend, believest thou the Scriptures? |
44439 | My friends, do you really believe in that kingdom, and in that King? |
44439 | Nay, my friends, would not these solemn words startle many of us? |
44439 | No matter how it was born, what purpose is it to serve? |
44439 | Now, to whom does He here speak? |
44439 | O Jesus of Nazareth, who can declare Thee? |
44439 | Oh, who could stand when that inquirer appeared? |
44439 | Oh, who might abide the scrutiny of that question? |
44439 | Or shall we degenerate into faithless fears, and unmanly wailings that the flood of infidelity is irresistible, and that Christ has left His Church? |
44439 | Or, putting it in another form, will you say that God could not have prevented evil? |
44439 | ROBERTSON 1816- 1853 THE LONELINESS OF CHRIST_ Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe? |
44439 | Should we not say-- We know that Christ has been so doing, for centuries and for ages? |
44439 | Tell me, who caused you to be born where and what you were? |
44439 | That if new truths are being discovered, Christ Himself may be revealing them? |
44439 | That if opinions be changing, then Christ Himself may be changing them? |
44439 | That if some of those truths seem to contradict those which He has revealed already, they do not really contradict them? |
44439 | The Father-- the Father which is with us and in us-- what does He think? |
44439 | The actions of an automaton may be outwardly the same as those of a moral agent, but who attributes to them goodness or badness? |
44439 | The lonely spirit answered,"Do ye now believe? |
44439 | The question is not how it started; the question is, What becomes of it now that it has begun? |
44439 | The world is so gay, so amusing, so exciting: hast Thou not made it so for our enjoyment? |
44439 | Then, what is life worth? |
44439 | There are, at last, the words uttered-- few and plain, yet, when looked into, big with meaning--"Where art thou?" |
44439 | Thou sayest to me, O Lord,"Where art thou?" |
44439 | To live surrounded by objects which appeal to the sight, and yet to endure as seeing what is invisible? |
44439 | To resist that subtle foe who has cast down so many of the wise and the mighty? |
44439 | To take the judgment and conscience of other men to live by, where is the humility of that? |
44439 | To"crucify the flesh,""to deny ungodliness,""to cut off a right hand, and to pluck out a right eye"? |
44439 | Was evil really unavoidable in a proper moral system? |
44439 | Was that dust, then? |
44439 | Was the fountain from which they drew exhausted for you? |
44439 | We are building a crystal character with much pain and self- denial; and it is to be built as bubbles are blown? |
44439 | We have seen these things, and why argue against facts? |
44439 | What cheering voice will greet us then? |
44439 | What do we gain by obliterating this fair vision? |
44439 | What has the dark, morbid, unhappy sensualist to do with it? |
44439 | What have we fit to set before so august and holy a visitant? |
44439 | What is finer in line than the bubble? |
44439 | What is human sin but the abuse of human appetites, of human passions, of human faculties, in themselves all innocent? |
44439 | What is it adapted to do? |
44439 | What is more airy? |
44439 | What is the difference between a dew- drop and a diamond? |
44439 | What is the difference between the saint and the sinner? |
44439 | What is thy present standing, thy present state? |
44439 | What kind roof will receive us then? |
44439 | What loving friend will welcome us then? |
44439 | What right has any one to say that God is passionless? |
44439 | What worldly work so absorbing as to leave no room in a believer''s spirit for the hallowing thought of that glorious Presence ever near? |
44439 | What, then, are we to believe and do? |
44439 | When Jesus says it is a"strait gate,"and that if we would enter we must"strive,"bidding us"take up our cross daily, deny ourselves and follow him"? |
44439 | Where are those leaders who should be leading their people to useful employments, to distant countries, where are they? |
44439 | Where art thou? |
44439 | Where will he attend to it? |
44439 | Who can equal the pictures which are painted on the panes of glass in our winter rooms? |
44439 | Who decided that you were to have poor parents or rich, Christian parents or un- Christian? |
44439 | Who has managed your circumstances for you since you had a being? |
44439 | Who has not some sin which most easily besets him? |
44439 | Who settled that you should be born in this country and not in that? |
44439 | Who took away from you that friend for whom you are now mourning-- that parent, that brother, that sister, that wife, that child? |
44439 | Why does he not faint beneath the burden? |
44439 | Why should He not be doing so now? |
44439 | Why should not heaven continue to shine on? |
44439 | Why should we not look into it, and believe that it is, and that it waits for us? |
44439 | Why this postponement of the desired result? |
44439 | Will judge them? |
44439 | Wilt thou be any fitter to- morrow than to- day for that step across the barrier which now seems so premature, so presumptuous? |
44439 | Wist ye not that I must be about my Father''s business?" |
44439 | Yes, my brother, but why this delay? |
44439 | You are enjoying peace-- but-- what peace? |
44439 | his reply was,"Rest? |
44439 | is this thing which I wish to do really forbidden?" |
44439 | let this affection impel us, and who shall measure our diligence or repress our zeal? |
44439 | not, where is he? |
44439 | some place where he had gone to sin? |
44439 | some place where he would not for the world have been seen by any human eye, and where he gladly forgot that there was yet one eye which did see him? |
44439 | still less, generally, where are they? |
44439 | why does he not sink in the storm? |
44439 | would have had a startling and condemning sound?--some place where he was sinning? |
44450 | And what next--so the listeners ask--"what was the next step made?" |
44450 | And you, O disciple dearly loved, what of you and your brethren? |
44450 | Do ye now believe? 44450 How much is that man worth?" |
44450 | Master, where dwellest thou? |
44450 | What think ye of the Christ? |
44450 | Whom seek ye? |
44450 | ''Have I not chosen you twelve, and yet one of you is a devil?'' |
44450 | ''Will ye also go away?'' |
44450 | A man may disrobe; what more can be done? |
44450 | A really earnest, humble consecration to God? |
44450 | Alexander, CÃ ¦ sar, Charlemagne, and myself founded great empires; but upon what did the creations of our genius depend? |
44450 | And Charles Wesley''s melancholy is the most attractive in the world-- Oh, when shall we sweetly move? |
44450 | And do you really think that the world will ever be converted in that way? |
44450 | And he saith,"But who say ye that I am?" |
44450 | And once again, in the haste of the resurrection morning, what was the moment and what was the scene which turned his despair into belief? |
44450 | And so what is faith? |
44450 | And they say, What have we got to do now? |
44450 | And they-- they hardly knew what to say-- only they must see Him, must go with Him; and they stammered out:"Rabbi, where dwellest thou?" |
44450 | And what are the rest of us doing? |
44450 | And what did our Lord Himself say to St. Peter about his fall? |
44450 | And what does all this teach us? |
44450 | And what is the meaning of that sacrifice, if it be not to teach us that God counts no price too great to pay for the redemption of the human soul? |
44450 | And what next did they learn? |
44450 | And what, oh, what shall I do?" |
44450 | And yet what has it done but make known to us a universe infinitely more wonderful and sublime than men had ever dreamed of? |
44450 | And, then, how shall it be restored? |
44450 | Are we not under the strongest possible obligations to account for Jesus Christ? |
44450 | Are you musing in your heart which of them may be your guide and master, which is the Christ? |
44450 | Are you not of more value than many sparrows?" |
44450 | Are you yet at the beginning, looking wistfully, with hungry eyes, after a hundred gallant human heroes who point you this way and that? |
44450 | But have we gotten rid entirely of the premise on which it rested? |
44450 | But how can we account for the perfection of His humanity, if we deny the reality of His divinity? |
44450 | But is not this far too often accompanied by a revolt from all dogmatic truth? |
44450 | But what does follow? |
44450 | But what is evangelization? |
44450 | But what is it to"believe in Christ?" |
44450 | But, dear friends, am I right in saying that this frame is a Christian frame? |
44450 | Can He whose life they tell be Himself no more than a mere man?... |
44450 | Can he be a man capable, not only of acting for himself, but capable, by that subtle and magical influence, of arousing the activity of others? |
44450 | Can it be that writings at once so sublime and so simple are the work of men? |
44450 | Can we demand a fairer world than God will make? |
44450 | Can we do that? |
44450 | Can we imagine better than God can do? |
44450 | Can we then wonder at all forms of opposition meeting us? |
44450 | Certainly, but which is the fact, that or this? |
44450 | Christ came to cast fire on earth, and what does He desire but that it be kindled? |
44450 | David fell-- deep as man can fall; but what does he say in that great fifty- first Psalm, in which he confesses his sin? |
44450 | Did the medieval Church never regret the act by which it drove forth the Waldenses into schism? |
44450 | Did you ever hear a satisfactory definition of laughter? |
44450 | Do they wear too dark a hue at times? |
44450 | Do you believe it? |
44450 | Do you believe it?" |
44450 | Do you know what the word"bless"means, what it was derived from? |
44450 | Do you remember the story of the portrait of Dante which is painted upon the walls of Bargello, at Florence? |
44450 | Do you say, What can I do, because the light round me is like unto darkness? |
44450 | Do you say, What is the use of fighting, for where I stand we have barely held our own? |
44450 | Do you think walking up to the cannon''s mouth would have been difficult to that man? |
44450 | Does he possess the third? |
44450 | Does it seem that the perfect life for the individual, and for the race, is too sublime, that it is a distant and unattainable ideal? |
44450 | Does not the Scripture itself go even further? |
44450 | Does not the commercial view of life still prevail in civilized society? |
44450 | Does the difficulty lie in the event or in the method of approaching it? |
44450 | Does the religion of Christ, the absolute and abiding faith, need the defense of concealment, or of sophistical apology, or of lies? |
44450 | Does there not come a time when we feel that the power, as it were, of things has forsaken us? |
44450 | Facts? |
44450 | God made His minister a flame of fire in the dark and cold, else could Christ have conquered? |
44450 | Has He not been working in the saints who have reminded the world of God? |
44450 | Has a man faith in the Lord Jesus Christ who simply does not disbelieve in him? |
44450 | Has it slipt into the water? |
44450 | Has our Church never regretted the day when it looked askance at the work of John Wesley? |
44450 | Has the ax- head gone? |
44450 | Has the splendid hope of Christ been falsified? |
44450 | Have there been no grounds for optimism? |
44450 | Have ye each made this yet sufficiently a matter of prayer, of self- denial, of deep, faithful trusting all to God? |
44450 | Have you any right to expect that it should be converted in that way? |
44450 | Have you ever thought how St. Paul was actually driven to use the awful language of the passion when he described his own life? |
44450 | Have you met your tempter yet? |
44450 | Have you never seen a group of evil- doers deliberately set themselves to ruin a newcomer, scoffing at his innocence and enticing him to their orgies? |
44450 | Have you never seen it? |
44450 | Have you read the memoir of Brainerd? |
44450 | He claimed to be God, and if His claim be not true, how can he be good? |
44450 | He knows his malady; now how shall he be cured of it? |
44450 | He said,"Was Paul crucified for you?" |
44450 | How came He to be the contemporary of all the ages? |
44450 | How came He to emancipate Himself from the sectarianism and sectionalism of His country and century? |
44450 | How can it be restored? |
44450 | How did such ideas come into the human mind? |
44450 | How do young people begin, most of them? |
44450 | How does the Gethsemane come? |
44450 | How far have you come in this pathway of faith? |
44450 | How have our liberties been secured? |
44450 | How long shall there be this suspense, as that of early dawn ere the sunshine fills the twilight? |
44450 | How much is a man better than a sheep? |
44450 | How shall we account for the height to which that stream rose? |
44450 | How, then, can you explain faith? |
44450 | How, then, will it be received by those into whose hand is placed the responsibility of its guidance? |
44450 | I may not deny that what the gospel says is true, but is that believing? |
44450 | I put then the question with the_ utmost_ directness,"What think ye of Christ?" |
44450 | I think an hour is the longest that anybody could bear it--"Could ye not watch with me one hour?" |
44450 | If that source were simply human, how can we account for the superhuman height which it reached? |
44450 | If we could ascend to heaven to- day and scan the ranks of the blest, should we not find multitudes among them who were once sunk low as man can fall? |
44450 | If we have no great masters, how shall we hope to have eager and loving disciples? |
44450 | If we leave half the race in ignorance, how shall we hope to lift the other half into the light of truth and love? |
44450 | If you wanted to make a man laugh, would you attempt to define laughter to him? |
44450 | If, then, we accept this view of life, what answer can we give to the question, how much is a man better than a sheep? |
44450 | In the event, or, perhaps, in the mental or moral constitution of the people who contemplate it? |
44450 | Invest it, and then what do you do? |
44450 | Is he a man, in fact, who can make his influence felt among the men of his day? |
44450 | Is he in touch with his time? |
44450 | Is it advancement? |
44450 | Is it conceivable that human error shall prevail against God''s truth? |
44450 | Is it long to wait, hard to fight, difficult to keep up the spirit during the discouragements that beset all missionary life? |
44450 | Is it merely the pursuit of happiness? |
44450 | Is it not rather a book of life, of literature, full of symbols and metaphors and poetry? |
44450 | Is it possible to look on the great, eager, yearning, doubting, and suffering life of man, and not to feel infinite desire to be of help? |
44450 | Is it promotion? |
44450 | Is not He the standard of humanity now, and is not He its Redeemer? |
44450 | Is not that conceivable? |
44450 | Is not that possible? |
44450 | Is not theology, like the other sciences, bound to accept facts? |
44450 | Is the Bible itself written with the rigid exactness of a mathematical treatise? |
44450 | Is this wise, and is it well? |
44450 | It appeared so, but was it so? |
44450 | Left? |
44450 | Mark how towers herald the approach to the towns and cities, and ask what they stand there for? |
44450 | My brethren, where do you stand? |
44450 | My brothers, if a few men can honestly say this to us in the future, will it not be better than Greek and Roman fame? |
44450 | My friend, what sort of a life are you living? |
44450 | Nay, Lord, to whom shall we go? |
44450 | Nevertheless, to the unsaved no question is more bewildering than this:"What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?" |
44450 | Not only cunning casts in clay: Let science prove we are, and then What matters science unto men, At least to me? |
44450 | Now do you not think you can see how it is that the eternal Son shed His blood in Gethsemane, and offered Himself immaculate to God on Calvary? |
44450 | Now, as they journeyed southward through CÃ ¦ sarea Philippi, He asked them,"Who do men say that I am?" |
44450 | Now, what is it that should follow when we have parted with our life and lived our Gethsemane; what should be the effect upon our lives? |
44450 | O death, where is thy sting?" |
44450 | O loving and divine John, the Evangelist, what thinkest thou of the Christ? |
44450 | Oh, when shall our souls be at rest? |
44450 | Or had each its own due place at least in hastening the coming of the kingdom, and in determining when the fulness of time had arrived? |
44450 | Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" |
44450 | Shall we dread the results of historical research? |
44450 | So soon made happy? |
44450 | Suppose, then, that we come to Him with this question: How much is a man better than a sheep? |
44450 | The fiery moment arrives; do we stand; do we fall? |
44450 | The people who looked at the mob of Jerusalem, or the man who saw the coming generations? |
44450 | There is more of courage and manhood needed for them than for walking up to the cannon''s mouth? |
44450 | This brings us to the matter in hand: What shall I do to be saved? |
44450 | Tho all men forsake thee yet will not I; and in spite of all, I believe, and am sure that thou art the Christ, the holy one of God?" |
44450 | To die? |
44450 | To send Bibles, to deliver the message to everybody? |
44450 | To suffer? |
44450 | To the jailer of Philippi who, in sudden conviction, was moved to cry,"What shall I do?" |
44450 | To whom can I go? |
44450 | Was he not right? |
44450 | Was it the reaction of detecting the quiet tokens of deliberate purpose there, where all had seemed to him a very chaos of confusion? |
44450 | Was it the sudden sense that struck him of order and seemliness as of a thing premeditated, intended? |
44450 | We must learn to look upon ourselves and our fellow men purely from a business point of view and to ask only: What can this man make? |
44450 | Were not the Greek philosophers right in thinking that our ideals are eternal, and are kept with God? |
44450 | Were they then never to rise into the joy of clear and entire belief? |
44450 | What are you going to do with it? |
44450 | What are you going to do with it? |
44450 | What are you going to do with it? |
44450 | What book has been so misunderstood, and misinterpreted, even by honest and enlightened minds, even by theologians themselves? |
44450 | What did He mean by that? |
44450 | What did he mean by that? |
44450 | What did he notice? |
44450 | What does Paul mean when he talks about being justified? |
44450 | What hope is there of genuine progress, in the religious life especially, if we leave her uneducated? |
44450 | What is faith? |
44450 | What is faith? |
44450 | What is love? |
44450 | What is the purpose of life? |
44450 | What is there to fear? |
44450 | What is thy testimony? |
44450 | What is thy testimony? |
44450 | What more have I got left? |
44450 | What other answer can be given by one who judges everything by a money standard? |
44450 | What sayst Thou of Thyself? |
44450 | What shall be done about it? |
44450 | What shall we say of him who opens a haunt of temptation, sets out his snares and deliberately deals out death by the dram? |
44450 | What thinkest thou, O Channing, of Jesus Christ? |
44450 | What thinkest thou, O Herder, illustrious German thinker, broad scholar, and exquisite genius, of Jesus, the Christ? |
44450 | What was it that he saw and felt? |
44450 | What was it that so startled him? |
44450 | What was there in the peasant conditions of His family life to produce the uniqueness of His manhood? |
44450 | When men ask us, Are the doctrines of Christianity dead; are they played out? |
44450 | Whence do all light and all love come? |
44450 | Where did the imagination of the prophets and apostles catch fire? |
44450 | Where do you go to find the origin of the great principle of civil liberty? |
44450 | Where is the spring of the prayers and aspirations of the saints? |
44450 | Which is nearer to the truth, the Christ of the sorrowful way or the Christ at God''s right hand? |
44450 | Who can say? |
44450 | Who is He? |
44450 | Who is right? |
44450 | Who is there that has ever been brave enough to accept such a salutation without a whisper of protest, without a shadow of a scruple? |
44450 | Who is this strange visitant-- so quiet, so silent, so unobserved? |
44450 | Who shall deliver us from this spirit of bitterness? |
44450 | Who shall lead us out of this heavy, fetid air of the lazar- house and the morgue? |
44450 | Who shall separate us from Christ''s love? |
44450 | Who will have it? |
44450 | Who would not court a new- made grave rather than risk the perils of survivorship? |
44450 | Why could that little jet of blood and water never pass out of his sight? |
44450 | Why credible to the one, but incredible to the other? |
44450 | Why need you and I seek to disprove what no man has ever yet proved or will prove? |
44450 | Why not again with Christ as Captain? |
44450 | Why not always, why not everywhere? |
44450 | Why pay so great a price? |
44450 | Why pay so great a price? |
44450 | Why should it haunt him sixty years after, as still his heart wonders over the mysterious witness of the water and the blood? |
44450 | Why? |
44450 | Will He not continue to work till all men come to the stature of perfection? |
44450 | Will it be said to any of you? |
44450 | Will you fail as others failed me?" |
44450 | Yet had prayer no part in the plan of the Incarnation? |
44450 | You remember, in the story of the Garden of Eden, where the tree which represented temptation stood? |
44450 | and he begins to raise the question- the only question he thinks of after that-- What shall I do for them? |
44450 | could, I ask, all these be fruitless and in vain? |
44450 | how much can I get out of this man''s labor? |
44450 | how much has that man made? |
44450 | how much will that man pay for my services? |
44450 | is there anything which a man can fear ten times more than the fire that never shall be quenched? |
44450 | or How shall I become a Christian? |
44450 | why not? |
16645 | And the Scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? 16645 Art thou called,"he says,"being a servant? |
16645 | Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries, or a vine, figs? |
16645 | How dieth the wise man? |
16645 | Is any man called being circumcised? 16645 Is there any single, particular sentence in the service of my Church with which I do not entirely agree? |
16645 | Knowest thou,said the troubled, excited, and restless men around him--"Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master from thy head to- day?" |
16645 | Perfect love casteth out fear,but who has it? |
16645 | What doth it profit, if a man_ say_ that he hath faith, and have not works? 16645 Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice? |
16645 | 18- 24.--"Is any man called being circumcised? |
16645 | 21.--"And the Scribes and the Pharisees began to reason saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? |
16645 | A soul which was made for God, how can the world fill it? |
16645 | And even taking the promise literally, though they built in tents, and could not call a foot of land their own, was not its beauty theirs? |
16645 | And if the sinner does not come to God taught by this disappointment, what then? |
16645 | And now is the question asked, Why is this world unsatisfying? |
16645 | And now let us ask the question distinctly, Was all this indeed failure? |
16645 | And now my brethren, if that be the description of home, is God''s place of rest your home? |
16645 | And that perpetual contact with a heathen, and therefore an enemy of God, is not that in a relation so close and intimate, perpetual defilement? |
16645 | Are they all the result of struggling to be great? |
16645 | Are they not both in their own way true? |
16645 | Are we at home there? |
16645 | Are we not to love what God has made? |
16645 | Are you quite certain that a day will not come when you will curse the hour in which you broke altogether with the world? |
16645 | Art thou bound unto a wife? |
16645 | Art thou called being a servant? |
16645 | Art thou called being a servant? |
16645 | Art thou loosed from a wife? |
16645 | Bearing that in mind-- what is the prophet''s answer? |
16645 | Brethren, do we all know what doubt means? |
16645 | Brethren, do we wish to risk all this? |
16645 | Brother men-- have you learned the meaning of yesterday? |
16645 | But how were the Pharisees guilty? |
16645 | But if there are Christian brethren to whom this would give pain-- then I humbly ask you, but most earnestly-- What is the duty here? |
16645 | But is there not a deep meaning to be learned from the old expression-- that celibacy is an_ angelic_ state? |
16645 | But my brethren, how is it with human nature generally? |
16645 | But then came the ready rejoinder-- Why not do so now? |
16645 | But titles, honours, wealth-- are these the rewards of well- doing? |
16645 | By sitting down to read works of theology? |
16645 | Can I-- dare I-- say or think it conditionally? |
16645 | Can faith save him?" |
16645 | Can that be indeed Messiah? |
16645 | Can the worldly man feel Sunday like a foretaste of his Father''s mansion? |
16645 | Christian brethren, which of these is the right form-- the true, external pattern of a family? |
16645 | Consists it not in this,--that there is one life uniting, making all the separate members one? |
16645 | Could the sufferings of Paul for the Church in any form of correct expression be said to eke out the sufferings that were complete? |
16645 | Dare I say, I hope? |
16645 | Death? |
16645 | Did He not place us in the world? |
16645 | Did he bless his murderer? |
16645 | Did he give utterance to any deep reflections on human life? |
16645 | Did you ever receive even a blow meant for another in order to shield that other? |
16645 | Do we want to learn holiness with terrible struggles, and sore affliction, and the plague of much remaining evil? |
16645 | Do you ask what these are? |
16645 | Do you rightly estimate the importance of to- day? |
16645 | Does a man feel himself the slave and the victim of his lower passions? |
16645 | Esau distinctly expresses this:"Behold I am at the point to die, and what shall my birthright profit me?" |
16645 | For a faithless heart whispers, Is it worth while to suffer for a sinking cause? |
16645 | Grant that a Christian has something like familiarity with the Most High,_ that_ breaks this solitary feeling; but what is it with the mass of men? |
16645 | Has he not only made earth a hell, in order that earthly things may be his heaven for ever? |
16645 | Have we ever seen a ship preparing to sail with its load of pauper emigrants to a distant colony? |
16645 | Have we never felt that our true existence has absolutely in that moment disappeared, and that_ we_ are not? |
16645 | His complaint was, Why is the world the thing it is? |
16645 | How came it that such a question should be put at all to the apostle? |
16645 | How can the superstructure of Love and Faith be built, when the very foundations of human character-- Justice, Mercy, Truth-- have not been laid? |
16645 | How do we account for this? |
16645 | How does it follow that because Christ died to evil, all before that must have died to God? |
16645 | How shall we reply to such men? |
16645 | How should we comprehend the whole meaning of the Epiphany? |
16645 | How should we learn it more? |
16645 | If so, then is it my duty to leave it at once?" |
16645 | If the indispensable safeguards of penalty were removed, what remained to restrain men from sin? |
16645 | If we have lost God''s bright and happy presence by our wilfulness, what then? |
16645 | If you give up present pursuits_ impetuously_, are you sure that present impulses will last? |
16645 | Illustrate from laws of coining, housebreaking,& c. We are not under them.--Because we may break them as we like? |
16645 | Imprisonment? |
16645 | Is God less merciful than I? |
16645 | Is any called in uncircumcision? |
16645 | Is any called in uncircumcision? |
16645 | Is any man in uncircumcision? |
16645 | Is he becoming artificial through his change of life? |
16645 | Is he getting the world''s manners and the world''s courtly insincerity? |
16645 | Is it any wonder if men and women, in the midst of negations, cry,"Ye warn me from the error, but who will guide me into truth? |
16645 | Is it not the world in another form, which has his homage? |
16645 | Is it not this-- to abridge your Christian liberty-- and to go through rain, and mud, and snow, rather than give pain to one Christian conscience? |
16645 | Is it not this? |
16645 | Is it the voice of joy or the harbinger of gloom? |
16645 | Is it then a novel? |
16645 | Is it this-- to stand upon our Christian liberty? |
16645 | Is not the duty separation? |
16645 | Is not the marriage in itself null and void? |
16645 | Is not the mystic yearning of love expressed in words most purely thus, Let me suffer for him? |
16645 | Is not true reverence in all cases modified by the individualities of temperament and education? |
16645 | Is persecution_ only_ fire and sword? |
16645 | Is that home? |
16645 | Is the iron prophet melting into voluptuous softness? |
16645 | Is the song of the nightingale merry or plaintive? |
16645 | Is there any single ceremony with which my whole soul does not go along? |
16645 | Is this our duty-- to put such questions to ourselves as these? |
16645 | John has won a king''s attention, and now the question is, Will the diamond of the mine bear polishing without breaking into shivers? |
16645 | John''s day of active usefulness is over; at thirty years of age his work is done; and what permanent effect have all his labours left? |
16645 | Know we not how awfully true that sentence is,"Sin revived, and I died?" |
16645 | May I not, must I not, say,_ I know_ God has forgiven you? |
16645 | Meant for God''s honour, dictated by the uncontrollable hatred of all evil, careless altogether of personal consequences? |
16645 | Must they not have been as gloomy and as dreary as those of the disciples, when He was dead who they"trusted should have redeemed Israel?" |
16645 | My doings? |
16645 | No unity,--for wherein consists the unity of the Church of Christ? |
16645 | Now what has been the position of those who are about to take this step? |
16645 | Now what in this case is the Christian duty? |
16645 | Now, what shall we say to these things? |
16645 | Oh, brethren, is this the fact? |
16645 | Or is it not rather this-- to comply with a prejudice which is manifestly a harmless one, rather than give pain to a Christian brother? |
16645 | Or was not the rebuke unselfish? |
16645 | Panegyric such as we can give, what is it after he has been stamped by his Master''s eulogy,"A prophet? |
16645 | Say we not truly, it remains the same under all outward mutations? |
16645 | Settle this first, brethren, Are you in earnest? |
16645 | Shall we say it is all blasphemy; an impious intrusion upon the prerogatives of the One Absolver? |
16645 | Shall we say,"Who is this that speaketh blasphemies? |
16645 | She can not separate her affection from that form-- those hands, those limbs, those features-- are they not her child? |
16645 | Should we not say, in all these forms worketh one and the same spirit of reverence? |
16645 | So, for instance, when Judas asked,"Lord, how is it, that Thou wilt manifest Thyself to us and not to the world?" |
16645 | Something there is, or else why should men persist in living for them? |
16645 | Ten years of enjoyment, when the senses can enjoy no longer-- a country seat, splendid plate, a noble establishment? |
16645 | That awful other world in the stillness and the solemn deep of the eternities above, is it your home? |
16645 | That he may become an Antinomian, or a Latitudinarian? |
16645 | That there are duties to be done to- day which can not be done to- morrow? |
16645 | That would have been unity, if sameness be unity; but, says the apostle,"if the whole body were seeing, where were the hearing?" |
16645 | The last step is that which alone deserves to be called Christian Faith--"Who is he that overcometh but he that believeth that Jesus is the Christ?" |
16645 | The quiet religious worship that we have this day-- how comes it to be ours? |
16645 | The savage of New Zealand who never heard of Him, the learned Egyptian and the voluptuous Assyrian who died before He came; how was it the sin of all? |
16645 | Think you that family can break or end?--that because the chair is empty, therefore he, your child, is no more? |
16645 | Thus speaks our Lord--"What shall it profit a man if he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" |
16645 | To live in the Spirit, what is it but to have keener feelings and mightier powers-- to rise into a higher consciousness of life? |
16645 | To_ be_ such a man, to have the power of_ doing_ such deeds, what could be added to that reward by having? |
16645 | Unrelieved sadness? |
16645 | Very strong language does the apostle use in this chapter respecting it:"What knoweth thou, O wife, whether thou shalt_ save_ thy husband? |
16645 | Was he agitated? |
16645 | Was he calm? |
16645 | Was he loved by all? |
16645 | Was it sin palpable and dark, such as we shall remember painfully this day year? |
16645 | Was it to gratify spleen that he reproved Herod for all the evils he had done? |
16645 | Was it to minister to a diseased and disappointed misanthropy? |
16645 | Was their fall a failure? |
16645 | Was there any gratification of human feeling there? |
16645 | We are called to be members of the Church of England-- what is our duty now? |
16645 | What are they to meet? |
16645 | What are war, and trade, and labour, and professions? |
16645 | What are we to do?" |
16645 | What did they effect by their system of negations? |
16645 | What does absolution mean in the lips of a son of man? |
16645 | What is it but perverted interest which makes the acts, and words, and thoughts of his brethren, even in their evil, a matter of such strange delight? |
16645 | What is it they are to see? |
16645 | What is meant by the Publican''s going_ down to his house_ justified, but that he felt at peace with himself and God? |
16645 | What is our Christianity worth if it can not teach us a truthfulness, an unselfishness, and a generosity beyond the world''s? |
16645 | What is religion but fuller life? |
16645 | What is religion''s self but feeling? |
16645 | What is the blessedness that you expect?--to have the joys of earth with the addition of the element of eternity? |
16645 | What is the body''s unity? |
16645 | What is the meaning of this expression,"Be ye perfect?" |
16645 | What is to- day worth, or its duties or its cares?" |
16645 | What on this earth remains, but endless sorrow, for him who has ceased to respect himself, and has no God to turn to? |
16645 | What power is there in human forgiveness? |
16645 | What then? |
16645 | What truth have we got to supply that craving? |
16645 | What was all that worth? |
16645 | What was it with most of us? |
16645 | What would Paul have done? |
16645 | When of two heathen parties only one was converted to Christianity, the question arose, What in this case is the duty of the Christian? |
16645 | When we have lived long a life of sin, do we think that repentance and forgiveness will obliterate all the traces of sin upon the character? |
16645 | Whence comes the difference? |
16645 | Where are the charms of character, the perfection, and the purity, and the truthfulness, which seemed so resplendent in our friend? |
16645 | Where is the land flowing with milk and honey? |
16645 | Where is the single text from which it can be, except by force, extracted? |
16645 | Whereby would we produce unity? |
16645 | Wherein consists the unity of the body? |
16645 | Wherein then, lies the cogency of the apostle''s reasoning? |
16645 | Whereupon, in silent hours, we sceptically ask, Is this possible? |
16645 | Who can forgive sins, but God alone?" |
16645 | Who can forgive sins, but God alone?" |
16645 | Who can not conceive the keenness of that trial? |
16645 | Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?" |
16645 | Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?" |
16645 | Who shall save me from myself?" |
16645 | Why is it that in this discourse, instead of being commanded to perform religious duties, we are commanded to think of being like God? |
16645 | Why? |
16645 | Why? |
16645 | Why?--Because if you love them you shall be blessed; and if you do not cursed? |
16645 | Will not that inflame our pride, and increase our natural vainglory? |
16645 | With respect to their church, or ecclesiastical affairs, he says--"Is any man called being circumcised? |
16645 | Would they have begun one single step of that pilgrimage, which was to find its meaning in the discipline of ages? |
16645 | Would we force on other Churches our Anglicanism? |
16645 | Would we have our thirty- nine articles, our creeds, our prayers, our rules and regulations, accepted by every Church throughout the world? |
16645 | You tell us to pray for faith, but how shall we pray in earnest unless we first have the very faith we pray for? |
16645 | as if it were an union between one dead and one living? |
16645 | can they reward it? |
16645 | how can we speak of the Gospel, when the first principles of_ morality_ are forgotten? |
16645 | is it natural? |
16645 | or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?" |
16645 | that it is preternatural, and not natural? |
16645 | that the goodness which is induced by it is not, so to speak, the natural goodness of Humanity, but such a goodness as God scarcely intended? |
16645 | when Christians are excusing themselves, and slandering one another? |
16645 | who can forgive sins, but God only?" |
16645 | would it be well- doing if they could? |
44411 | Ashamed of Jesus, that dear Friend, On whom our hopes of heaven depend? |
44411 | Has the rain a father? 44411 If God be for us, who can be against us?" |
44411 | Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you? |
44411 | Knowest thou, oh man, the missionaries of the starry heavens? 44411 Many will say unto Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name, and in Thy name done many wonderful works? |
44411 | My sheep,says He,"hear my voice, and they do follow me"; they follow Me gladly, even into this gloomy vale; and what is the consequence? |
44411 | Which,said He,"is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? |
44411 | ),"Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples?" |
44411 | A vivid feeling comes over them of the vanity and unprofitableness of the world, and then the question recurs,"Why then am I sent into it?" |
44411 | After this, will you be indignant that you do not comprehend every thing in the gospel? |
44411 | And can those be willing that God should govern the world entirely according to His pleasure who object to His having any pleasure upon the subject? |
44411 | And does he now submit, because God has given him assurance of personal safety? |
44411 | And for what can you be held responsible, if not for this? |
44411 | And is He not wise enough to be intrusted with the government of the world? |
44411 | And is it not quite clear that to such persons God can not be said to be their God? |
44411 | And is there a mortal, who, from this great system of blest government, would wish this earth to be an exception? |
44411 | And need we ask, is not the Christian Church itself, in its own institution and constitution, virtually and essentially a missionary institution? |
44411 | And shall we not purchase each increase of knowledge with an increase of ignorance? |
44411 | And the hoar- frost of heaven, who has begotten it? |
44411 | And to what does all this amount? |
44411 | And were not all the angels of heaven placed under Him as His missionaries, sent forth to minister to the heirs of salvation? |
44411 | And were not the keys of the kingdom first given to Peter to open, to announce it? |
44411 | And what do I hear? |
44411 | And what is an angel but a messenger, a missionary? |
44411 | And what more could it do, were it true? |
44411 | And what will become of those who, unable to frustrate His counsels, murmur and rebel against His providence? |
44411 | And why do we not submit cheerfully to a privation which, after all, is not one? |
44411 | And why? |
44411 | Are His subjects here partakers of His kingly bounty? |
44411 | Are any reluctant to be entirely in the hands of God? |
44411 | Are not all His attributes equally employed? |
44411 | Are there not many who live, to all appearance, as unconscious of His existence, as we fancy the inferior animals to be? |
44411 | Are there not many who never think of God or care about His service? |
44411 | Are they afraid to trust Him to dispose of soul and body, for time and eternity? |
44411 | Are you afraid of the reproach of Christ? |
44411 | Are you more than sons of Adam, who, by the sweat of their brow, are to eat bread till they return to the earth out of which they are taken? |
44411 | Are you simply taking your own pleasure in your mode of living, or do you find your pleasure in submitting yourself to God''s pleasure? |
44411 | Are you the less saved? |
44411 | As He beheld them approaching, did He quietly take to His boat, and leave them to go home disappointed? |
44411 | Before they are anointed? |
44411 | But did these things apply merely to the believers to whom St. Peter originally wrote? |
44411 | But if there be a consistency in the errors, in like manner, is there a consistency in the truths which are opposite to them? |
44411 | But if we once attempted to go further, where should we stop? |
44411 | But may it not be supplanted by the love of that which is more worthy than itself? |
44411 | But some one will say"If the knowledge of mysteries is really without influence on our salvation, why have they been indicated to us at all?" |
44411 | But what did they do? |
44411 | But what do we besides praying for it? |
44411 | But when, since the days of the blind master of English song, hath any poured forth a lay worthy of the Christian theme? |
44411 | But who would not hail such a Son of David? |
44411 | Can He only watch, and mend, and rectify, the lawless wanderings of mind? |
44411 | Can He wield the elements, and control, at His pleasure, every work of His hands, but just the mind of man? |
44411 | Can he bring forth and commission the twelve signs of the Zodiac, or bind Arcturus with his seven sons? |
44411 | Can mortal man bind the bands of the Seven Stars, or loose the cords of Orion? |
44411 | Can such a person be in earnest, or have one sincere desire in his heart to effect such an object or purpose? |
44411 | Can there be a better government? |
44411 | Can we improve upon their institutions and enactments? |
44411 | Canst thou command the lightnings, so that they may say to thee, Here we are? |
44411 | Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee? |
44411 | Could the combined universe, without God, change the depraved affections of men? |
44411 | Did He not declare that His kingdom"is not of this world"? |
44411 | Did He not say that He was going hence, or leaving this world, to receive or obtain a kingdom? |
44411 | Did He plead His own convenience, or His need of repose, as any reason for not attending to the pressing necessities of His fellow men? |
44411 | Did he, then, misapprehend the divine character? |
44411 | Did not our Savior Himself, in person, decline the honors of a worldly or temporal prince? |
44411 | Did not the Savior teach His personal pupils, or disciples, to pray,"Thy kingdom"--more truthfully,"Thy reign-- come"? |
44411 | Did our Lord inform the multitude that this day was set apart for their own refreshment and improvement, and that they could not be interrupted? |
44411 | Did then God send you, above all other men, into the world to be idle in spiritual matters? |
44411 | Do kings reign before they are crowned? |
44411 | Do we work for it? |
44411 | Do you ask what this deep principle was? |
44411 | Do you injure no one? |
44411 | Does He exercise His authority here and rule His happy subjects by the law, the perfect law of love? |
44411 | Does He make these vile bodies His residence here? |
44411 | Does He not govern for the same end, and will not His government below conspire to promote the same joyful end as His government above? |
44411 | Does He superintend a world of madmen, full of darkness and disorder, cheered and blest by no internal pervading government of His own? |
44411 | Does any king''s reign or kingdom commence with his birth? |
44411 | Does the Lord''s Prayer breathe a feverish enthusiasm? |
44411 | Has Christ been seen upon the cross, beckoning the sinner to come to Him? |
44411 | Has God determined how to dispose of my soul? |
44411 | Has He filled the earth with untamed and untamable spirits, whose wickedness and rebellion He can merely mitigate, but can not control? |
44411 | Has Omnipotence formed minds, which, the moment they are made, escape from His hands, and defy the control of their Maker? |
44411 | Has a vision of angels appeared, to announce that God is reconciled? |
44411 | Has heaven been thrown open to his admiring eyes? |
44411 | Has some sudden light burst upon him, in token of forgiveness? |
44411 | Has some text of Scripture been sent to whisper that his sins are forgiven, tho no repentance, nor faith, nor love, has dawned in his soul? |
44411 | Has the Almighty erected a moral kingdom which He can not govern without destroying its moral nature? |
44411 | Has the divine character changed? |
44411 | Has your religion any difficulty in it, or is it in all respects easy to you? |
44411 | Have enrapturing sounds of music stolen upon the ear, to entrance the soul? |
44411 | Have we none among you that preach against us in your lives? |
44411 | Have you not already felt, my brethren, the application to which I would bring you? |
44411 | How can He dispose of me according to His eternal purpose and I be free? |
44411 | How can you, thus unimpassioned, hold communion with themes in which everything awful, vital, and endearing meet together? |
44411 | How dangerous a thing is it, for example, for a man to become accustomed to sights of cruelty? |
44411 | How is it in the natural world? |
44411 | How should it be otherwise in religion, when it is thus in nature itself? |
44411 | I had a wife, a helpmeet for me; but where is she? |
44411 | If He can, consistently with freedom, govern angels, and devils, and nations, how can He govern individuals? |
44411 | If a claim so unjust could be admitted, where, I ask you, would be the limit of your demands? |
44411 | If such were the occupations of the Son of God, can we do more wisely than to imitate His example? |
44411 | If that"foolishness"we preach produces effects like these, is it not natural to conclude that it is truth itself? |
44411 | If we began to repress our anger, why not also repress vainglory? |
44411 | If, too, every disciple is to be an"epistle known and read of all men,"what shall we expect, but that all men will be somehow affected by the reading? |
44411 | In a word, is your religion a work? |
44411 | In the highest possible sense of the terms; but who can tell what that highest possible sense of the terms is? |
44411 | In this dilemma, what was to be done? |
44411 | Is He not the same God below as above? |
44411 | Is it because we understand them? |
44411 | Is it ever on the side of God and duty? |
44411 | Is it not enough for us to know the truths that save? |
44411 | Is it not his business, and nothing else, to act his part well? |
44411 | Is it your mission only to find pleasure in this world, in which you are but as pilgrims and sojourners? |
44411 | Is that a misfortune? |
44411 | Is there no object in it? |
44411 | Is your example harmless? |
44411 | It is a great thing to keep in God''s favor; what indeed can we desire more? |
44411 | It is also true, you may ask, that the religious spirit propagates itself or tends to propagate itself in the same way? |
44411 | It is this:"Why were you sent into the world?" |
44411 | May I ask your attention a few moments more? |
44411 | May we not from this incident derive a lesson of practical instruction? |
44411 | My brethren, ought this so to be? |
44411 | My brethren, the simple question is, whatever a man''s rank in life may be, does he in that rank perform the work which God has given him to do? |
44411 | Need I say that comprehension incomparably transcends apprehension? |
44411 | Need we inquire into the meaning of a celestial title given to the tenantries of the heaven of heavens? |
44411 | Now, how stands the case with Jesus? |
44411 | Of the poets which charm the world''s ear, who is he that inditeth a song unto his God? |
44411 | Of what use would it be to know those it conceals from us? |
44411 | Of what use, then, would it be to know those which have not the slightest bearing on our salvation? |
44411 | Oh, my brethren, is it not a shocking thought, but who can deny its truth? |
44411 | Oh, this curious restless, clamorous, panting being, which we call life!--and is there to be no end to all this? |
44411 | Or has a revelation of new truth been granted? |
44411 | Or if he is to be a light in the world, what shall we look for, but that others, seeing his good works, shall glorify God on his account? |
44411 | Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven upon the thirsty fields?" |
44411 | Or who has stretched the line upon it? |
44411 | Rather do you not see that this is a splendid proof of its truth? |
44411 | Shall I say more? |
44411 | Shall not mysteries multiply with discoveries? |
44411 | Still less with his death? |
44411 | Tell a man to be holy-- and how can he compass such a performance, when his fellowship with holiness is a fellowship of despair? |
44411 | The solicitude, therefore, is not merely, What will become of me? |
44411 | They were but little children, and they were by themselves, and they spontaneously asked themselves, or rather God spake in them,"Why am I here? |
44411 | To purchase food in the surrounding towns and villages would be difficult; but even were this possible, whence could the necessary funds be provided? |
44411 | Upon what, in fact, does this argument rest? |
44411 | Was all this glory visible before? |
44411 | Was ever love like this? |
44411 | Was he not the wisest of men, the most potent and the richest of kings, that ever lived? |
44411 | Was it ever known-- did any ever complain-- was it ever conceived-- that God was a tyrant, in heaven? |
44411 | We do not grow Christians by the same culture by which we grow men, otherwise what need of divine revelation, and divine assistance? |
44411 | Well, would it not be simple absurdity in any actor to pride himself on his mock diadem, or his edgeless sword, instead of attending to his part? |
44411 | What am I to do here?" |
44411 | What are the foundations thereof? |
44411 | What can you do for us?" |
44411 | What in reference to us is the object of the gospel? |
44411 | What is religion? |
44411 | What is the occasion of this change? |
44411 | What man, valuing the honor of his soul, would not shrink from yielding himself to such an influence? |
44411 | What matter to me whether the Pope, or any work of any mind, be exalted to the quality of God? |
44411 | What shall he do? |
44411 | What was the national spirit of France, for example, at a certain time, but a spirit of infidelity? |
44411 | What were its antecedents? |
44411 | What will Babel do for us then? |
44411 | What will that man do in heaven, who is afraid and reluctant to commit to God the government of the earth? |
44411 | What, if he did but gaze at himself and his dress? |
44411 | What, then, has produced this alteration? |
44411 | Whence now, I ask, came the conception of this character? |
44411 | Where can we find the traces of it in His history? |
44411 | Where is nature gone when she is not moved with the tender mercy of Christ? |
44411 | Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? |
44411 | Whither shall he flee? |
44411 | Who can number the clouds in wisdom? |
44411 | Who feels the awful weight there is in the least iota that hath dropped from the lips of God? |
44411 | Who feels the sublime dignity there is in a saying, fresh descended from the porch of heaven? |
44411 | Who feels the swelling tide of gratitude within his breast, for redemption and salvation, instead of flat despair and everlasting retribution? |
44411 | Who feels the thrilling fear or trembling hope there is in words whereon the destinies of himself do hang? |
44411 | Who has begotten the drops of the dew? |
44411 | Who has fixt the measure thereof? |
44411 | Who has laid the corner- stone thereof when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? |
44411 | Who hath required this at their hands? |
44411 | Who shall supply the deficiencies of His skill? |
44411 | Who was the mother of the ice? |
44411 | Who, then, shall be His counsellor? |
44411 | Whose soul would not sicken at such a sight? |
44411 | Why are they toiling? |
44411 | Why do we admit these various facts? |
44411 | Why is not curiosity, curiosity ever hungry, on edge to know the doings and intentions of Jehovah, King of Kings? |
44411 | Why is not interest, interest ever awake, on tip- toe to hear the future destiny of itself? |
44411 | Why not also guard against niggardliness? |
44411 | Why not also keep from falsehood, from gossiping, from idling, from excess in eating? |
44411 | Why not reproach Him for not having given you wings like a bird, to visit the regions, which, till now, have been scanned only by your eyes? |
44411 | Why not, in fine, reproach Him for having caused the darkness of night to succeed the brightness of day invariably on the earth? |
44411 | Why, then, should we question the justice of His government on earth? |
44411 | Why? |
44411 | Will any pretend that the Almighty can not maintain a moral government on earth, if He governs according to His own pleasure? |
44411 | Will any say it had its origin in imposture; that it was a fabrication of a deceiver? |
44411 | Will it rescue our souls from the purgatory or the hell to which it sends them? |
44411 | Will they aim at the honor implied in these words,"Ye are my witnesses?" |
44411 | Will they have the adoption and the glory? |
44411 | Will ye indeed be sons? |
44411 | With each new day shall we not see associated a new night? |
44411 | Would he leave its peopled dwelling places, and become a solitary wanderer through the fields of nonentity? |
44411 | Would it not be better for us, if we cultivated more assiduously this habit of intimate intercourse with the Savior? |
44411 | Would not he cling to the regions of sense, and of life, and of society? |
44411 | Would not his neighbors regard him as a monomaniac or a simpleton? |
44411 | Would sinful mortals change their own hearts? |
44411 | and yet do not the things which He says"? |
44411 | but, What, O Lord, will become of Thy glory, and the glory of Thy kingdom? |
44411 | for what are they living? |
44411 | how came I here? |
44411 | how will you draw the line for us? |
44411 | that with yonder sacred throng, we at His feet may fall"? |
44411 | what, if he secreted, or turned to his own use, what was valuable in it? |
44411 | who brought me here? |
44411 | who would not desire to be swayed by such a Prince of Peace? |
44411 | why are they scheming? |
11693 | But how can they believe if they have not heard? 11693 Come, Pharisees, tell us what you have against the Son of God, What do you think of Christ?" |
11693 | Come, tell us, Judas, what think ye of Christ? 11693 Pilate, this man was brought before you; you examined Him; you talked with Him face to face; what think you of Christ?" |
11693 | Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? |
11693 | Why, then,He says,"do you accuse Me of blasphemy because I claim divinity?" |
11693 | Wist ye not that I must be about my Father''s business? |
11693 | ABBOTT BORN IN 1835 THE DIVINITY IN HUMANITY_ Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, ye are gods? |
11693 | All fancy, all imaginings? |
11693 | And altho all these years have rolled away, this question comes up, addresst to each of us, to- day,"What think ye of Christ?" |
11693 | And have you not fancied that you heard the harp of God playing in heaven? |
11693 | And how can they hear without a preacher? |
11693 | And how can they preach except they be sent?" |
11693 | And is not this included in His meaning when He says:"I am come that they may have life, and that they may have it abundantly"? |
11693 | And shall not you who are here to- day thank God that such a man was, tho for so brief a space, your bishop? |
11693 | And then Saul asks,"Who art thou, Lord?" |
11693 | And what is the mission of the Christian Church? |
11693 | And when you turn to the moral law, and when you ask yourself,"How can I learn to be athirst for God?" |
11693 | And why should not people make up their minds about the Lord Jesus Christ, and take their stand for or against Him? |
11693 | And why? |
11693 | Are you sure you could? |
11693 | But then, if you speak the truth, you say,"And in the end what am I? |
11693 | But what of that? |
11693 | But will this rhapsody bear thinking about? |
11693 | By that sin fell the angels: how can man, then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by''t?" |
11693 | Can anything be more humble? |
11693 | Can you say,"Tho he slay me, yet will I trust in him"? |
11693 | Canst thou not see some sweet hill Mizar? |
11693 | Canst thou not think of some blest hour when the Lord met with thee at Hermon? |
11693 | Certainly it is to know God''s guidance in law; but what is law? |
11693 | Could the muster- roll of this great army be called, and could they come up from the dead, what eye could endure the reeking, festering putrefaction? |
11693 | Could you say that? |
11693 | Did He leave heaven and come down to this world for a purpose? |
11693 | Did I call him man the second? |
11693 | Did I call this house second? |
11693 | Did I not come to bless you? |
11693 | Do I address one whose regular work in life is to administer to this appetite? |
11693 | Do I say, then, that I am equal to Christ? |
11693 | Do I say, then, that Jesus Christ was a man like other men? |
11693 | Do n''t you know Him? |
11693 | Do we go forth to meet death"with dances and chants of fullest welcome"? |
11693 | Do you ask how it shall be done? |
11693 | Do you ask how that can be? |
11693 | Do you ask the question? |
11693 | Do you believe in the forgiveness of sins? |
11693 | Do you believe in the forgiveness of sins? |
11693 | Do you believe in the forgiveness of sins? |
11693 | Do you believe in the forgiveness of sins? |
11693 | Do you see how everything there is being desolated? |
11693 | Do you think it is right and noble to lift up your voice against such a Savior? |
11693 | Does He? |
11693 | Does death"lave us in a flood of bliss"? |
11693 | Does it not cock the highwayman''s pistol? |
11693 | Does it not jingle the burglar''s key? |
11693 | Does it not wave the incendiary''s torch? |
11693 | Does it not whet the assassin''s knife? |
11693 | Does"the body gratefully nestle close to death"? |
11693 | Elymas the sorcerer withstood him: how did our friend Paul treat him? |
11693 | For what did God come in Christ? |
11693 | For what is the position, dear friends, of the Christian Church? |
11693 | For what reason should our missionaries stand disputing with Brahmins? |
11693 | Go back, man; sing of that moment, and then thou wilt have a song in the night? |
11693 | Has He come with that great life of His to give a little and then stop? |
11693 | Has it not sent the physician reeling into the sick- room; and the minister with his tongue thick into the pulpit? |
11693 | Hast thou never been fetched from the den of lions? |
11693 | Hast thou never been on the Delectable Mountains? |
11693 | Hast thou never escaped the jaw of the lion and the paw of the bear? |
11693 | Have I injured you in any way? |
11693 | Have they anything to say of Him? |
11693 | Have we a right to believe that man is more than he seems to be, as we can see him in the street to- day? |
11693 | Have we a right to build our institutions and fabrics on this belief? |
11693 | Have you never stood by the seaside at night, and heard the pebbles sing, and the waves chant God''s glories? |
11693 | Have you nothing more to bring against Him than this? |
11693 | He might have added,"What have I done to you? |
11693 | How can it come? |
11693 | How can you not? |
11693 | How many men are there who can rise above the feelings of partizanship, and demand that our officials shall be sober men? |
11693 | How much, Lord and Master? |
11693 | I am now at peace with God through faith, in our Lord Jesus Christ"? |
11693 | I should like to ask, Was He really the Son of God-- the great God- Man? |
11693 | I wonder whether you would sing very prettily, if there was a stake or two in Smithfield for all of you who dared to do it? |
11693 | If He bore the cross and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him? |
11693 | If He had not, what would have become of us? |
11693 | If He laid down His life for us, is it not the least we can do to lay down ours for Him? |
11693 | If you think well of Him, why not speak well of Him and range yourselves on His side? |
11693 | In the anguish of his soul Job cried,"I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou Preserver of men?" |
11693 | Is death"delicate, lovely and soothing,""delicious,"coming to us with"serenades"? |
11693 | Is it a wonder the angels thought well of Him? |
11693 | Is it about the most fundamental of all facts-- the existence, and the nature, and the grace, and the government of Almighty God? |
11693 | Is not this the one thing needful? |
11693 | Is not this, fellow men, the right way to live? |
11693 | Is that enough? |
11693 | Is that enough? |
11693 | Is there not a more excellent way than this? |
11693 | Is your soul athirst for the highest? |
11693 | Lead him to enthusiastic contemplations of humanity;"in its perfection, and when he asks,''Why, if this is so, do not I have this life?'' |
11693 | Listened to what? |
11693 | MOODY 1837--1899 WHAT THINK YE OF CHRIST? |
11693 | MOODY WHAT THINK YE OF CHRIST? |
11693 | Many of you sang very prettily just now, did n''t you? |
11693 | Monday night? |
11693 | My friend will you hear Him to- day? |
11693 | My friends, my people, would you be saved, saved from your sins, saved from yourselves, saved from the pride of life? |
11693 | Natural depravity? |
11693 | Nay, have not some of you in your own bodies felt the power of this habit? |
11693 | Need I tell you of it? |
11693 | Now, is there any ground or basis for this faith in man? |
11693 | Now, what is the spirit of Christ? |
11693 | Oh, do you not think He was a wonderful preacher? |
11693 | Oh, have we not reason to think well of Him? |
11693 | Oh, widow and orphans, oh, sorrowing and mourning, will you not thank God for Christ the comforter? |
11693 | Oh, will you gratify pleasure? |
11693 | Oh, will you stimulate activity, and will you leave me alone? |
11693 | On what grounds did you judge Him? |
11693 | Or are we to think of them as simply phantasmagoria hung up for the delectation of a passing moment? |
11693 | Or have you never risen from your couch, and thrown up the window of your chamber, and listened there? |
11693 | Or that I shall ever become equal to Christ? |
11693 | Perhaps you can hardly admit it; but where was your son last night? |
11693 | See how wonderfully the Word of God fits down upon this? |
11693 | Shall we not draw to this Prince of Life and take from Him the gift that He came to bring? |
11693 | Simply to show Himself? |
11693 | Suppose you ask a master in music,"How am I to produce the real result of stately sound?" |
11693 | Tell us, what think you of Christ?" |
11693 | Tell us; what did the witnesses say? |
11693 | The question for the world is,"What think ye of Christ?" |
11693 | The question is, who will hunt him down, and how shall we shoot him? |
11693 | The reason? |
11693 | The stars are not put out, are they? |
11693 | There are a great many of you that think Christian people are a very miserable set, do n''t you? |
11693 | Tuesday night? |
11693 | Was it merely the assertion of your confidence in the goodness of God irrespective of His holiness? |
11693 | Was it really to seek and to save? |
11693 | Was it simply the recognition of a universal amnesty for a world of rebels? |
11693 | Was it true, Peter? |
11693 | Wast thou never in straits before, and did He not deliver thee? |
11693 | Wast thou never poor before, and did He not supply thy wants? |
11693 | We will ask them, What think ye of Christ? |
11693 | Wednesday night? |
11693 | Well, what then? |
11693 | What Think Ye of Christ? |
11693 | What a story that is which he has given to us of a great soul-- faithful always in the greatest? |
11693 | What are you after you are cleansed? |
11693 | What are you doing here?" |
11693 | What bishop is there who may not wisely seek to be like him by drawing forever on those fires of the Holy Ghost that set his lips aflame? |
11693 | What did you mean by it? |
11693 | What do they think of Him there? |
11693 | What do we mean by thirsting for God? |
11693 | What do we need for the salvation of a prosperous life? |
11693 | What do you know exactly about infinity, or space, or time, or cause? |
11693 | What do you mean, you may say for a moment, by the thirst for God? |
11693 | What do you think of Him? |
11693 | What exactly was the thought in your heart as the words passed over your lips,"I believe in the forgiveness of sins"? |
11693 | What foul sprite turned the sweet rhythm of Robert Burns into a tuneless babble? |
11693 | What have you before you there? |
11693 | What heart could endure the groan of agony? |
11693 | What is it about which you are in such debate and doubt? |
11693 | What is it but the life into which they are led who take the yoke of this Master upon them and learn of Him? |
11693 | What is it but this? |
11693 | What is it, let me ask, that comes into clearer prominence as the Washington tragedy[1] is being investigated and scrutinized? |
11693 | What is the difference between your failure and the results of those men? |
11693 | What is the difference? |
11693 | What is the object of such a church as this? |
11693 | What is the pride of life? |
11693 | What is the result? |
11693 | What is there wanting in the touch of your artist? |
11693 | What is this, again, but the same declaration? |
11693 | What kind of life, Lord and Master? |
11693 | What says Christ Himself? |
11693 | What shall the consecration be? |
11693 | What testimony was brought against Him?" |
11693 | What then is the pride of life which is bad, which"is not of the Father, but is of the world"? |
11693 | What then? |
11693 | What think you of Him?" |
11693 | What was it that silenced Sheridan, the English orator, and shattered the golden scepter with which he swayed parliaments and courts? |
11693 | What, then, are you going to do with your faith? |
11693 | Where was he Friday night? |
11693 | Where was he Thursday night? |
11693 | Who is this battered and bruised wretch that was picked up by the police and carried in drunk and foul and bleeding? |
11693 | Who, then, is Jesus Christ? |
11693 | Why do you treat Me thus, Saul?" |
11693 | Why is it good that you should do your best? |
11693 | Why not? |
11693 | Why should sorrow find perpetual remembrance in art? |
11693 | Why should they be wasting their time by attempting to refute first this dogma, and then another, of heathenism? |
11693 | Why, buried among your buildings, in the midst of this great, powerful, sinful city,--why has it a mission for eternity? |
11693 | Why, dear friends, why is it that these things do not satisfy? |
11693 | Why, let them lecture on; this is a free country; why should we follow them about? |
11693 | Why? |
11693 | Why? |
11693 | Why? |
11693 | Why? |
11693 | Will any man say to me, this beautiful flower with all its rich coloring is like this bulb? |
11693 | Will it? |
11693 | Will it? |
11693 | Will you not believe in Him? |
11693 | Will you not believe the testimony? |
11693 | Will you not believe this witness, this last of all, the Lord of hosts, the King of kings himself? |
11693 | Will you not live for Him? |
11693 | Will you not think well of such a Savior? |
11693 | Will you not trust in Him with all your heart and mind? |
11693 | Would that fill you with deep thoughts in Beethoven, or fire you into joy in Mendelssohn? |
11693 | Would that produce the chorus of Handel that made you almost rise and march in majesty? |
11693 | Would that produce"The Last Judgment"of Spohr, that made you dissolve in tears? |
11693 | Would you not like to bring back joy to your wife''s heart, and have your children come out to meet you with as much confidence as once they showed? |
11693 | Would you not like to rekindle the home- lights that long ago were extinguished? |
11693 | You doubted Him, Thomas? |
11693 | You think that you could stop? |
11693 | You want to know what His enemies thought of Him? |
11693 | You want to know what a heathen, thought? |
11693 | didst thou never have a sickness like that which thou art suffering now, and did He not raise thee up from that? |
11693 | hast thou buried thine own diary? |
11693 | what is He saying to you? |
11693 | who can deliver me from the body of this death?" |
10325 | ''Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? |
10325 | ''Is anything too hard for the Lord?'' |
10325 | ''Thinkest thou,''he says,''that those Galilaeans whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices, were sinners above all the Galilaeans? |
10325 | And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? |
10325 | And does Christ care only for THEM? |
10325 | And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? |
10325 | And how comes it also that the New Testament says distinctly that man is still made in the likeness of God? |
10325 | And how did he do that? |
10325 | And how does the New Testament begin? |
10325 | And next-- what is it after all, but what we see going on round us all the day long? |
10325 | And now, my friends, what shall we learn from this? |
10325 | And shall we believe that this infinitely good book is founded upon falsehood? |
10325 | And was this all that Abraham believed-- that the sun and moon and stars were not gods, but that there was a God besides, who had made them all? |
10325 | And what did Jacob get, who so meanly bought the birthright, and cheated his father out of the blessing? |
10325 | And what in us is the likeness of God? |
10325 | And what is the first written thought which has been handed down to us by the Providence of Almighty God? |
10325 | And what sort of man was this great and wonderful Moses, whose name will last as long as man is man? |
10325 | And what was this? |
10325 | And whence did they get, I ask again, the notion of gods at all? |
10325 | And why first? |
10325 | And why not? |
10325 | And why? |
10325 | And why? |
10325 | And why? |
10325 | And why? |
10325 | And why? |
10325 | And why? |
10325 | And why? |
10325 | And will such puzzling questions and calculations as these, settle them how we may, make us BETTER men? |
10325 | And will you believe that God is like that man? |
10325 | Are not husbands to love their wives, and give themselves for them as Christ loved the Church and gave himself for it? |
10325 | Are not the riches of Christ unsearchable, and the mercies of the Lord boundless? |
10325 | Are we NOT inclined to suspect harm of this person and of that? |
10325 | Are we NOT inclined to take, at first, the worst view of everybody and of everything? |
10325 | Are we NOT inclined too often to be mean and cowardly? |
10325 | Are we only to be blessed in the next? |
10325 | Are you to suppose that Moses gained nothing by HIS experience? |
10325 | As for the style of it being different from that of Exodus and Leviticus, the simple answer is, Why not? |
10325 | Because it is a law of nature? |
10325 | Because the first question which man asks-- the question which shows he is a man and not a brute-- always has been, and always will be-- Where am I? |
10325 | Besides, why should not Moses have spoken differently at the end of forty years''such experience as never man had before or since? |
10325 | But do they go to establish a golden age; to become a perfect people? |
10325 | But do we listen to him? |
10325 | But from what did Abraham turn to worship the living God? |
10325 | But how does the story of Jacob and Esau reveal God to us? |
10325 | But if so, what does this first lesson-- the chapter of Exodus from which my text is taken-- what does it teach us concerning God? |
10325 | But if that be not true, what follows? |
10325 | But if they came by some strange means as no vermin ever came before or since, all I can say is-- Why not? |
10325 | But it learns to obey them behind their back; to do their will of its own will; to ask itself, What would my parents wish me to do, were they here? |
10325 | But need he love his parents less? |
10325 | But some may say,''Why tell us that? |
10325 | But they will say, man is finite and limited, God is infinite and absolute, and how can the finite comprehend the infinite? |
10325 | But upon whom? |
10325 | But what are God''s laws by which he makes things? |
10325 | But what does this story teach us concerning God? |
10325 | But what has all this to do with God? |
10325 | But what kind of person must he be, thought they, who sent the flood? |
10325 | But what may we learn from this ugly story? |
10325 | But where, among beasts, do you ever find any trace of those two sacred human feelings-- the love of brother to brother, or of child to father? |
10325 | But who gave them that genius and energy? |
10325 | But who is this blessed Babe? |
10325 | But who that really values his Bible cares for them any more than he cares for the spots on the sun which he can find through a telescope? |
10325 | But why have there always been such people? |
10325 | But why need we learn from Abraham? |
10325 | But why should it NOT be wonderful? |
10325 | But why was this story of Joseph put into Holy Scripture, and at such length, too? |
10325 | But-- shall we become really the wiser by so doing? |
10325 | Can the God who appeared to Adam, be our God likewise, or has God''s plan and rule for teaching man changed utterly? |
10325 | Can these two be the same? |
10325 | Did not even St. Paul say that he only knew in part and prophesied in part? |
10325 | Did our forefathers know of them when they came into this land? |
10325 | Did they come after coal and iron? |
10325 | Do I mean that these disasters come as punishments to the people who are killed by them? |
10325 | Do they come by chance, from some brute and blind powers of nature?'' |
10325 | Do they come from the devil-- the destroyer? |
10325 | Do you believe it? |
10325 | Do you not see what a power and courage that thought must have given to the Jews? |
10325 | Does God NOT bid us to look for any such blessings? |
10325 | Does he not care for their neighbours? |
10325 | Does it teach us that his name is love? |
10325 | For all men will believe on him, and then the powers of this world will come and take away our station and our order?'' |
10325 | For here, in the text, is Moses''answer to the first great question in politics, What makes a nation prosperous? |
10325 | For what would the heathen, what actually did the heathen think about such sights as a flood, or a rainbow? |
10325 | For why? |
10325 | From idols? |
10325 | From whom did Moses and the holy men of old whom Moses taught get their knowledge of God, the true God? |
10325 | God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? |
10325 | Has God really forbidden it? |
10325 | Has he not all mankind to provide for, and govern and guide? |
10325 | Hath he said, and shall he not do it?'' |
10325 | Have we not learnt enough already? |
10325 | Have we not seen-- I have often-- in the same mortal man these two different characters at once? |
10325 | He had spoken unadvisedly with his lips, and said,''Hear now, ye rebels, or ye fools, must WE bring you water out of this rock?'' |
10325 | He honours holy wedlock when he tells his master''s wife,''How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?'' |
10325 | He that made man and all heaven and earth, can not he show himself to man, if he shall so please? |
10325 | How came I here? |
10325 | How came this world here likewise? |
10325 | How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? |
10325 | How can I trust in a God whom I can not understand or know? |
10325 | How can I trust in a love or a justice which is not what_ I_ call love or justice, or anything like them? |
10325 | How can that be? |
10325 | How can that be? |
10325 | How can we be that, if God''s truth is not like what men call truth, God''s justice not like what men call justice? |
10325 | How did I come here; and how did this world come here? |
10325 | How did I get into this world; and how did this world get here likewise? |
10325 | How did it get into that black spot? |
10325 | How is he revealed in the text,''In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth?'' |
10325 | How shall we keep our souls REFINED? |
10325 | How should one chase a thousand; and two put ten thousand to flight?'' |
10325 | How then did man, who now is continually forgetting God, contrive to remember God for himself at first? |
10325 | How then shall we keep off coarseness of soul? |
10325 | How then will the history of the flood do that? |
10325 | How, unless God himself showed himself to man? |
10325 | Husband and wife likewise-- are not they two divine words--not human words at all? |
10325 | I have received good from the hands of the Lord, and shall I not receive evil?'' |
10325 | Important? |
10325 | In that grand text where Abraham pleads with God, what does he say? |
10325 | Is he not able and willing to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we can ask or think? |
10325 | Is it no miracle that not one of those black spots ever turns into anything save a frog? |
10325 | Is it on the whole going right or going wrong? |
10325 | Is it well governed or ill? |
10325 | Is not the life in the Spirit of God, who is working on that spot, as I believe? |
10325 | Is that no miracle? |
10325 | Is the Lord Jehovah of the Old Testament the Lord Jesus of the New? |
10325 | It was Moses who bade men call God Jehovah, the I AM; but who, hundreds of years before, taught them to call him the Almighty God? |
10325 | MAY call you, did I say? |
10325 | Merely for the pleasure of destroying? |
10325 | Not,''Of course if Thou choosest to do it, it must be right,''but''Shall not the Judge of all the earth do RIGHT?'' |
10325 | Now if Moses did not write it, who did? |
10325 | Now what have we to boast of in that? |
10325 | Now what was to prevent the Israelites worshipping the earthquake and the fire as gods? |
10325 | Now why was this? |
10325 | Of Jesus Christ? |
10325 | Oh, if all this is not poor human nature, drawn by the pen of a truly inspired writer, what is it? |
10325 | Or is there knowledge in the Most High? |
10325 | Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; think you that they were sinners above all who dwelt in Jerusalem? |
10325 | Pharaoh answers:''Who is Jehovah( the Lord) that I should let Israel go?'' |
10325 | Saved? |
10325 | See in this case why did God destroy the crops of Egypt-- even the first- born of Egypt? |
10325 | Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? |
10325 | Shall I give my firstborn for my transgressions, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? |
10325 | Shall not the Judge of all the earth do RIGHT?'' |
10325 | So he returns to his place-- to do what? |
10325 | That every one of those little black spots should have in it LIFE-- What is life? |
10325 | That he must honour and worship them, and do them service, in order that they might be favourable to him, and help, and bless, and teach him? |
10325 | That men have the sacred family feeling, and beasts have not? |
10325 | That they had made laws for him which he must obey? |
10325 | The Lord of the earth and all that therein is; before whom all men, even proud Pharaoh, must bow and confess,''Is anything too hard for the Lord?'' |
10325 | The next question will be: If God favours that family, will he do unjust things to help them?--will he let them do unjust things to help themselves? |
10325 | Then did his faith in God win no reward? |
10325 | Then if manhood be evil, what follows again? |
10325 | Then if that human nature be evil, what follows? |
10325 | Then men ask in terror and doubt,''Who sends the earthquake and the fire? |
10325 | Then said his sister to Pharaoh''s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? |
10325 | Then would not Joseph''s story be worthy of being in the Bible? |
10325 | To know that he is that-- all- good, is to know his character as far as sinful and sorrowful man need know; and is not that to know enough? |
10325 | Very probably it was: but if not, What of that? |
10325 | Was God faithful and true, just and merciful? |
10325 | Was not that, too, a miracle? |
10325 | What are we to think of a fire coming out from the Lord, and consuming two hundred and fifty men that offered incense? |
10325 | What can God be but wonderful? |
10325 | What causes this but the power of God, making of the same clay one vessel to honour and another to dishonour? |
10325 | What could they do, but what the Canaanites did who dwelt already in that land? |
10325 | What do I mean? |
10325 | What does Balaam''s story reveal? |
10325 | What further lesson concerning God do we learn therefrom? |
10325 | What grace, what virtue is there higher than condescension? |
10325 | What have we learnt from that history? |
10325 | What of that? |
10325 | What of that? |
10325 | What of that? |
10325 | What put into his mind the strange imagination that these unseen beings were more or less his masters? |
10325 | What put into the mind of man that strange imagination of beings greater than himself, whom he could not always see, but who might appear to him? |
10325 | What shall we learn? |
10325 | What then are we to think of the earth opening and swallowing them up? |
10325 | What then shall we think of these things? |
10325 | What then was wrong in Balaam? |
10325 | What thoughts should we have about it? |
10325 | What were we intended to learn from it? |
10325 | What would you say of a magistrate who was so merciful to thieves that he let them rob the honest men? |
10325 | What would you say of a man who was so merciful to the weeds that he let them choke the flowers? |
10325 | What would you say of a shepherd who was so merciful to the wolves that he let them eat his sheep? |
10325 | Whence came this strange notion, which man alone has of all the living things which we see, of RELIGION? |
10325 | Where am I? |
10325 | Where did they get it? |
10325 | Where do you find the notion that the tie between husband and wife is a sacred thing, to be broken at no temptation, but in man? |
10325 | Where, I ask again, did they get it? |
10325 | Wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us to carry us out of Egypt?'' |
10325 | Wherefore the first thing man has to learn is truth concerning the first human question, Where am I? |
10325 | Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? |
10325 | Whither shall I go from thy spirit? |
10325 | Who can resist such a nation as that? |
10325 | Who gave them the wit to find the coal and iron? |
10325 | Who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him, or even settle what the Lord means by doing this or that? |
10325 | Who is Lord over us?'' |
10325 | Who prayed for his murderers as he hung upon the cross,''Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do?'' |
10325 | Who would change them for all the scientific phrases in the world? |
10325 | Why can he not make lice, or anything else out of the dust of the ground, without those means? |
10325 | Why does each kind turn into its kind? |
10325 | Why has it spent upon the story of Joseph and his brethren, not ten verses, but ten chapters? |
10325 | Why not even into fishes or serpents? |
10325 | Why not? |
10325 | Why not? |
10325 | Why should not some of them turn into toads or efts? |
10325 | Why should not the Jews have gone on worshipping one God, even if they had forgotten that he brought them out of the land of Egypt? |
10325 | Why should they not get on in the world? |
10325 | Why should they not take care of their interest? |
10325 | Why, indeed? |
10325 | Why, what deeper or wiser words are there in the whole Old Testament? |
10325 | Will it make us better men merely to know that there was once a flood of waters on the earth? |
10325 | Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? |
10325 | Will they make us more honest and just, more generous and loving, more able to keep our tempers and control our appetites? |
10325 | Would GOD help these wretched Jews, even if HE could not? |
10325 | Would it not, as I said it would, reveal something fresh to us concerning God and the character of God? |
10325 | Would that ever come true? |
10325 | Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?'' |
10325 | You may say, These plagues of Egypt reveal God''s mighty power, but what do they reveal of his character? |
10325 | and why do I say confidently, that there always will be? |
10325 | intendest thou to kill me as thou killedst the Egyptian? |
10325 | need the bond between them be broken, though he may never set eyes on them again? |
10325 | or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? |
10325 | or that the good men who wrote it could fancy it necessary to stoop to falsehood, and take the devil''s tools wherewith to do God''s work? |
10325 | or whither shall I flee from thy presence? |
10325 | or, to speak more carefully, is the life IN the black spot at all? |
10325 | to be coarse and vulgar? |
10325 | to be hard and covetous? |
10325 | to be silly and frivolous? |
10325 | what shall I say unto them? |
44053 | After all,they say,"what are the ills of life, that we should make so much ado? |
44053 | Are not ye much better than they? |
44053 | How about my children? 44053 How about the prosperity of the cause of Christ in the world? |
44053 | Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? |
44053 | My Christian work-- what about that? 44053 Take no thought,"no anxious thought,"saying, What shall we eat? |
44053 | What about my religious future? 44053 What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? |
44053 | What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? 44053 What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? |
44053 | What must I do to be saved? |
44053 | What of death-- my own death? 44053 What will the future be? |
44053 | When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars which Thou hast ordained; what is man, that Thou art mindful of him? 44053 Where is boasting, then? |
44053 | Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? |
44053 | Who is he that condemneth? 44053 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? |
44053 | All nature is occupied in the successful attempt to answer the initial question,"What shall we eat? |
44053 | And how can we be conformed to a world of which we know nothing?" |
44053 | And how does the great Teacher speak to the careworn in these verses? |
44053 | And if it be, why recommend that which must follow in the due course of things?" |
44053 | And if so, what will become of all the plans and projects upon which I have expended so much thought and prayer and toil?" |
44053 | And now what ends does this sacrifice of Propitiation serve? |
44053 | And since we have received it, why should we boast as if it were all of our own making? |
44053 | And what to him was the very centre of Christian truth? |
44053 | And what was his experience? |
44053 | And what was the secret of it all? |
44053 | And what were the sufferings of these compared with those of Christ, who wept and bled and died, not for Himself, but for us? |
44053 | And who are sharing in it to- day? |
44053 | And who is our Substitute? |
44053 | And who, being a Christian, can refuse to be glad? |
44053 | And why? |
44053 | Are not these reasons enough? |
44053 | Are there no such cases now? |
44053 | Are they not sure to come? |
44053 | Are they spoken to the happy alone? |
44053 | Are we afraid it may fail? |
44053 | Are we right in the feeling? |
44053 | Are ye not much better than they?... |
44053 | Are you, or are you not, anxious to please God in any way which He may appoint and reveal to you? |
44053 | Ask a Christian child, or an aged saint,"What did Christ come on earth to do?" |
44053 | Ask, then, for faith, and God will say:"Wilt thou be made whole?" |
44053 | Besides, how could Paul recommend a rejoicing which is not"in the Lord,"which is the only rejoicing possible to the unbeliever? |
44053 | But again we ask, Whence could such a notion have sprung? |
44053 | But how can God deal with us in both these ways at one and the same time? |
44053 | But how did this come about? |
44053 | But how is this faith obtained? |
44053 | But how is this to be verified? |
44053 | But how? |
44053 | But how? |
44053 | But if you are, what then? |
44053 | But what is the conversion of a soul? |
44053 | But what, with such a gospel, would be man''s position? |
44053 | But why so? |
44053 | By what law? |
44053 | Can I so live as not to dishonour the Church and the cause of Christ?" |
44053 | Can he refuse when he sees Jesus on the cross, and knows what, for him, that spectacle means? |
44053 | Can_ we_ believe in Christ? |
44053 | Concessions? |
44053 | Deny the deductions? |
44053 | Did not his conduct to the apostles show, so far as the opportunity was given him, the fruits of faith in the various ways of grateful love? |
44053 | Do we lightly esteem His great love? |
44053 | Do we not see here one reason why men become cynical and misanthropic? |
44053 | Do you not already, under the gracious influence of the Holy Spirit, feel your need of Him? |
44053 | Does it follow that the sun does not enlighten, or that my mind does not receive impressions through what I see? |
44053 | Does it spring from error? |
44053 | Does not the very mention of it give rise to sad reflections in many hearts? |
44053 | Eternal Source of Life and Light, From whom my every blessing flows, How shall my lips extol aright The bounty that no measure knows? |
44053 | Grace begins where merit ends, if grace be given at all.--What, then,_ is_ the"great salvation"? |
44053 | Have the numberless generations which have been upon the earth gone to an inevitable doom? |
44053 | Have we fallen into no needless errors, no selfishness, no half- heartedness? |
44053 | Have we given nothing? |
44053 | Have we such a faith as this? |
44053 | Have we taken away all? |
44053 | Have we used such gifts as we have as nobly as we might? |
44053 | He does not ask, like"the young man in the gospel,""What good thing must I do that I may inherit eternal life?" |
44053 | He has only to ply you with his eternal"_ Why?_"_ Why_, because the universe exists, must it have ever been_ created_? |
44053 | He has only to ply you with his eternal"_ Why?_"_ Why_, because the universe exists, must it have ever been_ created_? |
44053 | Hence the question might be asked,"To whom are they addressed? |
44053 | Hence the short, sharp question-- the question which sprung from an inward agony--"What must I do to be saved?" |
44053 | How can he be saved? |
44053 | How can we be proud when we know that God has loved us, and that Christ has died for us? |
44053 | How did he know that Christ had ever seen this woman before? |
44053 | How do these thoughts bear upon the subject of importunity in prayer? |
44053 | How do we arrive at the conviction of the Fatherhood of God? |
44053 | How does Christ here speak of God? |
44053 | How does he describe the struggle? |
44053 | How does this subject strike us? |
44053 | How is it that we conceive a sudden repugnance to one, and at first sight fall in love with another? |
44053 | How is this? |
44053 | How is this? |
44053 | How many Christians are living a life of absorption in the world, yet harassed with occasional regrets, fears, desires, connected with better things? |
44053 | How many defects have we discovered in those whom we have implicitly trusted, when we have been brought into a closer acquaintance with them? |
44053 | How many have others discovered in us? |
44053 | How much more? |
44053 | How was the change wrought? |
44053 | How was this? |
44053 | How, then, does this fact of our unconscious influence touch the question of our responsibility? |
44053 | How? |
44053 | If I make a Christian profession, shall I be able to live consistently with it? |
44053 | If all be of"grace,"why insist upon"works"? |
44053 | If not how can we obtain it? |
44053 | If so, again I ask on what grounds? |
44053 | If we be not joyful, what does the fact mean? |
44053 | If we could hold the balance steadily, which would prove to be the preponderating scale? |
44053 | Imagine all these direct agencies to be suddenly and completely withdrawn-- what would then become of our poor world? |
44053 | In conclusion, how is this nonconformity to the world, in the spirit of a grateful consecration to God, to be attained? |
44053 | In what sense, and on what grounds, are we accountable for it? |
44053 | Is a heaven of holiness and of love too much for a being whom angels are delighted to protect? |
44053 | Is all this concurrent testimony to be set aside? |
44053 | Is all this influence outside the range of our responsibility? |
44053 | Is eternal life too much for a being whom the worlds combine to sustain, to feed, and to bless? |
44053 | Is it impossible for us so to engage in it as to find it spiritually helpful? |
44053 | Is it necessary?" |
44053 | Is it not like Simeon''s prediction that Christ would be for the"fall"as well as for the"rising"of many? |
44053 | Is it not like what Paul said of the gospel, that it is a"savour"both of"life unto life"and of"death unto death"? |
44053 | Is it not ten times as great as that which we bestow upon our Christian consistency, our religious usefulness, our growth in grace? |
44053 | Is it not the first, the necessary, the constant result of faith? |
44053 | Is it not unspiritual to take arguments for the comfort of our Christian life from lower things? |
44053 | Is it to be solved by the principle of mutual concession? |
44053 | Is not all this enough to humble a man? |
44053 | Is not such a condition a blessed one? |
44053 | Is not the"idle,"the vain, the worthless, at the worst, thereby negative? |
44053 | Is not this the kind of thing which is least amenable to a vigorous judgment? |
44053 | Is the religion that has given me joy and strength in health able to support me now?" |
44053 | Is there any doubt, then, as to our recognising them at the last? |
44053 | Is this life ours? |
44053 | Is your boasting heard no more? |
44053 | It is so; and why? |
44053 | It is thus that millions have said:"To whom can we go but unto Thee? |
44053 | It may be said,"What do we know of the spiritual world? |
44053 | It might be said,"Is not unworldliness of the very essence of the new life? |
44053 | May we not indulge this feeling without any suspicion that our prosperity may too much absorb and unspiritualise us? |
44053 | May we not with thankfulness leave them there? |
44053 | Millions, in that case, might justly look up to God and say,"Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast Thou made all men in vain?" |
44053 | Moreover why speak we of delay at all? |
44053 | Must not God give it? |
44053 | Must our daily work be a hindrance to us? |
44053 | Must they be suppressed when we speak to the sad or to the miserable?" |
44053 | Must we go to the irrational and inanimate creation for gospels of blessing for our spiritual need? |
44053 | Must we not feel that by death, they have made a glorious exchange? |
44053 | Must we, then, listlessly wait until it comes to us? |
44053 | No heaven? |
44053 | Now, if at this point the question be asked:"Are we responsible for this undesigned influence?" |
44053 | Of course his"What must I do?" |
44053 | Of works? |
44053 | Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? |
44053 | Or shall I be called away comparatively early? |
44053 | Or will they take evil ways; prove, like so many more, vicious, ungodly, and bring down my grey hairs in sorrow to the grave?" |
44053 | Others are suffering: why not we? |
44053 | Seest thou this woman? |
44053 | Shall I have grace enough to support me when the time comes?" |
44053 | Shall I have strength to resist temptation? |
44053 | Shall I live to be old? |
44053 | Shall it be said, then, that God will punish every transgressor? |
44053 | Showing His goodness in such a manner to objects inferior to man, why should man suspect that the same goodness will be denied to_ him_? |
44053 | Since God has done so much as this for you, what then? |
44053 | Such a life-- would it not be a terrible bondage? |
44053 | Such vigilance-- would it not take all our time, and absorb all our strength? |
44053 | Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?" |
44053 | The Jews, marvelling at Christ''s teaching in the temple, exclaim,"How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?" |
44053 | The conclusion is irresistible; the thing may be done-- but how? |
44053 | The first question for us is: Have we so learnt to know ourselves, or do we obstinately shut our eyes against God''s light? |
44053 | The imperative question is, not,"How is the thing done?" |
44053 | The language is peculiar; what does it mean? |
44053 | To what prophet could Simon point who was able to read the heart? |
44053 | Was he conscious of its shining? |
44053 | Was it not emphatically to sinners that they were sent? |
44053 | Was it so with Abraham, with Job, with David, with Paul, or with any of the others? |
44053 | Was not everything the earth contains made for our use and enjoyment, in measure increasing with every new discovery? |
44053 | We ask,"Does He come from God?" |
44053 | We have"received"them; and why, then, should we boast as if we had not received them, but were ourselves the creators of them? |
44053 | Were not all these in this man? |
44053 | What are the dimensions and outlines of it? |
44053 | What can it say to a soul weighed down by a sense of guilt? |
44053 | What does Paul himself understand by it? |
44053 | What does Paul mean by the expression,"that which I have committed unto Him"? |
44053 | What does that teach us? |
44053 | What greater gift could God have bestowed than that of His Divine Son? |
44053 | What greater proof of love could He have exhibited than that which this greatest of all possible gifts presents? |
44053 | What has prevented it? |
44053 | What have we to put in their place? |
44053 | What have we which we have not received? |
44053 | What if I should fall? |
44053 | What is faith? |
44053 | What is it, moreover, that_ connects_ the teaching of the Old Testament with that of the New? |
44053 | What is it, then, that the apostle has said in this epistle, and of which he intends, by this word"therefore,"to remind his readers? |
44053 | What is this faith? |
44053 | What may we know? |
44053 | What may we know? |
44053 | What must we learn concerning this from what is here revealed? |
44053 | What ordinary historian would think of narrating such a story as the one we have in the verses before us? |
44053 | What right have we to expect that His providence will be to us a providence of love? |
44053 | What should we become on our Tabor, if we were allowed to build our tabernacles there? |
44053 | What to any man when death draws nigh? |
44053 | What to the heart that is torn by calamity? |
44053 | What was it that gave Him this power? |
44053 | What, then, is the character of the prayer which avails? |
44053 | What, then, is the first point? |
44053 | What, then, is the nature of the consecration to which we are thus urged? |
44053 | When I am old, shall I be provided for? |
44053 | Where is it? |
44053 | Where is the man amongst us who would not rather die than have all his sins brought to light before his fellow- men? |
44053 | Wherein is its worth? |
44053 | Which shall it be? |
44053 | Who among the"prophets"ever stood aloof from sinners? |
44053 | Who among us can tell_ all_ the reasons why he believes in Christ? |
44053 | Who can not be sincere? |
44053 | Who can remain proud when he compares his own life with that? |
44053 | Who could study mathematics by beginning at the outset to dispute its axioms? |
44053 | Who does not know that sickness has often been sanctified to that end? |
44053 | Who is unable to set before himself the purpose of living up to the light he has in order that he may be in the surest position for receiving more? |
44053 | Who ventures to doubt it? |
44053 | Who will say,"This condition is too hard?" |
44053 | Who would not be a Christian? |
44053 | Who, then, has a right to complain? |
44053 | Why does Christ illustrate prayer to God by the pertinacity which is needful to arouse the affections of sinful man? |
44053 | Why may not the influence of the human will upon nature act through the medium of prayer to the great Author of nature, as well as in any other way? |
44053 | Why should it be doubted that an everlasting salvation has been provided for him through such a sacrifice as that of Christ? |
44053 | Why should it be doubted that man is an object of interest to angels, who are said to rejoice over every sinner that repenteth? |
44053 | Why should it not be so? |
44053 | Why should not every one be content to know the_ fact_? |
44053 | Why should religious faith decrease in proportion as human knowledge is accumulated? |
44053 | Why should we insist-- why should any one insist-- upon understanding the"_ why_"of this arrangement? |
44053 | Why should we not impose upon them the more difficult task of defending their position, by attacking it with all earnestness at every point? |
44053 | Why should we suspect that He will be indisposed to give us whatever may be needful for the existence thus created? |
44053 | Why specially insist upon it as a duty? |
44053 | Why urge it at all? |
44053 | Why? |
44053 | Why? |
44053 | Will He, by neglect, frustrate His own purpose? |
44053 | Will health and strength be continued to me according to my years?" |
44053 | Will his needs be overlooked, while theirs are supplied? |
44053 | Will it go steadily forward, or will new and fiercer foes rise up against it?" |
44053 | Will they grow up to be manful, good, godly; a seed to serve the Lord, and a generation to call Him blessed; my comfort, my pride? |
44053 | Will you-- not as a vague desire, but as the most earnest determination of your heart and will? |
44053 | With these provisions, then, shall we forecast the future with fear, or with hope? |
44053 | Would it not speedily lapse into a mournful, moral waste-- a training- school for present and everlasting perdition? |
44053 | Yet is it not evident that an inward holiness is the only thing that can be taught, and that without inward holiness there is no real holiness at all? |
44053 | _ Death in order to life!_ What can be the meaning and the bearing of a death which God has placed in so exalted a position? |
44053 | _ IMMORTALITY._"What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? |
44053 | _ Paul believed in Christ._ On what grounds? |
44053 | _ The confidence of faith._ The possible issues of our sickness are momentous, and the question comes:"Of what quality are my hopes? |
44053 | _ The heart of God yields to itself._ But how can this be? |
44053 | _ What faith?_ What was he trusting in? |
44053 | _ What faith?_ What was he trusting in? |
44053 | _ Why? |
44053 | _ Why_ are there no miracles now? |
44053 | _ Why_ are we bound to accept the teaching of the Bible? |
44053 | _ Why_ did Christ come so late in the history of the world? |
44053 | _ Why_ may it not have always existed? |
44053 | _ Why_ was it necessary that Christ should suffer to expiate our sins? |
44053 | and the son of man, that Thou visitest him?" |
44053 | and the son of man, that Thou visitest him?" |
44053 | and the son of man, that Thou visitest him?" |
44053 | and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? |
44053 | and what communion hath light with darkness? |
44053 | and what concord hath Christ with Belial? |
44053 | and wherewithal shall we be clothed?" |
44053 | but,"_ Is_ it done?" |
44053 | or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? |
44053 | or, What shall we drink? |
44053 | or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? |
44053 | or,"How can the sufferings of the innocent atone for the sins of the guilty?" |
44053 | shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?... |
44053 | silent? |
44053 | what shall we drink? |
44053 | who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" |
15031 | And did not he make one? 15031 And did not he make one? |
15031 | Are there not with us sins against the Lord our God? |
15031 | Cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness? 15031 Do we then make void the law through faith? |
15031 | He said to Jesus, Whence art thou? 15031 How shall I give thee up? |
15031 | How shall he who is dead to sin, live any longer therein? |
15031 | If God be with us, who can be against us? |
15031 | If I do this thing willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, a dispensation is committed unto me; what is my reward then? |
15031 | Lord what wilt thou have me to do? |
15031 | Lovest thou me more than these thy fellow disciples love me? |
15031 | So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter,''Simon son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?'' 15031 Then saith Pilate unto him,''Speakest thou not unto me? |
15031 | What iniquity have your fathers found in me? |
15031 | What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? 15031 Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? |
15031 | Whoso trusteth his own heart is a fool.--The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it? |
15031 | Why art thou cast down, O my soul? 15031 _ When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth_?" |
15031 | * By another prophet we find God mourning over them--"How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? |
15031 | * He might have mentioned what passed, when Christ asked the twelve, whether they"would also go away?" |
15031 | * No sooner was he convinced of his mistake, than he returned with,"Lord what will thou have me to do?" |
15031 | * Was he then unhappy? |
15031 | + But what warrant have we for these alterations? |
15031 | --He weeps over obstinate sinners who refuse his grace? |
15031 | 10, 11.--"Then saith Pilate unto him,''Speakest thou not unto me?''" |
15031 | 15.--"And did he not make one? |
15031 | 6,7,8.--"Wherewith shall I come before the Lord And bow myself before the high God?" |
15031 | 8.--"When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?" |
15031 | And doth not the present state of the world confirm these expectations? |
15031 | And for as long a term? |
15031 | And how may others attain it? |
15031 | And how natural and common are such exultations, with those devoid of religious fear? |
15031 | And is not that of reason the same? |
15031 | And is not their number great? |
15031 | And is there no cause for his fear? |
15031 | And is there reason to think that Christ would put him upon this work? |
15031 | And of the same nature with those we have been contemplating? |
15031 | And of what enormity are those incapable who have lost the fear of God? |
15031 | And shall they think it strange? |
15031 | And we believe and are sure, that thou art that Christ, the son of the living God?" |
15031 | And what evils would many others have avoided, had they considered the counsel as given to them, and like this family, religiously regarded it? |
15031 | And what is the fear which leads to destruction? |
15031 | And what so prevalent with"him who heareth prayer?" |
15031 | And what valuable ends can be answered by a revelation which is unintelligible? |
15031 | And where is the human character without a shade? |
15031 | And wherefore one? |
15031 | And wherefore one? |
15031 | And wherein consists the excellence of their character? |
15031 | And wherein have I wearied thee? |
15031 | And which of the saints hath not received benefit from it? |
15031 | And who can fix their limits? |
15031 | And why art thou disquieted within me? |
15031 | And why is not all this right? |
15031 | Are the terms of acceptance with God in Christ changed? |
15031 | Are they not the same as formerly? |
15031 | Are we by office appointed to ask mercy for others and bear them on our hearts before God? |
15031 | Are we thus made to differ from the wicked world? |
15031 | Are we unjustly censured by our fellow servants, or reproached while in the way of our duty? |
15031 | But doth not God choose some to eternal life, and to this end bring them into his kingdom, and leave others to perish in their sins? |
15031 | But he did not wrong his conscience to please them, or depart from truth to gain their approbation--"Do I seek to please men? |
15031 | But how did they attain this knowledge? |
15031 | But how is it received? |
15031 | But how sudden the reverse? |
15031 | But how? |
15031 | But if David was a penitent before he was visited by Nathan, why had he concealed his repentance? |
15031 | But if God''s glory requires it, will not this reconcile the good and gain their consent? |
15031 | But if infidelity was to intervene the antichristian defection, and prevalence of religion in the latter days, is this hypothesis probable? |
15031 | But is not God grieved at the obstinacy of sinners? |
15031 | But is not this unreasonable and contrary to the Scriptures? |
15031 | But is not"every imagination of the thoughts of sinners hearts,"said in scripture to"be only evil continually?" |
15031 | But natural men are said to be"dead in sin"--and can the dead do aught which tends to their own resurrection? |
15031 | But the sacred historian represents it as being Samuel, and why should we reject his testimony? |
15031 | But was not fear of punishment used as a guard to innocence while man remained upright? |
15031 | But what coming of Christ is here referred to? |
15031 | But who will be made to possess these glorious things? |
15031 | But why is Christ faulted? |
15031 | But why marvelous? |
15031 | But why not? |
15031 | But why should the apostle wish evil to himself for their sakes? |
15031 | But why the distinction of"sons of God, and daughters of men?" |
15031 | But why the other restrictions included in the charge? |
15031 | But_ God our Savior will have all men to saved_; and shall not that which he wills be effected? |
15031 | But_ the perfect and upright man_, how happily different when death draws near? |
15031 | Cain is appealed to, to judge of this matter for himself--"If thou dost well, shalt thou not be accepted?" |
15031 | Can any thing contrary to his pleasure take place? |
15031 | Can we form an idea of ought more shocking? |
15031 | Canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection? |
15031 | Christ''s disciples, while in the body, often err; if acquainted with ourselves, we must often know this of ourselves; do we then see our faults? |
15031 | Could an apostate spirit have done these things? |
15031 | Did he think it sufficient to confess to God, and humble himself in secret? |
15031 | Did not it derive from Rome? |
15031 | Did these considerations prevent him from confessing his sins, and induce him to cover his transgressions? |
15031 | Do not many neglect it? |
15031 | Do we bless God for the former, and humble ourselves under the latter? |
15031 | Do we envy those who may live during the Peaceful reign of the Redeemer? |
15031 | Do we love God-- believe on his Son-- do his commandments, and trust his grace? |
15031 | Do we see the hand of God in them; acknowledge the comforts to be undeserved, and the corrections less than our demerits? |
15031 | Doth God frighten men with vain terrors? |
15031 | Doth he threaten evils which can never come? |
15031 | Doth it not increase from year to year, from age to age? |
15031 | For the all important inquiry is, confessedly, how to obtain salvation? |
15031 | Greater evidence than their word would have been demanded; as was afterwards of Christ--"What sign shewest thou, that we may believe thee?" |
15031 | Have our pious ancestors left ought in charge to us? |
15031 | He ranks them among those who deny him,"Why call ye me Lord, Lord, and done: the things which I say? |
15031 | He saith to him again a second time,''Simon son of Jonas, lovest thou me?'' |
15031 | He saith unto him the third time,''Simon son of Jonas, lovest thou me?'' |
15031 | How are we to understand it? |
15031 | How can such escape? |
15031 | How shall I deliver thee, Israel? |
15031 | How shall I deliver thee?" |
15031 | How shall I make thee as Admah, and set thee as Zeboim? |
15031 | How then could they be answerable for them? |
15031 | How would he appear? |
15031 | If God makes differences respecting every thing else, why not respecting religion? |
15031 | If Israel turn their backs before their enemies? |
15031 | If Paul needed something to keep him humble when favored with revelations, why not Abram? |
15031 | If Peter fell, who, left to himself, can stand? |
15031 | If any are disposed to inquire with Balak,_ Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God_? |
15031 | If once we turn aside from the literal sense of scripture, where shall we stop? |
15031 | If they call the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his household?" |
15031 | If this is duly considered, Will not presumptuous sinners believe and tremble? |
15031 | If thy people fail to drive out their enemies and possess the land which thou hast sworn to give them?" |
15031 | If we attribute these divine communications to infernal agency, why not others? |
15031 | If, say they, be could continue so long secure and unconcerned, why not longer? |
15031 | If_ here_, they find no comfort and support, where will they find it? |
15031 | In Paul''s conversion how wonderfully apparent are the wisdom and power of God? |
15031 | In what manner could this be accomplished? |
15031 | In what sense then are the saints perfect? |
15031 | Is it less criminal or odious? |
15031 | Is it not thy will that we should become new creatures-- love thee-- love our duty, and resign ourselves to thy disposal? |
15031 | Is it not thy will, that we should be renewed and sanctified-- that we should repent of sin-- believe the gospel, and follow after holiness? |
15031 | Is its nature altered? |
15031 | Is not the distinction respecting the sanctity of divine ordinances from this source? |
15031 | Is not this a relic of popery? |
15031 | Is there knowledge in the most high?" |
15031 | Israel were suffering_ for his sin_ in numbering the people;"I have sinned and done wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? |
15031 | It becomes us often to retire inward, and examine whether the love of Christ dwelleth in us? |
15031 | It is further asked, Whether God doth not act as a sovereign, in his choice of those whom he sanctifies and saves? |
15031 | It is further asked, Whether every motion toward a return to God, is not the effect of divine influence? |
15031 | It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? |
15031 | Jewish rancor towards him never abated, but he caught no share of their bitter spirit? |
15031 | Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee? |
15031 | Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?'' |
15031 | Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee_? |
15031 | Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee_? |
15031 | Let us bring home these considerations, and inquire how we are affected by God''s dealings with us, and what temper we maintain? |
15031 | Let us commune with our own hearts; attend to our temper and conduct; inquire whether we have taken up our cross, and are following Christ? |
15031 | Most of the errors referred to above, are found among Pagans or Catholics; but is nothing of the same kind chargeable on Protestants? |
15031 | No, when it exposeth to no suffering, or loss? |
15031 | Now, is it supposable, that the Savior would put a question to Simon, which would countenance the pharasaic disposition? |
15031 | O grave where is thy victory?" |
15031 | O my people what have I done unto thee? |
15031 | Of his making known his purposes to them, and enabling them to give the genuine proof of true prophets? |
15031 | Or compare himself with others, in a matter which required the knowledge of their hearts? |
15031 | Or could injustice be charged on God? |
15031 | Or do the former render us forgetful of God, and proud and scornful towards men? |
15031 | Or do they cause us to murmur and repine, as though we suffered unjustly? |
15031 | Or if this argument was necessary to be used with man before be fell, is it needless since he hath fallen? |
15031 | Or is there reason to think that those will have no power to serve God, who are freed from sluggish bodies? |
15031 | Or that he would require him to judge the hearts of others? |
15031 | Or would he if he could? |
15031 | Others,"Is this not the Christ?" |
15031 | Peter was grieved, because he said to him the third time,''Lovest thou me?'' |
15031 | Pilate saith unto him, Speak thou not unto me? |
15031 | Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? |
15031 | Should we attempt to pry into it, the answer given by our Lord to an officious enquirer respecting another, might be applied--"What is that to thee?" |
15031 | Simon had on that occasion made a noble profession, shewing that he was a disciple indeed--"Lord, to whom shall we go? |
15031 | Some who witnessed his mighty works, exclaimed,"When Christ cometh will he do more miracles than this man hath done?" |
15031 | Such were the means used of God to propagate the gospel? |
15031 | Than the world and the things of it? |
15031 | That also of Joseph-- of Moses-- of Daniel? |
15031 | That he would become a Christian? |
15031 | That he would require him to judge them, and compare his love with theirs? |
15031 | That many of these vain substitutes are to be found among men, Who is insensible? |
15031 | That they were able to dislodge them from the bodies of men, by commanding them in Christ''s name? |
15031 | The passage literally translated stands thus? |
15031 | The pilgrimage of Jacob, how remarkably diversified with good and evil, with joy and sorrow? |
15031 | The temper manifested by St. Paul when contemplating the state of his nation, how worthy of imitation? |
15031 | The wicked forget God or doubt his attention to their temper and conduct--"How doth God know? |
15031 | They admitted a plurality of God--some superior? |
15031 | They are errors of which this age is witness-- errors which have spread, and are yet spreading? |
15031 | They see indeed the evil of sin, and are sensible of its demerit? |
15031 | This venerable Kenite left a solemn charge to his posterity; but who could foresee the effect? |
15031 | To the eye of man how unequal the conflict? |
15031 | WHO is he that maketh me to differ from the thoughtless sinner? |
15031 | Was his enlarged and inquisitive mind satisfied at death? |
15031 | Was it not matter of joy that spirits, evil spirits were subject to them? |
15031 | We are to consider Balak''s inquiries.--_Wherewith shall I come before the Lord_? |
15031 | We will therefore, first take a general view_ of the prophecies respecting the moral state of the world, under the gospel dispensation? |
15031 | What advantage would accrue from changing with his brother to procure what God had required? |
15031 | What an occasion of joy? |
15031 | What folly then is hypocrisy? |
15031 | What had he to do with justice, who had often sported with it, to gratify his passions, or gain his selfish purposes? |
15031 | What hath so dire a tendency to solemnize the heart and impress it with the most just and weighty religious sentiments? |
15031 | What possible advantage could his sufferings have been to his nation? |
15031 | What strange manifestation of divine favor? |
15031 | What then is this fear? |
15031 | What? |
15031 | What? |
15031 | When every circumstance, in events so remarkable agree with the predictions, can doubt remain whether the predictions are fulfilled? |
15031 | When it both became the most cheap and easy of all duties? |
15031 | When tempted to it we should remember the caution given by Zophar,--"Canst thou by searching find out God? |
15031 | When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? |
15031 | When trembling, astonished Saul, of Tarsus enquired,"Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" |
15031 | When we contemplate these things, what a series of wonders rise to our view? |
15031 | When we thus view the subject can a doubt remain respecting the sense of this text? |
15031 | When_ the son of man cometh shall he find faith on the earth_? |
15031 | Whence then its origin? |
15031 | Where are we directed to attend quarterly seasons of prayer, or to hold weekly conferences for religious purposes? |
15031 | Where is the injustice or impropriety of trying some with gospel advantages; others only with the light of nature? |
15031 | Where then are we directed of God, religiously to observe Christmas, Lent, or Easter? |
15031 | Where to attend the eucharist only twice or thrice a year; and never without one, or more preparatory lectures? |
15031 | Wherefore then the prohibition? |
15031 | Who can do other than approve it? |
15031 | Who can understand some things contained in what is called a revelation? |
15031 | Who could have expected Christ''s little flock, devoid of every worldly advantage, to have maintained their ground against such formidable enemies? |
15031 | Who ever appeared to have stronger confidence in himself than Peter? |
15031 | Who had done it openly, and it was matter of public notoriety? |
15031 | Who knows that his posterity may not imitate those of this man of God? |
15031 | Who not of our race could have made such a declaration? |
15031 | Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" |
15031 | Who then are intended by_ the fearful_? |
15031 | Who then would suspect that he should be made to feel the power of divine grace? |
15031 | Who would not willingly suffer many deaths to enjoy these things? |
15031 | Who, judging by the rules of man''s judgment, have entertained a suspicion that they would not soon be driven from the field? |
15031 | Why are not these ways of honoring God and exciting devotion commendable, when they render the worshipper thus fervent in spirit to serve the Lord? |
15031 | Why dost thou strive with him? |
15031 | Why has not the same the like effect on these? |
15031 | Why should we wonder when we consider the agent? |
15031 | Why spread a veil over it and neglected to glorify God by a confession of his sins? |
15031 | Why then had he neglected it? |
15031 | Why this discrimination? |
15031 | Will not this disposition be increased and strengthened? |
15031 | Will reason justify punishing some men for other men''s sins? |
15031 | Will the Lord be pleased with, thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? |
15031 | Will they not perceive their hopes to be vain? |
15031 | Will this cease to be his disposition when the remains of depravity shall be done away? |
15031 | Would he be angry, if all which is done was pleasing in his sight? |
15031 | Would the latter have occasion to complain? |
15031 | _ Do we do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God_? |
15031 | _ Do we seek a godly seed_? |
15031 | _ For when the Son of man cometh shall he find faith on the earth_? |
15031 | _ If those who are Christ''s have crucified the flesh, with its affections and lusts_, How stands the case with us? |
15031 | _ Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee_? |
15031 | _ Lovest thou me more than these_? |
15031 | _ Shall he find faith on the earth_? |
15031 | _ Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these_? |
15031 | _ Speakest thou not unto me? |
15031 | _ Speakest thou not unto me? |
15031 | _ What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly and to love mercy_? |
15031 | _ Whether we love him more than these_? |
15031 | deeper than hell; what canst thou know?" |
15031 | is thy servant a dog?" |
15031 | the temper of Christ governed in him? |
15031 | where is thy sting? |
14453 | ''But why not reveal true things first to the wise? |
14453 | ''How shall mortal man walk in such a yoke,''sayest thou,''even with the Son of God bearing it also?'' |
14453 | ''How then am I to try after it? |
14453 | ''I hope, sir, your health is better than it has been?'' |
14453 | ''I will be God among you; I will be myself to you.--You will not have me? |
14453 | ''Shall not God avenge his own elect,''he says,''which cry day and night unto him?'' |
14453 | ''What is it, then, to be pure in heart?'' |
14453 | ''What power can heal the broken- hearted?'' |
14453 | ''Why did you look for me? |
14453 | Ah, to whom shall we go? |
14453 | All come from the one mighty father: shall he judge the live thoughts of God, which is greater and which is less? |
14453 | And he said unto them,''How is it that ye sought me? |
14453 | And what shall we say of those coming, and yet to come and pass-- evermore issuing from the fountain of life, daily born into evil things? |
14453 | And why are they always glad before the face of the Father in heaven? |
14453 | And why should he have taken it for granted they would know, or judge that they ought to have known, that he was there? |
14453 | Are all to have the same face? |
14453 | Are these not worth making immortal? |
14453 | Are they authorized in translating the Greek thus? |
14453 | Are they not the fittest to receive them?'' |
14453 | Are we guilty of connivance, when silent as to the ambush whence we know the wicked arrow privily shot? |
14453 | Are we to call the traitor to account? |
14453 | Are we to treat persons known for liars and strife- makers as the children of the devil or not? |
14453 | Are we to turn away from them, and refuse to acknowledge them, rousing an ignorant strife of tongues concerning our conduct? |
14453 | Are you the lowest kind of creature that_ could_ be permitted to live? |
14453 | As to his being the Messiah, that was merest absurdity: did they not all know his father, the carpenter? |
14453 | Blessed of God because restored to an absence of sorrow? |
14453 | But a yoke is for drawing withal: what load is it the Lord is drawing? |
14453 | But had we once seen God face to face, should we not be always and for ever sure of him? |
14453 | But if all our light shine out, and none of our darkness, shall we not be in utmost danger of hypocrisy? |
14453 | But if the child try to possess as a house the thing his father made an organ, will he succeed in so possessing it? |
14453 | But if the thought be anywise precious to you, is it essential to your enjoyment in it, that nothing less than yourself should share its realization? |
14453 | But if you do, why not believe in it for them? |
14453 | But is toothache nothing, because there are yet worse pains for head and face? |
14453 | But let us waste no strength in despising such men; let us rather turn the light upon ourselves: are we not in some way denying him? |
14453 | But shall I admire their discoveries at the expense of the stranger-- nay, no stranger-- the poor brother within their gates? |
14453 | But what if your righteousness tarry, because your hunger after it is not eager? |
14453 | But what is this liberty of the children of God, for which the whole creation is waiting? |
14453 | But what shall I say of such as for any kind of end subject animals to torture? |
14453 | But why inquire? |
14453 | But would such restoration be comfort enough for the heart of Jesus to give? |
14453 | Can there be oneness without difference? |
14453 | Could Love create with such end in view? |
14453 | Could we see things always as we have sometimes seen them-- and as one day we must always see them, only far better-- should we ever know dullness? |
14453 | Darest thou imply a divine preference for Capernaum over Nazareth?'' |
14453 | Dead, in bondage to corruption, how can they share in the liberty of the children of Life? |
14453 | Did he ever say,''This is mine, not yours''? |
14453 | Did he not say,''All things are mine, therefore they are yours''? |
14453 | Did you not know that I must be among my father''s things?'' |
14453 | Do we understand it? |
14453 | Do you believe in immortality for yourself? |
14453 | Does he intend''my father and me''? |
14453 | Does he intend_ all of us men_? |
14453 | Does he make the least lamentation over the temple? |
14453 | Does not he then, who loves and understands his book, possess it with such possession as is impossible to the other? |
14453 | Does not this involve its existence beyond what we call this world? |
14453 | Dost thou look for a good time coming, friend, when thou shalt know as thou art known? |
14453 | Dost thou not justify thy deed to thyself by thy tenderness toward me? |
14453 | First then, what does Paul, the slave of Christ, intend by''the creature''or''the creation''? |
14453 | For how can God in any sense forgive, remit, or send away the sin which a man insists on retaining? |
14453 | For the sake of your children, would you waylay a beggar? |
14453 | For what good, for what divine purpose is the maker of the sparrow present at its death, if he does not care what becomes of it? |
14453 | For what is a lamp or a man lighted? |
14453 | For what makes the thing a book? |
14453 | Had God been of like heart with you, would he have given life and immortality to creatures so much less than himself as we? |
14453 | Had he not known something better, would he have said what he did about the father of men and the sparrows? |
14453 | Had not those words found a way to the pure human, that is, the divine in the men? |
14453 | Has the question no interest for you? |
14453 | Have they not also a faithful creator? |
14453 | He_ is_ that thing; why think about it? |
14453 | How are they to go on loving it without a growing knowledge of it? |
14453 | How can he keep in his sight a foul presence? |
14453 | How can we be workers with God at his work, and he never say''Thank you, my child''? |
14453 | How could the divine order of things, founded for growth and gradual betterment, hold and proceed without the notion of return for a thing done? |
14453 | How did they bear him witness? |
14453 | How shall he die to escape the remorse of the authorship of so much misery? |
14453 | How should it be otherwise? |
14453 | How should it not be so, when the one Power is the informing life of both? |
14453 | How should that woman care to be delivered from her sins, how could she accept any comfort, who believed the child of her bosom lost to her for ever? |
14453 | How should the treasure of the Father be open to such? |
14453 | How, then, am I to let my light shine, if I take pains to hide what I do? |
14453 | How, then, were they worth calling out of the depth of no- being? |
14453 | If a woman forget the child she has borne and nourished, how shall she remember the father from whom she has herself come? |
14453 | If another have none, thine must lie in thy superior power; and will there not one day come a stronger than thou? |
14453 | If any one say,''Why did the Lord let the word remain there so long, if he never said it?'' |
14453 | If he did say''_ my father''s house_'', could he have meant the temple and his parents not have known what he meant? |
14453 | If he meant that they might have known this without being told, why was it that, even when he set the thing before them, they did not understand him? |
14453 | If his faith in God take from a man his cheerfulness, how shall the face of a man ever shine? |
14453 | If his presence be no good to the sparrow, are you very sure what good it will be to you when your hour comes? |
14453 | If one answer,''For aught I know, it may be so,''--Where then are thy own rights? |
14453 | If such then be the words of the apostle, does he, or does he not, I ask, hold the idea of the immortality of the animals? |
14453 | If the Father will raise his children, why should he not also raise those whom he has taught his little ones to love? |
14453 | If the Lord said very little about animals, could he have done more for them than tell men that his father cared for them? |
14453 | If they had denied him, where would our gospel be? |
14453 | In the Perfect, would familiarity ever destroy wonder at things essentially wonderful because essentially divine? |
14453 | In which of his changing moods is he more himself? |
14453 | Is God a mocker, who will not be mocked? |
14453 | Is Time too much for him? |
14453 | Is any other imaginable reward worth mentioning beside it? |
14453 | Is he a loving God? |
14453 | Is he a merciful God? |
14453 | Is he the husbandman to take all the profit, and muzzle the mouth of his ox? |
14453 | Is he to tell them the horrors of the persecutions that await them, and not the sweet sympathies that will help them through? |
14453 | Is it a grand thing, is it a meritorious thing, not to be vile? |
14453 | Is it in wine only that the old is better? |
14453 | Is it not of the very essence of the Christian hope, that we shall be changed from much bad to all good? |
14453 | Is it not that it has a soul-- the mind in it of him who wrote the book? |
14453 | Is it selfish to desire to love? |
14453 | Is it selfish to hope for purity and the sight of God? |
14453 | Is it shining before men so that they glorify God for it? |
14453 | Is it what he himself thinks he is? |
14453 | Is it what his friends at any given moment think him? |
14453 | Is not our love to the animals a precious variety of love? |
14453 | Is not the prophecy on the groaning creation to have its fulfilment in the new heavens and the new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness? |
14453 | Is not virtue then a reward? |
14453 | Is our light bearing witness? |
14453 | Is the Lord such as they believe him? |
14453 | Is there a past to God with which he has done? |
14453 | Is there any mourning worthy the name that has not love for its root? |
14453 | Is there anything to be proud of in refusing to worship the devil? |
14453 | Is this the fine of the great buyer of land, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt? |
14453 | It is a greater deed, to make be that which was not, than to seal it with an infinite immortality: did God do that which was not worth doing? |
14453 | It was the Israelite indeed, whom the Lord met with miracle:''Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig- tree, believest thou? |
14453 | It will take the utmost joy God can give, to let men know him; and what man, knowing him, would mind losing every other joy? |
14453 | Let us now take the translation given us by the Revisers:--''Wist ye not that I must be in my father''s house?'' |
14453 | Loves any lover so little as to desire_ no_ change in the person loved-- no something different to bring him or her closer to the indwelling ideal? |
14453 | May we roll the rejection of a villainy as a sweet morsel under our tongues? |
14453 | Mayst thou not one day be in Naboth''s place, with an Ahab getting up to go into thy vineyard to possess it? |
14453 | Must he give them no help to counterbalance the load with which they start on their race? |
14453 | Must not the light of truth in his face, beheld of such even as knew not the truth, have lifted their souls up truthward? |
14453 | Must she keep away until she knows herself sorry for her sins? |
14453 | Must the Lord hide from his friends that they will have cause to rejoice that they have been obedient? |
14453 | Must the creator send forth his virtue to hold alive a thing that will be evil-- a thing that ought not to be, that has no claim but to cease? |
14453 | Must the love live on for ever without its object? |
14453 | Must the very immortality of love divide the bond of love? |
14453 | Must there be only current and no tide? |
14453 | Must we congratulate you on such a love for your fellows as inspires you to wrong the weaker than they, those that are without helper against you? |
14453 | Must we fail still? |
14453 | Need I argue the injustice? |
14453 | Now what can God''s elect have to keep on crying for, night and day, but righteousness? |
14453 | Only what other joy could keep from entering, where the God of joy already dwelt? |
14453 | Or can he have been with him, and have left him behind in his closet? |
14453 | Or did he care for them, but could not help them? |
14453 | Or does he intend''you and me, John''? |
14453 | Shall not the children have little dogs under the Father''s table, to which to let fall plenty of crumbs? |
14453 | Shall not_ the_ Father do_ his_ best to find his prodigal? |
14453 | Shall we count the man worthy who, for the sake of his friend, robbed another man too feeble to protect himself, and too poor to punish his assailant? |
14453 | Shall we not rather believe that the vessels of less honour, the misused, the maltreated, shall be filled full with creative wine at last? |
14453 | Should we not just open our own child- eyes, look upon the things themselves, and be consoled? |
14453 | Starts thy soul, trembles thy brain at the thought of such a burden as the will of the eternally creating, eternally saving God? |
14453 | That is like the lawyer''s''Who is my neighbour?'' |
14453 | The Father is father_ for_ his children, else why did he make himself their father? |
14453 | The Greek, taken literally, says,''Wist ye not that I must be in the----of my father?'' |
14453 | The Lord knew these men, and had their hearts in his hand; else would he have told them they were the salt of the earth and the light of the world? |
14453 | The Lord would have men love righteousness, but how are they to love it without being acquainted with it? |
14453 | The man who takes no count of what is fair, friendly, pure, unselfish, lovely, gracious,--where is his claim to call Jesus his master? |
14453 | The plural article implies the English_ things_; and the question is then, What_ things_ does he mean? |
14453 | The rich man may come prowling after thy little ewe lamb, and what wilt thou have to say? |
14453 | The sons of God are not a new race of sons of God, but the old race glorified:--why a new race of animals, and not the old ones glorified? |
14453 | The typical soul reappears in higher formal type; why may not also the individual soul reappear in higher form? |
14453 | Then, if the earth must have its animals, why not the old ones, already dear? |
14453 | Therefore, that he is empty of good, needs discourage no one; for what is emptiness but room to be filled? |
14453 | They had heard of wonderful things he had done in other places: why had they not first of all been done in_ their_ sight? |
14453 | They have little, and we have much; ought they therefore to have less and we more? |
14453 | To what purpose is the spirit of God promised to them that ask it, if not to help them order their way aright? |
14453 | Was ever love so deep, so pure, so perfect, as to be good enough for him? |
14453 | Was it not the something true, common to all hearts, that bore the wondering witness to the graciousness of his words? |
14453 | Was it wrong to assure them that where he was going they should go also? |
14453 | Was that his saying? |
14453 | We must be nowise anxious to defend ourselves; and if not ourselves because God is our defence, then why our friends? |
14453 | Were they created only to become dear, and be destroyed? |
14453 | What are we for but to do our duty? |
14453 | What are we to understand by''my father''s things''? |
14453 | What better can we do for our neighbour than to become altogether righteous toward him? |
14453 | What can be done for the poor things-- except indeed you take the absurd notion into your head, that they too have a life beyond the grave?'' |
14453 | What did Jesus come into the world to do? |
14453 | What did his saying mean? |
14453 | What first reward for doing well, may I look for? |
14453 | What is he there for, I repeat, if he have no care that it go well with his bird in its dying, that it be neither comfortless nor lost in the abyss? |
14453 | What is it constitutes this or that man? |
14453 | What is there for us when we discover that we are out of the way, but to bethink ourselves and turn? |
14453 | What light can he have in him who is always on his own side, and will never descry reason or right on that of his adversary? |
14453 | What man would he be who accepted the offer to be healed and kept alive by means which necessitated the torture of certain animals? |
14453 | What more could it be? |
14453 | What saves his claim from being merest mockery? |
14453 | What shall we say of him who comes from his closet, his mountain- top, with such a veil over his face as masks his very humanity? |
14453 | What sort of Christians are they? |
14453 | What then makes those who give us this translation, prefer it to the phrase in the authorized version,''_ about my Father''s business_''? |
14453 | What was his place of prayer? |
14453 | What was in the news to make the poor glad? |
14453 | What was the new covenant? |
14453 | What would the newest earth be to the old children without its animals? |
14453 | When his reward comes, will the youth feel aggrieved that it is Greek, and not bank- notes? |
14453 | Where does he find symbols whereby to speak of what goes on in the mind and before the face of his father in heaven? |
14453 | Where is the evil toward God, where the wrong to my neighbour, if I think sometimes of the joys to follow in the train of perfect loving? |
14453 | Where is their deliverance? |
14453 | Where shall the woman go whose child is at the point of death, or whom the husband of her youth has forsaken, but to her Father in heaven? |
14453 | Where shines their light? |
14453 | Where then was the propriety of his coming to be baptized by John, and insisting on being by him baptized? |
14453 | Wherein then consisted the goodness of the news which he opened his mouth to give them? |
14453 | Whereon will they ground their complaint should God give them their hearts''desire? |
14453 | Wherewith is the cart laden which he would have us help him draw? |
14453 | Whether the Syriac words he used were more precise, who in this world can tell? |
14453 | Which is the richer-- the man who, his large money spent, would have no refuge; or he for whose necessity a hundred would sacrifice comfort? |
14453 | Which of the two possessed the earth-- king Agrippa or tent- maker Paul? |
14453 | Who had a claim equal to theirs? |
14453 | Who will count himself deceived by overfulfilment? |
14453 | Why cast out a devil that the man may the better do the work of the devil? |
14453 | Why did they not understand it? |
14453 | Why should a man meditate with satisfaction on having denied himself some selfish indulgence, any more than on having washed his hands? |
14453 | Why should it not then involve immortality? |
14453 | Why should such a notion seem to you absurd? |
14453 | Why then think of it as anything more? |
14453 | Why was his arrival with such words in his heart and mouth, the coming of the kingdom? |
14453 | Why? |
14453 | Will he not be the nearer sharing in the exceeding great reward of a return to the divine idea? |
14453 | Will he take joy in his success and give none? |
14453 | With what but the will of the eternal, the perfect Father? |
14453 | Would Satan, with all the instincts and impulses of his origin in him, have_ merited_ eternal life by refusing to be a devil? |
14453 | Would it not be more like the king eternal, immortal, invisible, to know no life but the immortal? |
14453 | Would not such acknowledgment from the father be the natural correlate of the child''s behaviour? |
14453 | Would such a mother be a woman of whom the saviour of men might have been born? |
14453 | Would such a new heaven be a thing to thank God for? |
14453 | Would the Lord have such a one be of good cheer, of merry heart, because her sins were forgiven her? |
14453 | Would this be a prospect on which the Son of Man would congratulate the mourner, or at which the mourner for the dead would count himself blessed? |
14453 | Yes, if we but hide our darkness, and do not strive to slay it with our light: what way have we to show it, while struggling to destroy it? |
14453 | Your conscience does not trouble you? |
14453 | Zeal for God will never eat them up: why should it? |
14453 | _ JESUS IN THE WORLD._''Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? |
14453 | _ THE SALT AND THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD._''Ye are the salt of the earth; but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? |
14453 | and thou seen as the receiver of the reward!_ In what other way could the word, then or now, be fairly understood? |
14453 | and what would the father''s smile be but the perfect reward of the child? |
14453 | can I do so without knowing what it is?'' |
14453 | harmony without distinction? |
14453 | is he not their defence as much as ours? |
14453 | is thy friend''s esteem then so small? |
14453 | no moment in which to sob-- Sister, brother, I am thy slave? |
14453 | no room for making amends? |
14453 | or are we to give warning of any sort? |
14453 | or worse still, must the love die with its object, and be eternal no more than it? |
14453 | seek the praise of God for laying our hearts at the feet of him to whom we utterly belong? |
14453 | seek the praise of men for being fair to our own brothers and sisters? |
14453 | the good shepherd to find his lost sheep? |
14453 | then why faces at all? |
14453 | to create nothing that could die; to slay nothing but evil? |
14453 | to something that is not we, which means annihilation? |
14453 | what hope for the self- indulgent, the conceited, the greedy, the miserly? |
14453 | where his claim to Christianity? |
14453 | who so capable as they to pronounce judgment on his mission whether false or true: had they not known him from childhood? |
14453 | wist ye not that I must be about my father''s business?'' |
59991 | And what may he be called? |
59991 | And when they were come to Capharnaum, they that received the didrachmas came to Peter, and said to him: Doth not your Master pay the didrachma? 59991 Are we not children of Abraham?" |
59991 | Are you determined not to commit this sin again? |
59991 | But rather who are you? |
59991 | Do you not see,said he,"that these rich and powerful persons are in possession of a wonderful elixir? |
59991 | Does he? |
59991 | My people, what have I done unto thee, or in what have I grieved thee? 59991 Simon Peter, lovest thou Me more than these?" |
59991 | Then these poor, misguided souls are only grasping at shadows of happiness, and losing the reality in the meanwhile? |
59991 | Who are you that takes the place of Brother John? |
59991 | Why, do n''t you know,said he,"I''m the mighty hard case?" |
59991 | Again:"Know ye not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? |
59991 | Alone with what? |
59991 | Am I not right in saying that the dram- seller sins against justice? |
59991 | Am I worthy of the name? |
59991 | Am I, this moment, in a state of salvation or of damnation? |
59991 | And I wish to know if a man must remain a thief because he has been brought up a thief, and never learned an honest trade? |
59991 | And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more? |
59991 | And is not the referring of any or all of the states of our being to Him an act of religion? |
59991 | And tell me, how now? |
59991 | And what are they? |
59991 | And what can better represent repentance than the fine dust of which they are composed? |
59991 | And what is signified by myrrh? |
59991 | And what is this fountain? |
59991 | And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying: What is thy opinion, Simon? |
59991 | And who are some of the other false prophets? |
59991 | And who has done all this? |
59991 | And why do men prize these beautiful scenes? |
59991 | And why so? |
59991 | And yet, what do we see? |
59991 | And, before the priest pours the sanctifying water on the brow of the person, he says,"Dost thou renounce Satan and all his works and all his pomps?" |
59991 | And, first, what is the pure gold which is acceptable to our God and Creator? |
59991 | Answer me, dram- shop, where is the girl gone? |
59991 | Are not innumerable graces and virtues waiting for us, ready to be given, if we will only take the trouble to ask for them? |
59991 | Are the children of darkness always to be wiser than the children of light? |
59991 | Are you a victim to human respect? |
59991 | Are you all ready for the last preparations? |
59991 | Are you at peace with God and men? |
59991 | Are you hard- hearted, stubborn, and resentful, easy to take offence? |
59991 | Are you ignorant of the truths of faith, or do they seem difficult to you and beyond your grasp? |
59991 | Are you ignorant of the ways of God''s providence? |
59991 | Are you in ignorance of what is best for you here and hereafter? |
59991 | Are you moved with that deep emotion such a memory should awaken? |
59991 | Are you poor? |
59991 | Are you proud? |
59991 | Are you timid and shamefaced in your service to God? |
59991 | Are you, then, half- minded to go back to your old sins? |
59991 | Art thou to us above all price? |
59991 | Ask not with Pilate,"What is truth? |
59991 | At any moment His eye may fall upon us, and we may hear the words,"Friend, why camest thou in hither with out having on a wedding garment?" |
59991 | At certain seasons they cross the seas, endure fatigue, spend a great deal of time and money-- and what for? |
59991 | At last the disciples and brethren who were present, getting tired of always hearing the same thing, said: Master, why do you always repeat this? |
59991 | But did God absolve him? |
59991 | But how long did you remember it to any profit to yourself or praise to God? |
59991 | But how many objections are raised against this plain and heavenly doctrine? |
59991 | But what are the motives for all this self- denial? |
59991 | But what did St. John the Baptist say? |
59991 | But what good will all this do if we have not the wedding garment on? |
59991 | But why are the clergy especially fitted to exercise this office of prophet or teacher? |
59991 | But why this desire? |
59991 | Can I ask you to quit it? |
59991 | Can we not live for it? |
59991 | Could there be a more outrageous insult? |
59991 | Did He who has said,"Son, give me thy heart,"ask for a corrupt and treacherous heart? |
59991 | Did He who made the human heart make it ungrateful? |
59991 | Did He who so loves us make those He loves selfish? |
59991 | Did I not say well, my brethren, that the mystery of the Holy Trinity is an illumination of the mystery of creation? |
59991 | Did he put his house in order? |
59991 | Did the ruins of your land and the graves of your ancestors awaken in your bosoms no longer any feelings of attachment and veneration? |
59991 | Did your native hills lose their charms for you? |
59991 | Do not also the heathen the same? |
59991 | Do not even the publicans the same? |
59991 | Do the sins and offences of others destroy your peace of mind, and dry up within you the fountains of mercy and pity for sinners? |
59991 | Do they consider their present state a true one in all respects-- true before their conscience, and without doubt before their intelligence? |
59991 | Do they not appear occasionally in the tribunal of penance? |
59991 | Do they not go to Mass? |
59991 | Do they regard their religion as a sure religion? |
59991 | Do they want to get back the lost love of God? |
59991 | Do we follow Christ when we are covetous and hard hearted? |
59991 | Do we follow Christ when we go to places of drunkenness and debauchery? |
59991 | Do we follow Christ when we refuse to forgive our enemies? |
59991 | Do we prize thee, O divine gift, as these have done? |
59991 | Do you hope for heaven? |
59991 | Do you know anything of a husband''s affection or of a father''s love? |
59991 | Do you love your own immortal soul? |
59991 | Do you love your religion? |
59991 | Do you not hear a righteous God, your judge, demanding in tones of wrath,"Dram- shop, where are my children? |
59991 | Do you not know that to suffer for any one is to give a better proof of love than to confer favors and benefits? |
59991 | Do you not remember? |
59991 | Do you remember all that? |
59991 | Do you remember when Sunday morning comes, and the priest is ascending the altar, that you are a Catholic, and where a Catholic should be found then? |
59991 | Do you see in him Jesus Christ? |
59991 | Do you tremble no more when you hear of justice, of chastity, and of the judgment to come? |
59991 | Do you wish you could feel more like God, kind and long- suffering, and less like Satan, watching for the falls of others, and exulting over them? |
59991 | Does God not feel that heartless coldness and neglect of theirs? |
59991 | Does He say to you as He said to that lost disciple,"Friend, dost thou betray the Son of Man with a kiss?" |
59991 | Does he receive it in as good dispositions as would make it a worthy Communion if he were well, and had received it in the church at the altar? |
59991 | Does he receive it worthily? |
59991 | Does it seem to us, as it is, a great thing-- a precious gift? |
59991 | Does the demon of intemperance, of anger, or of lust creep stealthily into your breast, and leave foul traces of his presence there? |
59991 | For can anything be more dismal, more barren, more pointless, than a Christianity in which the Blessed Sacrament and the Blessed Virgin have no place? |
59991 | For if you love those that love you, what reward shall you have? |
59991 | For it were better for thee to enter lame and blind into life everlasting, than, having two hands or two eyes, to be cast into hell- fire"? |
59991 | For what could we do so real and true as this? |
59991 | For what happens? |
59991 | Had he time to do it? |
59991 | Had we not all in having Him? |
59991 | Hark to that outburst of generous love from his undaunted heart--"Who, then, shall separate us from the love of Christ? |
59991 | Has not God provided the Holy Sacrament of Penance, where, with little trouble, the soul can be washed and cleansed from all its defilements? |
59991 | Have I any real, well- grounded hope of salvation? |
59991 | Have I considered this matter, and looked it steadily in the face? |
59991 | Have I the principle, the fixed, well- grounded principle, which ought to govern all the actions of a Christian? |
59991 | Have they now that truth which shall stand the trial at the coming of Jesus Christ? |
59991 | Have they the true faith? |
59991 | Have they undertaken to deny themselves anything they had a strong desire for, in order not to commit mortal sin? |
59991 | Have you a human heart yet left beating in your bosom? |
59991 | Have you any manly pride left? |
59991 | Have you no affection left for those parents, those brothers and sisters and kindred, left in the old home? |
59991 | Have you not, after all, given up the devil and his works? |
59991 | Have you really come back to make up with Him, or have you come-- O horrible thought!--only like Judas to betray Him? |
59991 | Have you received the Easter Communion? |
59991 | He is deeper than hell, and how wilt thou know?" |
59991 | He is higher than heaven, and what wilt thou do? |
59991 | Here it might become me to enumerate some of these gifts, but where would I begin, or where could I end? |
59991 | How can God give Himself to the man who is absorbed in money- making and heaping up possessions? |
59991 | How could we realize in a better way the simplest and at the same time the most sublime of all truths? |
59991 | How do your neighbors speak of you? |
59991 | How does the sight of it affect you? |
59991 | How is that? |
59991 | How shall I conduct myself and order my life, so as constantly to preserve and increase it? |
59991 | I am not forcing upon your notice a subject out of place at this joyous season, am I? |
59991 | If it is not yours also, is it proper to call you by His name, Christians? |
59991 | Is he signed and consecrated to God, and are his senses purified, and his soul strengthened? |
59991 | Is it enough to remember that? |
59991 | Is it hard for you to think of God? |
59991 | Is it in sorrow for their sins? |
59991 | Is it not so? |
59991 | Is it pride and love of fame, or selfishness? |
59991 | Is she not our pride, our glory, our comfort? |
59991 | Is that the reason, I wonder, why there are no new toys and presents now at Christmas or at Easter, as in the days gone by? |
59991 | Is the majesty, the power, the holiness of that God to whom you belong forgotten? |
59991 | Is there anything that we are, or have, or can be that is not of God? |
59991 | Is your confession made for this year? |
59991 | Is your life to- day such as you would like it to be, if to- morrow you are to die? |
59991 | It is a fearful thought to be in that Presence, for it must compel us to ask ourselves-- Are we indeed the image and likeness of the Living God? |
59991 | It is the development of the response to the question that every Catholic child can answer-- Why did God create you? |
59991 | It is the question of the Psalmist,"Who is wise, and will keep these things in mind, and will understand the mercies of the Lord?" |
59991 | It is to be saved from death; it is to be cured of their diseases; and what does it all amount to, but that they are trying to make a truce with God? |
59991 | Let each one ask himself this question: Do I come up to the standard? |
59991 | Let us ask ourselves whence does God receive the life of His Divine Being? |
59991 | No word of thanks at your Communion-- not a grateful thought in your heart? |
59991 | Now, we may ask what is the reason the Lord showed this marked preference and especial affection for St. John above the other Apostles? |
59991 | Now, whence do these objections arise? |
59991 | Of what value are your prayers it you lead such a life? |
59991 | Of whom do the kings of the earth take tribute or custom? |
59991 | Or, are you one who dares do great things for the God who has done so much for you? |
59991 | Shall all we hold sacred be caricatured, calumniated, and we sit with folded arms in silence? |
59991 | Shall tribulation, or distress, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or persecution, or the sword? |
59991 | Shall we not turn their own weapons against them? |
59991 | Should you not rather be called, according to His way of naming, heathens and publicans? |
59991 | St. John tells us in his epistle:"How can we love God whom we have not seen, when we love not our neighbor whom we have seen?" |
59991 | Tell me, can you lift your heart to Him to- day, and say in truth-- My God, Thou knowest that I have not forgotten Thee? |
59991 | That it should simply distinguish us from those who do not possess it, and to lie idle and fruitless in our soul? |
59991 | The Holy Sacrament of the altar, where the soul is nourished, and strengthened, and adorned by feeding on the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ? |
59991 | The boy, his eldest boy, that was to be sent to college, was sent up last week to prison for shoplifting; and the girl-- where is she gone? |
59991 | The question is not-- Am I growing in the field of the Church? |
59991 | The servants asked their lord,"Shall we not go out and pull up the tares?" |
59991 | Then comes the natural thought What shall I do to acquire this treasure? |
59991 | Then shall the just answer: Lord, when did we see Thee hungry, and fed Thee; thirsty, and gave Thee drink? |
59991 | Then why is it that we give way under our sufferings, our daily trials and crosses? |
59991 | They come to pray to God for forgiveness of their sins; and what do they say? |
59991 | They pray, it is true, but how? |
59991 | This promise is recorded in the sixteenth chapter of St. Matthew''s Gospel:{ 202}"Jesus saith to them: But whom do you say that I am? |
59991 | To what end has he blessed us with the gift of faith? |
59991 | To whom does the Holy Ghost come in His fulness? |
59991 | Was Jesus, the Lamb of God, slain for our sins, to be eaten, and with unleavened bread? |
59991 | Was he in a fit state to do it? |
59991 | Was it merely because we had done so in past years? |
59991 | Was it when He went about doing good, working miracles, preaching His divine doctrine? |
59991 | We are cunning enough in the ways of the world, but why so slow to understand the ways of God? |
59991 | Well, and what is the business of the clergy? |
59991 | What are the sins of the dram- seller? |
59991 | What did He say? |
59991 | What do I mean by this sacrifice? |
59991 | What does this signify? |
59991 | What explains this cold forgetfulness, this heartless indifference, that steals over us so soon? |
59991 | What good to have had the sacraments in life, or even at the hour of death, if we have not on the wedding garment? |
59991 | What good will it do us to have gone to the church and heard the sermons, if we have not on the wedding garment? |
59991 | What is He as cause, and what is this divine life of His being which is the effect of that cause? |
59991 | What is Truth? |
59991 | What is his story? |
59991 | What is it that stimulates them in their pursuits? |
59991 | What is it? |
59991 | What is one to do? |
59991 | What is the consequence? |
59991 | What is the reason of a central government, with a president at its head, in Washington? |
59991 | What is the reason, my dear brethren, that you are all here to- night? |
59991 | What is the secret of this apparent contradiction? |
59991 | What is the story of such people in the confessional? |
59991 | What is this wedding garment? |
59991 | What of your present remembrance? |
59991 | What other Comforter is there in heaven to give that will be better than He? |
59991 | What other Comforter of our souls would we ask or could we need than Him? |
59991 | What other light and grace could we desire both to detect and shun all evil, and to delight in what is pure and true? |
59991 | What pays them for all their trouble? |
59991 | What shall I say? |
59991 | What shall the presence of the All- Holy be unable to do? |
59991 | What sustains these men of science? |
59991 | What was all that for? |
59991 | What, dear brethren, is the end and object for which we live in this world? |
59991 | What, then, shall we do to spend Lent well? |
59991 | When I read the Gospel for to- day, which describes the raising of the widow''s son to life, I ask myself the question-- Did he die prepared? |
59991 | When his soul had departed, could his widowed mother console herself with the thought-- He lived a good life, and he died a good death? |
59991 | When the Father in His love sent Him to us, did he not send all He could give? |
59991 | When was Jesus Christ the Master of the world? |
59991 | When will He come around? |
59991 | Where is the house and lot gone to? |
59991 | Where was it that He drew all things to Himself by the cords of Adam and the bands of love? |
59991 | Who are the false prophets we have the most need to be warned against at this present time? |
59991 | Who are the people of God? |
59991 | Who does not see here that pre- eminence of St. Peter over his colleagues which is expressed by the title, Prince of the Apostles? |
59991 | Who is the author of His life? |
59991 | Who is this Divine Comforter? |
59991 | Why all these studies-- why so much time, energy, patience, and devotion to the sciences? |
59991 | Why are our souls enlarged and raised above the senses in listening to strains of music composed by a Palestrina or a Beethoven or a Mozart? |
59991 | Why did we do so? |
59991 | Why do men love poetry, music, architecture, painting, and sculpture? |
59991 | Why do people despair of ever being happy? |
59991 | Why do so many grow faint- hearted, and think that there is no rest, no peace, for them? |
59991 | Why do you love vanity, and seek after lying?" |
59991 | Why does He not reveal Himself? |
59991 | Why does he not go to work? |
59991 | Why forever trying to lie to ourselves, and leave Him out of account? |
59991 | Why has the faith been stolen from the nations? |
59991 | Why have the verses of a Homer, a Dante, a Shakespeare, been the delight of ages? |
59991 | Why is it to be esteemed above liberty, the possession of wealth, more than friends, parents, the whole world, and even more than life itself? |
59991 | Why is she holy? |
59991 | Why not? |
59991 | Why should they interfere with private or family affairs? |
59991 | Why should they meddle with questions of politics or government? |
59991 | Why should they not? |
59991 | Why should they say anything about a man''s business, or try to interfere with his personal liberty to do this or that? |
59991 | Why should this be repeated all over the world? |
59991 | Why this sacrifice of the body and blood of Jesus Christ? |
59991 | Why was St. Peter willing to be bound and imprisoned for the faith of Christ? |
59991 | Why, then, have you renounced all that men hold so dear? |
59991 | Why? |
59991 | With holy Job, he exclaims:"If we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil?" |
59991 | With how much devotion does he receive the Holy Viaticum and the Extreme Unction? |
59991 | Would you like to hear the approval of your Divine Lord and Master on the Last Great Day of Account? |
59991 | Yes; but do you not see that it is just in the Blessed Sacrament that He brings that proof home to us? |
59991 | Yes; but what avails such a heartless remembrance as yours has been? |
59991 | [ Footnote 19] Where is your Christian faith and trust in God? |
59991 | [ Footnote 29] To whom, then? |
59991 | [ Footnote 61] In Job it is asked,"Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and find out the Almighty perfectly? |
59991 | and when did we see Thee a stranger, and took Thee in? |
59991 | because it is a Catholic custom? |
59991 | because others did so, and we were expected to do the same? |
59991 | but-- Am I the wheat? |
59991 | how is this? |
59991 | how long will ye be dull of heart? |
59991 | made no life- preparation of this solemn account, and it is too late now? |
59991 | of their children or of strangers? |
59991 | or naked, and covered Thee? |
59991 | or the tares, fit only for the burning? |
59991 | or when did we ever see Thee sick or in prison, and visit Thee? |
59991 | that''s the way you manage it, is it?" |
59991 | what is truth?" |
59991 | who is proud of the gifts of God? |
59991 | why have you stayed so long away?" |
59991 | why is it? |
59991 | { 101} Who is there that can approach here without crying out with the Psalmist,"What shall I render to the Lord for all that He has rendered to me? |
59991 | { 110} But who among men belong thus entirely to God? |
59991 | { 115} Does your heart burn to offer Him a glorious and complete sacrifice, and yet you can not summon up the courage to accomplish it? |
59991 | { 167} And what are we but cold and unsympathizing, selfish and thankless, toward our best Friend? |
59991 | { 16} Would we like to enter upon a new year wholly ignorant of the past one? |
59991 | { 178} The mind of man can not long blind its sight to the illumination of the truth; but who shall subdue and win the hardened heart? |
59991 | { 184} What is it that gives to faith its priceless value? |
59991 | { 190} Most of you, my dear brethren, are from the old country, and have come to this strange land-- and why? |
59991 | { 277} Do you wish to escape such a lamentable end? |
59991 | { 289} Could anything be more wanton and impudent than such conduct? |
59991 | { 29} I am not asking too much, my brethren, am I? |
59991 | { 301} Why are you sick, you who have no grievous crimes to expiate-- you whose whole heart has belonged to God this many a day? |
59991 | { 316}"Scandals must needs come,"said our Saviour; but is it, therefore, necessary for us to think about them and brood over them? |
59991 | { 323} Now, what was the characteristic virtue of this great Apostle, which rendered him so like to Christ and so dear to Him? |
59991 | { 38} How can we love God if we be absorbed in a love of good eating and drinking? |
59991 | { 67} What kind of Christians are we? |
59991 | { 82} Where is the furniture gone to? |
59991 | { 87} Do you love your good name as a citizen? |
59991 | { 93} What was that a type of? |
59991 | { 96} Is it not the moment of supreme happiness, and of such happiness that nothing else is like it in the world? |
30619 | And who is he that will harm you, if ye be zealous of that which is good? 30619 Do you not recognize,"they bragged,"the holiness of this entire congregation, among whom God dwells, daily performing his marvelous wonders?" |
30619 | Even if it does go ill with us,he would argue,"what indeed is our suffering in comparison with the unspeakable joy and glory to be revealed in us? |
30619 | For who hath known the mind of the Lord? 30619 Is Jehovah among us, or not?" |
30619 | Oh, who would not desire peace and comfort? |
30619 | Think you,our wise ones would say to him,"that you alone have the Holy Spirit, or that no one else is as eager for honor as yourself?" |
30619 | What did you in the summer time that you gathered nothing? |
30619 | What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? 30619 What then?" |
30619 | Why have you led us out of Egypt? |
30619 | Why make divisions and differences,Paul inquires,"in the doctrine and faith of the Church, which rests wholly upon the one Christ? |
30619 | 1, 8):"Hast thou considered my servant Job? |
30619 | 13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be zealous of that which is good? |
30619 | 19 What then is the law? |
30619 | 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? |
30619 | 21 What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? |
30619 | 3 Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? |
30619 | 34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? |
30619 | 35 or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? |
30619 | Again, even though we are somewhat weak, is that any reason for saying all is lost? |
30619 | Again, why should I labor and toil for naught? |
30619 | And how so? |
30619 | And it will ever be true as Saint Paul says:"For who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been his counselor?" |
30619 | And since then, what has become of all the proud, haughty tyrants, who proposed to oppress and crush Christianity? |
30619 | And then, further to illustrate this, he says:"Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?" |
30619 | And what are the sufferings of all men combined when compared with Christ''s agony and conflict, in that he sweat blood for thee? |
30619 | And what did we under the papacy but walk blindly? |
30619 | And what does it avail if you are not able to say more than that God is merciful to the good and will punish the wicked? |
30619 | And what earthly thing is more desirable to man''s sight? |
30619 | And what is lacking with the moon and stars and the earth? |
30619 | And what must not one endure at court before he realizes, if he ever does, the fulfilment of his ambition? |
30619 | And what shall we say of those who will not endure the preaching of the glorious message of God''s grace and blessing, but condemn it as heresy? |
30619 | And wherefore slew he him? |
30619 | And who is to have any more respect for the righteousness of the Law if we are to preach in that strain? |
30619 | And whom do they serve? |
30619 | And why should I not throw away all the Scriptures? |
30619 | Are the people thereby made better? |
30619 | As Moses says in Deuteronomy 4, 7:"What great nation is there, that hath a god so nigh unto them, as Jehovah our God is whensoever we call upon him?" |
30619 | But how do they conduct themselves? |
30619 | But how is it to avoid service? |
30619 | But how will it be in the day of revelation? |
30619 | But the flesh asks: What do I know of God or his will? |
30619 | But they who are not Christians-- what have they but a terrible sentence like a weight about their necks? |
30619 | But thinkest thou I will remain silent and unprotesting? |
30619 | But to what purpose? |
30619 | But what are the blessings for which Paul''s prayer entreats? |
30619 | But what are we to do? |
30619 | But what is God''s attitude toward such conduct? |
30619 | But what is your pain measured by the eternal glory prepared for you and obtained by the sacrifice of your Savior Jesus Christ? |
30619 | But whence arises the world''s hatred? |
30619 | But who among men recognizes us as children of God? |
30619 | But who can discern the anguish of creation? |
30619 | But whom other than themselves have the Jews to blame for their condition? |
30619 | 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?" |
30619 | But why do you make so much of your sufferings and never give a thought to what awaits you in heaven? |
30619 | But why multiply words? |
30619 | But with the great mass of the people, how long did faith last? |
30619 | But you may say:"What? |
30619 | Can you not be mindful of your environment-- that you are still in the world where vice and ingratitude hold sway? |
30619 | David says( Ps 139, 7- 8):"Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? |
30619 | Did we not long ago tell you he would meet such fate? |
30619 | Do you forbid good works? |
30619 | Do you know why and whereunto you have been baptized, and what it signifies that you have been baptized with water? |
30619 | Do you not acknowledge the necessity of political laws, of civil governments? |
30619 | Each one says: Why should I incur so much danger, opposition and hostility? |
30619 | Filled with astonishment, he exclaimed: What shall I say more? |
30619 | For human wisdom knows no better; and how could it know better without the revelation? |
30619 | For in your own judgment, what better thing could you have than is the Christian''s in his Gospel and his faith? |
30619 | For what is better and nobler than a quiet, peaceful heart? |
30619 | For what other person is profited by your entering a cloister, making yourself peculiar, refusing to live as your fellows do? |
30619 | For wherein can persecution harm if you strive for godliness and abide in it? |
30619 | For who would not wish to belong to such a Lord and Creator? |
30619 | Grace is opposed to sin and destroys it; how then should it strengthen or increase it? |
30619 | He is compelled to exclaim:"Alas, who knows how God will look upon my efforts? |
30619 | He says, commenting on Psalm 17,"What is Law without grace but a letter without spirit?" |
30619 | Hence it continued to be hidden and incomprehensible to such wisdom, as Saint Paul says:"For who hath known the mind of the Lord?" |
30619 | How can I think myself better than another by reason of my person or my gifts, rank or office? |
30619 | How can he be expected, then, to render a greater service-- to even lay down his life for his brother? |
30619 | How can he teach us? |
30619 | How can the works of the Law be good and precious, and yet repulsive and productive of evil?" |
30619 | How can this poor, sinful, miserable, filthy, polluted body become like unto that of the Son of God, the Lord of Glory? |
30619 | How can we poor, miserable mortals grasp this mystery of the Trinity? |
30619 | How could Cain be unmerciful and inhuman enough in his frenzy to murder his own flesh and blood? |
30619 | How could I be proud and presumptuous enough to boast myself the servant of the Lord Jesus Christ? |
30619 | How could we introduce through the Gospel a doctrine countenancing evil? |
30619 | How dare you then assert that such righteousness is misleading, and obstructive to eternal life? |
30619 | How do we know we have passed from death unto life? |
30619 | How does man lay hold of the Saviour in the heart? |
30619 | How manifest your love, humility, patience and meekness if you are unwilling to live among men? |
30619 | How many new saints, new brotherhoods, new psalms to Mary, and new rosaries and crowns did the monks daily invent? |
30619 | How much more then should God''s testament be honored intact? |
30619 | How shall I be supported? |
30619 | How shall I do it? |
30619 | How shall we stand and answer in his sight when we can not deny the fact that our life gives just cause for complaint and offense? |
30619 | How would they measure up in the greater duty of laying down their lives for the brethren, and especially for the Christian Church? |
30619 | How, then, does Paul come to speak so disparagingly, even abusively, of the Law, actually presenting it as veritable death and poison? |
30619 | How, then, is he in a position to say that they were abundantly supplied with all things spiritual, lacking not one thing? |
30619 | I answer: Why do you not complain to him who committed the office to me? |
30619 | If God''s supreme, unfathomable love fails to awaken the gratitude of the world, what wonder if the world hates you for all your kindness? |
30619 | If reason is to be my teacher in these things, what need is there of faith? |
30619 | If the question be asked,"Why do so? |
30619 | If we are not to wonder at this, is there anything in the world to incite wonder? |
30619 | If we fully and confidently believed this, then of what should we be afraid or who could do us harm? |
30619 | If you ask, Whence such a disposition? |
30619 | If you employ reason from mere love of disputation, why not devote it to questions concerning the daily workings of your physical nature? |
30619 | In other words: How is it possible that because grace should destroy sin ye should live unto sin? |
30619 | In this assurance will I pass out of life; not in uncertainty and anxiety, thinking, Who knows what sentence God in heaven will pass upon me?" |
30619 | In whom? |
30619 | Indeed, do you not admit that God himself commands such institutions and wills their observance, punishing where they are disregarded? |
30619 | Indeed, how can you serve your neighbor by such a life? |
30619 | Indeed, where should we dare look for them except where no people live? |
30619 | Is it all that is necessary to assert: God will reward with heaven such as are faithful to the order? |
30619 | Is it not a horrible thing that any man should shun and oppose such a Savior and his doctrine even more than he does the devil himself? |
30619 | Is it not better, then, to be free from the service of sin and to serve righteousness? |
30619 | Is it not in faith that we are to be rooted, engrafted and grounded? |
30619 | Is it not insupportable that a perishable worm, be he emperor or prince, should presume to apprehend God in heaven? |
30619 | Is it not much rather, as reason dictates and as all the world affirms, a disgrace to his followers that he lies there in prison? |
30619 | Is it not our doctrine that Christ first loved us, as John elsewhere says? |
30619 | Is it not right to lead an honorable, virtuous life? |
30619 | Is it not surpassing strange that one can hate those who love him and from whom he has received only kindness? |
30619 | Is it right for one to despise or dishonor God''s Law? |
30619 | Is not a chaste and honorable life a matter of beauty and godliness? |
30619 | Is our God one to permit us to wander for forty years in the wilderness until we all perish?" |
30619 | Is the apostle overbold in that he dares thus to assail the Law and say:"The Law is not only a lifeless letter, but qualified merely to kill"? |
30619 | Is the gold responsible for its use? |
30619 | Is their Christ such a one as they honor by their lives? |
30619 | Is there nothing else in store for the Christian but to die and be buried? |
30619 | Is there something more than mere words-- or letters, as Paul says? |
30619 | John''s thought is: The Law has indeed been given by Moses, but what avails that fact? |
30619 | Just so did Miriam and Aaron murmur against Moses, their own brother, saying:"Hath Jehovah indeed spoken only with Moses? |
30619 | Just what does he mean? |
30619 | Know you whom you have apprehended and murdered? |
30619 | Let there be no caviling and contention on the score of possibility; be satisfied with the inquiry: Is it the Word of God? |
30619 | Moreover, what virtues, of all man possesses, serve him better than humility, meekness, patience and harmony of mind? |
30619 | Nevertheless, they submit and wait-- for what? |
30619 | Now, in what was the prophet lacking? |
30619 | Now, what care we that reason should regard it as foolishness? |
30619 | Now, what is the pride of all men toward God? |
30619 | Now, why is"the face of the Lord"upon evil- doers and what is its effect? |
30619 | Of what use is it for you to hate, chafe and curse against its attitude? |
30619 | Or what more than I has another to boast of before God concerning himself? |
30619 | Or, where will he find protection and defense, to abide in his godly ways? |
30619 | Otherwise why say they so much about it? |
30619 | Paul says in 1 Corinthians 10, 22:"Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? |
30619 | Paul takes up this matter and asks the question,"What then is the Law?" |
30619 | Shall all rise together? |
30619 | Shall those living on the earth at the last day meet Christ before others? |
30619 | Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? |
30619 | Shall we not perform any good works? |
30619 | Should Christ not revenge himself when they shamed and mocked his precious blood? |
30619 | Should we not condemn as a heretic this preacher who goes beyond his prerogative and dares find fault with the Law of God? |
30619 | Similarly today, Papists, Anabaptists and other sects make outcry:"What mean you by preaching so much about faith and Christ? |
30619 | Take all the wisdom, justice, jurisprudence, artifice, even the highest virtues the world affords, and what are they? |
30619 | The rude crowd cried: Oh, is it true that great grace follows upon great sin? |
30619 | Then why should we be surprised if he send down wrath upon us? |
30619 | Then why this bitter hatred against me and my message?" |
30619 | Therefore he begins his sermon by inquiring, in this sixth chapter( verses 1- 3):"What shall we say then? |
30619 | This being the case, where would be the need to pray? |
30619 | To whom do these minister? |
30619 | To whom, then, is their service given? |
30619 | Two mighty lords clash with each other like powerful battering rams, and for what? |
30619 | We read:"Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? |
30619 | We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?" |
30619 | Well does he say to the Jews through the prophet:"O my people, what have I done unto thee? |
30619 | What am I to do? |
30619 | What answer shall we make? |
30619 | What are earth and ashes proud of? |
30619 | What are you-- your powers and abilities, or those of all men, to effect this glorious thing? |
30619 | What assistance can he render you? |
30619 | What can the combined might of all creatures accomplish if God oppose himself thereto? |
30619 | What did not the Son of God incur for you? |
30619 | What does God care for the honor you seek from the world when you defy his Word with it? |
30619 | What does he mean? |
30619 | What does it signify that I show my love by hazarding life and limb to sustain this doctrine of the Gospel and help my neighbor? |
30619 | What does that concern the spiritual estate? |
30619 | What greater dishonor can Christians suffer than to have their ministers and pastors-- their instructors and consolers-- shamefully arrested? |
30619 | What if I should die?" |
30619 | What if the world, abiding in death, does hate and persecute you who abide in life? |
30619 | What incentive is there for any to render the world service when in ingratitude it rewards love with hatred? |
30619 | What injury have they done thee? |
30619 | What is a single penny measured by a world of dollars? |
30619 | What is it compared to the glory to be revealed in us? |
30619 | What is more desirable than to be freed from sin and the punishment and misery it involves, and to possess a joyful, cheerful heart and conscience? |
30619 | What is temporal suffering, however protracted, contrasted with eternal life? |
30619 | What is the Law after all, however much you may preach it to me, but that which makes me feel the weight of sin, death and condemnation? |
30619 | What is the nature of the prayer Paul here presents? |
30619 | What is the sighing and longing of creation? |
30619 | What is the world doing now? |
30619 | What more noble than, for the sake of Christ, to incur danger, to suffer injury, to aid the poor and needy? |
30619 | What more terrible retribution could their hatred and envy receive? |
30619 | What occasion, then, for divisions or for further seeking? |
30619 | What offense had godly Abel committed against his brother to be so hated? |
30619 | What pleasure or gain had you in it? |
30619 | What right has such a soul to boast-- how can he know-- that Christ has laid down his life for him and delivered him from death? |
30619 | What shall I say but that thou hast imprisoned and bound, not Paul, but me? |
30619 | What sin against the world did the beloved apostles commit? |
30619 | What term significant of greater abomination could he apply to God''s Law than to call it a doctrine of death and hell? |
30619 | What then shall we do, you say, when we must suffer such abuse and without redress? |
30619 | What unheardof talk is this? |
30619 | What were you? |
30619 | What will become of him who lives a God- fearing and humble life, suffering the insolence, pride and wantonness of the world? |
30619 | When Moses and the Law are made to say:"You should do thus; God demands this of you,"what does it profit? |
30619 | When we die-- spiritually unto sin, and physically to the world and self-- what doth it profit us? |
30619 | Whence did they derive their righteousness? |
30619 | Where is he now? |
30619 | Where now shall we find those who keep this commandment? |
30619 | Where then do they stand who entertain wrath and hatred indefinitely, for one, two, three, seven, ten years? |
30619 | Where will the untaught masses stand? |
30619 | Who can sufficiently magnify or utter God''s grace? |
30619 | Who comes to know God or to have a peaceful conscience by such practices on your part, or who is thereby influenced to love his neighbor? |
30619 | Who desires peace and comfort?" |
30619 | Who equals Luther as a translator? |
30619 | Who is benefited by your cowl, your austere countenance, your hard bed? |
30619 | Who is this second person? |
30619 | Who may stand before him?" |
30619 | Who robs you of your honor but yourself, by your own theft, your contempt of God, disobedience, murder, and so on? |
30619 | Who says the creature is in travail or unwillingly suffers its present state?" |
30619 | Who will assure you that you are good and that you are pleasing to God with your papistic, Turkish monkery and holiness? |
30619 | Who would not praise and exalt such virtue? |
30619 | Who, unless he would be a cursed heretic in the eyes of the world and invite execution as a blasphemer, would dare to speak thus, except Paul himself? |
30619 | Whom can its hatred injure? |
30619 | Whose fault will it be but your own since you would not hear Paul''s admonition to walk wisely and circumspectly? |
30619 | Why can not we take his view of the insignificance of our afflictions and the magnitude of the future glory? |
30619 | Why do we teach the ten commandments at all? |
30619 | Why does Paul choose this method? |
30619 | Why is it? |
30619 | Why not exalt the future glory also? |
30619 | Why should I seek therein righteousness before God?" |
30619 | Why should such a one fear death? |
30619 | Why this hostility? |
30619 | Why will we have so much to say about great sufferings and their merits? |
30619 | Why will you bring down your fist and stamp your foot in anger at such ingratitude? |
30619 | Why, then, does John say,"We have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren"? |
30619 | Why, then, does Paul here substitute"love?" |
30619 | Why, then, should we presume, with our reason, to compass and comprehend the eternal, invisible essence of God? |
30619 | With such a faith, how much better were we than the heathen and Turks? |
30619 | Would you not call these things faults and shortcomings? |
30619 | Yea, how could we guard ourselves against any deception and lying nonsense that might be offered as good works and as service of God? |
30619 | Yes, why complain even were you, in some measure, to endanger body and life? |
30619 | Yet what would be all that compared with one who is named and chosen by God himself, and called his son, the heir of exalted divine majesty? |
30619 | You may again object,"If what you say is true, why observe temporal restrictions? |
30619 | and wherein have I wearied thee? |
30619 | are we stronger than he?" |
30619 | do the words result in life and spirit? |
30619 | enter the heart of a Christian upon the occasion of a little trouble? |
30619 | for instance, where are the five senses during sleep? |
30619 | hath he not spoken also with us?" |
30619 | he asks,"shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace?" |
30619 | if you so strenuously adhere to your self- appointed orders as to allow your neighbor to suffer want before you would dishonor your rules? |
30619 | in particular to further the Word of God and to support the ministry, the pulpit and the schools? |
30619 | just how is the sound of your own laughter produced? |
30619 | or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you? |
30619 | or whither shall I flee from thy presence? |
30619 | or who hath been his counsellor? |
30619 | or who hath been his counselor? |
30619 | or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?" |
30619 | that before we ever loved him he died and rose again for us? |
30619 | that upon obedience to them depends the maintenance of discipline, peace and honor? |
30619 | that you are, as the phrase goes, with"those who return evil for good"? |
30619 | we who do not understand the operation of our own physical powers-- speech, laughter, sleep, things whereof we have daily experience? |
30619 | what fault committed? |
30619 | where has God commanded it?" |
30619 | who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?" |
30619 | why dost thou permit me to suffer this?" |
13204 | He that planted the ear, shall He not hear? 13204 If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone?" |
13204 | If these things are done in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry? |
13204 | If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, may not plead it? 13204 Is the law sin?" |
13204 | Tell me,says St. Paul,"ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? |
13204 | Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking of the law, dishonorest thou God? |
13204 | Thou that teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? 13204 Who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? |
13204 | [ 1] But can we suppose that such a sincere, such a truthful and such a holy Being as the Son of God would stoop to any such artifice as this? 13204 [ 3] But, is the sense of duty_ beautiful_ to apostate man? |
13204 | _ How_ shall I believe? |
13204 | 20.--"The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?" |
13204 | 20.--"The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?" |
13204 | 21--23.--"Thou therefore which, teachest another, teachest Thou not thyself? |
13204 | 28, 29.--"Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? |
13204 | Again, does the law search me, and probe me, and elicit me, and reveal me, until I would shrink out of the sight of God and of myself? |
13204 | Again, is a man conscious of the corruption of his heart? |
13204 | Am I not completely baffled, the moment I attempt to construct the consciousness of the unearthly state? |
13204 | And is there any injustice in this? |
13204 | And now we ask, if this state of things ought to last forever? |
13204 | And now we ask: Can the law generate all this excellence within the human soul? |
13204 | And now what is the effect of this combination of command and threatening upon the agent? |
13204 | And think you that God will not grant a request which He himself has inspired? |
13204 | And upon_ such_ terms, can not the criminal well afford to examine into his crime? |
13204 | And where are the results? |
13204 | And why should it? |
13204 | Are they deluded in respect to the doctrine of human depravity, and are you in the right? |
13204 | Are we, then, sinners, and in fear for the final result of our life? |
13204 | Are you prepared for the impending and inevitable disclosures and revelations of the day of judgment? |
13204 | As the deteriorating process advances, does not the guilt diminish? |
13204 | But are we at ease and self- contented? |
13204 | But he who will not even look at his sin,--what does not he deserve from that Being who poured out His own blood for it? |
13204 | But is the Bible untrue, because the man is ignorant? |
13204 | But is this so? |
13204 | But the real penitent rebuked him, saying:"Dost thou not fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? |
13204 | But what do I know of the surroundings and experience of a man who has travelled from time into eternity? |
13204 | But what does all this reasoning and querying imply? |
13204 | But what is the lesson which we are to read by this clear and solemn light? |
13204 | But what is this compared with the suffering soul? |
13204 | But when he put the other question to himself: Will the Deity_ pardon_ me for my transgression? |
13204 | But where is the man? |
13204 | But why do they confine this species of reasoning to the pagan world? |
13204 | But, how is this lack to be supplied? |
13204 | By what law? |
13204 | Can God say to the hardened Judas: Son be of good cheer, thy sin is forgiven thee? |
13204 | Can He speak to the traitor as He speaks to the Magdalen? |
13204 | Can I not do what I will with mine own? |
13204 | Can a perfect heart be originated in a sinner by these two methods? |
13204 | Can any being do a wrong act, and be as sound in his will and as spiritually strong, after it, as he was before it? |
13204 | Can it be that sheer imposture and error have such a tenacious vitality as this? |
13204 | Can it be that the truth that there is only one God is native to the human spirit, and that the pagan"_ knows_"this God? |
13204 | Can it be that there is a moral law written upon their hearts forbidding such carnality, and enjoining purity and holiness? |
13204 | Can it be that this strong and steady draft of conscience,--strong and steady as gravitation,--will ultimately prove ineffectual? |
13204 | Can the moral law originate this? |
13204 | Can you say with David,"We give thanks and rejoice, at the remembrance of Thy holiness?" |
13204 | Do men at such times find that sincere desires, and longings, and aspirations, come at their beck? |
13204 | Do they tell you that they are uniformly successful in inducing these sinners to leave their sins? |
13204 | Do we feel ourselves to be guilty beings; do we hunger, and do we thirst for the expiation of our sins? |
13204 | Do you ask me to make myself wholly miserable?" |
13204 | Do you ask, What one particular single thing shall I do, that I may be safe for time and eternity? |
13204 | Do you believe that there is an eternal world, and that the general features of this mode of existence have been scripturally depicted? |
13204 | Do you come to us with the theory that every human creature will be happy in another life, and that the doctrine of future misery is false? |
13204 | Do you know that your love of sin has the power to stifle and overcome the mightiest of your fears, when you are strongly tempted to self- indulgence? |
13204 | Do you tell us that God is too good to punish men, and that therefore it must be that He is merciful? |
13204 | Do you_ love_ God''s holy character? |
13204 | Does his consciousness of inward poverty assume this form? |
13204 | Does it congenially sway and incline him? |
13204 | Does the holy law of God overarch him like the firmament,"tinged with a blue of heavenly dye, and starred with sparkling gold?" |
13204 | Does the law, in its abrupt and terrible operation in my conscience, start out the feeling of guiltiness until I throb with anguish, and moral fear? |
13204 | Does the stern behest,"Do this or die,"secure his willing and joyful obedience? |
13204 | Else, why do these pangs and fears shoot and flash through it, every now and then? |
13204 | For example:"Where is boasting then? |
13204 | For how can his sin be pardoned, unless it is clearly understood by the pardoning power? |
13204 | For, think you that the insensible sinner is always to be thus insensible,--that this power of self- inspection is eternally to"rust unused?" |
13204 | For, who of the race of man is holy enough to stand such an inspection? |
13204 | Has he attained the chief end of man? |
13204 | Has religion reached its last term, and ultimate limit, when man respects the rights of property? |
13204 | Has the Deity spoken to you in particular, and told you that He will forgive your sin, and my sin, and that of all the generations? |
13204 | Have you a private revelation of your own? |
13204 | He still has a capacity for loving; but in eternity where is the fame, the wealth, the pleasure upon which he has hitherto expended it? |
13204 | He that formed the eye, shall He not see?" |
13204 | He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" |
13204 | How can God administer forgiveness, unless there is a correlated temper to receive it? |
13204 | How can his soul be purified from its inward corruption, unless it is searched by the Spirit of all holiness? |
13204 | How can we endure such a scrutiny as God is instituting into our character and conduct? |
13204 | How do you establish the guilt of those at the end of the line? |
13204 | How is this great hiatus in human character to be filled up? |
13204 | How shall he resist temptation, unless he has some_ fear_ of God before his eyes? |
13204 | How shall the fountain of holy and filial affection towards God be made to gush up into everlasting life, within your now unloving and hostile heart? |
13204 | How then can he be brought in guilty before the same eternal bar, and be condemned to the same eternal punishment, with the nominal Christian? |
13204 | How, then, can the mere reproaches and remorse of conscience be regarded as evidence of piety? |
13204 | I ask, therefore, Wast thou ever killed stark dead by the law of works contained in the Scriptures? |
13204 | If Christianity is a delusion and a lie, why does it not die out, and disappear? |
13204 | If the Sovereign has a perfect right to say whether He will or will not pardon the criminal, has He not the same right to say_ how_ He will do it? |
13204 | If the foundations themselves of morals and religion are destroyed, what can be done for the salvation of the creature? |
13204 | If this experience has been forced upon him, shall he meet it with the port and bearing of a strong man? |
13204 | If you can admire and praise them, in this style, why do you not_ love_ them? |
13204 | If you view your own personal sin in reference to your own personal fears, are you not a slave to it? |
13204 | In trying to judge of the final condition of a pagan outside of revelation, we must ask the question: Was he penitent? |
13204 | Is a man, then, sensible that his understanding is darkened by sin, and that he is destitute of clear and just apprehensions of divine things? |
13204 | Is he moulded by it? |
13204 | Is it not so in our own personal experience? |
13204 | Is it not_ too late_ for such a creature as man now is to adopt the method of salvation by the works of the law? |
13204 | Is not that a strange act by which he, for a time, duplicates his own unity, and sets himself to look at himself? |
13204 | Is not that a wonderful process by which a man knows, not some other thing but,_ himself_? |
13204 | Is not the one the measure of the other? |
13204 | Is not truth mighty, and must it not finally prevail, to the pulling down of the stronghold which Satan has in the human heart? |
13204 | Is such a heart as this"conformed unto"the law and will of God? |
13204 | Is the evil removed by denying its existence? |
13204 | Is the question, then, of the Jews, pressing upon your mind? |
13204 | Is the sun black, because the eye is shut? |
13204 | Is there not a wonderful power to_ convict_ of sin, in this test? |
13204 | Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? |
13204 | Is thine eye evil because I am good?" |
13204 | Is this religious perfection? |
13204 | Is this the_ original_ and_ necessary_ relation which law sustains to the will and affections of an accountable creature? |
13204 | Is''t no worse for the wear? |
13204 | It is not the highest expression of the religious feeling, when we say,"How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against my conscience?" |
13204 | Killed by the law or letter, and made to see thy sins against it, and left in an helpless condition by the law? |
13204 | Must the pure and holy law of God, from the very nature of things, be a weariness and a curse? |
13204 | Must there not be an inveterate opposition and resistance in the_ heart_? |
13204 | Nay, why is it that he finds it impossible fully to believe that Jehovah is a sin- pardoning God, unless he is enabled so to do by the Holy Ghost? |
13204 | Never for a moment, in the endless cycles, can it look away from its Maker; for in His presence what other object is there to look at? |
13204 | No, He''s forever in a smiling mood; He''s like themselves; or how could He be good? |
13204 | Of what use would it have been to offer mercy, before the sense of its need had been elicited? |
13204 | On the contrary, is he not excited to opposition by it? |
13204 | On the contrary, should I not be the most wretched of mortals? |
13204 | Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast? |
13204 | Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastic summer heat? |
13204 | Or, in other words:_ Why can not the ten commandments save a sinner_? |
13204 | Or, is there anything in the performance of duty,--in the act of obeying law,--that is adapted to produce this result, by taking away guilt? |
13204 | Ought not this state of things to be reversed? |
13204 | Ought this guilty carnal enjoyment to be perpetuated through all eternity, under the government of a righteous and just God? |
13204 | Our Lord, by his searching reply to the young ruler''s question,"What lack I yet?" |
13204 | Received ye the Spirit, by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? |
13204 | Return you me guilt, lethargy, despair? |
13204 | Shall pleasures of a short duration chain A lady''s soul in everlasting pain? |
13204 | Shall the ten commandments of Sinai, in any of their forms or uses, send a cooling and calming virtue through the hot conscience? |
13204 | Should we not be more circumspect than we are, if men were able mutually to search each other''s hearts? |
13204 | The great question that presses upon the human mind, from age to age, is the inquiry: Is God a merciful Being, and will He show mercy? |
13204 | The instant he put the question: Will God_ punish_ me for my transgression? |
13204 | The text leads us to inquire:_ Why can not the moral law make fallen man perfect_? |
13204 | Think you that the deathbed and the day of judgment will prove this to be the fact? |
13204 | Think you that there is nothing_ lacking_ in such a character as this? |
13204 | Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? |
13204 | To whom, then, can such an one go but unto Him? |
13204 | Was, then, that which is good made death unto this youth, by a_ Divine_ arrangement? |
13204 | We grant that the temptations that assail him are very powerful; but are not some of the temptations that beset you and me very powerful? |
13204 | What are the"good things"which Dives receives here, for which he must be"tormented"hereafter? |
13204 | What can we do, in that day which shall reveal the thoughts and the estimates of the Holy One respecting us? |
13204 | What can we say, in the day of reckoning, when the Searcher of hearts shall make known, to us all that He knows of us? |
13204 | What does he know of the burden of sin? |
13204 | What heathen will not need an atonement, for his failure to live up even to the light of nature? |
13204 | What is the_ ground_ and_ reason_ of such an answer as this? |
13204 | What pagan has ever realized the truths of natural conscience, in his inward character and his outward life? |
13204 | What pagan is there in all the generations that will not be found guilty before the bar of natural religion? |
13204 | What would our merciful Redeemer have us learn from this passage which He has caused to be recorded for our instruction? |
13204 | What, then, is gained, by proposing another than the Biblical theory of human nature? |
13204 | What, then, is the religion that is to be received? |
13204 | When God teaches,"Where is the wise? |
13204 | When the commandment"_ comes_,"loaded down with menace and damnation, does not sin"revive,"as the Apostle affirms? |
13204 | When we look into our hearts, and find no holy reverence there, ought we not to be filled with shame and sorrow? |
13204 | When, therefore, the young ruler''s question,"What lack I?" |
13204 | Where then do you send me for the information, and the testimony? |
13204 | Whereto serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offence? |
13204 | Whither then shall we go from God''s spirit? |
13204 | Who can feel himself amenable to a moral law, without at the same time thinking of its Author? |
13204 | Who has ever realized these wishes and aspirations, in his heart and conduct? |
13204 | Who is he that condemmeth? |
13204 | Who is he that condemneth, when it is Christ that died, and God that justifies? |
13204 | Who of the sons of men will prove pure in such a furnace? |
13204 | Who of this class voluntarily makes himself unhappy, by thinking of subjects that are gloomy to his mind? |
13204 | Who of us would not be filled with uneasiness, if he knew that an imperfect fellow- creature were looking constantly into his soul? |
13204 | Who shall lay anything to God''s elect? |
13204 | Why can he not be saved by the law of works? |
13204 | Why do they not bring it into nominal Christendom, and apply it there? |
13204 | Why does he not tell us that because this civilized man acts no better, therefore he knows no better? |
13204 | Why does the drowning man instinctively ask for God''s mercy? |
13204 | Why is he so summarily shut up to the law of faith? |
13204 | Why is it, that when the character of Christ bows your intellect, it does not bend your will, and sway your affections? |
13204 | Why is man invited to the method of faith in another, instead of the method of faith in himself? |
13204 | Why is not his first spontaneous thought the true one? |
13204 | Why is the commandment enunciated in the Scriptures, and why is the Christian ministry perpetually preaching it to men dead in trespasses and sins? |
13204 | Why should he not obtain eternal life by resolutely proceeding to do his duty, and keeping the law of God? |
13204 | Why should not you and I mourn over the total want of the image of God in our hearts, as much as over any other form and species of sin? |
13204 | Why should they be weary and heavy- laden with a sense of their unworthiness before God, and you go through life indifferent and light- hearted? |
13204 | Why should ye be stricken, any more? |
13204 | Why, the very function and office- work of law, in all its forms, is to condemn and terrify the transgressor; how then can it calm and soothe him? |
13204 | Why, then, does every man need these influences of the Holy Spirit which are so cordially offered in the text? |
13204 | Will he say that the population that knew enough to build the pyramids did not know enough to break the law of God? |
13204 | Will the great Author us poor worms destroy, For now and then a sip of transient joy? |
13204 | Will the mere calling men good at heart, and by nature, make them such? |
13204 | Will the objector really take the position and stand to it, that the pagan man is not a rational and responsible creature? |
13204 | Wilt thou, then, not be afraid of the power? |
13204 | With these kindling flashes in his guilt- stricken spirit, shall he run into the very identical fire that kindled them? |
13204 | Would David have dared to say:"This is the work of God,--this is the saving act,--that ye believe in me?" |
13204 | Would Paul have presumed to say to the anxious inquirer:"Your soul is safe, if you trust in me?" |
13204 | Would he not feel, with a misery and a shame that could not be expressed, that he was naked? |
13204 | Would not this self- knowledge be pure living torment? |
13204 | Would you have the Almighty pay a bounty upon unrighteousness, and place goodness under eternal pains and penalties? |
13204 | You who approve of the law of God as pure and perfect, why do you not conform your own heart and conduct to it? |
13204 | You who know the character and claims of God, and are able to state them to another, why do you not revere and obey them in your own person? |
13204 | [ 3] And do we not hear this theory repeated by the modern unbeliever? |
13204 | [ Footnote 4: ANSELM: Cur Deus Homo? |
13204 | all would be set second to the simple single inquiry:"Shall I think, shall I feel, shall I know?" |
13204 | and how was this to be elicited, but by the solemn and authoritative enunciation of law and justice? |
13204 | and what are the"evil things"which Lazarus receives in this world, for which he will be"comforted"in the world to come? |
13204 | how can ye escape the damnation of hell?" |
13204 | if he should plead it as an offset for having killed a man? |
13204 | in the heart which can refuse submission to such high claims, when so distinctly seen? |
13204 | of works? |
13204 | or whither shall we flee from His presence and His knowledge? |
13204 | ought he not then to be"comforted"in the bosom of Abraham, in the paradise of God? |
13204 | rather than the question: Was he virtuous?] |
13204 | that He who called Himself The Truth would employ a lie, either directly or indirectly, even to promote the spiritual welfare of men? |
13204 | that because he neither fears nor loves the one only God, therefore he does not know that there is any such Being? |
13204 | that he does not possess sufficient knowledge of moral truth, to justify his being brought to the bar of judgment? |
13204 | that he was utterly unfit to appear in such a Presence? |
13204 | thou must die, thou must be judged, thou must inhabit eternity?" |
13204 | thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? |
13204 | thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonored thou God?" |
13204 | thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonorest thou God?" |
13204 | thou that makest thy boast of the law, through, breaking the law dishonorest thou God?" |
13204 | thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? |
13204 | thou that preachest that a man should not steal, dost thou steal? |
13204 | thou that preachest that a man should not steal, dost thou steal?" |
13204 | thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? |
13204 | to a being who is not conformed to it? |
13204 | where is the disputer of this world?" |
13204 | where is the scribe? |
13204 | where were the arguments? |
13204 | where were the theories? |
13204 | who shall deliver me? |
13204 | why do you not by your character and conduct prove the claim to be a valid one?" |
6669 | Do you want it? |
6669 | Hast thou considered My servant Job? |
6669 | If ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? 6669 If you please, dear friends, will you listen? |
6669 | Oh,says He,"why cover ye my altar with tears, and bring your vain oblations? |
6669 | Saul, Saul, why_ persecutest_ thou Me? |
6669 | Shall we the Spirit''s course restrain, Or quench the heavenly fire? 6669 Sirs, what must I do to be saved? |
6669 | Then,I said,"what is it? |
6669 | Then,she said,"When can I see her?" |
6669 | Therefore, at once believe? |
6669 | Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? 6669 What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" |
6669 | Where is God? |
6669 | Why does He not show Himself? 6669 Yes,"said my son,"but what do you believe?" |
6669 | A lady said to me,"I have been doing this and doing that for years, but I have no power; why do n''t I have it?" |
6669 | After all, what does God want with us? |
6669 | Again, the eunuch is often quoted as an illustration of faith; but what state of mind was he in? |
6669 | And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? |
6669 | And does He not send something to us all? |
6669 | And have we not sinned against greater light and privilege than ever she did? |
6669 | And if you were restored to your kingdom and power, would you show yourself strong on behalf of such a man? |
6669 | And is it not? |
6669 | And what are they? |
6669 | And what further did he say to him? |
6669 | And why do you hold them back? |
6669 | And why not have it? |
6669 | Are not our professed Christians exactly the same in character as her Pharisees? |
6669 | Are you conscious in your soul of a feeling of triumph when anybody that you do n''t like happens to fall on some evil thing? |
6669 | Are you leaving all behind you? |
6669 | Are you not provoking Him as they provoked Him? |
6669 | Are you willing for Me to come in? |
6669 | Are you willing to forego your interests, and to seek His? |
6669 | Are your skirts free? |
6669 | But is this evidence that, because we require these things to keep us humble, therefore pride is dwelling in us and reigning over us? |
6669 | But she was a woman of considerably matured age, and I added,"But is your father awake to the interests of God''s kingdom as he ought to be?" |
6669 | But we want to deal specially with the lesson which the prophet draws from this event; for he says,"Wherefore didst thou go to Assyria? |
6669 | But what then? |
6669 | But where are the people who will do it? |
6669 | Can it be expected that the Lord should shew Himself strong in behalf of such people? |
6669 | Can you bear the ridicule and gibes of your fellow- men? |
6669 | Can you give me any reason for that? |
6669 | Can you go into a shop where you are sure you will not be extortioned? |
6669 | Can you help me?" |
6669 | Cornelius, is another instance, but what was the state of his mind and heart? |
6669 | Did any man that ever got the Pearl of great price feel that he had given too much for it, even if he had given all that he had? |
6669 | Did he go, as formerly, and cry unto the Lord, and put his battle into His hands? |
6669 | Did you ever think about it? |
6669 | Didst thou not know that the eyes of the Lord run throughout the whole earth?" |
6669 | Do n''t you think He sees through the vile sham? |
6669 | Do they not make fine and long prayers, and, at the same time, devour the widow and fatherless? |
6669 | Do we not need trials and tribulations in the flesh in order to keep us humble? |
6669 | Do you feel enough to be willing to forsake your sin? |
6669 | Do you go into your closet, and spread it before the Lord, as Hezekiah and Jeremiah and Hosea did? |
6669 | Do you hear it, ye who say that we must come down partly, and be a little like the world in order to win it? |
6669 | Do you know anybody who keeps a conscience with respect to the profits he makes? |
6669 | Do you look abroad on the state of the world, and the state of the church? |
6669 | Do you look at it, and turn it over, and weep over it, and pray and cry, as Daniel and Paul did? |
6669 | Do you love God best? |
6669 | Do you rejoice in iniquity when it happens to an enemy? |
6669 | Do you say,"No, we are not so_ bad? |
6669 | Do you see how unphilosophically they are acting? |
6669 | Do you suppose He is deceived? |
6669 | Do you suppose that Jerusalem was more guilty than we are? |
6669 | Do you suppose that the great mass of the professors of this generation think one another to be right? |
6669 | Do you think God would have failed in His promise to Abraham? |
6669 | Do you think about it? |
6669 | Do you think it can? |
6669 | Do you think people do not know when we are inconsistent? |
6669 | Do you think the church has come up to His standard of privilege and obligation? |
6669 | Do you think you would if you were God? |
6669 | Do you want success? |
6669 | Do you want to have your prayers answered? |
6669 | Does he remember all the little difficulties of his school days, when he is inheriting the fruits of them? |
6669 | Does the child remember how he used to cry over his lessons, when he becomes a man? |
6669 | Hast thou forgotten who the God of Israel was? |
6669 | Have I ever regretted it? |
6669 | Have we any need to wonder that infidels wag their heads? |
6669 | Have we not been exalted much higher than Jerusalem ever was? |
6669 | Have you cut off that particular thing which the Holy Spirit has revealed to you? |
6669 | Have you done that? |
6669 | Have you forsaken the accursed thing? |
6669 | Have you got it, brother?--sister? |
6669 | Have you got it? |
6669 | Have you got it? |
6669 | Have you got this Charity that seeketh not her own? |
6669 | Have you got this Charity? |
6669 | Have you let go all? |
6669 | Have you this Divine Charity, born of Heaven, tending to Heaven? |
6669 | He awoke them to the truth of their almost lost and damned condition, till they said,"What must we do to be saved?" |
6669 | He has given us a Saviour who can not save? |
6669 | He has given, us a religion we can not practice? |
6669 | He says,"The man who remembereth the poor( do you think He means only their bodies? |
6669 | He will administer unto you an abundant entrance, and then-- what? |
6669 | How can the Spirit make intercession for a man when He is not in him? |
6669 | How did you live then? |
6669 | How do I know God wants it for that purpose?" |
6669 | How do I know that Abraham had a perfect heart towards God? |
6669 | How do you read the history of the miracles-- the stories of His opening the eyes, unstopping the ears, cleansing the leper, and raising the dead? |
6669 | How do you read your Bibles? |
6669 | How do you trust your physician when you are sick, as you lay in repose or anguish upon your bed? |
6669 | How does a bride believe in her husband when she gives herself to him at the altar? |
6669 | How is it that wherever we go, as an organization, these signs and wonders are wrought? |
6669 | How many of us would stick to Him then? |
6669 | How many sermons have you heard?--invitations rejected? |
6669 | How many will? |
6669 | How many would go to the dungeon? |
6669 | How much blessed persuasion and reasoning of the Holy Spirit have you resisted?--how much of the grace of God have you received in vain? |
6669 | How shall you feel? |
6669 | I believe He feels with respect to us, just as He felt with respect to His people of old, when He said,"Why come ye and cover my altar with tears?" |
6669 | I love you complacently; I give you my approbation?" |
6669 | I said,"Did not the Lord Jesus cut loose from His circle to save you? |
6669 | I said,"My dear friend, what do you think God gave you feeling for?" |
6669 | I said,"My dear sir, how do you know? |
6669 | If God can not do this for me-- if Jesus Christ can not do this for me, what is my advantage at all by His coming? |
6669 | If there is any father here who has a prodigal son, I ask, How is it that you are not reconciled to your son? |
6669 | If they had believed, why all this alarm and concern on the approach of death? |
6669 | If you had lived at Nazareth, do you think Jesus Christ would have done anything for you? |
6669 | If you please, will you be converted? |
6669 | Is it any wonder that at Christian Evidence Societies men get up and say that the Christian system has become effete? |
6669 | Is it any wonder that infidels are laughing us to scorn? |
6669 | Is it because of your pride?--because you want for them this world''s applause and favor? |
6669 | Is it for fear of suffering? |
6669 | Is it more than He bargained for when He bought you? |
6669 | Is it more than He paid for? |
6669 | Is it not time you ended that controversy? |
6669 | Is it too much? |
6669 | Is not that penitence? |
6669 | Is not that repentance? |
6669 | Is that God''s philosophy? |
6669 | Is that justice? |
6669 | Is that mercy? |
6669 | Is the_"but"_ the hindrance that keeps you out of the Kingdom? |
6669 | Is there anybody scarcely who wo n''t charge his neighbor more than the article is worth, if he has a chance, and call it lawful? |
6669 | Is there anything contrary to the laws of mind in it? |
6669 | Is there anything that you would not allow under any great pressure of calamity, or realization of danger, or grief? |
6669 | Is there anything unphilosophical in it? |
6669 | Is there not a definite end in every promise, exhortation, and command? |
6669 | Mr. So- and- So, or even your bishop, thinks about you, than you are about the extension of the kingdom of Christ? |
6669 | Must John have a revelation of things shortly to come to pass? |
6669 | Must Paul hear unspeakable words, not, at that time, lawful for a man to utter? |
6669 | Must we decline the honor of being in the advance guard of the Lamb''s army because of the conflict, because of the pain, because of the persecution? |
6669 | Must we decline to tread in the bloodstained footsteps of the Captain of our salvation? |
6669 | Must we give in? |
6669 | My friends, are you more concerned about relieving temporal distress than you are about feeding famished souls? |
6669 | My husband whispered,"Will you go there for love?" |
6669 | Not, do you weep? |
6669 | Now then, will you come? |
6669 | Now then, will you? |
6669 | Now, do you repent? |
6669 | Now, have you got this Divine Charity? |
6669 | Now, have you got thus far? |
6669 | Now, the Lord wants a man to do this, and whom does He choose? |
6669 | Now, the question is, are you to teach that man that he is to go on drinking, and expect God to save him? |
6669 | Now, then, the Spirit of God says,"Will you give up the cup?" |
6669 | Now, what do they mean? |
6669 | Now, what does it mean to walk in obedience? |
6669 | Now, what is the meaning of this term"perfect heart,"referring to the hearts of God''s children, all the way through the Bible? |
6669 | Now, what is the whole duty of man? |
6669 | Now, what is this perfect heart? |
6669 | Now, why is it that the great mass of professing Christians do not get answers to their prayers? |
6669 | Now, will you give up conformity to the world? |
6669 | Now,_ what does it mean_? |
6669 | Now,_ will you have it?_ Have you understood the conditions?" |
6669 | Now,_ will you have it?_ Have you understood the conditions?" |
6669 | Oh, I often think if times of persecution were to come again how many of us would be faithful? |
6669 | Oh, have you got this Charity? |
6669 | On another occasion, He said,"Are ye also yet without understanding?" |
6669 | Paul says,"Shall I come unto you with the rod?" |
6669 | Shall I ever regret it? |
6669 | Shall it be so again to- night? |
6669 | Shall you be sorry for the trouble? |
6669 | Shall you murmur at the way He has led you? |
6669 | Shall you regret the sacrifice? |
6669 | Shall you think He might have made it a little easier, as you are sometimes tempted to do now? |
6669 | She said,"A friend of mine remarked,''You do n''t mean to say that you are going to call four thousand people together to cry for the Holy Ghost?'' |
6669 | Some despairing soul asked me this in large letters,"How am I to believe?" |
6669 | That will be grand, will it not? |
6669 | The Lord is sitting there; He is looking at you, and He is saying,"What is all this stir about? |
6669 | The light of the Spirit is on you:_ will you, act? |
6669 | Then what is_ repentance_? |
6669 | Then you have got thus far that you hate sin? |
6669 | Then, how was it that wherever He went, there was sword, opposition, and conflict to the death? |
6669 | Then, what does this perfect heart imply? |
6669 | Then, what hinders? |
6669 | There he was-- an Ethiopian, a heathen; but where had he been? |
6669 | These Nazarenes, were they not everywhere spoken against? |
6669 | These promises are not made to everybody, are they? |
6669 | They are always asking,"Have any of the rulers believed on Him?" |
6669 | They can much more easily see the sin of ruining or injuring their neighbors than injuring the great God; but He says,"Will a man rob God? |
6669 | They feel this opposition and conflict deeply, but what are they to do? |
6669 | They have a family of beautiful little children, but the father says,"What are we going to do for our children? |
6669 | They tried to put her off, and asked,"Will not someone else do?" |
6669 | To do what? |
6669 | To whom does the Holy Spirit say,"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved?" |
6669 | Try your Charity by this mark: Do you contemplate the dying, famishing, half- damned souls of your fellow- men? |
6669 | Was he a careless, unconvicted sinner? |
6669 | Was it ever done? |
6669 | We can not help but be proud of godly and obedient children; but what will it be to show your spiritual children, to the angels? |
6669 | What a comment on"Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?" |
6669 | What am I to do?" |
6669 | What did Asa do? |
6669 | What did He say to Saul? |
6669 | What did Jesus want? |
6669 | What do I mean? |
6669 | What do you want Me to do? |
6669 | What does he say? |
6669 | What does he say? |
6669 | What does it mean to walk in the light? |
6669 | What does it mean? |
6669 | What else but the Holy Ghost could have shown you_ that_? |
6669 | What else is it, think you? |
6669 | What if anything should happen; if something should be done?''" |
6669 | What is all this talk, this singing, and this praying about? |
6669 | What is it? |
6669 | What is it? |
6669 | What is the reason He does not do something for us, and come down in the same plentitude of spiritual power as He did at Pentecost? |
6669 | What is the secret? |
6669 | What is the use of telling a person to believe he is saved_ before_ he is saved? |
6669 | What need was there for him to make this display; could he not have shut the window and gone into an inner room? |
6669 | What shall you say? |
6669 | What was he doing? |
6669 | What was it? |
6669 | What was the first work Peter did? |
6669 | What will that be? |
6669 | What will you say to Him? |
6669 | What woman in the world would feel that she ought to obey father and mother, rather than her husband? |
6669 | What would you say to such a man? |
6669 | What would you say? |
6669 | What would you say? |
6669 | What would you think of such a man? |
6669 | What? |
6669 | When Saul said,"Who art Thou, Lord?" |
6669 | When he repents? |
6669 | When is a sinner to believe? |
6669 | When were you sanctified? |
6669 | Where are the saints who will go in meekness and in love to try to reclaim the one who has erred? |
6669 | Where did He begin? |
6669 | Where was the power to come from to heal him? |
6669 | Wherefore hast thou sinned against God? |
6669 | Which has the most common sense in it? |
6669 | Which have you got, my brother?--my sister? |
6669 | Which is the most God- honoring? |
6669 | Which will please your forefathers the most? |
6669 | Who are these promises made to? |
6669 | Who are to believe? |
6669 | Who will? |
6669 | Why are you always reproving him? |
6669 | Why are you not reconciled? |
6669 | Why are you obliged to hold him at arm''s length? |
6669 | Why can you not have him come in and out, and live with you on the same terms as the affectionate, obedient daughter? |
6669 | Why can you not live on amicable terms with him? |
6669 | Why could he not have gone into an inner chamber and prayed?" |
6669 | Why did it come on that particular occasion? |
6669 | Why did the Holy Ghost overshadow them? |
6669 | Why do hundreds of assemblies of God''s people meet and pray, but nothing comes? |
6669 | Why do you persuade men, Paul? |
6669 | Why does He not do something?" |
6669 | Why not let God work it in us? |
6669 | Why not? |
6669 | Why should he not roar for the disquietude of his spirit as much as David did? |
6669 | Why should not our conception of Christian perfection steadily grow with the increase of our knowledge of God and of His holy law? |
6669 | Why should we be enthusiastic in everything but religion? |
6669 | Why should we not be enthusiastic? |
6669 | Why should we not have this demonstration in soul matters? |
6669 | Why should we not shout and sing the praises of our King, as we expect to do it in glory? |
6669 | Why will He not show Himself strong in your behalf? |
6669 | Why would you exclude them from religion? |
6669 | Why? |
6669 | Why? |
6669 | Why? |
6669 | Why? |
6669 | Why? |
6669 | Why? |
6669 | Why? |
6669 | Will it ever be done? |
6669 | Will not this be reward enough? |
6669 | Will yon leap on to His faithfulness? |
6669 | Will yon step over? |
6669 | Will you act?_ Every spark of light you get without obeying it, leaves your soul darker. |
6669 | Will you answer the question?" |
6669 | Will you be filled with the pure, holy love of God towards God, and towards men, and all beings? |
6669 | Will you be made Divine? |
6669 | Will you be made true, straight, clean? |
6669 | Will you come to Jesus? |
6669 | Will you come to that point now? |
6669 | Will you give up arguing about it and trying to make out that it is not a stumbling- block, when you know it is? |
6669 | Will you go down, and say,"Be it unto me according to Thy word"? |
6669 | Will you go over? |
6669 | Will you go there for love-- the love of Jesus!--the great love wherewith He loved you and gave Himself for you? |
6669 | Will you have it? |
6669 | Will you have it? |
6669 | Will you have this Divine Charity wrought in you? |
6669 | Will you let God do it? |
6669 | Will you make Him a straight path? |
6669 | Will you put away the depths of unbelief which are at the bottom of all your difficulty? |
6669 | Will you put your foot over? |
6669 | Will you seek it? |
6669 | Will you spring into the arms of Omnipotent Love, and trust Him with consequences? |
6669 | Will you stand up and raise your voices to the Lord and ask Him? |
6669 | Will you trample under foot that accursed thing which has so long kept the fulness of the blessing from you? |
6669 | Will you trust? |
6669 | Will you try it? |
6669 | Will you venture? |
6669 | Will you, for the great yearning with which your Father has been following you all these years-- for His love''s sake, will you come? |
6669 | Will you? |
6669 | Will you? |
6669 | Will_ you_ be content to go in advance? |
6669 | Will_ you_ endure the hardness of a pioneer? |
6669 | Wo n''t that be reward enough? |
6669 | Would you dream for a moment from reading the New Testament that this was the kind of thing God intended in His provisions of grace and salvation? |
6669 | Would you not say,"Then, come in, my son; sit by me, live with me, and I will shield you-- I will deliver you? |
6669 | Would you rather have men damned conventionally, than saved unconventionally? |
6669 | Would you? |
6669 | Yea, for hellish gain, do they not make widows and orphans wholesale? |
6669 | You can not accomplish your purpose when you have done all; and think you that you will escape, by your satanic inventions, the Divine Executioner? |
6669 | You say,"How am I to believe?" |
6669 | You women here, if you knew that you were not the first and only one in the affections of your husband, what would you say? |
6669 | _ How are they to believe_? |
6669 | _ When are they to believe_? |
6669 | _ Who are to believe_? |
6669 | _ Why, why_ did it come? |
6669 | _ Why_ did the glory come? |
6669 | and how, in this way, the glorious blessing would spread? |
6669 | and, through them, how many more? |
6669 | do not even publicans the same?" |
6669 | does He profess to do for me what He can not? |
6669 | generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? |
6669 | has there not been much ground for it? |
6669 | on his collar, and go and fetch him out? |
6669 | or shall we read just this, that, and the other?" |
6669 | said the other,"Do n''t you know what became of''Do n''t care?''" |
6669 | someone said to me the other day, in agony--"Where is God?" |
6669 | what did that reveal? |
6669 | what do you think he was doing? |
6669 | what was involved in that prayer-- what does that mean? |
6669 | what will that be? |
6669 | who will? |
6669 | will you be such an one? |
6669 | ye temporizers with Divine law? |
6669 | you say,"does He pay you?" |
20138 | And Nabal answered David''s servants, and said, Who is David? 20138 And it came to pass that when David had made an end of speaking, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son David? |
20138 | Art not thou a valiant man? 20138 Did I not tell you,"says Reuben,"sin not against the lad, and ye would not hearken? |
20138 | Dost thou wish to be saved from the_ punishment_ of thy sins, or from the sins themselves? |
20138 | How can I do this great wickedness,says Joseph,"and sin against God?" |
20138 | If I say the truth, why do ye not believe Me? |
20138 | What for? |
20138 | _ But how shall I dare to come to the Lord''s table before I am sure that my sins are forgiven_? |
20138 | A different thing? |
20138 | A self- glorifying Deity whose mercy is_ not_ over all His works, or even over any of them? |
20138 | Ah, how indeed? |
20138 | Am I puzzling you? |
20138 | And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lord''s anointed, and be guiltless? |
20138 | And Saul knew David''s voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my son David? |
20138 | And are not ye of more value than many sparrows? |
20138 | And as I asked myself, why were all these boundless varieties, these treasures of unseen beauty, created? |
20138 | And at your better moments does not the voice within you, witness to, and agree with, the words of that book? |
20138 | And do not your own hearts echo these thoughts at moments when they are quietest and purest and most happy too? |
20138 | And do they not, all of them, of the flesh, reap corruption, and fulfil St. Paul''s words,"If ye live after the flesh ye shall die?" |
20138 | And do you not see that a coward can never be free, never be godly, never be like Christ? |
20138 | And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? |
20138 | And how can a son of God perish? |
20138 | And if it is, is not Christ among us now, indeed? |
20138 | And if so; what was it? |
20138 | And is not this a strange way of making you joyful to remind you of these thoughts? |
20138 | And no man ever gained it but what he found the truth of St. Peter''s own words--"Who will harm you, if you be followers of what is good?" |
20138 | And then say, Are you not in debt to Him? |
20138 | And then strange questions rise in us,"Is that he whom we knew? |
20138 | And then when such thoughts come over us, we can not help going on to say,"What is this death? |
20138 | And then where would our_ chances_ of not dying be? |
20138 | And therefore I ask you solemnly the plain question,"For what does God keep you alive?" |
20138 | And was he a ruined man? |
20138 | And what are you to give Him in return? |
20138 | And what became of Cortez? |
20138 | And what did the Lord appear like? |
20138 | And what did you_ do_, my friend, when God had saved you out of that danger? |
20138 | And what does He expect of you? |
20138 | And what makes men patriots, or artists, or anything noble at all, but the spirit of the living God? |
20138 | And what must you pay Him back? |
20138 | And what shall we say of them who like the swine live only for eating and drinking, and enjoyment? |
20138 | And what sort of people were they? |
20138 | And what was his reward? |
20138 | And what was the end? |
20138 | And what were God''s laws in Joseph''s opinion? |
20138 | And when you had prayed thus, the next thing you ought to have asked yourself was-- What does God require of me? |
20138 | And where do the clouds come from? |
20138 | And where would it take me to, if it did take me? |
20138 | And who is that? |
20138 | And who was Cortez? |
20138 | And who would pity him or say that he had not got his just deserts? |
20138 | And why did Christ choose you? |
20138 | And why should not they, and better ones, too, spring up in your heads, friends? |
20138 | And why, save but that you may enjoy them, and rejoice in your youth? |
20138 | And why? |
20138 | And why? |
20138 | And why? |
20138 | And why? |
20138 | And why? |
20138 | And why? |
20138 | And why? |
20138 | And why? |
20138 | And yet is it_ he_? |
20138 | Are not our sorrows more than our joys? |
20138 | Are not some of you thinking in this way to- day? |
20138 | Are not these brave words for brave soldiers? |
20138 | Are not these brave words, my friends? |
20138 | Are not these soldier- like words? |
20138 | Are not these things wonderful? |
20138 | Are you fighting for Christ, who wishes to make all good, or for the devil, who wishes to make all bad? |
20138 | Are you to be a slave to old rules which your parents or the clergyman taught you?" |
20138 | Better to obey God''s word? |
20138 | Better? |
20138 | But are we nothing more? |
20138 | But do we believe that God is leading_ us_? |
20138 | But from whom did David learn this? |
20138 | But how did the Centurion know-- seemingly at first sight, that Jesus was the Lord God? |
20138 | But if we go on doing bad and wrong things, are we fighting on Christ''s side? |
20138 | But is that idea true? |
20138 | But more: What is the moral which old divines have drawn from this story? |
20138 | But of what use is the sea to us? |
20138 | But some of you may say,"Why do you ask us to thank God for lessons which we have bought by labour and sorrow? |
20138 | But to drag us down whither? |
20138 | But what comes of it? |
20138 | But what do I mean by that? |
20138 | But what had that to do with our Lord''s power, and with the healing of the child? |
20138 | But what is all this to us if that Blessed Man be gone away from us? |
20138 | But what is it which governs these clouds, and makes them do their appointed work? |
20138 | But what more do I know of a man by knowing his name? |
20138 | But what will you do to be saved from your sins? |
20138 | But where does all the rain water and spring water come from? |
20138 | But who will harm you if you be followers of that which is right? |
20138 | But whose_ fault_ is it? |
20138 | But why were you christened? |
20138 | Can God''s blessing be on them? |
20138 | Can you deny that that is right and reasonable? |
20138 | Can you deny that that is right, however some of you may dislike it? |
20138 | Can_ he_ hear us? |
20138 | Can_ he_ see us? |
20138 | Could they not remember that? |
20138 | Did any one ever see a great angel called Chance flying about keeping people from dying? |
20138 | Did you ever_ hear_ a chance, or_ see_ a chance? |
20138 | Did you only mean that? |
20138 | Do I believe that the world is Christ''s making? |
20138 | Do I believe that these plain family relationships are Christ''s sacred appointments? |
20138 | Do not all these in some way or other give way to the animal within them, and live after the flesh? |
20138 | Do not be double- minded, doing things with a mean and interested after- thought, plotting, planning, asking, will this right thing pay me or not? |
20138 | Do you believe that that book which lies there, which we call the Bible, is a true book, or a lying book? |
20138 | Do you fancy that I am saying too much? |
20138 | Do you know what your words mean? |
20138 | Do you not all know it, and fear it, and love it too? |
20138 | Do you not know that you can not even breathe a breath of air, unless Christ first makes the air, and then gives your lungs life to breathe the air? |
20138 | Do you not see how? |
20138 | Do you think not? |
20138 | Do you think not? |
20138 | Does He care nothing about us? |
20138 | Does He let the world go its own way right or wrong? |
20138 | Does He see us? |
20138 | Does it give any rule by which we may judge them? |
20138 | Does not common sense tell you that? |
20138 | Does the man fancy that God''s law is shut up within the church walls, and that so he can keep clear of it by staying away from church? |
20138 | Does_ he_ remember us as we remember_ him_? |
20138 | Else what use in reading these stories of good men and bad men of old times? |
20138 | Every man''s hand has been against_ me_; why should not my hand be against every man? |
20138 | Examine yourselves-- ask yourselves, each of you, Have I been a good brother? |
20138 | For He is The Father,--and what greater delight to a father than to see his children happy, if only, while they are happy, they are_ good_? |
20138 | For are you not all Christ''s soldiers, every one of you? |
20138 | For has not God His moral Laws, His spiritual Laws, which must be obeyed, if you intend to prosper in this life, or in the life to come? |
20138 | For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? |
20138 | For in the first place-- What should we do without water? |
20138 | For is it not a story about a brother and brothers? |
20138 | For what is the story? |
20138 | For what use is it merely knowing that"_ God is_"? |
20138 | For who gave you your souls but Christ? |
20138 | For who is the man who is master of his own luck? |
20138 | HIGHER OR LOWER: WHICH SHALL WIN? |
20138 | Has He ever spoken to any one? |
20138 | Has He ever told any one about Himself?" |
20138 | Have I not guessed the hearts of some of you at least? |
20138 | Have you not had such thoughts, my friends, and sadder thoughts still lately? |
20138 | He calls to you to come and serve Him loyally and gratefully-- dare you refuse Him-- The Maker and King of this glorious world? |
20138 | High pay? |
20138 | How came this same death loose in the world? |
20138 | How can he perish, who like Christ is full of the fruits of the spirit? |
20138 | How can that which is like God and like Christ perish? |
20138 | How can we enjoy ourselves if we are to be brought into judgment after all? |
20138 | How can we understand it? |
20138 | How can we understand the Divine and eternal bond between Father and Son? |
20138 | How dare he stretch forth his hand against the Lord''s anointed? |
20138 | How did you come here? |
20138 | How many a young man have I seen run into sin just that he might be_ knowing_; and say,"Why should I not see life for myself? |
20138 | How much more will the spirit of a_ man_? |
20138 | How often when we are in trouble or anxiety do we go everywhere to get comfort, before we go to God''s word? |
20138 | How will you escape if you turn your back on your Maker, and despise your own Creator when He stoops to entreat you? |
20138 | I say, pictures raise blessed thoughts in me-- why not in you, my brothers? |
20138 | I was gloating over the beauty of those feathered jewels, and then wondering what was the meaning, what was the use of it all? |
20138 | IS, OR IS NOT, THE BIBLE TRUE? |
20138 | If any body else''s sins are harmful, who will make your sins harmless? |
20138 | If any mere man had died for your sake, would you not love him-- would you not feel yourself in debt to him, a deeper debt than you can ever repay? |
20138 | If it is not from God, let it go; but if it_ is_ from God, which we know it is, how dare we disobey it? |
20138 | If not, what is the use of our reading David''s psalms, either in private or publicly in church every Sunday? |
20138 | If they do not mean that to you, what was the use of blessing them with prayer? |
20138 | If we are not in the same case as David was, what right have we to take David''s words into our mouths? |
20138 | If you are so afraid of God''s anger, are you more likely to provoke Him by disobeying His strict commands, or by obeying them? |
20138 | In comparison of Thee what is man''s wisdom? |
20138 | In debt to Christ, you say? |
20138 | Is He far off? |
20138 | Is He proud and careless? |
20138 | Is he not? |
20138 | Is it from God, or is it not from God? |
20138 | Is it right or wrong? |
20138 | Is it so, my friends? |
20138 | Is it so? |
20138 | Is it true or false? |
20138 | Is it? |
20138 | Is not that Divine? |
20138 | Is not that something better than all the preaching in the world? |
20138 | Is not that the Spirit of God and of Christ? |
20138 | Is not this a charge of cavalry worth sharing in? |
20138 | Is not this a general worth following? |
20138 | Is not this curious at least? |
20138 | Is there an old man sitting here who has not had this happen to him? |
20138 | Is, or is not, the Bible true? |
20138 | It would have you peaceable-- can you deny that you ought to be that? |
20138 | Losing it? |
20138 | Millions of miles from this earth? |
20138 | My good friends, if you by doing wrong hurt other people, and make other people unhappy, are you doing Christ''s work or the devil''s? |
20138 | My good friends, what does God require of you? |
20138 | Nay, is it not all the stronger reason for providing against them, that there are other sorrows against which we can not provide? |
20138 | Now does any man of you wish that really? |
20138 | Now how did this wonderful change and improvement take place-- suddenly, and, as it were, in the course of the last hundred years? |
20138 | Now is there any one of you who dare say,"I wish I had not been christened?" |
20138 | Now of what use are these tides? |
20138 | Now what was God''s plan for raising the Jews out of this cowardly, slavish state? |
20138 | Now who is the devil? |
20138 | Now, my friends, if any of you say that, do you not say first what is not true? |
20138 | Now, what does the Bible say of such men? |
20138 | Now, what may we learn from this story? |
20138 | Of what use to man can all that sea be? |
20138 | Or did you ever meet with any one who had? |
20138 | Or does He care for us? |
20138 | Or will he keep to his old watchword,"I fear God?" |
20138 | Our labour far heavier than our rest can be sweet? |
20138 | Pray what are these wonderful things called chances, which are to keep you alive for thirty or forty or fifty years more? |
20138 | Remember how long had God Himself been, before He made Time, when there was no Time to pass over? |
20138 | See, now, such thoughts have sprung up in_ my_ head; how else did I write them down here? |
20138 | Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men whom I know not whence they be?" |
20138 | So it must be, for what says St. Paul? |
20138 | Surely, you may trust Him in such a thing as this,--He who has had long- suffering enough to keep you alive, with a chance of salvation all this time? |
20138 | That a man to prosper in the world must get the very same wisdom by which God made and rules the world? |
20138 | That is rather putting the question aside, which is, Do_ we_ believe it to be true, and find it to be true? |
20138 | That man''s true wisdom is a pattern of God''s wisdom? |
20138 | That there is but one wisdom for God and man? |
20138 | The Bible tells you to reverence and love God the giver of all good-- does not reason tell you that? |
20138 | The Bible would have you pure-- can you deny that you ought to be that? |
20138 | The amusement and excitement of the fires? |
20138 | The question for poor human creatures is,"But what sort of a being is God? |
20138 | The vanity of being praised for their courage? |
20138 | Then Christ died for you-- how can you be more deeply in debt to any one than to Him? |
20138 | Then he said to himself,"If there must be subordination on earth, must there not be subordination in heaven?" |
20138 | Then if you dare not say that; if you are content to have been christened, why are you not content to do what christened people should? |
20138 | Then why are they alive still? |
20138 | Then why did God take such trouble for them? |
20138 | Then why does our Lord say,"He that liveth and believeth in me shall never die?" |
20138 | Then why put the thought of God away by foolish words about chance? |
20138 | Then why should not_ I_ do as_ I_ will? |
20138 | Three hundred houses round were also burnt that night; but of what use? |
20138 | Truly, if he was not a great general, who is? |
20138 | Unto whom? |
20138 | WHAT IS CHANCE? |
20138 | We are ready to say at first sight,"How much better if the world had been all dry land? |
20138 | We know that to be a man, we must be something more than an animal-- a mere brute-- for when we call any one a brute, what do we mean? |
20138 | Well then, if you have these thoughts, I will ask you, what do you mean by_ chance_? |
20138 | Well, then, remember who made these wonders? |
20138 | Were they high- spirited and brave? |
20138 | Were they pious and godly? |
20138 | Were they respectable and cleanly livers? |
20138 | Were they teachable and obedient? |
20138 | Were they wise and learned? |
20138 | What are these laws of God of which men talk? |
20138 | What are these sacred bonds of family and society? |
20138 | What are you but deserters from Christ''s banner and army, traitors to Christ''s cause? |
20138 | What beast so clever as an ape? |
20138 | What can be more foolish? |
20138 | What can be more ungrateful? |
20138 | What could he do? |
20138 | What did Cortez do? |
20138 | What do you fancy keeps them up to their work? |
20138 | What do you or any man want with making your peace with God? |
20138 | What does David say:--"Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? |
20138 | What does God require of you? |
20138 | What does any good father expect of his children? |
20138 | What have such words to do with us? |
20138 | What have you to say against the pattern of a true and holy man as laid down in the Bible? |
20138 | What is he to do? |
20138 | What is it? |
20138 | What is man''s power? |
20138 | What is our life but labour and sorrow?" |
20138 | What is the use of all that sea?" |
20138 | What is the use of making a sad story long? |
20138 | What is the use of my praising the sea to you? |
20138 | What is there more common than this? |
20138 | What is_ chance_ on which you depend as you say for your life? |
20138 | What is_ chance_ which you fancy so much stronger than God? |
20138 | What man in his senses would keep such plants, such stock, such servants? |
20138 | What matter if a man gain the whole world and lose his own soul? |
20138 | What more sign do you want? |
20138 | What must it have been like when sung by David himself? |
20138 | What right has death in the world, if man has not sinned or fallen? |
20138 | What should I be? |
20138 | What should I see? |
20138 | What should we say of them? |
20138 | What should you call such a man? |
20138 | What sort of thing is this wonderful chance, which is going to keep you alive? |
20138 | What will he do? |
20138 | What, then, did he mean by these two last verses? |
20138 | What, you may ask, is that the end? |
20138 | What_ must_ you do to show your thankfulness to Him? |
20138 | What_ ought_ you to do to show your thankfulness to Him? |
20138 | When I consider Thy Heavens, even the work of Thine hands, I say, What is man? |
20138 | When a young lad falls into wild ways, and gets into trouble by his own folly, then to whom does he go for comfort? |
20138 | Where is_ he_ himself? |
20138 | Wherefore does my lord then thus pursue after his servant? |
20138 | Wherefore, then, hast thou not kept thy lord the king? |
20138 | Which of you can say that he will be alive next Sunday? |
20138 | Who brought you into the world? |
20138 | Who but Christ, by whom all things were made, and you among the rest? |
20138 | Who but Christ? |
20138 | Who can make up to me for my life?" |
20138 | Who could dare or bear to look on God if we saw Him as He is face to face? |
20138 | Who gave you food? |
20138 | Who gave you life? |
20138 | Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? |
20138 | Who made every atom of food grow which you ate since you were born? |
20138 | Who made the air you breathe, the water which you drink, the wool and cotton which clothes you? |
20138 | Who made you different from the rest of the world? |
20138 | Who told you that, I ask again? |
20138 | Who told you that? |
20138 | Who was Moses sent to? |
20138 | Whose work is that? |
20138 | Why are they put into the mouths of us English, safe, comfortable, prosperous, above almost all the nations upon earth? |
20138 | Why buy your own experience dear, when you can get it gratis, for nothing already? |
20138 | Why did God bring the Jews out of Egypt? |
20138 | Why did God care for them, and help them, and work wonders for them? |
20138 | Why did he not pray before? |
20138 | Why does He keep you alive? |
20138 | Why does he help and protect them? |
20138 | Why does he talk as if we were robbers or murderers, or had a spite against our neighbours? |
20138 | Why does not God rid Himself of them at once and let them die, instead of cumbering the ground? |
20138 | Why is this? |
20138 | Why must we work on, and on, and on, all our days, in weariness and anxiety? |
20138 | Why should not you? |
20138 | Why should we use those prayers? |
20138 | Why should you not enjoy yourself? |
20138 | Why, in God''s name, was not the bridge brought on? |
20138 | Why? |
20138 | Will He speak to us? |
20138 | Will a man keep plants in his garden which bear neither fruit nor flowers? |
20138 | Will a man keep stock on his farm which will only eat and never make profit; or a servant in his house who will not work? |
20138 | Will he be a bad brother because they were bad? |
20138 | X. SLAVES OF FREE? |
20138 | Yes, my friends, but what makes him gallant? |
20138 | You all know how largely we use them, but why? |
20138 | You have certainly not avoided them, at least, by staying away from the Sacrament, and breaking Christ''s command to take it? |
20138 | You tell us to be joyful and thank God for His mercies; but why all this toil? |
20138 | _ A man must live_? |
20138 | _ A man must live_? |
20138 | _ A man must live_? |
20138 | _ But who will save me from them_? |
20138 | _ For what_? |
20138 | _ He_ dead? |
20138 | _ I_ have been betrayed; why should not_ I_ betray? |
20138 | _ I_ have been opprest; why should not_ I_ oppress? |
20138 | _ who will change me and make a new creature of me_? |
20138 | about a husband and a wife? |
20138 | about a son and a father, about a master and a servant? |
20138 | about a subject and a sovereign? |
20138 | and as for sundry diseases,_ have_ you avoided them? |
20138 | and does it not put you in mind of God who made it? |
20138 | and how they all behaved to each other-- some well and some ill-- in these relations? |
20138 | and next do you not know that it is not true? |
20138 | and that Christ is governing it? |
20138 | and who is the son of Jesse? |
20138 | and yet you can not understand that you are in debt to Christ, and have been eating His bread and living on His bounty ever since you were born? |
20138 | any rule which they ought to obey? |
20138 | for what have I done? |
20138 | have I been a good father? |
20138 | have I been a good husband? |
20138 | have I been a good servant? |
20138 | have I been a good son? |
20138 | how can I try to pay Him back-- how can I show that I am thankful? |
20138 | how long ere Thou avenge the blood that is shed?" |
20138 | is there not misery horrible enough hanging over our heads daily in this mortal life without our making more for ourselves by our own folly? |
20138 | of love, joy, peace, long- suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance? |
20138 | or is it not? |
20138 | that still piece of clay, waiting only a few days before it returns to its dust? |
20138 | this horrible thing which takes husbands from their wives, and children from their parents, and those who love from those who love them? |
20138 | what can you expect if you will not come to Him? |
20138 | what_ can_ you do to show how thankful you are to God for His care? |
20138 | who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? |
20138 | who keeps them working? |
20138 | who shall dwell in thy holy hill? |
20138 | wretched being that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" |
20138 | yet what beast so foolish, so mean, so useless? |
20138 | you wish to be spiritual? |
11381 | ''And is not the body more than raiment?'' |
11381 | ''But,''say some,''is not salvation going to a place called heaven?'' |
11381 | ''Hast thou killed, and also taken possession?'' |
11381 | ''The Lord is my light, and my salvation, of whom then shall I be afraid? |
11381 | ''What is your name?'' |
11381 | ''Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature?'' |
11381 | ''Who gave you this name?'' |
11381 | ''Who is God? |
11381 | ***** May I boldly ask you to alter this to- day? |
11381 | --My friends, do we not see them avenge themselves daily? |
11381 | A small question? |
11381 | Ah, my friends, might one not learn it at once, if one would but open one''s eyes and look at things as they are? |
11381 | And above all, Malachi says, the root question of all would be, what sort of fathers have you been to your children? |
11381 | And as for fine clothes and rich ornaments,''Is not the body more than raiment?'' |
11381 | And by this time some of you are asking,''Live? |
11381 | And consider, my friends, can any good result come from handling sacred matters with such harsh and fierce hands as they have been handled of late? |
11381 | And did you ever ask yourself how that apparent miracle could come to pass? |
11381 | And do we not find in the very end of Scripture the Apostles working with their own hands for their daily bread? |
11381 | And do you not know that so to forgive would be no weak indulgence, but the part of a good father; a good, and noble, and human thing to do? |
11381 | And do you seek first God''s righteousness? |
11381 | And for the rest, again I say, is not God your Father? |
11381 | And how can a man get that blessed and noble state of mind? |
11381 | And how can it tell him that till it has told him that God is his Father? |
11381 | And how can you tell but that he is right on the whole, and as far as he sees? |
11381 | And how shall we know whether our hearts are turned away, or whether they are right with God? |
11381 | And if God be with them, who dare be against them? |
11381 | And if He has given you all these wonderful powers of mind and soul, surely He has given you the less blessing, the mere power to earn your own food? |
11381 | And if it has been thus, in the case of God and of humanity, has it not been equally so in the case of the physical world? |
11381 | And now, my friends, what lesson may we learn from this? |
11381 | And shall we not use that spirit hand in hand? |
11381 | And then the Gospel comes, and answers to every man, to every poor and unlearned labourer: Will you know the name of God? |
11381 | And then with St. Paul we shall be able to answer our own question, and say,''Who will deliver me? |
11381 | And then, if we will but cry with St. Paul,''Oh, wretched man that I am,_ who_ shall deliver me from the body of this death?'' |
11381 | And then, what blessed words are these from the Lord Jesus, which we read in the book of Revelation? |
11381 | And to walk humbly with your God, because-- and what shall I say now? |
11381 | And what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?'' |
11381 | And what else does the Church Catechism mean, when it bids every child thank God for having brought him into a state of salvation? |
11381 | And what happened to them in the meantime? |
11381 | And what higher glory and honour or praise can we ascribe, even to God Himself, than to say that of Him? |
11381 | And what is it which kills a man''s soul within him on this side the grave, and makes him dead while he has a name to live? |
11381 | And what is sin but living according to the flesh, and not according to the spirit? |
11381 | And what is this dark fight within us? |
11381 | And what is this reason? |
11381 | And what then? |
11381 | And whence has all this waste come? |
11381 | And who is God''s image and God''s likeness? |
11381 | And who is The Holy Spirit? |
11381 | And why be anxious about clothing? |
11381 | And why should it not be so? |
11381 | And why? |
11381 | And why? |
11381 | And would not that penitent child be more precious to you, though you can not tell why, than any other of your children? |
11381 | And yet, after all, my friends, is not such a book written already? |
11381 | And you do not mean to tell us that we shall shorten our lives by our own tempers, or our tale- bearing, though we might, perhaps, by drunkenness?'' |
11381 | Are not they better than you? |
11381 | Are people happy together? |
11381 | Are they not the most deep and awful, as well as the most blessed and hopeful words on earth? |
11381 | Are they numerous, intricate, burdensome, a yoke which neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear? |
11381 | Are they one of them laid down directly in Scripture, like the Ten Commandments, the Lord''s Prayer, or the Creeds? |
11381 | Are they such plain matters that the wayfaring man, though poor, can make up his mind on them for himself? |
11381 | Are we not members of the Body of bodies, members of Christ, children of God, inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven? |
11381 | As well ask, Can a man be saved from his sins without being saved from his sins? |
11381 | Ask yourself in every action,''What is right, what is my duty, what would God have me do?'' |
11381 | Be not anxious, saying, What shall we eat? |
11381 | But as for anxiety, fretting, repining, complaining to God,''Why hast Thou made me thus?'' |
11381 | But did it now seem strange to you that David''s repentance, which was so complete when it did come, should have come no sooner? |
11381 | But does not that hold as good of the man who differs from you? |
11381 | But have we done so, my friends? |
11381 | But how about this old sin, which caused the man all this trouble? |
11381 | But how did that old custom arise? |
11381 | But if His will is to give it us, why ask Him at all? |
11381 | But if even they ought to have known that God was Love, how much more we? |
11381 | But if they could not see the beauty of His conduct, can we? |
11381 | But is this the right state for men? |
11381 | But of what? |
11381 | But the child knows already that God is his Father; and therefore, when the Catechism asks him,''What is his duty to God?'' |
11381 | But what before you die? |
11381 | But what is eternal life? |
11381 | But what part of it? |
11381 | But what sort of virtue? |
11381 | But what use of many words? |
11381 | But who is He? |
11381 | But, my friends, if it is the right of free Englishmen to protest against such doings, how shall it be done? |
11381 | But_ why_ is his Christian name given him when he is baptized? |
11381 | Can Christ deny Himself? |
11381 | Can God obey? |
11381 | Can man weary God? |
11381 | Can the creature conquer and destroy the love of his Creator? |
11381 | Can there be humility in God? |
11381 | Did he need Nathan to tell him that he had done wrong? |
11381 | Did it ever happen to any of you, to see a mob of several thousands put to instant flight by a mere handful of soldiers? |
11381 | Did it ever seem to you a curious thing that the Catechism begins by asking the child its name? |
11381 | Die? |
11381 | Do not men try to better themselves at the expense of the parish-- to the injury of the parish? |
11381 | Do not most people fancy that God''s kingdom only means some pleasant place to which people are to go after they die? |
11381 | Do they belong to the simple fundamental truths of the Gospel? |
11381 | Do they mean that Jews were forbid to murder, steal, and commit adultery, but that Christians are not forbidden? |
11381 | Do they not tell us the very mystery of God''s being? |
11381 | Do they pull well together? |
11381 | Do we believe that this earth was made by Jesus Christ?--by Him who was full of grace and truth? |
11381 | Do we believe this? |
11381 | Do you fancy God less of a father than you are? |
11381 | Do you not know what frame of mind I mean? |
11381 | Do you not think that just in proportion to the child''s quickness and understanding, he would be awed, almost terrified? |
11381 | Do you see the same law working in our own free country? |
11381 | Do you seek first God''s kingdom, or your own profit, your own pleasure, your own reputation? |
11381 | Do you? |
11381 | Does God walk humbly? |
11381 | Does it not seem, then, something strange that they should never in this Catechism of theirs mention one word about justifying or justification? |
11381 | Does it seem strange to you that St. Paul should warn you, that you are not debtors to your own flesh? |
11381 | Does not experience again show us that in the case of our fellow- men, whatsoever is made manifest, is light? |
11381 | Does that seem to you a small question, my friends? |
11381 | For are we not brothers after all? |
11381 | For as Job says,''Can man by searching find out God?'' |
11381 | For if a child is not justified in being a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven, what is he justified in being? |
11381 | For is it not the likeness of God Himself? |
11381 | For the Spirit of God is God, and therefore the life of God is the life which God''s Spirit makes men live; and what is that? |
11381 | For what does St. Paul say was the matter with the old heathens? |
11381 | For what is this same eternal death? |
11381 | For what says the text? |
11381 | For what son is there whom His Father does not chastise? |
11381 | For, are we not members of a body, my friends? |
11381 | For, my friends, were you ever, any one of you, for one half hour, completely angry, completely_ sulky_? |
11381 | God will not surely lay down one law for you, and another for him? |
11381 | Has he not a conscience, a spirit in him which knows good from evil? |
11381 | Has he not an earthly father, through whom he may know_ The_ Father? |
11381 | Has it never happened to you to know some young country lad, both before and after he has become a soldier? |
11381 | Has it not been so in our notions of God? |
11381 | Has not Christ redeemed us with one and the same sacrifice? |
11381 | Has not God made us of one blood, English men, with English hearts? |
11381 | Has not her very wealth vanished from her, because she sold herself to work all unrighteousness with greediness? |
11381 | Has not the Holy Spirit given us one and the same desire of doing good? |
11381 | Has not your Heavenly Father given you a higher life than the mere life which must be kept up by food, which He has given to the animals? |
11381 | Has she not dwindled down into the most miserable and helpless of all nations? |
11381 | Have I not a right to give a man as good as he brings?'' |
11381 | Have any of you here ever stood godfather or godmother to any young person in this parish who is not yet confirmed? |
11381 | Have we not the four Gospels, which tell us of Jesus Christ, the perfect Son, who came to do the will of a perfect Father? |
11381 | He says,''Well, perhaps I am unhappy because I have done something wrong: what wrong can I have done?'' |
11381 | He was king of all Israel, and what was one small vineyard more or less to him? |
11381 | He would inquire of every man, How have you kept my image; my likeness, in which I made you? |
11381 | His love, who Himself went down into hell, and preached to the spirits in prison, to show that he did care even for them? |
11381 | His, who, were you in the very lowest depths of hell, would pity you still? |
11381 | How can a man be saved from his sins but by becoming sinless? |
11381 | How can it tell him what breaking his duty is till it has told him what the duty itself is? |
11381 | How can it tell him what sin is till it has told him what righteousness is? |
11381 | How could the great Prophet of Nazareth stoop to trouble Himself about such poor insignificant people? |
11381 | How do you know that He does not care for them as much as He does for you? |
11381 | How do you know that He does not rejoice in them as much as in you? |
11381 | How many free nations in Europe lie now in bondage, gnawing their tongues for pain, and weary with waiting for the deliverance which does not come? |
11381 | How then shall we show forth our thankfulness, not only in our lips, but in our lives? |
11381 | How would the Lord Jesus Christ have behaved, if He had been in my place when He was upon earth? |
11381 | I ask you whether this is right and just? |
11381 | I depend on them, and not on God, for comfort and for wealth, and my Heavenly Father does_ not_ know what I have need of?'' |
11381 | I have done right from fear of hell, from hope of heaven; or to win Thy blessings: but how often have I done right really and purely for Thy sake? |
11381 | I have seen( and what sadder or more fearful sight?) |
11381 | If I be wrong myself, how can I make myself right? |
11381 | If a man be bad and sinful, can he be saved from eternal death without curing his badness and sinfulness? |
11381 | If a tree be decayed, can it be saved from dying without curing the decay? |
11381 | If an animal is diseased can it be saved from dying without curing the disease? |
11381 | If not, no confessing with the mouth will be unto salvation, for how can a man be saved in his sins? |
11381 | If this is not bond enough between man and man, what bond would we have? |
11381 | If we can enjoy ourselves a little, why should we not? |
11381 | If you say of a man,''he is in a state of happiness,''you mean, do you not, that he is happy now, not that he may perhaps be happy some day? |
11381 | If you were, did you ever feel any torment like_ that_? |
11381 | In what? |
11381 | Inspired, infinite, inexhaustible as it is, can we pretend to have fathomed all its abysses, to have comprehended all its boundless treasures? |
11381 | Instead of behaving like God''s ministers and God''s stewards, and asking,''How would God our King have us rule His kingdom?'' |
11381 | Instead of saying,''How shall we make the children have faith in God by telling them what faith is?'' |
11381 | Is He not_ The_ Father, the perfect Father,''from whom every fatherhood in heaven and earth is named?'' |
11381 | Is he not an earthly son; and through that may he not know_ The_ Son? |
11381 | Is it not a life of love, joy, peace, long- suffering, gentleness, goodness, patience, meekness? |
11381 | Is it not the very way, the only way, to stir up in him faith, and real hearty trust and affection towards God? |
11381 | Is it not written, that not one jot or tittle of the Law shall fail; and that Christ came, not to destroy the Law, but to fulfil it? |
11381 | Is not that a prayer for men as well as praise to God? |
11381 | Is not the life more than meat? |
11381 | Is not this enough, my friends? |
11381 | Is not this true? |
11381 | Is not your body a far more beautiful and nobler thing than all the gay clothes with which you can bedizen it? |
11381 | Is not, not merely sun and stars, but even the meanest gnat which hums in the air, better than man, more worthy of God''s love than man? |
11381 | Is righteousness what we want? |
11381 | Is that the sort of young person next door to whom you would wish to live? |
11381 | Is that the sort of young person with whom you would wish to see your children keeping company? |
11381 | Is there none in you and me? |
11381 | Is there not in you and me? |
11381 | Is to be made good men what we want? |
11381 | Look at Spain, which was once the richest of all nations; and did her riches preserve her? |
11381 | Man was created in the image and likeness of God, and who is the image and likeness of God but Jesus Christ? |
11381 | May not glorious beings, angels, be dwelling in them, compared to whom man is no better than a beast?'' |
11381 | My dearest friends, ask yourselves, each of you, in which of these two ways do you look at your own station in life? |
11381 | Nay, more, if we are to be very exact( and can we be too exact?) |
11381 | Never say in your hearts when you are tempted to be hard, cruel, covetous, over- reaching,''What harm? |
11381 | No one can now say,''I can not see God, how then can you expect me to be like God?'' |
11381 | No one can say now,''How can a man be like God, and live a life like God''s life?'' |
11381 | No, my friends, that is not the meaning of the text; and when I ask you, Have you obeyed the text? |
11381 | Now are not the points about which there has been, and is still, most dispute, just of this very number? |
11381 | Now can you not see why baptism is the proper time for giving the child a name? |
11381 | Now do you ask yourselves,''How am I to be righteous in my station, as Christ was in His? |
11381 | Now how is that? |
11381 | Now what do those hymns mean by such words, if they mean anything at all? |
11381 | Now what hinders a little child, from the very moment that it can think or speak, from entering into that salvation? |
11381 | Now, how is this? |
11381 | Now, is this profitable? |
11381 | Now, my friends, has this noble history no lesson in it for us? |
11381 | Now, what is this one disease, to which every man, you and I, are all liable? |
11381 | Now, why is this? |
11381 | Oh, my friends, is not that damnation indeed, to be a devil here on earth, and for aught we know, for ever and ever? |
11381 | Oh, my friends, who made us to differ from others, or what have we that we did not receive? |
11381 | Oh, what can we expect, if we neglect so great salvation? |
11381 | Or do you say to yourselves,''How can I get the greatest quantity of money and pleasure out of my station, with the least trouble to myself?'' |
11381 | Or perhaps he does get what he wants: and is he happy after all? |
11381 | Perhaps that does not seem to you any great difference? |
11381 | Shall I come before him with burnt offerings? |
11381 | Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression; the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? |
11381 | Shall not the judge of all the earth do right? |
11381 | Shall public spirit be only strong when it has to destroy, and not when it has to save and comfort? |
11381 | Shall the shepherd play the part, not even of the hireling who flees and leaves the sheep to themselves, but of the very wolf who scatters the flock? |
11381 | Shall we be more dainty than God? |
11381 | Shall we be more dainty than God? |
11381 | Shall we come to shame in that day? |
11381 | Shall we not much rather be in subjection to God, the Father of Spirits, and live? |
11381 | Shall we not speak our minds?'' |
11381 | Shall we refuse to walk with one who walks with God? |
11381 | Shall we refuse to work with one who is a fellow- worker with God, to love one whom God loves, to take by the hand one whose guest God has become? |
11381 | Should you like to have a child who never spoke to you, never asked you for anything? |
11381 | Small? |
11381 | Tell me, then, how dost thou think thou oughtest to behave to such a Father?'' |
11381 | That it was harm to break the Ten Commandments before Christ came, but no harm to break them now? |
11381 | The best test of that, my friends, is, can we do our duty in our own place? |
11381 | The prophet did not even give him time to excuse himself:''Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession?'' |
11381 | The whole question for each of us is,''Do we believe unto righteousness?'' |
11381 | Then what can a man''s being in a state of salvation mean, by all rules of English, but that he is saved? |
11381 | Then why should we bite and tear each other about that which is over and above this? |
11381 | Therefore, when it asks him,''What is thy duty to God and to thy neighbour?'' |
11381 | These are God''s promises-- simple and clear enough: and what are God''s demands? |
11381 | They do not ask the child,''How is a man justified?'' |
11381 | This may seem a fanciful dream, too fair to be possible; but what prevents it from being possible, save and except our own selfishness and laziness? |
11381 | Thus the whole Catechism turns upon the very first question in it--''What is thy name?'' |
11381 | Thus: What are the fruits of God''s Spirit? |
11381 | To whom are we to attribute any man''s good deeds, except to the Holy Spirit? |
11381 | True we have the infallible rule of Scripture: but are our own interpretations of it so sure to be infallible? |
11381 | True, there are errors against which we are bound to protest to the uttermost; but how few? |
11381 | True; but what has called out the sense of duty? |
11381 | Was not the very first command given to man to replenish the earth and subdue it? |
11381 | We believe the Apostles''Creed, surely? |
11381 | We shall say to them, not''Wherein do we differ?'' |
11381 | Were you ever once-- were it but for five minutes-- utterly ashamed of yourself? |
11381 | What Lord-- Which Lord? |
11381 | What an excuse for them to blaspheme the holy name whereby we are called, and ask, as of old,''Is this then the Gospel of Peace? |
11381 | What did the Lord Jesus Christ say that eternal life was? |
11381 | What do they mean? |
11381 | What do they mean? |
11381 | What do you think the child''s feeling would be? |
11381 | What does all this mean? |
11381 | What does the Bible call it? |
11381 | What else does the very name''minister''mean? |
11381 | What greater blessing than to escape that? |
11381 | What greater misery than that? |
11381 | What has a child''s name to do with his Faith and duty as a Christian? |
11381 | What has inspired the courage? |
11381 | What has the history of theology been for near one thousand eight hundred years? |
11381 | What is God like? |
11381 | What is the watchword of Protestantism? |
11381 | What laws of God, now, can we learn from this story? |
11381 | What matter? |
11381 | What might he not have invented, made, carried over land and sea? |
11381 | What part of their understanding was it which was darkened? |
11381 | What sadder mistake? |
11381 | What sadder sight? |
11381 | What should hinder any child whom you or I ever saw from knowing God, and His Name, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit? |
11381 | What sort of children to your fathers? |
11381 | What sort of doctrines they were professing? |
11381 | What sort of husbands, fathers, sons, neighbours, subjects, and governors, have you been? |
11381 | What was it that they had got dark about and could not understand? |
11381 | What was the fruit of their wilfully forgetting what God''s life was? |
11381 | What wilt thou eat, and what wilt thou drink, and wherewithal wilt thou be clothed? |
11381 | What words are these, my friends? |
11381 | What would all the world think of you, if they knew as much against you as I do? |
11381 | What would the world think of you, if they saw into that dirty heart of yours?'' |
11381 | What, then, is this wonder- working thought which makes the soldier strong? |
11381 | When people say to themselves( as who does not at moments?) |
11381 | Where shall we find Him, or His likeness?'' |
11381 | Where, I ask, are those dreams now? |
11381 | Wherewith shall I come before the Lord and bow myself before the most High God? |
11381 | Which is uglier and ghastlier-- a spirit without a body, or a body without a spirit? |
11381 | Who are we that we should judge another? |
11381 | Who are we that we should refuse one hand stretched out to grasp our own? |
11381 | Who are we that we should say,''Stand back, for I am holier than thou?'' |
11381 | Who can tell? |
11381 | Who has showed thee? |
11381 | Who shall deliver a man from the body of that death? |
11381 | Why occupy his head, perhaps disturb his simple faith, by giving him a smattering of secular science?'' |
11381 | Why pray at all, if God already knows our necessities, and is able and willing to supply them? |
11381 | Why then rather than at any other time? |
11381 | Why will you not have faith in your Heavenly Father? |
11381 | Why, what harder name can we call any man or woman, than to say that they are''shameless,''dead to shame? |
11381 | Will all the fretting and anxiety in the world make you one foot or one inch taller than you are? |
11381 | Will it make you stronger, wiser, more able to help yourself? |
11381 | Will none of these hard words hit some grown people in our day? |
11381 | Will the Lord be pleased with this, that and the other fantastical action, or great sacrifice of mine?'' |
11381 | Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams? |
11381 | Would not all be forgiven and forgotten at once? |
11381 | Would you have rather expected to hear John the Baptist ask, what sort of saints they had been? |
11381 | Would you not feel a peculiar interest in him henceforth? |
11381 | Yes, we are ready to say, I may be miserable and unfortunate, but the Great God of heaven and earth is my Father; and what can happen to me? |
11381 | Yes; but do you believe too that He whom people are too apt to call God, just because they have no other name to call Him, is your Father? |
11381 | You do not know? |
11381 | You do not surely mean that you are quite right; perfect and infallible? |
11381 | are we living it? |
11381 | are we to be tongue- tied? |
11381 | but''What is_ right_ for us to do?'' |
11381 | but''Wherein do we agree?'' |
11381 | can not tell? |
11381 | have we not rather forgotten the meaning of the text, and what God''s kingdom is, and what His righteousness is? |
11381 | have we sought first God''s kingdom and His righteousness? |
11381 | holiness from wickedness-- far more clearly and tenderly than the souls of most grown people do? |
11381 | how can I behave like Christ in my station? |
11381 | how can I do my Heavenly Father''s will, as Christ did? |
11381 | how would the Lord Jesus Christ have behaved, if He had been in my place, when He was on earth?'' |
11381 | if thou be extreme to mark what is done amiss, who shall abide it? |
11381 | more fastidious than God? |
11381 | more righteous than God? |
11381 | more separate from sinners than God? |
11381 | or are we alienated from it, careless about it, disliking it? |
11381 | or at last, perhaps, the old question,''Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? |
11381 | or, what shall we drink, or wherewithal shall we be clothed? |
11381 | they said,''How shall we make them have faith in God by telling them what God is?'' |
11381 | what is my duty here? |
11381 | what more beautiful words are there in the world? |
11381 | what sort of life does the Spirit of God make man live? |
11381 | what use in that? |
11381 | who is ready to sacrifice his own credit, his own pleasure, his own success in life, for the sake of his father''s comfort and honour? |
11381 | who shall stand in that day? |
59041 | And one of them, a doctor of the law, asked him, tempting him: Master, which is the great commandment of the law? 59041 Do you ever get drunk?" |
59041 | O my Divine Spouse,she said,"Where wast thou when I was enduring these conflicts?" |
59041 | What does faith bring thee to? |
59041 | What is it? |
59041 | What, with all these filthy abominations? |
59041 | What,says the father of a family,"give my whole soul and mind to God? |
59041 | _ Know you not that they who run in the race all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize? 59041 _ Lord, is it I?_"No, John. |
59041 | _ Lord, is it I?_No, Thomas. |
59041 | _ Lord, is it I?_Thou hast said it, Judas. |
59041 | _ What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?_Will you sin against your own soul? |
59041 | _ What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?_Will you sin against your own soul? |
59041 | _ Who is this that cometh up from the desert flowing with delights, leaning upon her beloved?_[ Footnote 152][ Footnote 152: Ca nt. |
59041 | ''What is a crucifix?'' |
59041 | ''Why do I stand here idle? |
59041 | ( Did I not say that the widow was right-- that they are heartless and unfeeling?) |
59041 | And after all might not this vision be a delusion? |
59041 | And if the soul is so beautiful in the little rays that escape from the body, what must it be in itself? |
59041 | And that precious soul of yours, before which all the wealth of the world is but worthless dross-- with what care have you kept that? |
59041 | And why? |
59041 | And would you attribute conduct so disgraceful among men to our Father in heaven? |
59041 | And, besides, who can draw the lineaments of that great Apostle, or paint him in colors worthy of his character? |
59041 | And, if we then sin against God, in what respect are we better than Judas? |
59041 | Are the earth and sky all wrapped in a great, gloomy mantle of grief? |
59041 | Are the tares rooted up in this world? |
59041 | Are there none of you, my brethren, who recognize this as the secret language of your hearts? |
59041 | Are we as much in earnest to guard against a fall? |
59041 | Are we bound to shut our ears to the murmuring winds, the music of the rivulet, and the songs of the birds? |
59041 | Are we thus determined to win? |
59041 | Are you leading a tepid, imperfect life? |
59041 | At the Easter Communion, where are you? |
59041 | At times in the height of that fever your mind wanders: you do not know her,_ her!_ your own dear mother? |
59041 | But as for you, young man, why have you presumed to come to the altar? |
59041 | But do you think we have none of the charity of the Angels? |
59041 | But how can they know any thing of a star so unusual in its appearance as this? |
59041 | But is it enough just barely to fulfil the commandment in this way? |
59041 | But is it not necessary to go to Communion? |
59041 | But of what use is Holy Scripture to us without Her interpretation, whose office it is to interpret, as it has been to preserve it? |
59041 | But suppose these evil temptations are importunate, and remain in the soul even when we resist them, and try to turn from them? |
59041 | But what am I saying? |
59041 | But what does God say of such as these? |
59041 | But what does an unworthy communion do? |
59041 | But what have you to say for yourself, O adulterer, and adulteress? |
59041 | But what have you to say for yourself, O drunkard? |
59041 | But you will say, if this be true, does it not tend to cherish in us a spirit of self- sufficiency, and of independence of God? |
59041 | Can it be a friendly ship coming to your rescue? |
59041 | Can it not fill the soul as much as any other? |
59041 | Can literature be devoted to more worthy ends than to make those virtues attractive which religion commands? |
59041 | Can not the motive of God''s love do as much? |
59041 | Can science find a greater sphere than to show how all things are, and move, and exist in their primal cause, God? |
59041 | Can these fretful souls of ours find rest even upon earth? |
59041 | Can they sympathize with us, while they believe us to be corrupted by it? |
59041 | Can we find it, then, even short of Purgatory? |
59041 | Can you imagine a dependence which is more pure than ours is upon God? |
59041 | Can you not easily imagine that every stroke she heard given against her prison walls, must have sent a thrill of joy through her whole frame? |
59041 | Can you, indeed? |
59041 | Commenting on this passage of Holy Scripture, St. John Chrysostom asks:"Wherefore did God make the lilies so beautiful? |
59041 | Could they cease to hate our religion, while they believe it to be false? |
59041 | Could we claim as manfully to have fought a good fight? |
59041 | Could we claim our reward as confidently? |
59041 | Could we say as much, my brethren, if our time were come? |
59041 | Did I not say well then, when I expressed my fear that God would find but few who would accept his terms? |
59041 | Did any Priest ever preach to the contrary? |
59041 | Did he create the world, or make you? |
59041 | Did not our Lord love his Mother? |
59041 | Did these things really happen? |
59041 | Did they not feel them? |
59041 | Did you ever know a man of this stamp to become Catholic? |
59041 | Did you ever know one of these"liberal fellows,"so called, to be come Catholic? |
59041 | Do n''t say: how little can I do and get off with it? |
59041 | Do n''t you see, the very definition of mortal sin, is a sin that grievously offends God and brings with it the death of the soul? |
59041 | Do not they estimate themselves by the light of faith? |
59041 | Do the birds sing no more? |
59041 | Do they aim by the creations of their genius to raise less gifted minds to gaze upon the archetype of all beauty, truth, and goodness? |
59041 | Do they strive so to embody what is noblest and best in man''s nature as to captivate his imagination, and enkindle an enthusiasm for its imitation? |
59041 | Do we see artists who are conscious of the great purposes of their noble vocation? |
59041 | Do you ask me what has been done for your souls? |
59041 | Do you ask me what has been done for your souls? |
59041 | Do you ask what has been done for your souls? |
59041 | Do you believe Him? |
59041 | Do you belong to the party of Jesus Christ or that of the devil? |
59041 | Do you feel in yourselves a vocation to a religious or sacerdotal life? |
59041 | Do you judge of a man as you do of a horse or a dog? |
59041 | Do you not see, said the devil, that crucifix? |
59041 | Does he seek these by legitimate means? |
59041 | Does it not lie in your memory in all the blackness and barrenness of a western prairie, over which the desolating fire of the savage has passed? |
59041 | Does the Church teach any such thing? |
59041 | For is it not a joy to follow where our heart''s desires lead? |
59041 | For what prison walls are so strong as the tyranny of passion over the soul? |
59041 | For what, after all, are created things, or the members of a man''s body, or even his life, compared with the eternal salvation of his soul? |
59041 | For what? |
59041 | From the Church? |
59041 | Has He no chastisement for the wicked, no sympathy for the good? |
59041 | Has he conferred any benefit on the human race, that he is entitled to the gratitude and obedience of men? |
59041 | Has heaven no favors for her? |
59041 | Has she clung to her faith so long in vain, amid poverty, oppression and bloodshed? |
59041 | Have not beauty, knowledge, and genius one and the same fountain source with religion? |
59041 | Have you ever seen two strong men wrestling? |
59041 | Have you kept it as your most sacred treasure? |
59041 | Have you not committed mortal sin, and then given as an excuse that you were tempted by the devil, or overcome by your passions? |
59041 | Have you not over looked and undervalued your treasure? |
59041 | Have you not sometimes been tempted to exclaim:"Has God forgotten Ireland? |
59041 | Have you valued that soul of yours? |
59041 | Heathens? |
59041 | How can I do it? |
59041 | How can you expect light when you close your eyes? |
59041 | How did the Blessed Virgin arrive at such glory? |
59041 | How have you conducted yourself in temptation? |
59041 | How many sermons have you not heard upon that awful subject? |
59041 | How often has God not called us, either from some path of sin which we were following, or to a closer union with Himself? |
59041 | How so? |
59041 | How was it St. Paul attracted so many to Christ? |
59041 | How was it with our blessed Lord? |
59041 | How will it be in heaven? |
59041 | How will the truths of the Gospel reach your heart and make an impression there, if you never listen to them? |
59041 | I have been offering peace to such as lead a Christian life; but what does Holy Scripture say of you? |
59041 | I say, then, excite this desire; think, and think every day, on these simple things: Who am I? |
59041 | I.--_What is Communion?_ It is the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, given to us as food for the sanctification of our souls and bodies. |
59041 | II.--_What then is it to receive this Holy Communion unworthily?_ It is to be grievously wanting in reverence to the holiest of all holy things. |
59041 | If a man abstains from eating meat, why not let him, if he likes, eat fish? |
59041 | If another fancies he will improve by scourging himself, why not let him whip his body? |
59041 | If another is bent on practising entire abstinence, why not allow him to fast? |
59041 | If another seeks the desert, or ensconces himself in a cave, what commandment does he break? |
59041 | If another takes the notion to shave his crown and walk with uncovered feet, wherein is he to be blamed? |
59041 | If she had not believed, if she had not assented, what would have come of it? |
59041 | If you can be chaste in the presence of a virtuous female, why can you not be chaste everywhere? |
59041 | If you can be honest when the eye of man is on you, why can you not be honest when no eye sees you but that of God? |
59041 | In the first place, what does he mean by the love of God? |
59041 | In the language of Holy Scripture we say,"_ In the morning, who will grant me evening? |
59041 | In this miserable world there is no such thing as tranquillity or peace, and how, without these, can the whole heart be given to God?" |
59041 | In what consists the beauty of a man? |
59041 | Is any hope held out in Scripture for the victims of such delusions? |
59041 | Is he not then a usurper? |
59041 | Is it I?_ No, my good man. |
59041 | Is it a mere regularity of form and feature? |
59041 | Is it always night? |
59041 | Is it asking much, that we shall be habitually obedient? |
59041 | Is it for Him to be dependent upon our moods and humors, finding us true to- day and false to- morrow? |
59041 | Is it not as great? |
59041 | Is it now safe and secure? |
59041 | Is it possible that any fear of death, any doubt of his salvation could cloud the spirit of such a man in the closing scene of his career? |
59041 | Is it the visible world, called nature, so full of instruction and rich in beauty, that we are to turn our backs upon? |
59041 | Is it true? |
59041 | Is it with this terrible earnestness you struggle to work out your salvation, or do you make a pastime of it? |
59041 | Is it, then, possible to wear a constant smile in this valley of tears? |
59041 | Is not this to be indeed dead? |
59041 | Is she called a"Mediatrix of Prayer?" |
59041 | Is she called the"Daughter of the Most High?" |
59041 | Is she called the"Morning Star?" |
59041 | Is she called"The Spouse of God?" |
59041 | Is the camp of Jesus Christ less holy, think you, that an impure man or woman can be tolerated within its sacred precincts? |
59041 | Is the world all dead? |
59041 | Is there not an impression in your minds that the law of God is too strict? |
59041 | Is this not a great boon? |
59041 | Is this the earnest way we follow out our vocation? |
59041 | My brave and vaunting Christian warrior, how do your professions of fidelity and courage comport with your conduct when put on guard at night? |
59041 | No; says the Apostle Paul,"_ Christ died for all._"And why? |
59041 | No? |
59041 | Now if she did not merit heaven by becoming the Mother of God, how did she merit it? |
59041 | Now what does He ask of you in return for all this? |
59041 | Now what was it all about? |
59041 | Now why was this? |
59041 | Now will you tell me that you can not help doing what the martyrs would not do to save them from death? |
59041 | Now, how is it with us? |
59041 | Now, if you can stop cursing before the priest, why can you not before your wife and children? |
59041 | Now, what are we doing? |
59041 | Now, what holy lesson shall we try to learn from it? |
59041 | Now, what is to be done? |
59041 | Now, where is the man in Europe, who has so much care and anxiety upon him as he has? |
59041 | Of what use to him was his power of motion? |
59041 | Our Lord said to Judas,"_ Friend, why hast thou come? |
59041 | Peace, did I say? |
59041 | Shall I, she says, reject the very things I have longed for, the opportunities of making rapid progress in the love of God? |
59041 | Shall these accidental and artificial barriers survive death? |
59041 | Shall this always be so? |
59041 | Shall we stand here like cowards, hugging the ignominious chains of mortal sin? |
59041 | She sees the angels; but to the questions:"_ Woman, why weepest thou? |
59041 | She was so bound up in you, that she often exclaimed with a truth,"Why do I live if it be not for my child?" |
59041 | So, I ask you, who are you? |
59041 | Suppose you saw a girl in service, scrubbing the floor with a beautiful camel''s- hair shawl, what would you say? |
59041 | Teach your heart to throb in sympathy with his, until you can say with St. Paul:"_ Who is weak, and I am not weak? |
59041 | Tell me, my brethren, is this your idea of the Christian warfare? |
59041 | That''s what the Lord himself said to the young man who asked the question:"What shall I do that I may have everlasting life?" |
59041 | The Lawyer asked Him,"_ What shall I do to possess eternal life?_"The Saviour said,"_ What is written in the law? |
59041 | The Lawyer asked Him,"_ What shall I do to possess eternal life?_"The Saviour said,"_ What is written in the law? |
59041 | The pledge will not help him long; and why? |
59041 | The very first word addressed you by her, was in your baptism, when you were asked:"What dost thou ask of the Church of God?" |
59041 | Then he will say to these:"I am your Lord and Master, why have you not obeyed me?" |
59041 | They are class- mates, or even room- mates, for years, but look at them after the lapse of twenty years, and what are their respective positions? |
59041 | They died rather than lift a hand to do a forbidden thing; have you not the same power over your hand that they had? |
59041 | They died rather than utter a sinful word; have you not as much power over your tongue as they? |
59041 | This is the war in which every one of you is engaged, on one side or the other? |
59041 | Thus, Mary is called"Queen of Heaven;"but are not all the blessed called in Holy Scripture,"_ kings and priests unto God_?" |
59041 | To establish its true meaning, let us ask ourselves first of all, what is a true Christian life? |
59041 | Under what banner have you till now been ranged? |
59041 | Under what figure is the Church of God represented in Scripture? |
59041 | Very well; but how were they required to deny Christ? |
59041 | Was He not disposed to be obedient to her as his mother? |
59041 | Was it from the Church of God? |
59041 | Was it the world of art, science, and literature? |
59041 | Well then, asks one, why not exclude them from the Church altogether, so that the whole world can see what they are? |
59041 | What Apostles, Doctors of the Church, Pontiffs, Priests, or Laymen, that ever wrote on the matter, ever broached such an idea? |
59041 | What are our obligations to give testimony of Christ? |
59041 | What are the signs, my brethren, by which you would pronounce a man dead? |
59041 | What are you doing then with the devil''s bounty? |
59041 | What can be a more perfect illustration of mortal sin? |
59041 | What can be more just? |
59041 | What degradation is equal to that of a Christian enslaved by vice? |
59041 | What do we find for the most part in the world of art? |
59041 | What does St. Paul say again? |
59041 | What does St. Paul say? |
59041 | What does holy king David say? |
59041 | What does that mean? |
59041 | What food is so loathsome to the body as lust and sensuality must be to a soul made for wisdom and virtue? |
59041 | What has God made me for? |
59041 | What have you done? |
59041 | What have you to expect in his service? |
59041 | What is Holy Communion? |
59041 | What is Holy Communion? |
59041 | What is Holy Communion? |
59041 | What is Holy Communion? |
59041 | What is an Unworthy Communion? |
59041 | What is an Unworthy Communion? |
59041 | What is it that has happened? |
59041 | What is it to be generous? |
59041 | What is it to live to Christ? |
59041 | What is it? |
59041 | What is meant by merit? |
59041 | What is said of these bad ones? |
59041 | What is that pile of bank- notes pilfered from your employer, you dishonest clerk? |
59041 | What is that which is glimmering white like a sail upon the waves? |
59041 | What is the answer? |
59041 | What is the event that can interrupt the great harmonies of Heaven, and furnish the Angels with a new song? |
59041 | What is the idea that we have of a kingdom? |
59041 | What is the invariable testimony, both of Protestants and of Catholics, as to the manner of his receiving them? |
59041 | What is the love of God, or in what does it consist? |
59041 | What is the meaning, then, of loving with one''s whole heart and soul and mind? |
59041 | What is the reason that Christian art has so far surpassed heathen art? |
59041 | What is the reason that every thing thus honors you? |
59041 | What is the world and all in it, compared to the love of God? |
59041 | What is there criminal in these actions, that there should be displayed so much spleen against those who live in this way? |
59041 | What is this method? |
59041 | What master is this, to whom you have sold yourself? |
59041 | What means do we employ to subjugate our bodies, or was St. Paul less safe than we? |
59041 | What millions of dollars are being expended on the Central Park here just beside us? |
59041 | What old age can compare with eternity? |
59041 | What opportunity, what golden opportunity offers, to do something to please God? |
59041 | What right had you to refuse my service? |
59041 | What right has he to reign in this world? |
59041 | What right has he to your soul, or to your service? |
59041 | What saith the Apostle? |
59041 | What shall I do? |
59041 | What shall I say in conclusion, dear brethren, to spur you on to do good works? |
59041 | What should they do? |
59041 | What was it then? |
59041 | What was it they were required to do? |
59041 | What would you have? |
59041 | What''s to be done to get rid of it? |
59041 | What, she says, shall I barter away so immense a good for such trifles? |
59041 | What, then, is that badge, what are those insignia you are wearing? |
59041 | When may one be said to fulfil it in the first way? |
59041 | When you see a person put a thing to an improper use, what do you say? |
59041 | Whence do they spring? |
59041 | Where are those thirty pieces of silver for which you sold your soul? |
59041 | Where are you during the holy solemnity of the Mass? |
59041 | Where did such a notion come from? |
59041 | Where did this notion come from? |
59041 | Where did you get the notion that it''s enough to be a Catholic without being a practical one? |
59041 | Where is her heart, does it beat no more? |
59041 | Where shall we be? |
59041 | Where your good works? |
59041 | Where your merit? |
59041 | Where, I ask, shall our place be in this hierarchy? |
59041 | Where, then, is there room for presumption in such teaching as this? |
59041 | Which side is it? |
59041 | Which, then, do you take? |
59041 | Who are addressed? |
59041 | Who are they who fail to give this testimony of Christ? |
59041 | Who can believe that? |
59041 | Who can recount the calamities which from year to year have fallen upon the children of the faith? |
59041 | Who is God? |
59041 | Who says it? |
59041 | Why did these last give such a different account from the first? |
59041 | Why do summer and winter, seed- time and harvest, return so regularly? |
59041 | Why does He not take part with his own, and make them prosper most?" |
59041 | Why does not God give victory always to the just cause?" |
59041 | Why does that sound send a shuddering thrill of horror through every nerve? |
59041 | Why is the whole matter hushed up by common consent between Pilate and Caiphas? |
59041 | Why not? |
59041 | Why should we fear? |
59041 | Why stand we all the day idle? |
59041 | Why tarry we here in the bondage of Egypt? |
59041 | Why then, do they commit it? |
59041 | Why was no search made for the body of Jesus, and for his disciples? |
59041 | Why was no trial held? |
59041 | Why were not these soldiers examined before a tribunal? |
59041 | Why, what do we mean when we speak of mortal sin? |
59041 | Why, who are you, my brethren? |
59041 | Why? |
59041 | Will Jesus arrest the steps of that infamous woman, of those debased, pitiless, heartless, unfeeling dram- sellers? |
59041 | Will he touch the bier upon which you are stretched stark dead, and command those companions of yours in sin to stop? |
59041 | Will that voice of Jesus Christ be heard? |
59041 | Will the Lord be moved to pity toward his weeping Church? |
59041 | Will you have Christ or Lucifer for your king? |
59041 | Will you say that the grapes are not really fine flavored, but only called so because they belong to an excellent vine? |
59041 | Will you venture to deprive yourselves of that food of which, unless ye eat, the Saviour has said:"_ Ye have no life in you?_"Oh! |
59041 | Would we be something in the kingdom of God? |
59041 | Would we become strong in faith, great in hope, abounding in charity? |
59041 | Would you be saved by the sufferings of Christ, and refuse to take your share of suffering? |
59041 | Would you know who they are? |
59041 | Would you ride thither at your ease? |
59041 | Would you wear your crown without winning it? |
59041 | You are a Christian soldier, are you? |
59041 | You profess yourself so loudly a Christian soldier, what then are you straggling for, behind your column? |
59041 | You promised in confession that you would restore them, but why? |
59041 | You would not expect that I should urge this"Interior Life"upon you, and remain myself as I am? |
59041 | You, O adulterer; you found a home where there were smiles, and fondness, and peace; and what have you done? |
59041 | [ Footnote 56] and that"_ all things serve Him?_"[ Footnote 57][ Footnote 56: Psalm cxliv., 13.] |
59041 | _ Father, is it I?_ No, poor fellow. |
59041 | _ Father, is it I?_ No, poor girl. |
59041 | _ Is it I? |
59041 | and are not we too called the"_ Sons of God?_"[ Footnote 99][ Footnote 99: 1 St. John iii., 2.] |
59041 | and are not we too promised a place at his right hand, and to"_ sit on thrones?_"[ Footnote 95][ Footnote 95: Apoc. |
59041 | and at evening, who will grant me morning?_"[ Footnote 146] as though things were turning out very different from what we had a right to expect. |
59041 | and does not the Almighty, addressing every faithful soul, say,"_ My love, my dove, my undefiled?_"[ Footnote 98][ Footnote 98: Can. |
59041 | and in the second, what degree of this love must we practise? |
59041 | and is it not said of every just man, that his"_ continual prayer availeth much?_"[ Footnote 97][ Footnote 97: St. James v., 16.] |
59041 | and who are my brethren? |
59041 | brethren, do not say with the murderer Cain:"_ Am I my brother''s keeper?_"What have I to do with the sanctification or ruin of souls? |
59041 | brethren, do not say with the murderer Cain:"_ Am I my brother''s keeper?_"What have I to do with the sanctification or ruin of souls? |
59041 | but, how much can I do? |
59041 | exclaims St. Augustine,"you will prove your cause by sleeping witnesses?" |
59041 | have these ministers of Satan persuaded you to renounce your lawful standard, and enlist under that of the devil? |
59041 | or at least that it is too strict for you, and that you can not keep it? |
59041 | that any thing so bright? |
59041 | the Madonna so far more beautiful than the Venus de Medicis? |
59041 | to have renounced your allegiance to your rightful Lord, for the service of such a master, who trembles at the very name of Jesus Christ? |
59041 | what can it be? |
59041 | what can it mean? |
59041 | what shall we do?" |
59041 | where was the Angel of the Blessed Sacrament then? |
59041 | where, I ask, was the Angel of the Blessed Sacrament? |
59041 | who is scandalized, and I do not burn?_"This is to love our Lord in earnest. |
59041 | who will tell us something about it? |
59041 | whom seekest thou?_"she answers distractedly,"_ They have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him_." |
59041 | why have we not all this spirit? |
59041 | wretched man that I am!_"was his mournful cry,"_ who shall deliver me from this body of death?_"For this reason he scourged himself. |
59041 | you say, is that all that is required of us to insure our salvation-- to keep clear of mortal sin? |
59041 | { 137} You are a soldier of Jesus Christ, are you? |
59041 | { 153} How is it, my dear brethren, with us on the way of life? |
59041 | { 167} Where then is the world which, as Christians, we are called upon to separate from? |
59041 | { 179} And perhaps, seeing this, the thought arises in your mind:"Does not God take notice of these things? |
59041 | { 193} To whom is that addressed? |
59041 | { 206} Who is there that needs to be told that the Blessed Virgin is splendid in sanctity, dazzling in beauty, and exalted in power? |
59041 | { 214} Is she said to sit at the"King''s right hand?" |
59041 | { 216} or, later in life, a poor young woman thrust away, with her husband, from a crowded inn, or fleeing by night with an infant child? |
59041 | { 220} Are you in sin? |
59041 | { 22}"_ Who is weak,_"said he,"_ and I am not weak? |
59041 | { 243} Did you ever know, my brethren, that God had been so good to you? |
59041 | { 249} Now, how shall we account for such fortitude as this? |
59041 | { 258} But how is it with those who are_ spiritually_ proud? |
59041 | { 269} Are we then, my brethren, anxiously desirous of saving our souls? |
59041 | { 278} Now, what is more desirable than God? |
59041 | { 302} Why does the sun rise in the morning, and go down at night? |
59041 | { 304} Do you ask what has been done for your souls? |
59041 | { 306} Have you, my brethren, so regarded yourselves? |
59041 | { 30} Now why would you say this? |
59041 | { 328} How is it with a large body of students at one of our colleges or universities? |
59041 | { 329} Where can you find the trace of any real care of your souls? |
59041 | { 336} Did not Christ look upon mankind with human eyes, and make all our human feelings his own? |
59041 | { 341} What language can express the gratitude which filled her heart toward her deliverers? |
59041 | { 34} Now, then, I think I hear you say to me: Father, have I then done this horrible thing? |
59041 | { 36} And you, O adulteress, why have you come here? |
59041 | { 74} And when one of the servants said to the master:"_ Wilt thou that we go to gather it up? |
59041 | { 98} But what degree of this love must we exercise in order to obtain everlasting life? |
18578 | WHAT DO YOU GIVE IN PLACE OF WHAT YOU TAKE AWAY? |
18578 | A writer in the New York Times? |
18578 | ARE THERE ANY CREEDS WHICH IT IS WICKED FOR US TO QUESTION? |
18578 | ARE THERE ANY CREEDS WHICH IT IS WICKED FOR US TO QUESTION? |
18578 | All sweet, beautiful, noble; but, if nobody from the beginning of the world had ever advanced beyond mothers''ideas where should we be to- day? |
18578 | An Infinite Power, then, an eternal Power, shall I say an intelligent Power? |
18578 | And I have had persons say to me:"I have been ill all my life, I have suffered no end of pain and trouble: I wonder why? |
18578 | And I replied, Do you not think that God is almost as good as you are? |
18578 | And are these things the most important ones, the ones that we need to feel solid under our feet? |
18578 | And do you not see that in every case it has nothing whatever to do with the mother''s moral goodness or spiritual cultivation? |
18578 | And has this evolution of the religious life of the world threatened the stability of truth? |
18578 | And he takes his place in the long line of the world''s redeemers, those who have wrought atonement, how? |
18578 | And how shall we know whether it is right or wrong? |
18578 | And how was the majority reached? |
18578 | And then what? |
18578 | And truth for us, what is that? |
18578 | And what did they put him to death for? |
18578 | And what was Dr. Briggs tried for? |
18578 | And why does he do this? |
18578 | And why? |
18578 | And why? |
18578 | And yet, if these people that do not want any changes made had had control of the world ten thousand years ago, where should we be to- day? |
18578 | And, after two thousand years of that kind of effort, what is the result? |
18578 | And, if I had my choice of the future, what would it be? |
18578 | Anything like evidence? |
18578 | Anything like quiet brooding of those who supposed they were, under the influence of the Holy Ghost, receiving divine and sacred truth? |
18578 | Are not these men in their degree worshippers? |
18578 | Are there any great spiritual problems waiting for those questions to be settled? |
18578 | Are there no prayers for other lines? |
18578 | Are there some things that doubt can not touch? |
18578 | Are these antiquated ideas? |
18578 | Are these great human contests about nothing at all? |
18578 | Are they a gospel? |
18578 | Are we going to lose the sense of righteousness which is the very heart of religion? |
18578 | Are we going to wait for criticism to settle metaphysical problems before we do anything about these great practical matters? |
18578 | Are we losing our hope of the future? |
18578 | Are we made in his likeness? |
18578 | Are we not under the highest of all obligations to decide for ourselves one way or the other as to whether these claims are valid? |
18578 | Are we sure that a man is educated merely because he knows a lot of things or has been through a particular course of study? |
18578 | Are you sorry? |
18578 | As a result of this Renaissance, what happened? |
18578 | As we wake up, assuming nothing, and look abroad, what do we find? |
18578 | As you look over the animal world, which one of them are we accustomed to think of as coming the nearest to man? |
18578 | Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall what? |
18578 | But do you not see by what subtle and divine chemistry the selfishness is straightway transformed, lifted up, glorified, and becomes unselfishness? |
18578 | But has doubt quenched the light of any star? |
18578 | But has the great hope gone? |
18578 | But his companion said, Are you not astonished at the Capitol of Washington? |
18578 | But how is it supposed to work out the atonement that is necessary, in order that man may be saved? |
18578 | But is that a correct use of language? |
18578 | But is there any rational ground for hope still? |
18578 | But what does living mean? |
18578 | Can I illustrate it? |
18578 | Can both be right? |
18578 | Can we accept that to- day as a definition of a rational view of the relation in which we stand to God? |
18578 | Can we believe such things to- day? |
18578 | Can we call it an integral part of a gospel? |
18578 | Can we have the old ideas about him? |
18578 | Can we with gladness proclaim them to men? |
18578 | Can you conceive of a sane person making such a choice as that? |
18578 | Could we proclaim it with any heart of courage as a part of the gospel of God? |
18578 | Death? |
18578 | Did it ever occur to you that it began when men began to doubt? |
18578 | Did they even claim to have? |
18578 | Did those who proposed that this particular clause or that should enter into it have any proof of their belief? |
18578 | Do I make, then, an extraordinary claim when I say that we are the Evangelical Church, that the church which preaches the gospel is here? |
18578 | Do people believe them? |
18578 | Do we find something else, some other condition of mind, when we come to study carefully the Old Testament? |
18578 | Do we need to go very deeply into human life to discover the profound truth of that saying? |
18578 | Do you believe that God has made this universe so that it is healthier for the masses to live on a lie than it is for them to live on the truth? |
18578 | Do you change the laws of motion? |
18578 | Do you know what it is? |
18578 | Do you know what the trouble was at the time of the French Revolution? |
18578 | Do you know why it works as it does? |
18578 | Do you not see how this admiration transformed the life of the young king, and made him after the type of that which he admired? |
18578 | Do you not see how, in both cases here, it is purely a matter of convention? |
18578 | Do you not see right in there the parallel to the old idea that used to dominate us in regard to the government of the universe? |
18578 | Do you not see that I am talking nonsense? |
18578 | Do you not see that as a truth- seeker in a free world he may not be educated at all? |
18578 | Do you not see that theory may be of immense practical importance in certain contingencies? |
18578 | Do you not see what a necessary corollary would be a belief in their ultimate prosperity and triumph? |
18578 | Do you not see, however, that this so- called education may stand squarely in the way? |
18578 | Do you remember the story of the unjust judge? |
18578 | Do you see the suggestion of the picture? |
18578 | Do you think there is going to be a poorer religion than there has been in the past? |
18578 | Do you think there was no one on that ship that prayed? |
18578 | Does anybody wish something put in the place of this? |
18578 | Does he exert any pressure from outside? |
18578 | Does he fence it in? |
18578 | Does it ever occur to you that commerce is something besides a means for the accumulation of wealth? |
18578 | Does it make any difference how we live these lives of ours? |
18578 | Does it make any difference now whether the farmer has correct ideas about soil and seed and cultivation? |
18578 | Does it make any difference whether he has any true conception of the nature and work of the sunshine in producing this crop? |
18578 | Does it make any difference whether they are doing the right thing for it or not? |
18578 | Does it make no difference what we believe about them? |
18578 | Does it touch the living or the welfare of the world? |
18578 | Does that mean that it ends there? |
18578 | For what does the choice of evil mean? |
18578 | For what is it that we preach? |
18578 | Frankly accepted the truth? |
18578 | Go back to the time of Jesus: do you not remember how the people asked whether any of the scribes or the Pharisees believed on him? |
18578 | Had they considered Darwin''s arguments to find out whether they were true? |
18578 | Has Unitarianism ever taken away any faith or hope or trust from the world? |
18578 | Has anybody ever done it? |
18578 | Has doubt taken away from the glory of the universe? |
18578 | Has doubt touched that, so that it has shrivelled and become as nothing? |
18578 | Has it taken him away from us? |
18578 | Has no one ever prayed on behalf of a ship that did meet with an accident? |
18578 | Has not Jesus told us that your heavenly Father is more ready to give the things which you need than you are to give good gifts to your children? |
18578 | Have I any business to say I have faith that it was written by him, and let it rest there? |
18578 | Have I changed natural laws any? |
18578 | Have we lost the Bible? |
18578 | He begins, we say, to live; and what does that mean? |
18578 | He is not as perfect as an animal; but what has evolution done? |
18578 | Her child is spared, spared for what? |
18578 | Here among the lower animals were what? |
18578 | How can a church prove that its declarations are infallible? |
18578 | How can one follow the absolutely Perfect except afar off? |
18578 | How can we find his words? |
18578 | How did he get over the difficulty? |
18578 | How do I know? |
18578 | How does he succeed here? |
18578 | How does it grow as the world grows? |
18578 | How else should we look at things except from the point of view of men, since we are men? |
18578 | How is it ever going to find the truth? |
18578 | How is it that you produce results anywhere? |
18578 | How long had Comte been dead before we discovered the spectroscope? |
18578 | How long is it going to last? |
18578 | How long? |
18578 | How many men are there that take possession of the intellectual realm that lies around them on every hand? |
18578 | How many men can you get fairly to consider the political position of his opponent? |
18578 | How many men have even a conception of the wonders of the microscopic world? |
18578 | How many of us have risen to the idea of making these grand sentiments the ruling principles of our lives? |
18578 | How many people are there to- day who look with an unprejudiced eye upon a foreigner? |
18578 | How many people can you get fairly to weigh the position of one who occupies a religious home different from their own? |
18578 | How many people think of the torture of the curb bit, of the check, of neglect in the case of cold, of thirst, of hunger? |
18578 | How many people who do leave one church for another do it as the result of any earnest study, or real endeavor to find the truth? |
18578 | How much do the grasses and the flowers have to say to him? |
18578 | How much of all this marvellous realm, or even a suggestion of it, is revealed to the ordinary man as he walks through the field? |
18578 | How much of it is held even by those who, being scholars and thinkers, still hold their allegiance to the old- time theology? |
18578 | How much of that old theory is intact to- day? |
18578 | How would it be possible for one generation to make a little advance on that which preceded it, so that we could speak of the progress of mankind? |
18578 | I break a law of my spiritual nature; does nothing take place as the result of it? |
18578 | I break some law of my affectional nature; is nothing to happen? |
18578 | I break some law of my body; do I escape the result? |
18578 | I break some law of my mind; do I escape the result? |
18578 | I could not think of him as an example to follow; for how can one take the Infinite for an example? |
18578 | I have heard women say, I have tried to be a good mother: why is my child taken away from me? |
18578 | I intimated a moment ago? |
18578 | I want you to note that unity? |
18578 | I wonder why I am treated so? |
18578 | I wondered, Could the chancellor of a great University possibly be ignorant of the facts? |
18578 | IS LIFE A PROBATION ENDED BY DEATH? |
18578 | If all of us were to accept opinions in this sort of fashion, and never put them behind us or make any change, where would the growth of the world be? |
18578 | If an Infinite Power is against me in my efforts to do good, what is the use of my making the effort? |
18578 | If he can not save them, then why should I beg him to do it? |
18578 | If he can, and loves them better than I do, again, why should I plead with him after that fashion to do it? |
18578 | If he knew it was absolutely necessary for us to hold certain ideas about the Bible, ought not he to have told us? |
18578 | If it is true, in the economy of the divine government, that human souls could be saved in no other way, is that good news? |
18578 | If it made no difference whether a man worshipped God intelligently or according to the things Luther thought all wrong, what was the difference? |
18578 | If not, why, then, are these looked upon as the grandest figures since the world began? |
18578 | If so, why are we so foolish as to admire him? |
18578 | If the universe is bad all through, essentially bad, where did he get his moral ideal in the light of which to judge and condemn it? |
18578 | If there are good reasons for holding it, instead of calling names, why not show us the reasons? |
18578 | If they do accept it, then what? |
18578 | If this is not true, ought he not to have told us something about it, and made it perfectly clear? |
18578 | If we hold that theory, what? |
18578 | If we pit ourselves against one of God''s eternal truths, is that truth going to suffer? |
18578 | If you can not say any more than this, here is all that is absolutely necessary to the very noblest life:"Hath man no second life? |
18578 | If, for example, Jesus knew he was God, ought not he to have told it so plainly that no honest man could go astray about it? |
18578 | In the place of the little, petty universe of Hebrew dream, what have we now? |
18578 | In what sense and to what extent do they belong to him? |
18578 | Intellectually, is there any other object of education than to fit a man to find the truth? |
18578 | Is he personal? |
18578 | Is it conceivable that a sane person should intelligently choose evil, unless he had some inherited bias or tendency in that direction? |
18578 | Is it good news? |
18578 | Is it good news? |
18578 | Is it not absurd to talk about their having anything whatever to do with each other? |
18578 | Is it not just this? |
18578 | Is it not perfectly natural you should? |
18578 | Is it not perfectly plain? |
18578 | Is it not the dog? |
18578 | Is it quite honest? |
18578 | Is it sincere? |
18578 | Is it something we would like to believe? |
18578 | Is it true that God is Spirit, and that he is Father of his children, also spirit? |
18578 | Is it wise for us to put ourselves in this attitude? |
18578 | Is it wise for us to put ourselves into such a position that it shall seem criminal and evil for us to accept it? |
18578 | Is it? |
18578 | Is not that the process? |
18578 | Is not this true in every department of human life? |
18578 | Is that the kind of God you worship? |
18578 | Is that your confidence in God? |
18578 | Is there any loss here? |
18578 | Is there any loss here? |
18578 | Is there any loss in this exchange? |
18578 | Is there any need of atonement? |
18578 | Is there any need of atonement? |
18578 | Is there any proof that they knew anything about it? |
18578 | Is there any truth involved? |
18578 | Is there any way of proving it? |
18578 | Is there anything of value taken away? |
18578 | Is there community of nature between him and us? |
18578 | Is there no reason for us to consider it here in this latter part of the nineteenth century? |
18578 | Is there no"punishment"in this deprivation of the highest and finest things that we can conceive of? |
18578 | Is there significance in them, any purpose, any plan, any outcome, to make it worth while for us to struggle and strive? |
18578 | Is this a dead question? |
18578 | Is this quite honest? |
18578 | Is this the way you maintain your credit as business men? |
18578 | Is this the way you use language in Wall Street, in your banks and your stores? |
18578 | Is this way of looking at it confined to primitive man, confined to pagan nations? |
18578 | Is this, if it be true, good news? |
18578 | Is worship, then, so far as external form is concerned, to pass away? |
18578 | It is our business simply to raise the question, and try to answer it or ourselves, Which way must I go to follow the truth? |
18578 | It was earnestly, verily believed; and the doctrine is still taught every time that a new edition of the Presbyterian Confession of Faith? |
18578 | It will broaden itself naturally, if we can not accept that theory of it, into the further question, What is the main end and purpose of our life? |
18578 | Jesus the great atoning sacrifice? |
18578 | MY subject this morning is an attempted answer to the question,"Is Life a Probation ended by Death?" |
18578 | MY theme is the answer to the question, What do you give in place of what you take away? |
18578 | Man wakes up here on this planet what sort of a being? |
18578 | May we then feel that modern doubt does not touch our belief in God? |
18578 | Must I say nothing about it because, possibly, I may not have discovered just what is true? |
18578 | Must he keep still about that because, forsooth, he was not able to establish another theory of the universe in its place? |
18578 | Now do we find any difference in teaching in the New Testament? |
18578 | Now has this young boy come into possession of these things? |
18578 | Now to raise one moment the question suggested near the opening, Are forms of worship to pass away? |
18578 | Now what are the facts? |
18578 | Now what are the theories of atonement as outlined in the popular theology? |
18578 | Now what are the three principles out of which Unitarianism is born? |
18578 | Now what do we mean by education? |
18578 | Now what was the condition of popular belief? |
18578 | Now would you be willing to be turned into a pig, merely because, being a pig, you would not know anything about it, and would not suffer? |
18578 | Now, when Christianity comes into the world, what shall we say? |
18578 | Now, when man appeared, what happened? |
18578 | On what, then, shall we base any one of these"infallible"creeds? |
18578 | Out of that Power, as I have said, we have come; and who are we? |
18578 | Perhaps; but, then, why are we foolish enough to honor him? |
18578 | Rather shall we not beat ourselves to pieces against God''s adamant? |
18578 | Shall I lie for the glory of God, the supposed honor of God? |
18578 | Shall we call a Power like this God? |
18578 | Shall we call it Force? |
18578 | Shall we call it Law? |
18578 | Shall we call it Nature? |
18578 | Shall we escape these things by going into other churches? |
18578 | Should we not be Unitarians? |
18578 | Sits there no Judge in heaven our sin to see? |
18578 | So that prayer which is worship, is it not altogether fitting and sweet and true? |
18578 | Suppose, again, that God writes a book, an infallible book, and gives it to whom? |
18578 | THE REAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PRESENT RELIGIOUS DISCUSSION DOUBT AND FAITH- BOTH IS LIFE A PROBATION ENDED BY DEATH? |
18578 | Take, for example, the one question, Is man lost or is he not? |
18578 | The mob surrounds his house, murders him and his child, wounds other members of the family, burns down his home; and why? |
18578 | The name Catholic? |
18578 | The old prophet says, What doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God? |
18578 | The one life reacheth onward still; As yet no eye may see The far- off fact, man''s dream fulfill? |
18578 | The one thing he lives for, cares for, thinks of, labors after, is what? |
18578 | The unity of God? |
18578 | Then what? |
18578 | They are not suffering anything Is it nothing to become swinish, merely because you have your beautiful pen to live in? |
18578 | They say, Now, Job, why not confess, why not own up as to what you have been doing? |
18578 | This would hardly seem possible, would it, if Jesus had made himself perfectly clear and explicit in regard to these matters? |
18578 | To how many men do the star have anything to say at night? |
18578 | UNITARIANISM"WHAT DO YOU IN PLACE OF WHAT YOU TAKE AWAY?" |
18578 | WHERE IS THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH? |
18578 | WHERE IS THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH? |
18578 | WHY ARE NOT ALL EDUCATED PEOPLE UNITARIANS? |
18578 | WHY HAVE UNITARIANS NO CREED? |
18578 | WHY HAVE UNITARIANS NO CREED? |
18578 | Was Christ a man like us? |
18578 | Was he a fool? |
18578 | Was he contending about airy nothings without local habitation or a name? |
18578 | Was he contending for nothing? |
18578 | Was he justified in telling the truth about Calvinism because he has not a ready- made scheme to substitute for it? |
18578 | Was it written by the apostle John, who lay in the bosom of Jesus, and was called the beloved disciple? |
18578 | Was this the essential thing in the gospel of Christ? |
18578 | We have changed our conception of him; but have we lost God? |
18578 | We need to know this; and what do the investigation and the doubt and the struggle of the world say to us concerning these? |
18578 | We preach the inevitable results of law- breaking, are they to last one year, five, a hundred, a thousand, a million, ten millions? |
18578 | We say they belong to him; but do they belong to him? |
18578 | Were both of them right? |
18578 | Were the people really enemies of God? |
18578 | Were they contending for nothing at all? |
18578 | Were they enemies of religion? |
18578 | Were they enemies of truth? |
18578 | Were they grand, noble? |
18578 | What are the relations in which we stand to- day towards Spain? |
18578 | What are the things of which we are sure? |
18578 | What are the things that are in question? |
18578 | What are they? |
18578 | What are we going to do about it? |
18578 | What are we here for? |
18578 | What are we losing, then, as the result of this growth of the world in accordance with the law of evolution? |
18578 | What did Jesus think and say about them? |
18578 | What did he do it for? |
18578 | What did that mean to the world? |
18578 | What did we have a Civil War for, wasting billions of money and hundreds of thousands of lives? |
18578 | What difference does it make? |
18578 | What do I mean by that? |
18578 | What do we mean by coming into a knowledge of God? |
18578 | What do we need? |
18578 | What do you find in the Bible? |
18578 | What do you give in place of that which you take away? |
18578 | What does a human education mean? |
18578 | What does atonement mean? |
18578 | What does atonement mean? |
18578 | What does he need? |
18578 | What does he want? |
18578 | What does it mean? |
18578 | What does it mean? |
18578 | What does it mean? |
18578 | What does that mean? |
18578 | What follows from this? |
18578 | What has been the result? |
18578 | What has been the result? |
18578 | What has doubt, what has investigation, done concerning the universe of which we are a part? |
18578 | What has this spirit done concerning Jesus? |
18578 | What have I done that I must be burdened and afflicted after this fashion?" |
18578 | What have we discovered? |
18578 | What is God''s method of keeping a system like this solar one of ours together? |
18578 | What is conscience, then? |
18578 | What is faith? |
18578 | What is human life, then? |
18578 | What is involved that is of any importance? |
18578 | What is it for? |
18578 | What is it that keeps man from God? |
18578 | What is it that keeps man from God? |
18578 | What is our God to- day? |
18578 | What is sin, as science looks at it and treats it? |
18578 | What is the difficulty in the mind of the intelligent, modern thinker when he faces this conception of prayer? |
18578 | What is the use of all this investigating? |
18578 | What is the use of criticism? |
18578 | What is the use of paying any attention to the theological or religious opinions of a man who avows an attitude like that? |
18578 | What is the use? |
18578 | What is to be its outcome? |
18578 | What means all this intense activity of the scientific world? |
18578 | What of it? |
18578 | What one do we love to have most with us, to associate most with our joys, with the peace of our homes? |
18578 | What right had he to choose for you? |
18578 | What shall we try to do? |
18578 | What was characteristic of those ages? |
18578 | What was he contending about, and why does the world bow down to him with reverence and honor? |
18578 | What was that old conception? |
18578 | What was that? |
18578 | What was the Renaissance? |
18578 | What was the Renaissance? |
18578 | What was the use of troubling about it? |
18578 | What would you think of it? |
18578 | What, then, is the meaning of life? |
18578 | Whatever good is in us, Whatever good we see, And every high endeavor, Are they not all from Thee? |
18578 | When I was first struggling out into the light? |
18578 | When was that formed? |
18578 | When we come up to the level of man, what do we find? |
18578 | Where did this modern civilization of ours begin? |
18578 | Where did this wondrous dream come from? |
18578 | Where do they claim to get the authority for these old beliefs? |
18578 | Where shall I begin? |
18578 | Which is true? |
18578 | Which of them shall we accept? |
18578 | Who are the sheep, and who are the goats? |
18578 | Who are they? |
18578 | Who can tell me what a particle of matter is? |
18578 | Who can tell me what a ray of light is, as it comes from a star? |
18578 | Who is it, then, his father or mother, or he himself, that has sinned, that is the cause of it? |
18578 | Who is it, then, that takes these beliefs away? |
18578 | Whoever looked upon them shining And turned to earth without repining, Nor wished for wings to flee away And mix with their eternal ray?" |
18578 | Why are not all educated men Unitarians? |
18578 | Why are not all educated people Unitarians? |
18578 | Why are we fools enough to honor the men who were burned at Oxford? |
18578 | Why can not I any longer pray to God to send his light and truth to the heathen world? |
18578 | Why can not we believe that prayer is the power that moves the arm that moves the world??? |
18578 | Why can not we believe that prayer is the power that moves the arm that moves the world??? |
18578 | Why can not we believe that prayer is the power that moves the arm that moves the world??? |
18578 | Why do not all persons who study and who are educated accept the Unitarian faith? |
18578 | Why do not scientific men accept demonstrated truth when it is first demonstrated as truth? |
18578 | Why do we honor to- day the line of saints and martyrs? |
18578 | Why do we look upon Savonarola with such admiration? |
18578 | Why indulge in all this doubt? |
18578 | Why is it that we can not pray to God to change the order of the natural world? |
18578 | Why is it to- day that we lift John Wesley on such a lofty pedestal of admiration? |
18578 | Why not let everybody worship and believe as he pleases? |
18578 | Why should he have made himself so unpopular as to be cast out even of the Unitarian fellowship? |
18578 | Why should they meet with eternal doom on account of the lack of enthusiasm or devotion of people of whom they have never heard? |
18578 | Why, even in our human life do you not know how it is? |
18578 | Why, friends, do you know anything about electricity? |
18578 | Why, then, are not all thoughtful, educated people Unitarians? |
18578 | Why? |
18578 | Why? |
18578 | Why? |
18578 | Why? |
18578 | Why? |
18578 | Why? |
18578 | Why? |
18578 | Why? |
18578 | Why? |
18578 | Would I take away this trust, this poetry, this romance, untrue as I believe it to be in form, inadequate as I believe it to be? |
18578 | Would I take it away, and leave her mind bare, her heart empty, leave her without the comfort, without the inspiration? |
18578 | Would he state that which he knew was not true? |
18578 | Would it have made any difference which side won? |
18578 | Would we speak of it as a gospel, something of which to be glad, something to proclaim to mankind as a cheer, a message from on high? |
18578 | Would you expect to find the same ideas throughout it? |
18578 | Would you go and look at these swine, and say they are not suffering anything? |
18578 | You see how that perception lifted him above the average level of his people? |
18578 | You want the antiquity of the world? |
18578 | or Universal? |
18578 | was he making himself uncomfortable over imaginary distinctions? |
14139 | But,you say,"suppose his name goes down under the hoof of scorn and contempt?" |
14139 | But,you say,"suppose his store burns up?" |
14139 | Lord, is it I? 14139 Oh, when, thou city of my God, Shall I thy courts ascend? |
14139 | Suppose his physical health fails? |
14139 | Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars? |
14139 | Well,said the minister,"would n''t you like to have me pray with you?" |
14139 | Well,you say,"I have been driven out of that tower; where shall I go?" |
14139 | What are you waiting here for? |
14139 | What do you mean? |
14139 | What,say you,"ca n''t a man be saved without going to church?" |
14139 | Where did your grandfather die? |
14139 | Where did your great- grandfather die? |
14139 | Wherefore do the wicked live? |
14139 | Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah, mighty to save? |
14139 | Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this? |
14139 | Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this? |
14139 | Why are you here? |
14139 | ''Is that all? |
14139 | A few nights later, while crossing the ferry, she overheard the name of her employer in the conversation of girls who stood near:''What, John Snipes? |
14139 | A paragraph from their report:"''Can you make Mr. Jones pay me? |
14139 | About to jump, where will you land? |
14139 | After death seizes upon that soul, is there no resurrection? |
14139 | And can it be possible that our eternity is dependent upon the healthy action of that which can be so easily destroyed? |
14139 | And the soul will cry:"Is this forever?" |
14139 | And then, when the bread is passed around, they taste of it skeptically and inquiringly, as much as to say:"Is it bread? |
14139 | And who will say, on earth or in Heaven, that Havelock had not the right to preach? |
14139 | And will He take care of the sparrow, will He take care of the hawk, and let you die? |
14139 | Are not those of you who are in the third class ready to pass over into the second division, and become seekers after Christ? |
14139 | Are not women as sharp as men on washer- women and milliners and mantua- makers? |
14139 | Are the clerks in your store irate against the firm? |
14139 | Are there any here who would like to enter into that association? |
14139 | Are there two destinies? |
14139 | Are we to go through the slaughter? |
14139 | Are you all fed? |
14139 | Are you doing nothing? |
14139 | Are you ready for the emergency? |
14139 | Are you ready to join with me in some new work for Christ? |
14139 | Are you to blame? |
14139 | As it was even- time he said to his wife:"Have you lighted the candles?" |
14139 | As soon as it came within speaking distance the people on the shore cried out:"Did you save any of them? |
14139 | Ask the day of judgment when her crowned debauchees, Commodus and Pertinax, and Caligula and Diocletian, shall answer for their infamy? |
14139 | Ay, are you not ready to pass over into the first division, and become the pardoned sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty? |
14139 | Because their own personal expenses are lavish? |
14139 | Because they are avaricious? |
14139 | But are there no truths to be uttered in regard to this great evil? |
14139 | But as money is not a lawful tender, what is? |
14139 | But do you know what made the ancient deluge a necessity? |
14139 | But hear you not the tramp of your unpardoned sins all around the tower? |
14139 | But how shall Abimelech and his army take this temple of Berith and the men who are there fortified? |
14139 | But suppose you do not keep it? |
14139 | But what is all that commotion and flutter, and surging to and fro above Him and on either side of Him? |
14139 | But what shall be the destiny of the latter? |
14139 | But where is the king? |
14139 | But why talk of refuge? |
14139 | But will the monument to Him who died for the eternal liberation of the human race ever be completed? |
14139 | But you say,"Have n''t people lived on in complete use of it to old age?" |
14139 | But, you say,"What is the use of all these harvest- fields to Ruth and Naomi? |
14139 | By what principle of justice is it that women in many of our cities get only two thirds as much pay as men, and in many cases only half? |
14139 | By what weapon? |
14139 | Can a million wrongs make one right? |
14139 | Can it be possible that heaven can not buy you in? |
14139 | Can one speckled and bad apple in a barrel of diseased apples turn the other apples good? |
14139 | Can those who are themselves down help others up? |
14139 | Can those who have themselves failed in the business of the soul pay the debts of their spiritual insolvents? |
14139 | Can you be without emotion as the Sun of Righteousness rises behind Calvary, and sets behind Joseph''s sepulcher? |
14139 | Can you do such a shocking thing as that? |
14139 | Can you have any doubt about who it is on the seat on the judgment day? |
14139 | Can you imagine anything more unimportant than the coming of a poor woman from Moab to Judah? |
14139 | Did it make you gloomy and sad? |
14139 | Did not a meteor run on evangelistic errand on the first Christmas night, and designate the rough cradle of our Lord? |
14139 | Did not the stars in their courses fight against Sisera? |
14139 | Did the distress heal them? |
14139 | Did the world come in to stand by his death- bed, and clearing off the vials of bitter medicine, put down any compensation? |
14139 | Did they not try to divorce Margaret, the Scotch girl, from Jesus? |
14139 | Did you ever put your forefingers on its eternal pulses? |
14139 | Did you ever read De Quincey''s"Confessions of an Opium- Eater?" |
14139 | Did you go with your head cast down? |
14139 | Did you save any of them?" |
14139 | Did you think that your soul was a mere trinket which for a few pennies you could buy in a toy shop? |
14139 | Did you think that your soul was short- lived, and that, panting, it would soon lie down for extinction? |
14139 | Did you think that your soul, if once lost, might be found again if you went out with torches and lanterns? |
14139 | Did you, my brother, ever measure the meaning of that one passage:"Behold, I stand at the door and knock"? |
14139 | Do n''t remember them, eh? |
14139 | Do n''t you know that with some persons there is a tide in their spiritual natures which, if taken at the flood, leads on to salvation? |
14139 | Do n''t you want to go in with such a rabble? |
14139 | Do not women, as much as men, beat down to the lowest figure the woman who sews for them? |
14139 | Do you believe that? |
14139 | Do you believe that? |
14139 | Do you believe that? |
14139 | Do you expect me to take that pardon offered with such a voice as you have, with such an awkward manner as you have? |
14139 | Do you hear that? |
14139 | Do you know how it is made? |
14139 | Do you know where Sheba was? |
14139 | Do you know who Supply and Demand are? |
14139 | Do you not feel the swellings of the great oceanic tides of Divine mercy? |
14139 | Do you not see the troops? |
14139 | Do you realize this? |
14139 | Do you remember all those lapses in conduct? |
14139 | Do you remember all those opprobrious words and thoughts and actions? |
14139 | Do you say that I swing open the gate of heaven too far? |
14139 | Do you want history? |
14139 | Do you want logic? |
14139 | Do you want poetry? |
14139 | Does it not seem as if his volume of infamy were complete? |
14139 | Does it not seem as if the last fifty years would make an appropriate peroration? |
14139 | Does it reform him? |
14139 | Far on in the ages one lost soul shall cry out to another lost soul:"How long have you been here?" |
14139 | Fifteen, twenty, forty, sixty years? |
14139 | For fun? |
14139 | For what are you taking it? |
14139 | From what land did you come? |
14139 | Furthermore, let me ask why a chance should be given in the next world if we have refused innumerable chances in this? |
14139 | Give us another chance"? |
14139 | Great God, is life such an uncertain thing? |
14139 | Had he lost his patience? |
14139 | Had he resigned his confidence in the Christian religion? |
14139 | Had the world treated him so badly that he had become its sworn enemy? |
14139 | Happy? |
14139 | Happy? |
14139 | Happy? |
14139 | Happy? |
14139 | Happy? |
14139 | Has he a right to expect to be invited after all the indignities he has done you? |
14139 | Has he found any new elixir? |
14139 | Have I held back any truth, though it were plain, though it were unpalatable? |
14139 | Have not pains shot their poisoned arrows, and fevers kindled their fire in your brain? |
14139 | Have they been used for the elevation of society or for its depression? |
14139 | Have we not the Lord Almighty on our side? |
14139 | Have you any idea that sin will wear out? |
14139 | Have you ever imagined what will be the soliloquy of the soul on that day unpardoned, as it looks back upon its past life? |
14139 | Have you ever tried it? |
14139 | Have you given one half day to the working out of your salvation with fear and trembling? |
14139 | Have you made any effort, any expenditure, any exertion for your immortal and spiritual health? |
14139 | Have you never felt the quiver of its peerless wing? |
14139 | Have you no idea of the coming of such a time? |
14139 | Have you not noticed that God harnesses men, bad men, and accomplishes good through them? |
14139 | Have you nothing better than money to leave your children? |
14139 | He says,"Shall I stop the mill, or shall I run it on half time, or shall I cut down the men''s wages?" |
14139 | He says:"Do you remember those chances you had for heaven, and missed them? |
14139 | Hear you not all the trumpets of heaven and all the drums of hell? |
14139 | Hear you not the welcome of those who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us? |
14139 | His old comrades came in and said as they bent over his corpse:"What is the matter with you, Boggsey?" |
14139 | How are these evils to be eradicated? |
14139 | How can a man stand in the pulpit and preach on the subject of temperance when he is indulging such a habit as that? |
14139 | How could you do so? |
14139 | How dare the Christian Church ever get discouraged? |
14139 | How darest thou sleep in harvest- time and with so few hours in which to reap? |
14139 | How do I know it? |
14139 | How do you feel toward that spiritual fraud, turpitude and perfidy? |
14139 | How long did it take God to slay the hosts of Sennacherib or burn Sodom or shake down Jericho? |
14139 | How long have you, my brother, lived unforgiven? |
14139 | How long will it take God, when He once arises in His strength, to overthrow all the forces of iniquity? |
14139 | How much robustness of health would a man have if he hid himself in a dark closet? |
14139 | How shall it be taken? |
14139 | How shall this great multitude be supplied? |
14139 | How then? |
14139 | I can not help now, while preaching, asking myself the question-- Am I ready for that? |
14139 | I do not blame you for asking me the quivering, throbbing, burning, resounding, appalling question of my text,"Wherefore do the wicked live?" |
14139 | I go a little further on the same road and meet a trumpeter of heaven, and I say:"Have n''t you got some music for a tired pilgrim?" |
14139 | I said to one of the intelligent men of Ireland:"Tell me in a few words what are the sufferings of Ireland, and what is the Land Relief enactment?" |
14139 | I see a man rising in that great crowd and asking:"Is there any one here who has bread or meat?" |
14139 | I start out on this King''s highway, and I find a harper, and I say:"What is your name?" |
14139 | I wonder what proportion of this audience will be saved? |
14139 | If I bear a little too hard with my right foot on the earth, does it break through into the grave? |
14139 | If a man topples off the edge of life, is there nothing to break his fall? |
14139 | If a woman asks a dollar for her work, does not her female employer ask her if she will not take ninety cents? |
14139 | If an impenitent man goes overboard, are there no grappling- hooks to hoist him into safety? |
14139 | If anything is purchased and paid for, ought not the goods to be delivered? |
14139 | If you are on the right side, to what cavalry troop, to what artillery service, to what garrison duty do you belong? |
14139 | If you have bought property and given the money, do you not want to come into possession of it? |
14139 | If, then, we are to be compelled to go out of this world, where are we to go to? |
14139 | In other words, in what Sabbath- school do you teach? |
14139 | Is it I?" |
14139 | Is it all true? |
14139 | Is it not fair that you love Him? |
14139 | Is it not imperative that you love Him? |
14139 | Is it not right that you love Him? |
14139 | Is it possible that a man or woman sworn to be a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ is doing nothing? |
14139 | Is it to frighten your soul? |
14139 | Is it to help him back to a moral and spiritual life? |
14139 | Is not that plain? |
14139 | Is that so? |
14139 | Is that the kind of society that reforms a man and prepares him for heaven? |
14139 | Is there a God? |
14139 | Is there a divergence now between the parlor and the kitchen? |
14139 | Is there enough muscle in your arm for such a combat? |
14139 | Is there no help? |
14139 | Is there no way out?" |
14139 | Is there not an old Book somewhere that commands us to go out into the highways and the hedges and compel the people to come in? |
14139 | Is this a mere statement of a preacher whose business it is to talk morals, or is the testimony of the world just as emphatic? |
14139 | Is this plea all in vain? |
14139 | Is this world, which swings at the speed of thousands of miles an hour around the sun, going with tenfold more speed toward the judgment- day? |
14139 | Lend you a shilling? |
14139 | Lovely? |
14139 | Messages that say:"When are you coming home to see us? |
14139 | Must He take another darling child from your household? |
14139 | Must He take another installment from your worldly estate? |
14139 | Must I meet you there, oh, you dying but immortal auditory? |
14139 | Must life come upon you with sorrow after sorrow, and smite you down with sickness before you will be moved, and before you will feel? |
14139 | My friends, my neighbors, what can I say to induce you to attend to this matter-- to attend to it now? |
14139 | My little child, seven years of age, said to her mother one day,"Why do n''t God kill the devil at once, and have done with it?" |
14139 | Need I tell a cultured audience like this that there is no other name given among men by which ye can be saved? |
14139 | Now what is the use of my discussing it any more? |
14139 | Now, where is this to begin? |
14139 | Oh, impenitent soul, have you ever tried the power of prayer? |
14139 | Oh, man and woman, have you not learned that like vultures, like hawks, like eagles, riches have wings and fly away? |
14139 | Oh, men of the strong arm and the stout heart, what use are you making of your physical forces? |
14139 | Oh, must God come upon you in some other way? |
14139 | Oh, my brother, what possessed you that you should part with your soul so cheap? |
14139 | Oh, why do you not put out your arm and reach it? |
14139 | Oh, would it not be better for us to get our nature through the Grace of Christ revolutionized and transfigured? |
14139 | Oh, ye pursued, sinning, dying, troubled, exhausted souls, are you not ready now to hear me while I tell you of Christ, the Refuge? |
14139 | Oh, ye who have tried this world, is it a satisfactory portion? |
14139 | Old age? |
14139 | On what battle- field, my brothers? |
14139 | Only one test-- do you love Jesus? |
14139 | Or for all eternity where would you be? |
14139 | Or had you no idea what your soul was worth? |
14139 | Ought not the apostle to know? |
14139 | Ought you not give him freedom of choice?" |
14139 | Out of so dark a night did there ever dawn so bright a morning? |
14139 | Out of this audience to- day, how many will get to the shore of heaven? |
14139 | Pay? |
14139 | People cried out,"Who ever heard of such theories of ethics and government? |
14139 | Really, is it bread?" |
14139 | Roll over me with all thy surges, ye oceans of sorrow"? |
14139 | Ruth going into that harvest- field might have said:"There is a straw, and there is a straw, but what is a straw? |
14139 | Shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?" |
14139 | Shall I give an account for what I have told you to- night? |
14139 | Shall I tell you when your death hour will come? |
14139 | Shall any man or woman or child in this audience who has ever suffered for another find it hard to understand this Christly suffering for us? |
14139 | Shall it rise into the companionship of the white- robed, whose sins Christ has slain? |
14139 | Shall you, His child, rush in to criticise or arraign or condemn the divine government? |
14139 | She coaxes him again, and says:"Now tell me the secret of this great strength?" |
14139 | She said to Wellington:"Can there nothing good be said of this man?" |
14139 | She said:"Are you not going to pay me?" |
14139 | She took up the death- warrant, and it trembled in her hand as she again asked:"Does no one know anything good of this man?" |
14139 | Some one said to him,"What are you listening for?" |
14139 | Speak, dying Christian-- what light do you see? |
14139 | Spinola said to Sir Horace Vere:"Of what did your brother die?" |
14139 | Standing before some who shall be launched into the great eternity, what are your equipments? |
14139 | The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" |
14139 | The debt is paid, and the receipt is handed to you, written in the blood of the Son of God-- will you have it? |
14139 | The employer says:"I hear you are going to leave me?" |
14139 | The entire kingdom of the morally bankrupt by themselves, where are the salvatory influences to come from? |
14139 | The happiest, and the brightest, and the fairest in all heaven-- who are they?" |
14139 | The man turned to the other, and said:"Where did your father die?" |
14139 | The men whose life- time work is the study of the science of health say so, and shall I set up my opinion against theirs? |
14139 | The question is asked:"Is there any good about this man?" |
14139 | The servants come rushing up and say:"What''s the matter? |
14139 | The tenant goes on improving his property, and after awhile I come around and I say to my agent,''How much rent is this man paying?'' |
14139 | The workman looks around to his comrades, and says:"Boys, what do you say to this? |
14139 | The world clapped its hands and stamped its feet in honor of Charles Lamb; but what does he say? |
14139 | Then chariots and horses of fire racing up and down the heavens; then perfect day:"Who is she that cometh forth as the morning?" |
14139 | Then have you forgotten the last half of my text? |
14139 | Then you have a soul, have you? |
14139 | There is n''t anything like the Bible for a dying soldier, is there, my comrade?" |
14139 | There is not enough food in all the village for this crowd; besides that, who has the money to pay for it? |
14139 | There was a gentleman riding by on a horse, and he stopped and said to this corporal,"Why do n''t you help them lift? |
14139 | They come bounding toward me, and I say:"Who are they? |
14139 | They look as if they had rusted from sea- spray; and I say to the maiden of Israel:"Have you no song for a tired pilgrim?" |
14139 | Though you should be successful in leaving a competency behind you, the trickery of executors may swamp it in a night? |
14139 | To- morrow? |
14139 | To- night? |
14139 | Toward that bridal Jerusalem are our windows opened? |
14139 | WHY ARE SATAN AND SIN PERMITTED? |
14139 | Was it merely coincidental that before the destruction of Jerusalem the moon was eclipsed for twelve consecutive nights? |
14139 | Was n''t it strange?" |
14139 | Was there ever such a convocation of pictures, bronzes, of bric- Ã -brac, of grandeurs, social grandeurs? |
14139 | Well, how could the tender- hearted Paul say that? |
14139 | Were there not enough sick to be attended in these Northern latitudes? |
14139 | What are Michael Angelo''s great pictures? |
14139 | What are Paul Veronese''s great pictures? |
14139 | What are Tintoretto''s great pictures? |
14139 | What are Titian''s great pictures? |
14139 | What broken bone of sorrow have you ever set? |
14139 | What can such a wretched mendicant as this fellow that is tramping on toward the house want with a ring? |
14139 | What did Benjamin Franklin say? |
14139 | What did Daniel Webster say of it? |
14139 | What did Horace Greeley say of it? |
14139 | What did Thomas Jefferson say? |
14139 | What did he say? |
14139 | What do you want? |
14139 | What does Satan do for such a man? |
14139 | What does the world do? |
14139 | What does the world say? |
14139 | What does the world think? |
14139 | What effect such ballot might have on other questions I am not here to discuss; but what would be the effect of female suffrage on women''s wages? |
14139 | What has been the testimony on this subject? |
14139 | What have they done for your fortune? |
14139 | What have they done for your health? |
14139 | What have they done for your immortal soul? |
14139 | What have they done for your reputation? |
14139 | What have your companions done for you? |
14139 | What is it that I see glittering in the mild eye of Jesus? |
14139 | What is it that keeps you from rushing up and throwing the arms of your affection about His neck? |
14139 | What is it? |
14139 | What is that long procession approaching Jerusalem? |
14139 | What is that monument in Greenwood? |
14139 | What is that passage,"Ships of Tarshish shall bring presents"? |
14139 | What is the advice to be given to the multitude of young people who hear me this day? |
14139 | What is the advice you are going to give to your children? |
14139 | What is the reason? |
14139 | What is the terminus? |
14139 | What is the use of your fretting about clothes? |
14139 | What is the use of your fretting lest you will be overcome of temptations? |
14139 | What is the use of your fretting, O child of God, about food? |
14139 | What is the use worrying for fear something will happen to your home? |
14139 | What is to be your destiny? |
14139 | What is your Christian influence in this respect? |
14139 | What is your influence upon young men? |
14139 | What keeps me here? |
14139 | What made Garibaldi and Stonewall Jackson the most magnetic commanders of this century? |
14139 | What makes Edinburgh better than Constantinople? |
14139 | What ought to be done with such hard behavior? |
14139 | What proportion will be lost? |
14139 | What reward, what gratitude, what sympathy and affection can I expect here? |
14139 | What sounds do you hear? |
14139 | What then? |
14139 | What though our feet be blistered with the way? |
14139 | What were the subjects of Raphael''s great paintings? |
14139 | What will become of that womanly disciple of the world? |
14139 | What would the colonel say? |
14139 | What, then, will be said to us-- we to whom the Lord gave physical strength and continuous health? |
14139 | What_ is_ the matter?" |
14139 | When is that? |
14139 | When we are attacked, what advantage is there in having a fortress on the other side of the mountain? |
14139 | Where are the carpets? |
14139 | Where are the daughters? |
14139 | Where are your comrades now? |
14139 | Where is he? |
14139 | Where is she now? |
14139 | Where is the book- binder that could make a volume large enough to contain the names of all the people who have ever lived? |
14139 | Where is the hat- rack? |
14139 | Where is the piano? |
14139 | Where is the wardrobe? |
14139 | Where would you and I have been if sin had been followed by immediate catastrophe? |
14139 | Where? |
14139 | Which side are you on? |
14139 | Who are this other group standing so near the throne? |
14139 | Who are those bright immortals near the throne, their faces partly turned toward each other as though about to sing? |
14139 | Who are those two gentlemen now going up the front steps? |
14139 | Who are those two taller and more conspicuous angels? |
14139 | Who can doubt but it is appointed for the evangelization of other lands? |
14139 | Who ever noticed such a style of preaching as Jesus has?" |
14139 | Who got you out? |
14139 | Who has not heard of Claude''s"Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca"? |
14139 | Who has not heard of Da Vinci''s"Last Supper"? |
14139 | Who has not heard of Dürer''s"Dragon of the Apocalypse"? |
14139 | Who has not heard of Turner''s"Pools of Solomon"? |
14139 | Who is she? |
14139 | Who is that going up the front steps of that house? |
14139 | Who is that mighty angel near the throne? |
14139 | Who is that other great angel, with dark and overshadowing brow? |
14139 | Who is that poor man, carried on a stretcher to the Afghan ambulance? |
14139 | Who is this that I see coming out of that palace gate of Shushan? |
14139 | Who needs it, if the refuge spoken of be a city or a castle, into which men fly for safety? |
14139 | Who shall rouse them up? |
14139 | Who will bring them to life? |
14139 | Who will furnish the hammers? |
14139 | Who will furnish the thorns? |
14139 | Who will furnish these? |
14139 | Who would volunteer to be his counsel? |
14139 | Who, then, shall feed this multitude? |
14139 | Whom shall I fear? |
14139 | Whom the Lord loveth He gives four hundred thousand dollars and lets die on embroidered pillows? |
14139 | Whose? |
14139 | Why are they drudging at business early and late? |
14139 | Why become a castaway from God when you can sit upon the throne? |
14139 | Why defer this matter, oh, my dear hearer? |
14139 | Why did God command the priests of old to strike the knife into the kid, and the goat, and the pigeon, and the bullock, and the lamb? |
14139 | Why did that good man suffer, and that bad man prosper? |
14139 | Why do I say this? |
14139 | Why do the low fellows of the city now stick to him so closely? |
14139 | Why do the wicked live? |
14139 | Why do the wicked live? |
14139 | Why do the wicked live? |
14139 | Why do the wicked live? |
14139 | Why do the wicked live? |
14139 | Why do they go there? |
14139 | Why do they go there? |
14139 | Why do they not take the city cars on their way up? |
14139 | Why do you not fly to it? |
14139 | Why do you not step in it? |
14139 | Why go? |
14139 | Why have I told you all these things to- night, plainly and frankly? |
14139 | Why in that direction open? |
14139 | Why is that good Christian woman dying of what is called a spider cancer, while that daughter of folly sits wrapped in luxury, ease, and health? |
14139 | Why not burst into tears at the thought that for thee He shed it-- for thee the hard- hearted, for thee the lost? |
14139 | Why not heave the old miscreant into his dungeon now? |
14139 | Why plunge off into darkness when all the gates of glory are open? |
14139 | Why should I stand here and plead, and you sit there? |
14139 | Why should they stay any longer? |
14139 | Why this anxious look? |
14139 | Why this deep disquietude in the soul? |
14139 | Why throw away your chance for heaven? |
14139 | Why will ye die miserably when eternal life is offered you, and it will cost you nothing but just willingness to accept it? |
14139 | Why will you live on husks when you may sit down to this white bread of heaven? |
14139 | Why, at the beginning of this service, did you do what you have not done for years-- bow your head in prayer? |
14139 | Why, then, talk of refuge? |
14139 | Why? |
14139 | Why? |
14139 | Why? |
14139 | Will He come? |
14139 | Will it? |
14139 | Will the epidemic sweep Europe and America? |
14139 | Will there be a judgment? |
14139 | Will they do it with spear? |
14139 | Will they do it with sword? |
14139 | Will this war between capital and labor be settled by human wisdom? |
14139 | Will you be among the gathered sheaves? |
14139 | Will you be among them? |
14139 | Will you let Him depart? |
14139 | With battering- ram, rolled up by hundred- armed strength, crashing against the walls? |
14139 | Wo n''t you let Me in? |
14139 | Wo n''t you? |
14139 | Would you advise us to come to you, or will you come to us? |
14139 | Would you advise your friends to make the investment? |
14139 | Would you go to Shreveport or Memphis, with the yellow fever there, to get your physical health restored? |
14139 | Would you not like to be free? |
14139 | Would you not like to exchange this awful uncertainty about the future for a glorious assurance of heaven? |
14139 | Would you not like to- day to come up from the swine- feeding and try this religion? |
14139 | You do not tell him that, do you? |
14139 | You have yours; will you sacrifice it? |
14139 | You say that is all imaginary? |
14139 | You say to him:"Loan you money? |
14139 | You say to me,"Did God not create tobacco?" |
14139 | You say to me,"Is not God good?" |
14139 | You say:"Where are you going?" |
14139 | You will go over to the store to- morrow, and your comrades will say:"Where were you yesterday?" |
14139 | You will not take up arms against the Triune God, will you? |
14139 | and must all this audience share one or the other? |
14139 | does not this story of Vashti the queen, Vashti the veiled, Vashti the sacrifice, Vashti the silent, move your soul? |
14139 | in what prayer- meeting do you exhort? |
14139 | is that the Master''s spirit? |
14139 | of France, who was responsible for St. Bartholomew massacre, died? |
14139 | or David Hume, who employed his life as a spider employs its summer, in spinning out silken webs to trap the unwary? |
14139 | or Voltaire, the most learned man of his day, marshaling a great host of skeptics, and leading them out in the dark land of infidelity? |
14139 | or will it go down among the unbelieving, who tried to gain the world and save their souls, but were swindled out of both? |
14139 | that it will evaporate? |
14139 | that it will relax its grasp? |
14139 | that you may find religion as a man accidentally finds a lost pocket- book? |
14139 | to what almshouse do you announce the riches of heaven? |
14139 | to what penitentiary do you declare eternal liberty? |
14139 | were there ever darker times than those? |
14139 | where? |
42518 | Do you hear that bell tinkling in the morning? |
42518 | Do you think you will hold on? |
42518 | Doth God take care for oxen? 42518 Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow?" |
42518 | Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? |
42518 | Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? |
42518 | Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? |
42518 | Doth the ploughman plough all day? |
42518 | Doth the ploughman plough all day? |
42518 | Doth the ploughman plough all day? |
42518 | Doth the ploughman plough all day? |
42518 | Doth the ploughman plough all day? |
42518 | Doth the ploughman plough all day? |
42518 | Doth the ploughman plough all day? |
42518 | Doth the ploughman plough all day? |
42518 | Doth the ploughman plough all day? |
42518 | Doth the ploughman plough all day? |
42518 | Doth the ploughman plough all day? |
42518 | Have I long in sin been sleeping, Long been slighting, grieving thee? 42518 If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldst thou not have done it?" |
42518 | If thine arm offend thee--hang it in a sling? |
42518 | If thine eye offend thee--wear a shade? |
42518 | Is Christ divided? 42518 Is your father a Christian?" |
42518 | My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? |
42518 | No,say you;"how can that be?" |
42518 | Oh,say you,"will it actually come to death?" |
42518 | Shall horses run upon the rock? 42518 Shall horses run upon the rock? |
42518 | Shall horses run upon the rock? 42518 Shall horses run upon the rock? |
42518 | Should it be according to thy mind? |
42518 | Surely you do not object to my having a little more sleep? |
42518 | What is that for? |
42518 | Wherefore do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which satisfieth not? |
42518 | Who can stand before his cold? |
42518 | Who can stand before his cold? |
42518 | Who can stand before his cold? |
42518 | Why do you tell your child a thing twenty times? |
42518 | Why hast thou sent me,says he,"to a people that have ears but hear not? |
42518 | Why,says one,"not our sin?" |
42518 | A Christian man working not at all for his Lord; how shall I speak of him? |
42518 | A father? |
42518 | A master? |
42518 | A minister? |
42518 | A preacher may preach without conversions, and who shall blame him? |
42518 | A servant? |
42518 | A slothful professor''s heart is tinder for the devil''s tinderbox; does your heart thus invite the sparks of temptation? |
42518 | A teacher? |
42518 | A_ Christian_ man on half time? |
42518 | Afraid for the infinite Jehovah that his purposes will fail? |
42518 | After a powerful sermon he has not enjoyed his meals, or been able to sleep, for he has asked himself,"What shall I do in the end thereof?" |
42518 | After the germ has been put forth, can you make it further grow, and develop its life into leaf and stem? |
42518 | Am I told that this was because his death would be the completion of his example, and the seal of his preaching? |
42518 | And is this a little offence, to snatch from his brow the crown, and from his hand the sceptre? |
42518 | And so, when unconscious, and drugged to relieve pain, you will begin to think of your soul? |
42518 | And what is there, brethren, that is so fit for the heart, the mind, the soul of man, as to know God and his Christ? |
42518 | And what next? |
42518 | And what, think you, are the feelings of the minister? |
42518 | And when the frost pinches us so severely, why should it not be continued month after month? |
42518 | And when the green, grassy blade has been succeeded by the ear, can you ripen it? |
42518 | And when you have thus been up and down, what next? |
42518 | And while she was sitting there, what happened? |
42518 | And who would wish that idlers should be happy? |
42518 | And why is it, my friends, why is it that God gives the cattle the grass? |
42518 | And why should grace have visited you or me-- why? |
42518 | And will you make your bed upon them when you come to die? |
42518 | And, oh, what a joy of harvest you will have then? |
42518 | Another soul begins to sing in heaven; why do you weep, O heirs of immortality? |
42518 | Answer each one for himself-- Dost thou believe on the Lord Jesus Christ? |
42518 | Are my fellow- laborers afraid that Jeshurun will wax fat and kick, if he has too much food? |
42518 | Are not all thorns and thistles meant to be teachers to sinful men? |
42518 | Are not these things to be left to a higher wisdom? |
42518 | Are the best of our Christian young men always going to stay at home? |
42518 | Are the missions of the churches of Great Britain always to be such poor, feeble things as they are? |
42518 | Are there fruits? |
42518 | Are they not in thy book?" |
42518 | Are thistles to be your principal crop? |
42518 | Are thy necessities large? |
42518 | Are we bound to persevere till we are worn out by this unsuccessful work? |
42518 | Are we giving our religion the chief place or not? |
42518 | Are we thus shining? |
42518 | Are you going to preach, young man? |
42518 | Are you really saved, and are you negligent in the Lord''s work? |
42518 | Are you so simple as to expect the harvest before you have passed through the springing- time? |
42518 | Are you sown of the Lord? |
42518 | Are you sown of the Lord? |
42518 | Are you to go swaggering down the streets of heaven, letting fall an oath, or singing a loose song? |
42518 | Are you under the Lord''s care? |
42518 | Are you? |
42518 | Art thou still a piece of the bare common or wild heath? |
42518 | As the poet sings:"What more can he say, than to you he hath said,-- You who unto Jesus for refuge have fled?" |
42518 | Because there is a pleasure in looking at a Scotch thistle, do you intend to grow acres of pleasurable vice? |
42518 | Beloved, are you producing anything else? |
42518 | Brethren, are we careful enough as to our religious walk? |
42518 | Brother worker, are you getting a little weary? |
42518 | Burn the wheat? |
42518 | But how may a good workman for Christ lawfully go to sleep? |
42518 | But how shall we thank him sufficiently for the thaw of his lovingkindness? |
42518 | But is there not a way of saving men without the grace of God? |
42518 | But what if the ploughing should never lead to sowing; what if you should be disturbed in conscience, and should go on to resist it all? |
42518 | But who is to be the judge of the suitability of your trial? |
42518 | But will you go there at all? |
42518 | Can I lend you a hand? |
42518 | Can I show you how to work better? |
42518 | Can it be possible that the Spirit is entirely absent? |
42518 | Can nothing else be done? |
42518 | Can such an atonement be offered in vain? |
42518 | Can the Most High hear it and not be pressed down beneath its weight? |
42518 | Can you bear to think of being divided from godly friends for ever and ever? |
42518 | Can you expect that God shall pass by wilful and deliberate offences? |
42518 | Can you make a seed germinate? |
42518 | Canst thou trust him, and yet be cast away? |
42518 | Cease ye, cease ye, from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? |
42518 | Come, dear friend, will you be a corn of wheat laid up on the shelf alone? |
42518 | Could you wish your child to descend to earth again from the bliss which now surrounds her? |
42518 | Did I not begin by saying that because we were sheep he deigns to compare himself to a sheep? |
42518 | Did I not hear you sing the other day--"''Tis a point I long to know"? |
42518 | Did I not say just now that the sheep, by struggling, might be cut by the shears? |
42518 | Did he cast doubt upon the unquenchable fire and the undying worm? |
42518 | Did he conceal the sinner''s peril? |
42518 | Did he lull souls into slumber by smooth strains of flattery? |
42518 | Did he not once speak to the rock, and turn the flint into a stream of water? |
42518 | Did it come from that dear hand which was nailed to the cross? |
42518 | Did not our Lord say,"I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye can not bear them now"? |
42518 | Did she stretch forth her hand and take the food herself? |
42518 | Did the Spirit of God drop eternal life into your bosom? |
42518 | Did you ever bring a penny into the till by fretting, or put a loaf on the table by complaint? |
42518 | Did you not hear the other day of the alderman who died in his carriage? |
42518 | Didst thou carry home thy sack, filled like those of Joseph''s brothers, when they returned from Egypt? |
42518 | Didst thou have a soul- enriching season among the sheaves the other Sabbath? |
42518 | Didst thou have an abundance? |
42518 | Do I address any aged ones whose lease must soon run out? |
42518 | Do I address the lecherous, or the oppressive, or the profane? |
42518 | Do these people come to our assemblies because it is respectable to attend a place of worship? |
42518 | Do we in the morning sow our seed, and in the evening still stretch out our hand? |
42518 | Do we sow beside all waters? |
42518 | Do you experience such keeping? |
42518 | Do you feel the joy of harvest, the joy that makes you wish that others should share with you? |
42518 | Do you know what_ nature_ is? |
42518 | Do you mean to continue in that state for ever? |
42518 | Do you not remember reading in the Scriptures that, upon one occasion, the disciples could not cast out a devil? |
42518 | Do you not see where you are? |
42518 | Do you not think it is even more necessary to ask a blessing on our troubles before we get into them? |
42518 | Do you recollect that auspicious day when at last you began to have some little hope? |
42518 | Do you recollect those many Sundays when you said to yourself,"Let me go to my chamber and fall on my knees and pray"? |
42518 | Do you say that yonder green stuff is wheat?" |
42518 | Do you see how it is overgrown with thorns and nettles? |
42518 | Do you, brethren, use all your opportunities? |
42518 | Does Jehovah keep his covenant with cattle, and will he not keep his covenant with his own beloved? |
42518 | Does another whisper,"Oh that I might be saved"? |
42518 | Does he keep you? |
42518 | Does it not occur to us at once to give the word to those who will have it, and leave the despisers to perish in their own wilfulness? |
42518 | Does not prudence itself dictate it? |
42518 | Does not reason say,"Let us send this medicine where there are sick people who will value it?" |
42518 | Does the Lord work with us? |
42518 | Does the sharp ploughshare touch thee just now? |
42518 | Does your life begin and end with him? |
42518 | Dost thou do so? |
42518 | Dost thou feel the power of the Word? |
42518 | Dost thou require great mercy? |
42518 | Doth not the wife share with the husband? |
42518 | Earth asks,"Why should I yield at harvest to the sinner''s plough?" |
42518 | Echo answers, Why? |
42518 | Faith cometh by hearing, and how can there be hearing if there is no teaching? |
42518 | For which of all my works dost thou insult me?" |
42518 | Friend, if you have any religion, how did you get it? |
42518 | Go ye to Jerusalem, where of old was the city of his glory and the shrine of his indwelling, and what is left there to- day? |
42518 | Go ye to Rome, where once Paul preached the gospel with power: what is it now but the centre of idolatry? |
42518 | God gives the increase in the barn and the hay- rick; and in the spiritual farm it is even more so, for what can man do in this business? |
42518 | Going to put it off to the last hour or two, are you? |
42518 | Had you not better attend to your fences at once? |
42518 | Has he not said,"I have refined thee, but not with silver, I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction"? |
42518 | Has he not said,"I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me"? |
42518 | Has the seed of the Word never been sown in thee? |
42518 | Has the world my heart been keeping? |
42518 | Hast the ploughshare never broken up the clods of thy soul? |
42518 | Hast thou been the chief of sinners? |
42518 | Hast thou never sought to pull up the weeds of sin that grow in thy heart? |
42518 | Hast thou never watered the young plants of desire? |
42518 | Hath not Jesus bidden the believer to be baptized? |
42518 | Hath not the Lord declared that he hath chosen his vineyard and fenced it? |
42518 | Have we not there tasted the sweetest and most sustaining of all spiritual food? |
42518 | Have we not thousands of hearers who receive the word with joy? |
42518 | Have you a concern about these things? |
42518 | Have you a fine- spun righteousness of your own? |
42518 | Have you any faith in yourself? |
42518 | Have you ever noticed that whenever the Lord afflicts us he selects the best possible time? |
42518 | Have you ever searched to the bottom of your profession? |
42518 | Have you ever seen a patient man insulted? |
42518 | Have you forgotten that you are nothing? |
42518 | Have you never heard of a person walking in the fields into whose bosom a bird has flown because pursued by the hawk? |
42518 | Have you never heard those accents? |
42518 | Have you not heard of persons who fall dead at their work? |
42518 | Have you turned over that question, or have you gone at it hit or miss? |
42518 | He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold? |
42518 | He comes with the word of promise and the smile of brotherly love at once, and he says to the new believer,"Have you confessed your faith? |
42518 | He goes to his Master with,"Who hath believed our report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?" |
42518 | He maketh the grass to grow all alone, and shall he not make you flourish despite your loneliness? |
42518 | Hear again:"Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?" |
42518 | Here is your dear child likely to die; will you not, dear parents, meet together and ask God to bless the death of that child, if it is to happen? |
42518 | How can I plant with success if my helper will not water what I have planted; or what is the use of my watering if nothing is planted? |
42518 | How can a man be void of understanding who has a field and a vineyard? |
42518 | How can you love your neighbor as yourself if you do not love his soul? |
42518 | How canst thou judge of what is good for thee? |
42518 | How comes it that there is within the ripe seed the preparations for another sowing and another growth? |
42518 | How could it be? |
42518 | How does he do this? |
42518 | How far is all this to be attributed to a neglectful church? |
42518 | How is it done? |
42518 | How long do you suppose it was before I saw that woman? |
42518 | How many are there of this sort here? |
42518 | How shall men hear without a teacher? |
42518 | How shall we escape from this very knowing and very captious sluggard? |
42518 | How shall we survive the censures of this dogmatic person? |
42518 | How wilt thou escape if thou wilt neglect so great salvation? |
42518 | How would it have fared with you had you also been smitten while riding at your ease? |
42518 | However, instead of asking what the church has been doing for this nineteen hundred years, let us ask ourselves, What are we going to do now? |
42518 | I am about to teach a difficult subject; will it do any good? |
42518 | I delight to think of heaven as_ his_ barn;_ his_ barn, what must that be? |
42518 | I have chosen an abstruse point of theology; will it serve any purpose?" |
42518 | I know we each one have some power to serve God; do we use it? |
42518 | I suggest to you young people especially that, in starting life, you say to yourselves,"What shall we live for? |
42518 | If God blesses"the springing thereof,"dear beginners, what will he not do for you in after days? |
42518 | If a new laborer comes on the farm, and he uses a hoe of a new shape, shall I become his enemy? |
42518 | If he did so what would remain to be believed? |
42518 | If he does his work better than I do mine, shall I be jealous? |
42518 | If it were not for this fact with what despairing agony should we utter the cry of Esaias,"Who hath believed our report? |
42518 | If men once said,"There is corn in Egypt,"may they not always say that the finest of the wheat is to be found in secret prayer? |
42518 | If the Law of heaven were as swift to punish as the law of man, where were we? |
42518 | If the Lord says this can any of us complain? |
42518 | If you and I were in God''s place, should we have borne it? |
42518 | If you cut down the blades, where will the ears come from? |
42518 | If you do not sow your faith by using it, how can it grow? |
42518 | If, as some tell us, the ethical part of Christianity is much more to be thought of than its peculiar doctrines, then, why did Jesus die at all? |
42518 | Indeed, the Lord has to restrain the servants of his anger, for the heavens cry,"Why should we cover that wretch''s head?" |
42518 | Is Jesus your life? |
42518 | Is glory the end and outcome of that which fills our home with mourning? |
42518 | Is it a matter of soul- concern with you to be reconciled to God, and to have an interest in Jesus''precious blood? |
42518 | Is it in dissipation that your life is to be spent? |
42518 | Is it not an insult to God''s_ wisdom_? |
42518 | Is it not because_ he has opportunities which he does not use_? |
42518 | Is it not generally understood that you must measure a man''s understanding by the amount of his ready cash? |
42518 | Is it not growing dreadfully likely that you will die in your sins and perish for ever? |
42518 | Is it not so? |
42518 | Is it not time that you bestirred yourself? |
42518 | Is it not to separate it from the straw and the chaff? |
42518 | Is it not written,"I will bring them under the rod of the covenant"? |
42518 | Is it not written,"Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth"? |
42518 | Is it not written,"So he giveth his beloved sleep"? |
42518 | Is not that a suggestive metaphor? |
42518 | Is not that enough? |
42518 | Is not the time come for an open confession? |
42518 | Is not this common sense? |
42518 | Is not this good reasoning? |
42518 | Is not this the way of wisdom? |
42518 | Is that it? |
42518 | Is that word true to your soul,"I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day?" |
42518 | Is the eternal happiness of the righteous the birth which comes of their death- pangs? |
42518 | Is the love of Jesus the principal wheat with us? |
42518 | Is there any bliss like the bliss of knowing that you are in Christ, and are the beloved of the Lord? |
42518 | Is there any room for patience now? |
42518 | Is there any secret corner of your heart which you will keep for Jesus? |
42518 | Is there here a wayside hearer? |
42518 | Is there no one here that will trust the Saviour? |
42518 | Is there not a promise,"In due season we shall reap, if we faint not"? |
42518 | Is there one who prays within himself,"God be merciful to me a sinner"? |
42518 | Is there such a being? |
42518 | Is this a thing to be winked at? |
42518 | Is this a trifle? |
42518 | Is this going to last forever? |
42518 | Is this the spirit of Christ? |
42518 | Is this wise? |
42518 | It is fine talk, certainly; but doth the ploughman plough all day? |
42518 | It may be at the first seeking I may not find; what then? |
42518 | It may happen that at my first asking I shall not receive; what then? |
42518 | It will be ripened; but can_ you_ do it? |
42518 | Kept by the eternal Spirit of God, shall there not be produced in us fruits to his glory? |
42518 | Know ye not that the church is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all? |
42518 | Knowest thou anything about this? |
42518 | Listen:"Doth the ploughman plough all day?" |
42518 | Man, hast thou never cultivated thy heart? |
42518 | May I next ask you to look into_ your own house_ and home? |
42518 | May there not come a day when the millions of London shall worship God with one consent? |
42518 | Might he not have said,"Friend, why doest thou this? |
42518 | Moreover,_ sin makes God''s creatures unhappy_, and shall not the Lord, therefore, abhor it? |
42518 | Must I work always where nothing comes of it? |
42518 | Must his preachers continue to cast pearls before swine? |
42518 | My brethren, is not meditation the land of Goshen to you? |
42518 | Need we enlarge upon this terror? |
42518 | Note again that, if it be not farmed for God,_ the soul will yield its natural produce_; and what is the natural produce of land if left to itself? |
42518 | O rock, wouldst thou become like wax? |
42518 | O rock, wouldst thou dissolve into rivers of repentance? |
42518 | O sinner, why do you not trust Jesus Christ? |
42518 | O ye who are sore wounded in the place of dragons, I hear you cry, Doth God always send terror and conviction of sin? |
42518 | Oftentimes, when otherwise you might have hesitated, you will say,"The vows of the Lord are upon me: how can I draw back?" |
42518 | Once with the unthinking many, he cried,"Who will show us any good?" |
42518 | Or are you a Christian? |
42518 | Or can you show me how I can improve? |
42518 | Or is it that their coming helps to make them comfortable in their sins? |
42518 | Or saith he it altogether for our sakes?" |
42518 | Or will you choose a life of pleasure--"a short life and a merry one,"as so many fools have said to their great sorrow? |
42518 | Others, again, are very heavily pressed; but what of that if they are a superior grain, a seed of larger usefulness, intended for higher purposes? |
42518 | Ought not the Lord to have a harvest of obedience, a harvest of holiness, a harvest of usefulness, a harvest of praise? |
42518 | Ought they not to be put in an asylum? |
42518 | Our fields are parched if vernal showers and gentle dews are withheld, and what are our souls without the gracious visitations of the Spirit? |
42518 | Out of that all- encompassing horror he crieth,"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" |
42518 | Persecuting Saul became loving Paul, and why should not that person be saved of whose case you almost despair? |
42518 | Pilate cries,"Answerest thou nothing? |
42518 | Poor, simple, weak- hearted, and troubled one, look to Jesus and answer, Can such a Saviour suffer in vain? |
42518 | Remember how Paul put it:"Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos?" |
42518 | Satan or the world will walk in; and do you wonder? |
42518 | Shall I bring the gospel plough? |
42518 | Shall I laugh at that which made my Saviour groan? |
42518 | Shall I stand here and rain tears upon this hard highway? |
42518 | Shall I toy and dally with that which stabbed him to the heart? |
42518 | Shall Jesus''lips give the invitation, and will you say him nay? |
42518 | Shall Omnipotence be defeated? |
42518 | Shall coin be your principal corn? |
42518 | Shall he come and find you sleeping? |
42518 | Shall horses run upon the rock? |
42518 | Shall insignificant nobodies rob God of his glory? |
42518 | Shall it always be so? |
42518 | Shall it always be the lot of God''s ministers to be trifled with? |
42518 | Shall it be so? |
42518 | Shall it not be so? |
42518 | Shall one plough there with oxen? |
42518 | Shall sin ever be a trifle to me? |
42518 | Shall the Holy Spirit produce less fruit in you than that which you yielded under the spirit of evil? |
42518 | Shall the horses always plough upon the rock? |
42518 | Shall the oxen always labor there? |
42518 | Shall the preacher continue his fruitless toil? |
42518 | Should a child select the rod? |
42518 | Should the grain appoint its own thresher? |
42518 | Sinner, can you hope to enter heaven? |
42518 | Sinner, dost thou know that every act of disobedience to God''s law is virtually an act of_ high treason_? |
42518 | Sinner, wilt thou have him or no? |
42518 | Sinner, wilt thou not give up thy sins for the sake of him who suffered for sin? |
42518 | So much as this we may know, and is it not enough for all practical purposes? |
42518 | Some discourses do little more than show the difference between tweedle-_dum_ and tweedle-_dee_, and what is the use of that? |
42518 | Some may say, Why does not the believer reap all the field, and take all the corn home with him? |
42518 | Some of you were whole- hearted enough when in the service of the evil one, will you be half- hearted in the service of God? |
42518 | Suppose we sow the fields with sawdust, or sprinkle them with rose- water, what of that? |
42518 | The Lord''s husbandry upon us has shown a great expenditure of cost, and labor, and thought; ought there not to be a proportionate return? |
42518 | The Lord-- is he always to be resisted and provoked? |
42518 | The Sabbath is a wearisome day to you; how can you hope to enter into the Sabbath of God? |
42518 | The cattle pasture upon that which satisfies them; why should not I obtain satisfaction too? |
42518 | The grain of wheat when it is put into the ground dies; do we mean that it ceases to be? |
42518 | The legible handwriting of Satan is upon you-- can you not see the blots? |
42518 | The text, with the connection, runs thus:"Does not the husbandman cast in the principal wheat?" |
42518 | Then will I ask all day? |
42518 | There is a principal thing for which we ought to live, what shall it be?" |
42518 | These people have been preached to, taught, instructed, admonished, expostulated with, and advised; shall this unrecompensed work be always performed? |
42518 | They have no cares now; the shop is given up, they live in the country; they have not to ask,"Where shall the money come from to meet the next bill?" |
42518 | They have religion? |
42518 | This is a mournful state of things, is it not? |
42518 | This soil is rock; can we not sow it without breaking it? |
42518 | This work of God having proceeded in the growth of the seed, what next? |
42518 | Thou canst trim thy body, and spend many a minute at the glass; dost thou not care for thy soul? |
42518 | Threescore years old and yet unsaved? |
42518 | Travellers toward the North Pole tremble as they think of this question,"Who can stand before his cold?" |
42518 | WHAT IS THE JOY OF HARVEST which is here taken as the simile of the joy of the saints before God? |
42518 | WHAT JOYS ARE THOSE WHICH TO THE BELIEVER ARE AS THE JOY OF HARVEST? |
42518 | Was it self- sown? |
42518 | Wast thou satisfied? |
42518 | Watered with the drops of the Saviour''s bloody sweat, shall we not bring forth a hundredfold to his praise? |
42518 | We have given them a fair trial; what do reason and prudence say? |
42518 | We hold up our hands in glad astonishment and cry,"Who are these that fly as a cloud and as doves to their windows?" |
42518 | We in England sin against extraordinary light and sevenfold knowledge; and is this a light thing? |
42518 | We must not expect to find the best field next to our own house, we may have to journey to the far end of the parish, but what of that? |
42518 | We will ask it of men who plough their own farms; do they recommend perseverance when failure is certain? |
42518 | Were you ever present at the scene when they drive them down to the brook? |
42518 | What answer can we give? |
42518 | What are you living for? |
42518 | What brings these senseless sinners here? |
42518 | What but crime and infamy? |
42518 | What but mere smoke? |
42518 | What but sin and misery? |
42518 | What but thorns and nettles, or some other useless weeds? |
42518 | What but unholiness and vice? |
42518 | What can you and I do in this matter? |
42518 | What could the Lord do for us more than he has done? |
42518 | What did our Lord say? |
42518 | What do I find provided in Scripture? |
42518 | What dost thou do but seek to be God thyself, thine own master, thine own lord? |
42518 | What dost thou know about it, poor sufferer? |
42518 | What good comes of fretting? |
42518 | What has become of them? |
42518 | What has he as the result of all his honors? |
42518 | What has he got by his wealth? |
42518 | What has the church been doing all these years? |
42518 | What have I to do but to feed on these truths? |
42518 | What if God should say,"I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down"? |
42518 | What if all the other laborers became Hodgeites and Hobbsites, and so parcelled out the farm among them? |
42518 | What is death? |
42518 | What is growing in his mind and character? |
42518 | What is sin? |
42518 | What is that for? |
42518 | What is the natural produce of this great city if we leave its streets, and lanes, and alleys without the gospel? |
42518 | What is the natural produce of your children if you leave them untrained for God? |
42518 | What is the natural produce of your heart and mine? |
42518 | What is the object of threshing the grain? |
42518 | What is the use of preaching to him? |
42518 | What is the use of zeal abroad if there is neglect at home? |
42518 | What is there to hinder it? |
42518 | What is this vital principle, this secret reproducing energy? |
42518 | What is to hinder your dying with a spade in your hand? |
42518 | What is your position, dear friend? |
42518 | What is your principal aim? |
42518 | What is"nature"? |
42518 | What more could he have done for his farm? |
42518 | What must the tender, loving, gracious Jesus have meant by the words,"Gather the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them?" |
42518 | What saith he? |
42518 | What saith the Saviour? |
42518 | What shall I do for you? |
42518 | What shall we do? |
42518 | What then is the springing up of piety in the heart? |
42518 | What then? |
42518 | What then? |
42518 | What then? |
42518 | What then? |
42518 | What think you, friend? |
42518 | What was the use of disturbing himself? |
42518 | What will come out of all else? |
42518 | What will you say to excuse yourself, for opportunities lost, time wasted, and talents wrapped up in a napkin, when the Lord shall come? |
42518 | What worse than this can happen? |
42518 | What"it"? |
42518 | What, not by that matchless teaching? |
42518 | What, not with all that holy living? |
42518 | What, then, shall I say to you who are my Lord''s beloved? |
42518 | When a father is going to correct his child, does he select something pleasant? |
42518 | When are you going to do it, friend? |
42518 | When the law comes forth thundering from its treasuries, who can stand before it? |
42518 | When the rivers are hard frozen, and the earth is held in iron chains, then the melting of the whole-- how is that done? |
42518 | When they smote him on the face with the palms of their hands, it would not have been wonderful if he had said,"Wherefore do you smite me so?" |
42518 | When you and I preach or teach it will be well if we say to ourselves,"What will be the use of what I am going to do? |
42518 | When you have gone right to the end of the field once, what shall you do next? |
42518 | Where can we feed and lie down in green pastures in so sweet a sense as we do in our musings on the Word? |
42518 | Where did she sit? |
42518 | Where is it? |
42518 | Where now your boastings and your loud- mouthed blasphemies? |
42518 | Where now your confidence? |
42518 | Where now your merriment? |
42518 | Where now your pride and your pomp? |
42518 | Wherefore do we doubt him? |
42518 | Who among US shall dwell with everlasting burnings? |
42518 | Who among US? |
42518 | Who among us can look upon his life- work without some sorrow? |
42518 | Who among us? |
42518 | Who asked you to tremble for the ark of the Lord? |
42518 | Who beat the big drum, or blew his own trumpet? |
42518 | Who have most largely blessed the present age? |
42518 | Who will have the most joy? |
42518 | Why are certain men so extremely rocky? |
42518 | Why do men come to hear if the word never enters their hearts? |
42518 | Why do you happen to be members of a certain church? |
42518 | Why is he void of understanding? |
42518 | Why is it that certain"intellectual"folk can not get any good out of our soundest ministers? |
42518 | Why is it that proud people seldom profit under the word? |
42518 | Why must there be such a difference?" |
42518 | Why need they fall into a ditch because their leader has splashed himself? |
42518 | Why not ask a blessing on the cup of bitterness as well as upon the cup of thanksgiving? |
42518 | Why not? |
42518 | Why should not I obtain what I want? |
42518 | Why should you want hailstones of terror? |
42518 | Why stand ye all the day idle? |
42518 | Why, then, plough the rock any longer? |
42518 | Why, you can not create a fly, how can you create a new heart and a right spirit? |
42518 | Will God bless our moral essays, and fine compositions, and pretty passages? |
42518 | Will he hear those that can not speak, and will he not hear those who can? |
42518 | Will it be always so? |
42518 | Will it continue till the spirit fails and the soul expires? |
42518 | Will it not be wise for you, also, to allow things to begin at the beginning, and to be satisfied with their being small at the first? |
42518 | Will one in four of our hearers, with well- prepared heart, receive the Word? |
42518 | Will one plough there with oxen?" |
42518 | Will the great Husbandman bid his ploughmen spill their lives for nought? |
42518 | Will you be a money- spinner? |
42518 | Will you be like that wheat in the mummy''s hand, unfruitful and forgotten, or would you grow? |
42518 | Will you make less sacrifice for Christ than you did for your sins? |
42518 | Will you never believe in him of whom you hear so much? |
42518 | Will you not eat of your own? |
42518 | Will you recollect this? |
42518 | Will you refuse Boaz? |
42518 | Will you serve Christ less than you served your lusts? |
42518 | Will you think of this? |
42518 | Wilt thou believe in Christ? |
42518 | Wilt thou trust thy soul in his hands at once? |
42518 | Would any of you continue to pursue an object when it has proved to be hopeless? |
42518 | Would you detain your dear wife here with all her suffering? |
42518 | Would you have the tares and the wheat heaped up together in the granary in one mass? |
42518 | Would you hold back your husband from the crown immortal? |
42518 | Would you keep your old father here, full of pain, and broken down with feebleness? |
42518 | Would you shut him out of glory? |
42518 | Yes, he does; then if I am seeking Christ, ought I to be discouraged because I do not immediately find him? |
42518 | You are afraid the kingdom of Christ will not come, are you? |
42518 | You know the theory, but do you know the experimental power of this within your own spirit? |
42518 | You never loved your mother''s God, and is he to endure you in his heavenly courts? |
42518 | You never trusted your father''s Saviour, and yet are you to behold his glory for ever? |
42518 | You or God? |
42518 | _ Let us go from preaching the law to preaching the gospel._"Doth the ploughman plough all day?" |
42518 | and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?" |
42518 | but if he be happy, who shall excuse him? |
42518 | but,"says one,"how can it be? |
42518 | not begetting life in one spirit? |
42518 | now the seed will grow, will it not? |
42518 | or has it taken no root? |
42518 | or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?" |
42518 | that he is not moving in one soul? |
42518 | was Paul crucified for you? |
42518 | who_ among us_ shall abide with the devouring flame? |
42518 | will one plough there with oxen?" |
42518 | will one plough there with oxen?" |
42518 | will one plough there with oxen?" |
11536 | ''For do men gather grapes off thorns, or figs off thistles?'' |
11536 | ''From whence come wars and fightings among you? |
11536 | ''He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?'' |
11536 | ''How long halt ye between two opinions?'' |
11536 | ''Is not this the fast which I have chosen? |
11536 | ''Is this( God asked the Jews of old) the fast which I have chosen? |
11536 | ''What shall I say? |
11536 | A fine- drawn question of words? |
11536 | A messenger from God? |
11536 | After all, half- heathens as they were, Jacob''s blood was in their veins; and if not, were they not still human beings? |
11536 | All? |
11536 | Almsgiving is blessed in God''s sight, and charity to the poor; and God will repay it: but is not useful labour blessed in his sight also? |
11536 | Am I living for ambition? |
11536 | Am I puzzling you? |
11536 | And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? |
11536 | And all through believing the Athanasian Creed? |
11536 | And did Obadiah, then, carry away nothing with him when he died? |
11536 | And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? |
11536 | And how can we find them out? |
11536 | And how did he keep it? |
11536 | And how did he use Christ''s gifts? |
11536 | And how does God give grace to the humble? |
11536 | And how does the picture on the eye send its message about itself to the brain, so that the brain sees it? |
11536 | And how many of us give God the glory, and Christ the thanks? |
11536 | And how many of us give God the glory, or Christ the thanks? |
11536 | And how was, and is, and ever will be, Christ in this world? |
11536 | And how, again-- for here is a third wonder, greater still-- do_ we_ ourselves see what our brain sees? |
11536 | And if God be with us, what matter if the whole world be against us? |
11536 | And if I can work by a word, can not this Jesus work by a word likewise? |
11536 | And is it not reasonable to believe, that there Christ is, in the bosom of the Father, and at the right hand of God? |
11536 | And is not this good news? |
11536 | And now some of you may say,''Then are we more blessed than Thomas? |
11536 | And now, there may be some here who will ask, scornfully enough, And do you talk of nostrums? |
11536 | And shall we Christians be worse than he? |
11536 | And the Spirit of God, the Spirit of truth and right, tells them that they will not succeed: for how can a man win happiness, save by doing right? |
11536 | And the disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness? |
11536 | And this week, too, of all weeks in the year? |
11536 | And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? |
11536 | And what came of it? |
11536 | And what came of their saying so? |
11536 | And what do we gain by the spirit in us lusting against the flesh, and pulling us the opposite way? |
11536 | And what does the text say? |
11536 | And what happens to him? |
11536 | And what hope could he have for his wretched country? |
11536 | And what is the life of the soul? |
11536 | And what is the likeness of God, but goodness; and what is the glory of God, but goodness? |
11536 | And what is the seed which remains in that man, and keeps him from playing the coward? |
11536 | And what is the way of life? |
11536 | And what is this spirit of God? |
11536 | And what may we learn from St. Peter''s character? |
11536 | And what may we learn from that story? |
11536 | And what says he concerning the Rock of living waters? |
11536 | And what should a child be, but like his father? |
11536 | And what throws men into that sleep? |
11536 | And what was the lesson which God taught St. Peter by this? |
11536 | And what, if he does not look up in vain, nor sigh in vain? |
11536 | And which is more terrible? |
11536 | And which of the two has more cause to thank God? |
11536 | And who am I, that I should be able to make you understand the glory of God, by any dull words of mine? |
11536 | And who, again, will blame them, provided they do not neglect their daily duty meanwhile? |
11536 | And why does God resist and set himself against the proud? |
11536 | And why has he sent it? |
11536 | And why were they good men? |
11536 | And why, too, did he sigh? |
11536 | And why? |
11536 | And why? |
11536 | And why? |
11536 | And why? |
11536 | And why? |
11536 | And why? |
11536 | And why? |
11536 | And why? |
11536 | And why? |
11536 | And why? |
11536 | And why? |
11536 | And yet what does the Lord say? |
11536 | And, if they do rise up in judgment against you, what must you do? |
11536 | And, what kind of people were these, who so moved our Lord''s pity? |
11536 | Are no religious professors covetous now- a- days? |
11536 | Are not God''s creatures as well ordered, disciplined, obedient, as we soldiers are? |
11536 | Are there none now- a- days? |
11536 | Are these good people( who are certainly right in their horror of cursing) right in the accusations which they bring against it? |
11536 | Are they more honest than either rich or poor? |
11536 | Are they not a hundred times better ordered? |
11536 | Are we really inclined to obey it? |
11536 | Are we to believe and trust that we are going to heaven? |
11536 | Are we to thrive only by thinking of ourselves? |
11536 | Are we? |
11536 | Are we? |
11536 | Are we? |
11536 | Are we? |
11536 | Because I hope it will give me more chance of pleasure and glory in the next world? |
11536 | Because I think I shall gain more safety for my soul? |
11536 | Because he scolded and threatened them? |
11536 | Because his speech was too deep for them? |
11536 | Because it is my interest? |
11536 | Because it satisfies his justice? |
11536 | Besides, how can I expect him to feel for them; I, a mean, sinful man, and he the Almighty God? |
11536 | But all the rest of their time, what are they doing? |
11536 | But are we in love and charity with all men? |
11536 | But are you sure that you speak truth? |
11536 | But could he say less? |
11536 | But do you believe in it? |
11536 | But do you believe it? |
11536 | But do you really believe that Jesus is the Son of God? |
11536 | But does the Commination Service curse men? |
11536 | But for what purpose? |
11536 | But how can they be at peace, when there is no peace in them? |
11536 | But how shall we get that likeness? |
11536 | But how was their conduct hypocritical? |
11536 | But how? |
11536 | But if these be our bodily blessings, what are our spiritual blessings? |
11536 | But in what? |
11536 | But is he safe? |
11536 | But is it not reasonable to suppose, that there God the Father does, perhaps, in some unspeakable way, shew forth his glory? |
11536 | But is it really to be so? |
11536 | But now comes in a doubt-- and it ought to come in-- What are our works at best? |
11536 | But now-- What are these strange words which St. Paul uses? |
11536 | But some may ask,''How will believing that Jesus is the Son of God help us more than believing the other? |
11536 | But some may say, whither, then, did our Lord ascend? |
11536 | But some one may say, If mammon be unrighteous, how can a man be righteous and upright in dealing with it? |
11536 | But then the thought would come-- Why, after all, should God, if he be just and merciful, punish my sin by pain and misery? |
11536 | But we-- how many of us have had nothing but good years? |
11536 | But what do they mean? |
11536 | But what has the text to do with all this? |
11536 | But what has this story to do with us, you may ask? |
11536 | But what if that which was true of him then, is true of him now? |
11536 | But what is the love of an earthly son to an earthly father, compared to the love of The Son to the Father? |
11536 | But what life? |
11536 | But what need for me to go on counting by how many ways Christ will lead you, when he has more ways than man ever dreamed of? |
11536 | But what part of you is afraid? |
11536 | But where is it now? |
11536 | But wherewith? |
11536 | But why better? |
11536 | But why not do whatever we like? |
11536 | But why? |
11536 | But will not the Holy Spirit teach us, without the Athanasian Creed? |
11536 | But you may say-- Very likely that is true; but why need we take so much care to believe it? |
11536 | But, after all, will not the text tell us best how to keep Passion Week? |
11536 | But, if so; have I the mind of Christ? |
11536 | By giving away a few alms, or a great many? |
11536 | Can God be foolish? |
11536 | Can God be weak? |
11536 | Can not he do his work by a word, far more certainly than I can do mine? |
11536 | Can they lead you to eternal life? |
11536 | Can we go wrong, if we keep our Passion Week as Christ kept his? |
11536 | Can you give me any reason why Lord George Gordon''s riots can not occur again? |
11536 | Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? |
11536 | Comes from Christ? |
11536 | Could he say more? |
11536 | Did he call down lightning to strike sinners dead, or call up earthquakes, to swallow them? |
11536 | Do any of you say,''These are words too deep for us; they are for learned people, clever, great saints?'' |
11536 | Do not some at least of you know what that means? |
11536 | Do some of you not understand me? |
11536 | Do these words seem strange to some of you? |
11536 | Do we not know that we could, any one of us, sell our own souls, once and for all, if we choose? |
11536 | Do we not say the Creed every Sunday; I believe in-- and so forth?'' |
11536 | Do we? |
11536 | Do we? |
11536 | Do you ask what I mean? |
11536 | Do you ask what I mean? |
11536 | Do you believe that there is a Man evermore on the right hand of God? |
11536 | Do you boast of knowing God better than we did, while you did things which we dared not do? |
11536 | Do you ever have such thoughts as those come over you, my friends, when you are thinking of the Lord Jesus, and praying to him? |
11536 | Do you not see it? |
11536 | Do you not see that this man''s mind is full of higher, nobler thoughts than that of the proud man? |
11536 | Do you put your trust in it? |
11536 | Do you really cast all your care on him, because you believe that he careth for you? |
11536 | Do you say within yourself, He is too great, too awful, to condescend to listen to my little mean troubles and anxieties? |
11536 | Do you shrink from opening your heart to him? |
11536 | Do you suppose that he would not sweep that man away, as easily and as quickly as we do a buzzing gnat when it torments us? |
11536 | Do you think of the Lord Jesus Christ, do you pray to the Lord Jesus Christ, as a man, very man, born of woman? |
11536 | Do you wish to be powerful? |
11536 | Do you wish to be wise? |
11536 | Do you wish to find out whether you believe that or not? |
11536 | Does he make you a better man, or does he not? |
11536 | Does he make you a better man? |
11536 | Does it seem to you foolish of him, to believe that he could save the world, by giving himself up to a horrible and shameful death? |
11536 | Does it seem to you foolishness in me, to preach nothing but him crucified, and to say, Behold God dying for men? |
11536 | Does no one do so now? |
11536 | Does that seem a hard saying? |
11536 | Does that seem no great gain to you? |
11536 | Does this seem to you a small difference? |
11536 | Does this seem to you extravagant, impossible? |
11536 | Does this text seem to any of you difficult to understand? |
11536 | Dost thou fancy that he needs to interfere with the working of that universe, to punish such a worm as thee? |
11536 | For any good works of their own? |
11536 | For if God be for us who can be against us? |
11536 | For just think for once of this-- What nobler feeling on earth than the love of a son to his father? |
11536 | For myself, or for others? |
11536 | For the heathens, like all men, used to have their troubles, and to ask themselves, Who has sent this trouble? |
11536 | For what end am I living at all? |
11536 | For what happened? |
11536 | For what is more honourable than to be of use? |
11536 | For what was it, which had enabled the Romans to conquer so many great nations? |
11536 | For what were his miracles like? |
11536 | For which is the stronger of the two, the whole world, or God who made it, and rules it, and will rule it for ever? |
11536 | For which of us does his duty as he ought? |
11536 | For who is Christ, but the likeness of God, and the glory of God? |
11536 | For who said those last words concerning the birds of the air, and the grass of the field? |
11536 | For, after having fought bravely, and done your duty, what would the flesh say to you? |
11536 | God the Father adopts a man as his child, God the Son dies for that man, God the Holy Ghost inspires that man; and shall we be more dainty than God? |
11536 | God? |
11536 | Great joy, great honour, great success, wealth, health, prosperity and pleasure? |
11536 | Has God, then, no word of command likewise? |
11536 | Has he not baptised us into his Church? |
11536 | Has he not forgiven our sins? |
11536 | Has he not given us the absolutely inestimable blessing of his commandments? |
11536 | Has he not revealed to us that he is our Father, and we his children? |
11536 | Has not God given us his only- begotten son Jesus Christ? |
11536 | Hath God forgotten to be gracious: and will he shut up his loving- kindness in displeasure? |
11536 | Have you faith in it? |
11536 | He thinks-- How shall I meet my God? |
11536 | How can I make my neighbours better likewise? |
11536 | How can it be otherwise? |
11536 | How can it do that? |
11536 | How can it profit God, how can it please God, to give me pain? |
11536 | How can we tell that? |
11536 | How can we tell what is there, or what is not there? |
11536 | How could they? |
11536 | How did they get into this strange state of mind? |
11536 | How do I know that he will not be angry with me? |
11536 | How do I know that he will not despise my meanness and paltriness? |
11536 | How do we know that they are one whit worse than we should be in their place? |
11536 | How do we know that? |
11536 | How do we know, above all, that to have been found out may not be the very best thing that has happened to them since the day that they were born? |
11536 | How is this, then? |
11536 | How many loaves have ye? |
11536 | How may we get into it? |
11536 | How much more wonderful must be the world which we do not see? |
11536 | How much more wonderful must heaven be? |
11536 | How shall he not with him freely give us all things? |
11536 | How shall we escape this death in life? |
11536 | How shall we get the mind of Christ which is the Spirit of God? |
11536 | How shall we prevent the world from overcoming us in this? |
11536 | How the world? |
11536 | How then can we become excellent men, like St. Peter? |
11536 | How was it true of them that to him that hath shall be given? |
11536 | How, then, shall we keep his Passion Week? |
11536 | I believe the fact: I ask you to consider why it was recorded? |
11536 | I do not mean, are there any persons whom we hate; against whom we bear a spite; whom we should be glad to see in trouble or shame? |
11536 | I know one is tempted to answer; but I am afraid the answer is worth very little-- Why not? |
11536 | I warn you of it, and I warn you to go to the physician? |
11536 | If God had not given to man the power of producing wealth, where should we be now? |
11536 | If God really hated any man, do you suppose that he would endure that man for a moment in his universe? |
11536 | If he could find comfort in the thought of God''s order, how much more should we? |
11536 | If he could find comfort in the thought of his justice, how much more should we? |
11536 | If he could find comfort in the thought of his love, how much more should we? |
11536 | If he dealt with us after our sins, and rewarded us according to our iniquities, where should we be this day? |
11536 | If money be a bad thing in itself, how can a man meddle with it with clean hands? |
11536 | If my word can send a man to death, can not his word bring a man back to life? |
11536 | If not, why should I care so much about them? |
11536 | If this is not wonderful, what is? |
11536 | If, therefore, ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?'' |
11536 | Is God to be blamed because this is a fact? |
11536 | Is he not a God himself; a God in goodness and mercy; a God in miraculous power? |
11536 | Is he not more high- minded who is looking up, up to God himself, for what is good, noble, heavenly? |
11536 | Is his mercy clean gone for ever: and is his promise come utterly to an end for evermore? |
11536 | Is it hate or love? |
11536 | Is it in us now? |
11536 | Is it in your heart? |
11536 | Is it not written,''If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch?'' |
11536 | Is it not written,''The disciple is not above his master?'' |
11536 | Is it so now- a- days among us, my friends? |
11536 | Is it so, my friends? |
11536 | Is it true, that our fate is fixed for us from the cradle to the grave, and perhaps beyond the grave? |
11536 | Is not Christmas- day a sign that he will give it-- a pledge of his love? |
11536 | Is not God''s word of command enough likewise? |
11536 | Is not Holy communion his own pledge that he will do so? |
11536 | Is not he truly low- minded, thinking about low things? |
11536 | Is not his Spirit the Lord and Giver of life-- the only fount and eternal spring of life? |
11536 | Is not that worth going through any misery to learn-- that the Lord will hear us? |
11536 | Is not the Spirit of Christ in a Christian man, unless he be a reprobate? |
11536 | Is not the world full of chance? |
11536 | Is the Commination service uncharitable, is the preacher uncharitable, when they tell men so? |
11536 | Is there a God? |
11536 | Is there not a discipline and order in all heaven and earth? |
11536 | Is this the mind of Christ? |
11536 | Is this the spirit whose name is Love? |
11536 | Is your heart in it? |
11536 | It is only in the next world, or in the case of rare and peculiar visitations and judgments in this world, that it will harm you? |
11536 | It is written--''If thou, Lord, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss: Oh Lord, who may abide it? |
11536 | It means do not fret; do not terrify yourselves; for the Lord is at hand; he knows what you want: and will he not give it? |
11536 | It might be all that I was able to do: but would it justify me in the sight of God? |
11536 | It speaks of something, certainly, which is very curious, mysterious, difficult to put into words: but what is not curious and mysterious? |
11536 | Love of pleasure? |
11536 | May he not punish me for the same reason that I punish them? |
11536 | May they not rise up against some of us in the day of judgment, and condemn us, and say,--''Are you our children? |
11536 | Must it not be so? |
11536 | My friends, is not this just what the text is telling us? |
11536 | My friends, was not the old Psalmist a Jew, and are not we Christian men? |
11536 | Nay, more, what is it but a shame to us, if, while our forefathers were good heathens, we are bad Christians? |
11536 | No doubt, my friends, if a man lives a good life, all is well: but_ do_ people live good lives? |
11536 | Not by merely hiding in our closets to meditate, even about_ him_: but by going about our work, each in his place, dutifully, bravely, as he went? |
11536 | Not-- Does he make you feel better? |
11536 | Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? |
11536 | Now then, dear friends, did I not speak truth, when I said, this is a prayer for every one of us, and for every day? |
11536 | Now what is a preacher''s fruit? |
11536 | Now what is the mistake here? |
11536 | Now what is this battle? |
11536 | Now which shall he do? |
11536 | Now, are we in love and charity with these people? |
11536 | Now, how is this? |
11536 | Now, in what way were they like sheep? |
11536 | Now, is this Spirit part of our spirits, or not? |
11536 | Now, what sort of a man was this on whom the Lord Jesus Christ put so great an honour? |
11536 | Now, which is more high- minded; which is nobler; which is more fit for a man; to look down, or to look up? |
11536 | O my friends, do you believe indeed? |
11536 | Of what use to him was it? |
11536 | Oh my friends, is not that worth knowing? |
11536 | Oh ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? |
11536 | Or do you say to yourselves at times, I must not think too much about the Lord Jesus''s being man, lest I should forget that he is God? |
11536 | Or,''Everybody does so; what harm can there be in my doing so?'' |
11536 | Our Lord says, that we are to copy him by making ourselves friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness: but how? |
11536 | Provided a man lives a good life, what matter what his doctrines are?'' |
11536 | Reason and common sense tell them so: for how can a man expect to get to a place without travelling the road which leads to it? |
11536 | Shall I examine into my own selfishness for a selfish end-- to get safety and pleasure by it hereafter? |
11536 | Shall I make myself the centre round which heaven is to turn? |
11536 | Shall I think of God and of Christ only as far as it will profit_ me_? |
11536 | Shall I think over the sufferings of the unselfish Christ for a selfish end-- to get something by it after I die? |
11536 | Shall give? |
11536 | Shall not God merely speak, and be obeyed likewise? |
11536 | Shall we be more dainty, I ask again, than the holy and perfect God? |
11536 | Should we be so very sorry? |
11536 | Should we have gone away, like those nine, without a word of thanks to God, or even to the man who had healed us? |
11536 | So he called every one of his lord''s debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord? |
11536 | So how dare I give a positive opinion, where wiser men than I differ? |
11536 | Some people are too apt to say now- a- days,''But what matter if one does hold false doctrine? |
11536 | Some, for instance, are careful this week to attend church as often as possible; and who will blame them? |
11536 | Stupid we might call it, or unreasonable: but how hypocritical? |
11536 | Suppose my child, or even my dog, disobeyed me, would it satisfy my sense of justice to beat him? |
11536 | That now as we speak a man is offering up before the Father his perfect and all- cleansing sacrifice? |
11536 | That seems to have been the way in which he took our Lord''s words: but what does our Lord answer? |
11536 | That, in the midst of the throne of God, is he himself who was born of the Virgin Mary, and crucified under Pontius Pilate? |
11536 | The Cross? |
11536 | The commonest things are usually the most curious? |
11536 | The complaisant man-- the cringing man-- the man who can not say No, or dare not say No? |
11536 | The curse is on you already?'' |
11536 | The foolishness of God? |
11536 | The weakness of God? |
11536 | Then answered St. Paul-- Weak? |
11536 | Then begin once more the world- old questions, Why are we thus? |
11536 | Then comes the awful question, Are we at the mercy of these laws? |
11536 | Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? |
11536 | Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? |
11536 | Then what was the use of God''s warning to him? |
11536 | Then, if the old Psalmist could trust God, how much more should we? |
11536 | These old Jews drank of the spiritual Rock which followed them, and that Rock was Christ? |
11536 | They may live, did I say? |
11536 | They may say, What more pleasant than to have one''s fortune made for one, and have nothing before one than to enjoy life? |
11536 | This does not seem so very wonderful to us; and why? |
11536 | This saying may seem at first a very simple one; and some may ask, What need to tell us that? |
11536 | To persuade you to work? |
11536 | To what place did his body go up? |
11536 | Ungrateful to God? |
11536 | Was it by these things that Hezekiah found men lived? |
11536 | Was there any man to whom he owed money? |
11536 | We can ask ourselves at every turn,--For what end am I doing this, and this? |
11536 | We may cry to our Lord,''From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread in the wilderness?'' |
11536 | Were there not ten cleansed, but where are the nine? |
11536 | What am I really? |
11536 | What are these things which are fighting continually in your mind and in mine? |
11536 | What are they thinking of? |
11536 | What are they? |
11536 | What can I know? |
11536 | What could be before the country, and him, too, but utter starvation, and hopeless ruin? |
11536 | What could those lower parts be, they asked, but the hell which lay under the earth? |
11536 | What did he do on the first Christmas- day? |
11536 | What did he shew himself to be on the first Christmas- day? |
11536 | What did the Lord Jesus say himself? |
11536 | What did the angels say the first Christmas night? |
11536 | What do they get thereby? |
11536 | What does he do, then, in his need? |
11536 | What does the Bible tell us? |
11536 | What does walking after the flesh mean? |
11536 | What greater pain to a good son than to see his father dishonoured, and put down below him? |
11536 | What greater pleasure could there be than that,''he asks,''or what better means to improve his soul? |
11536 | What have I of the mind of Christ? |
11536 | What have we ever done right, but what we might have done more rightly, and done more of it, also? |
11536 | What have we which is fit to offer to God? |
11536 | What higher and purer air can a man''s soul breathe? |
11536 | What hope have we, not merely for ourselves, who are here now, but for all the millions who have died and suffered already? |
11536 | What if he be the same yesterday, to- day, and for ever? |
11536 | What if he hurt himself? |
11536 | What if he lost his money? |
11536 | What if he made a fool of himself, and came to shame? |
11536 | What if he were found out and exposed, as we fancy that he deserves? |
11536 | What if his children turned out ill? |
11536 | What is his will toward us, good or evil? |
11536 | What is it that we call remembering a place, remembering a person''s face? |
11536 | What is it which tells us this? |
11536 | What is more wonderful than the beating of your heart; your pulse which beats all day long, without your thinking of it? |
11536 | What is that? |
11536 | What is the jealousy of an earthly son for his father''s honour, compared with the jealousy of God the Son for God the Father''s honour? |
11536 | What is the meaning of''overcoming the world?'' |
11536 | What is there about the world which we have to overcome? |
11536 | What likeness between me and him who emptied himself of self, who humbled himself, gave himself up utterly, even to death? |
11536 | What loftier thoughts can man have? |
11536 | What makes them do in one minute something which curses all their lives afterwards? |
11536 | What may we suppose is the reason of this great stillness and soberness of the gospels? |
11536 | What might he_ not_ have said at such a moment? |
11536 | What might we not fancy his saying? |
11536 | What more pleasant than to be idle: or, at least, to do only what one likes, and no more than one likes? |
11536 | What need had they of a contrite heart? |
11536 | What ought I to do? |
11536 | What preacher shall we trust? |
11536 | What says our Lord in the Gospel? |
11536 | What should man be, but like God? |
11536 | What then does St. Paul mean, when he says,''That he may fill all things?'' |
11536 | What use in having your past sins forgiven, if the sinful heart still remains to run up fresh sins for the future? |
11536 | What was it which enabled them to keep them in order, and, on the whole, make them happier, more peaceable, more prosperous, than they had ever been? |
11536 | What was the use of his power? |
11536 | What was the use of wealth? |
11536 | What will you learn from them, but to be like them? |
11536 | What words, grand enough, awful enough, might not the evangelists have put into his mouth, if they had not been men full of the spirit of truth? |
11536 | What, then, is this thing? |
11536 | What, then, will help us to overcome the fear of chances and accidents? |
11536 | When afterwards our Lord asked him,''Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?'' |
11536 | Where am I? |
11536 | Where in the Old Testament do we read of the Rock following them? |
11536 | Where is it now? |
11536 | Where is the giving of glory to God for all his goodness? |
11536 | Which are we most like? |
11536 | Whither shall I go, then, from thy Spirit; or whither shall I go from thy presence? |
11536 | Whither, then, did Christ ascend? |
11536 | Who am I, that I should comprehend God? |
11536 | Who am I, to say that God''s mercy is not boundless, when the Bible says it is? |
11536 | Who but that very Word of God, whom the Psalmist saw dimly and afar off? |
11536 | Who does not know that state of mind in which, perhaps, without any great reason in reality, one has no peace? |
11536 | Who does not know this frame of mind? |
11536 | Who hath known the mind of the Lord; or who shall be his counsellor? |
11536 | Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? |
11536 | Who is the man who has influence? |
11536 | Who is the man who is respected? |
11536 | Who made us? |
11536 | Who put us here? |
11536 | Who so miserable as he? |
11536 | Who that ever came to Holy Communion in spirit and in truth, tried to put into words what he felt as he knelt before Christ''s altar? |
11536 | Who that ever truly loved his wife talked about his love to her? |
11536 | Who told us that we have not merely a Master or a Judge in heaven, but a Father in heaven? |
11536 | Whom say ye that I am? |
11536 | Why are we not to believe that he considered it as such? |
11536 | Why are we not to believe that the Bible meaning of a curse, is simply the natural ill- consequence of men''s own ill- actions? |
11536 | Why are we to suppose that he did not foresee the means by which that result would happen? |
11536 | Why are we to suppose that the prophet meant anything but that? |
11536 | Why are we, in the name of all justice, to impute to him an expectation of miraculous interferences, about which he says no word? |
11536 | Why did he sigh? |
11536 | Why did the Lord Jesus look up to heaven? |
11536 | Why did the cross of Christ, and the message of Good Friday, seem to them weakness and folly? |
11536 | Why did they answer St. Paul,''Your Christ can not be God, or he would never have allowed himself to be crucified?'' |
11536 | Why do I mention these three men? |
11536 | Why do I say these things to you? |
11536 | Why do I say, Let him judge? |
11536 | Why not, indeed? |
11536 | Why not? |
11536 | Why should I be singular?'' |
11536 | Why should not an accident happen to us, as well as to others? |
11536 | Why should not we have the thing we love best snatched from us this day? |
11536 | Why should not we, then, keep Passion Week somewhat as our Lord kept it before us? |
11536 | Why then because the other is a fact likewise? |
11536 | Why then talk of the weakness of God, of the foolishness of God, if he be neither weak nor foolish? |
11536 | Why use words which seem blasphemous, if they are not true? |
11536 | Will he not say of it, as well as of almsgiving,''Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these little ones, ye have done it unto me?'' |
11536 | Will not our Lord''s own example tell us? |
11536 | Will the Lord absent himself for ever, and will he be no more intreated? |
11536 | Will they make you better men? |
11536 | Wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?'' |
11536 | Without wealth, where should we be now? |
11536 | Would not our whole lives have been too short to bless God for his great mercy? |
11536 | Would there not be hypocrisy and play- acting in that, my friends? |
11536 | Yes, we would not hurt him for the world: but what if God hurt him? |
11536 | and if there be, what is he like? |
11536 | and shall he not repay it? |
11536 | and then, after confessing that the masses are hungering for the bread of life, offer them nothing but your own nostrum, the Catechism? |
11536 | are there not tokens enough around us now, whereby we may discern the signs of this time? |
11536 | but-- Does he make you behave better? |
11536 | for fame? |
11536 | for money? |
11536 | for pleasure? |
11536 | for show? |
11536 | to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? |
60107 | Are you going to make your Easter duty? |
60107 | Which of these three,he asked of the lawyer after telling him the story,"was neighbor to him that fell among the robbers?" |
60107 | Who knows,said St. Alphonsus Liguori,"what God requires of me? |
60107 | 24. Who is your master? |
60107 | A corpse? |
60107 | A man enters your house at dead of night and carries off your property; what do you call it? |
60107 | A man meets you on a lonely road and takes your money forcibly from you; what do you call it? |
60107 | A man picks your pocket on the street; what do you call it? |
60107 | A person seems very good, but what is the reason? |
60107 | Again, how about the advice of your_ father_ confessor? |
60107 | All these are various ways of breaking the Seventh Commandment; and what is that? |
60107 | And Jesus answering, said; Were there not ten made clean? |
60107 | And Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day? |
60107 | And Jesus saith to her: Woman, what is that to me and to thee? |
60107 | And Jesus saith to them: Whose image and inscription is this? |
60107 | And Jesus saith to them: Why are you fearful, ye of little faith? |
60107 | And Jesus seeing their thoughts, said: Why do you think evil in your hearts? |
60107 | And answering them, he said: Which of you whose ass or his ox shall fall into a pit, and will not immediately draw him out on the Sabbath day? |
60107 | And are not kind words often of more worth than bodily refreshment? |
60107 | And as Jesus looks out on the few who come to his feet, to the Holy Communion, he is forced to exclaim in sorrow:"Were not ten made clean? |
60107 | And behold a certain lawyer stood up, tempting him, and saying: Master, what must I do to possess eternal life? |
60107 | And even setting that aside, is it not possible that those who have studied a subject know more about it than those who have not? |
60107 | And for raiment why are you solicitous? |
60107 | And he asked them: How many loaves have ye? |
60107 | And he called him, and said to him: What is this I hear of thee? |
60107 | And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? |
60107 | And he spoke also to them a similitude: Can the blind lead the blind? |
60107 | And his disciples answered him: From whence can any one satisfy them here with bread in the wilderness? |
60107 | And his mother said to him: Son, why hast thou done so to us? |
60107 | And how have we every one heard our own tongue wherein we were born? |
60107 | And how? |
60107 | And if Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? |
60107 | And if it be so necessary for parents to watch over the bodies of their children, what shall I say of the duty of watching over their minds and souls? |
60107 | And is it only those who are strangers to him that contradict him? |
60107 | And is not that happiness? |
60107 | And now in every- day life how must we treat our neighbor in order to fulfil the command of Jesus Christ,"Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself"? |
60107 | And pride is a lie, a deceit;"for if thou hast received,"says St. Paul,"why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received?" |
60107 | And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus asked them saying: What think you of Christ? |
60107 | And the servants said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up? |
60107 | And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me the stewardship? |
60107 | And then in spiritual things how do we act? |
60107 | And then they say:"Suppose these children get worse and disgrace my name, and even, lose their souls-- what shall I do then?" |
60107 | And they asked him, and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet? |
60107 | And they asked him: What then? |
60107 | And they said one to another: Who shall roll us back the stone from the door of the sepulchre? |
60107 | And they were all amazed and wondered, saying: Behold, are not all these who speak, Galileans? |
60107 | And what do I mean by this over- reaching or deceiving? |
60107 | And what does a good shepherd do? |
60107 | And what does that mean? |
60107 | And what happened to them on the road? |
60107 | And what have we done, many of us? |
60107 | And what horrible mutterings are these that we hear coming up from dark corners, from workshops, from factories, from lodging- houses, from streets? |
60107 | And what is penance? |
60107 | And what is the word of God? |
60107 | And what is the world''s joy compared to the joy of paradise? |
60107 | And what sort of a penance? |
60107 | And when he was come near, he asked him, saying: What wilt thou that I do to thee? |
60107 | And who are those who speak in God''s name? |
60107 | And who are_ they?_ you will ask. |
60107 | And who is he that can hurt you, if you be zealous of good? |
60107 | And who is its master? |
60107 | And why does it not seem to be a temptation? |
60107 | And why is all this parade? |
60107 | And why not? |
60107 | And why not? |
60107 | And why seest thou the mote in thy brother''s eye, but the beam that is in thy own eye thou considerest not? |
60107 | And why, if he lets it be sown, does he not root out this bad seed, and not let it grow and choke what is good?" |
60107 | And why? |
60107 | And why? |
60107 | And why? |
60107 | And why? |
60107 | And yet must we not confess that too often we do not even make an attempt to practise this virtue? |
60107 | And yet what reason had the Samaritan to consider this man to be his neighbor? |
60107 | And, lastly, you want God to forgive your sins? |
60107 | Are not you of much more value than they? |
60107 | Are there not found some in our own day who imitate the conduct of the Pharisee and his friends? |
60107 | Are they spirits? |
60107 | Are thou greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? |
60107 | Are we afraid of that? |
60107 | Are we all going this way? |
60107 | Are we in sorrow? |
60107 | Are we tempted? |
60107 | Are you afflicted with incurable illness? |
60107 | Are you going to church or for a walk? |
60107 | Are you humiliated? |
60107 | Are you in a fit state to appear there? |
60107 | Are you in business, or at work? |
60107 | Are you in temptation and danger of losing God? |
60107 | Are you in the fever of sin? |
60107 | Are you punished by cold and hunger? |
60107 | Are you ready_ now_, at this moment, to die? |
60107 | Are you rich? |
60107 | Are you sensible of the responsibility which lies upon you to see that the priest is sent for, especially when they are in danger of death? |
60107 | Are you so sensitive about your neighbor''s faults because they offend God? |
60107 | Are you so sensitive about your neighbor''s faults, then, because they offend yourself? |
60107 | Are you very particular to keep the laws of_ mother_ church? |
60107 | Are you weary after your day''s labor? |
60107 | Art thou Elias? |
60107 | Art thou the prophet? |
60107 | As much as you want to take? |
60107 | At that time: Jesus said to his disciples: I go to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me: Whither goest thou? |
60107 | At that time: Jesus said to the multitude of the Jews: Which of you shall convince me of sin? |
60107 | At that time: The Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and levites to John, to ask him: Who art thou? |
60107 | Be not solicitous therefore, saying: What shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed? |
60107 | Because they would rather not be bothered? |
60107 | Brethren: Know you not that they who run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize? |
60107 | But Jesus, knowing their wickedness, said: Why do you tempt me, ye hypocrites? |
60107 | But are those who stay outside of the one fold in the way to use this sufficient grace? |
60107 | But are we merely to admire it in them, or have we too a share in it? |
60107 | But do they all mean just what I have said_ he_ meant? |
60107 | But do you dare to say this? |
60107 | But does St. Peter mean that we actually must always obey every one, man, woman, or child, who chooses to command us? |
60107 | But from what do these men of whom our Lord speaks in this parable wish to be excused? |
60107 | But have you followed the example of the one grateful leper-- have you gone back to thank him? |
60107 | But he answering one of them, said: Friend, I do thee no wrong; didst thou not agree with me for a penny? |
60107 | But he said to him: What is written in the law? |
60107 | But he, willing to justify himself, said to Jesus: And who is my neighbor? |
60107 | But how is it in fact? |
60107 | But how shall we tell that it does exceed its rights? |
60107 | But in thus covering the sins of others how does charity cover our own? |
60107 | But is it certain that those whom they are tempted to envy are, in reality, in so much better a state? |
60107 | But is it honored among Christians according to its dignity? |
60107 | But the men wondered, saying: Who is this, for even the winds and the sea obey him? |
60107 | But what do such excuses denote? |
60107 | But what do we see? |
60107 | But what do we see? |
60107 | But what does our Divine Lord say of those who now refuse his invitation to this heavenly banquet? |
60107 | But what is the fault? |
60107 | But what is the need of having so many of them? |
60107 | But what kind of Christians must we think ourselves since we all hate to suffer? |
60107 | But what riches of injustice has he gained? |
60107 | But what saith the Scripture? |
60107 | But what should you be swift to hear? |
60107 | But what went you out to see? |
60107 | But what went you out to see? |
60107 | But why did not our Lord let him know it? |
60107 | But why did not our Lord suffer enough to free us from suffering at all? |
60107 | But why is this? |
60107 | But you will say, perhaps:"I do not need St. Joseph''s help so much, for I have Our Blessed Lady to go to; is not she more powerful even than he is?" |
60107 | But, after all, are you not perhaps guilty of a little of the same sin yourselves? |
60107 | By despising it? |
60107 | Can we ever by our words bring others into the church? |
60107 | Catholic heads of families, employers, masters and mistresses, keepers of stores and workshops, how do you look after those that work for you? |
60107 | Christian, Catholic? |
60107 | Could you possibly ask anything more? |
60107 | Did he not promise a reward for even a cup of cold water? |
60107 | Did not the devil know that he was God and could not sin? |
60107 | Did you ever know any such case whose repentance you thought was worthy of such celestial rejoicings? |
60107 | Did you ever spend an hour looking at the drives in Central Park on a pleasant afternoon? |
60107 | Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? |
60107 | Do n''t you see the church looking down with eyes of mercy upon you? |
60107 | Do n''t you sometimes envy the rich, get discontented with your position, feel rebellious against the will of God? |
60107 | Do n''t you think if we tried that plan that the numbers on the men''s side would often be rather slim? |
60107 | Do not our own sins, little or great, continually cry out for penance? |
60107 | Do our sins terrify us? |
60107 | Do people get all they pray for? |
60107 | Do we need strength for the battle of life, and courage in the struggle against the world, the flesh, and the devil? |
60107 | Do we want to be where Jesus is now, and where he will be for all eternity? |
60107 | Do you correct your children when they engage in such talk? |
60107 | Do you doubt this? |
60107 | Do you get the doctor? |
60107 | Do you give them time to get to confession? |
60107 | Do you know what the word"tempt"means, my brethren? |
60107 | Do you know what they are? |
60107 | Do you look after the moral conduct of those you employ? |
60107 | Do you not give back as good-- and often worse-- than you get? |
60107 | Do you not see the cap gradually taking a form that will fit some of your heads? |
60107 | Do you offer them such nourishment as a sick person needs? |
60107 | Do you raise your voice in his defence? |
60107 | Do you see that they go to Mass? |
60107 | Do you see upon your souls great livid plague- spots of mortal offences against the Almighty? |
60107 | Do you think they will ever be full of wisdom or have the grace of God in their hearts? |
60107 | Do you turn out of your house those notorious backbiters and tale- bearers of your neighborhood when they begin their poisonous gossip? |
60107 | Do you visit your servant''s sick- bed, or the beds of the poor, to whom we are all indebted for so much service? |
60107 | Do you want to win and save those who have sinned against you? |
60107 | Do you wish, dear brethren, to make sure of not being deceived by these wolves in sheep''s clothing? |
60107 | Do you? |
60107 | Does St. Peter mean, then, that we must be willing to obey every human creature, every man, woman, or child that undertakes to command us? |
60107 | Does he pretend that the holy sacrament of matrimony is keeping him away? |
60107 | Does his grace move them to some sacrifice of their pride, their convenience, or their means? |
60107 | Does it mean that a good intention in itself is a thing which leads to hell? |
60107 | Does our Lord really mean all he says? |
60107 | Does your heart burn with sympathy for him? |
60107 | Drink? |
60107 | Explain the solar system to a child of five years: will he understand you? |
60107 | Fast- days-- do you know what that means? |
60107 | Fervent gratitude would now exclaim:"Surely no Catholic can do any of these to Jesus Christ?" |
60107 | For instance, somebody tells something about you which you know to be false; do you put the best construction on this? |
60107 | For what is it to be exalted in the true sense of the word? |
60107 | For what was it which we celebrated then, and what is it which we are celebrating now? |
60107 | For who hath known the mind of the Lord? |
60107 | God has called you often before; now, by the voice of his priest, he speaks once more and says:"Why stand ye here all the day idle?" |
60107 | God may well say to such a one:"Thou fool, who has told thee that? |
60107 | Grace of God? |
60107 | Had you the gold of Christian charity to present? |
60107 | Had you the incense of faith and the myrrh of sweet and fragrant hope? |
60107 | Have I a right to participate in the Easter joy of to- day, or am I only making an outside show of it, while my conscience tells me I am a hypocrite? |
60107 | Have I kept the commandments of God and of the church? |
60107 | Have I made my Easter duty, or resolved to make it? |
60107 | Have they wings like the angels we saw years ago in the picture- book? |
60107 | Have you been negligent? |
60107 | Have you done this? |
60107 | Have you followed it? |
60107 | Have you neglected the sacraments? |
60107 | Have you neglected your children? |
60107 | Have you never, when you accused yourself of some sin, said that you could not help it? |
60107 | Have you not listened to indecent stories? |
60107 | Have you not often aped the manners and swagger of the worldly- minded? |
60107 | Have you not told some such? |
60107 | He will ask:"How are you? |
60107 | His friend, curious to see what he would say, said:"No; what is it?" |
60107 | How about fasting and abstinence? |
60107 | How are we baptized in Christ''s death? |
60107 | How are you in God''s sight? |
60107 | How are you, baptized of God? |
60107 | How can such an one ever kiss the crucifix? |
60107 | How can we account for this? |
60107 | How dare to press those lips there represented, from which blessings were always returned for cursing? |
60107 | How do I know? |
60107 | How do we hear his voice of truth, which can not deceive nor be deceived? |
60107 | How do you act in that case? |
60107 | How do you do? |
60107 | How does charity cover a multitude of sins? |
60107 | How is it that we are so deaf and dumb in his presence? |
60107 | How is it that we find Catholics denying their faith and going to a Protestant place of worship for the sake of a little food and clothing? |
60107 | How is it we hear of milk- and- water Catholics going to be married before magistrates, or, what is worse, before ministers of a false religion? |
60107 | How is it with us? |
60107 | How is your health, the health of your soul? |
60107 | How many are there who reverence this sacrament as they should? |
60107 | How many more years will you slink away from your Easter duty like cowards and cravens? |
60107 | How much, then? |
60107 | How often they say:"I have no time";"What are the priests for, anyhow?" |
60107 | How shall we escape this terrible penalty? |
60107 | How shall you make it? |
60107 | How will he come back to us? |
60107 | How, then, shall we account for our not hearing his voice, and not being able to say anything worth his hearing, when we set out to pray? |
60107 | How? |
60107 | How? |
60107 | I ask you, here in the sacred presence of God, I ask you in the most solemn manner, when and how will you look upon his face again? |
60107 | I do not think the same about that as the priests do; they are welcome to their opinion but I claim the right to mine"? |
60107 | If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? |
60107 | If I say the truth to you, why do you not believe me? |
60107 | If that does not mean economy, what does it mean? |
60107 | If we will not do this, if we will distract ourselves needlessly out of the time of prayer, what wonder if we are distracted in it? |
60107 | In such circumstances what is generally your conduct? |
60107 | In what state were you last night when devout hands veiled the figure of Christ? |
60107 | Is each one of us now here present moving daily and hourly on this path? |
60107 | Is it a mere confession that we are sinners? |
60107 | Is it because it really has no explanation? |
60107 | Is it from something painful and humiliating? |
60107 | Is it lawful to give tribute to CÃ ¦ sar, or not? |
60107 | Is it not as easy to suffer a little for the honor of God as a great deal for one''s own? |
60107 | Is it not because parents are neglectful? |
60107 | Is it not because people wo n''t go into the vineyard, wo n''t work, wo n''t take trouble? |
60107 | Is it so with us? |
60107 | Is it so with you who are poor? |
60107 | Is it, then, really true that God will give us all good things which we ask in prayer? |
60107 | Is not the life more than the food, and the body more than the raiment? |
60107 | Is not this a shame? |
60107 | Is that all? |
60107 | Is that so? |
60107 | Is their modesty known to all men? |
60107 | Is this the case? |
60107 | Is your soul really free? |
60107 | It is always worth while to try praying for anything that is not in itself bad; we may be able to get Christ''s name for it, who knows? |
60107 | It is death; and if God himself did not tell us, how could we know but that it is the end of all? |
60107 | It is not much, then, is it, to eat fish instead of meat, to fast enough to have a good appetite, to lose a little sleep and get a little tired? |
60107 | It would appear to belong partly to CÃ ¦ sar; and who can this CÃ ¦ sar be, who shares the earth with its Creator? |
60107 | Let, then, these two questions ring in your ears: Where are you going? |
60107 | My brethren, can this be possible? |
60107 | My friends, does not the shoe pinch you a little? |
60107 | Now if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to- day is, and to- morrow is cast into the oven: how much more you, ye of little faith? |
60107 | Now if I cast out devils in Beelzebub, in whom do your children cast them out? |
60107 | Now, do you correct them_ in the beginning?_ Ah! |
60107 | Now, then, you"children of an older growth,"how have you shown your obedience? |
60107 | Now, what do I mean by worrying? |
60107 | Now, what does all this come from? |
60107 | Now, who are they? |
60107 | Now, who is to form them after the model of Jesus Christ? |
60107 | Now, why does your soul thus cling to the dead past; why does it strive to fly to the unborn future? |
60107 | Once a year? |
60107 | Or perhaps they say:"What shall I do now?" |
60107 | Or what woman having ten groats, if she lose one groat, doth not light a candle and sweep the house and seek diligently until she find it? |
60107 | Or who hath been his counsellor? |
60107 | Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made to him? |
60107 | Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? |
60107 | Our Saviour did, indeed, by his coming make salvation easier; but how was it that he did so? |
60107 | Over whom, then, are we going to be victorious? |
60107 | Say, when he is uncovered on Good Friday can you, dare you add to his grief by still being what you are now? |
60107 | Shall God not be jealous of his name? |
60107 | Shall he not punish? |
60107 | Such persons say, as Satan did of old,"Does Job serve God for naught?" |
60107 | Suppose I say to one of you:"If you ask Mr. So- and so for such a position or employment in my name you will get it,"what do I mean? |
60107 | That is just the trouble with the heretics of whom I have spoken; is it not so with you, too, perhaps? |
60107 | That is,"Which of the three seems to have considered the poor fellow to be his neighbor?" |
60107 | The Jews therefore said to him: Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? |
60107 | The Jews, therefore, answered and said to him: Do not we say well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? |
60107 | The church has, it is true, allowed, as the notices say, a moderate collation in the evening What does that mean? |
60107 | The grocery- keeper, the butcher, the baker could do it, and why not the liquor- seller? |
60107 | The question is: has the church power from God to command me, and what does the church command? |
60107 | The yellow fever, you will hear, has appeared in some Southern town, and what has been the result? |
60107 | Then he said to another: And how much dost thou owe? |
60107 | Then the servants of the master of the house came and said to him: Master, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? |
60107 | Then why did you not see that they went to confession, to Mass, to Holy Communion? |
60107 | Therefore calling together every one of his lord''s debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord? |
60107 | They said therefore unto him: Who art thou, that we may give an answer to them that sent us? |
60107 | They said therefore: What is this that he saith, a little while? |
60107 | They say: Why should the church interfere between my wife and me, or between my children and myself? |
60107 | They say:"What have I done that these children of mine are so bad?" |
60107 | This seems strong language; but do we not deserve it if we take from our Lord the little that he claims as his own? |
60107 | To be happy you must be loved; and who will love one who hates? |
60107 | Was the law then against the promises of God? |
60107 | Was your last Easter duty made? |
60107 | We are to forgive as God forgives; that is the bargain, is it not? |
60107 | We hear people saying every day,"How shall we live?" |
60107 | Well, do our good Christians show any disgust for these things? |
60107 | Well, what does their argument amount to? |
60107 | Were you not away from Mass last Christmas? |
60107 | Were you not in mortal sin? |
60107 | Were you not neglecting your religion? |
60107 | Were you not revelling, getting drunk, thinking rather of feasting and enjoying yourselves than of devotion and thanksgiving? |
60107 | What are Christ''s blessings? |
60107 | What did he do? |
60107 | What do I mean by wandering outside the fold? |
60107 | What do men do with such plants? |
60107 | What do people think of such a man? |
60107 | What does St. Peter go on to say? |
60107 | What does St. Peter mean, my brethren, by these words? |
60107 | What does our Lord mean by this, my brethren? |
60107 | What does the word"contradict"mean? |
60107 | What does this mean? |
60107 | What does this mean? |
60107 | What example do you set him? |
60107 | What followed? |
60107 | What follows, then, if what you say is true? |
60107 | What fruit therefore had you then in those things, of which you are now ashamed? |
60107 | What gifts had you to bring to the manger- bed? |
60107 | What hand is that which our Lord wants us to lay upon his dead children? |
60107 | What is Easter, or Christmas, or any other feast of the church worth without the grace of God? |
60107 | What is a Jubilee? |
60107 | What is a farm? |
60107 | What is a fast- day, then? |
60107 | What is a patron? |
60107 | What is it all but untruthfulness, want of humility, strutting up to the head of the table in one way or another? |
60107 | What is it that lies there still, and motionless, and cold? |
60107 | What is it that the spiritual ear ought to hear? |
60107 | What is it to ask in his name? |
60107 | What is it to tempt God? |
60107 | What is it? |
60107 | What is the difference between the two? |
60107 | What is the first one of these notices which you have or have not just heard? |
60107 | What is the lesson? |
60107 | What is the matter that this temptation is not resisted like others? |
60107 | What is the one you are most inclined to? |
60107 | What is the reason of this? |
60107 | What is the reason, my brethren, that people sin by anger so much? |
60107 | What is the teaching of Christ from the ship of Peter on this subject? |
60107 | What is this kind of good intention? |
60107 | What is this mammon of iniquity of which, or with which( for that is the true sense of the words), we are to make friends for ourselves? |
60107 | What is this that we are stealing? |
60107 | What is this vainglory of which he speaks? |
60107 | What is to be done? |
60107 | What kind of a Christian can he be who does not go to confession or communion at least once in a year? |
60107 | What kind of a neighbor are we to this poor brother of ours? |
60107 | What made our Lord so severe with these people of whom the Gospel tells us, who were selling and buying in the temple? |
60107 | What mean these stains upon your soul? |
60107 | What more clear account could he have given them of his approaching passion, death, and resurrection? |
60107 | What of hearing Mass on a Sunday and of abstaining from servile work? |
60107 | What other things are included in the riches of injustice? |
60107 | What prayers do you offer to God for the conversion of the sinner? |
60107 | What reason can we give for this blindness to what was put so plainly before their eyes? |
60107 | What should we ourselves mean by it? |
60107 | What then? |
60107 | What they mean rather by it is:"How can God allow this when I have done my duty?" |
60107 | What use was it to try him? |
60107 | What warnings and exhortations do you give him, especially if he be dear to you by ties of blood? |
60107 | What was the meaning of this promise, and what was its fulfilment? |
60107 | What was the sermon about last Sunday? |
60107 | What were these notices, then? |
60107 | What whisperings are these, hot and burning with the fire of hell? |
60107 | What would they do, if called on to shed their blood for Christ, who can not bear even to be laughed at a little for being practical Catholics? |
60107 | What would we think of one who, saved from such a place, should afterwards make light of the danger and care nothing for the one who saved him? |
60107 | What would you think if you should see the priest, when saying Mass, making his genuflections in this way? |
60107 | What, also, must be thought of interfering relations, cousins, aunts, uncles, and last, but not least, mothers- in- law? |
60107 | What, then, is Benediction? |
60107 | What, then, is a man to do who has offended God in this way? |
60107 | What, then, must they do? |
60107 | When and how shall we see him again? |
60107 | When and how shall you look upon it again? |
60107 | When any one is taken sick, what is the first cry? |
60107 | When the priest has to rebuke you, to reprove you, how do you take it? |
60107 | When the women came to seek the body of Jesus the angel said to them:"Why seek you the living among the dead? |
60107 | When they are sick and suffering are you solicitous that they should have the comfort and help which the holy sacraments afford? |
60107 | When will that trial- day come? |
60107 | When you think of this can you care for other praise? |
60107 | Where are they on Sundays? |
60107 | Where are they when confession day comes around? |
60107 | Where are you going, then? |
60107 | Where are you going? |
60107 | Where are you going? |
60107 | Where is my image and likeness?" |
60107 | Where is the white garment that I gave you? |
60107 | Where or of whom shall we learn our Easter lesson? |
60107 | Where were you then? |
60107 | Where, then, is that voice to be heard? |
60107 | Which is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk? |
60107 | Which is that way? |
60107 | Which of these three in thy opinion was neighbor to him that fell among the robbers? |
60107 | Who are these unfortunate people? |
60107 | Who are they? |
60107 | Who are to fill the ranks of the heavenly kingdom? |
60107 | Who can doubt that these lost spirits are terrible enemies to our salvation? |
60107 | Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? |
60107 | Who is scandalized, and I do not burn? |
60107 | Who is the judge, after all, about granting prayers? |
60107 | Who is the master of the poor? |
60107 | Who is weak, and I am not weak? |
60107 | Who make up the church on earth? |
60107 | Who saved us from the awful peril? |
60107 | Who says Christ is risen again? |
60107 | Who was it upon whom fell the first ray of Resurrection glory? |
60107 | Who will reap this terrible wages of sin? |
60107 | Whom dost thou make thyself? |
60107 | Whose son is he? |
60107 | Whose trial? |
60107 | Why did you not insist upon their morning and evening prayers being said? |
60107 | Why did you not keep them at home after dark? |
60107 | Why do n''t you say the same thing for somebody else? |
60107 | Why do people act thus? |
60107 | Why do you think it no sin to say the angry word, to flare up when you are provoked? |
60107 | Why is it often so difficult for the priest to get the active co- operation of the lay people? |
60107 | Why is it that I have so little devotion and that God seems so far away?" |
60107 | Why is this? |
60107 | Why is to- day called Passion Sunday, my brethren? |
60107 | Why lay up so much treasure where rust and moth destroy, and where thieves break through and steal? |
60107 | Why should not we do the same for the comfort of our souls? |
60107 | Why should the head of the family be ruled by the clergy? |
60107 | Why should we be so afraid of idleness in spiritual things and in works of charity? |
60107 | Why should you make the Easter duty? |
60107 | Why stand ye here all the day idle? |
60107 | Why then was the law? |
60107 | Why, I say, do you do so? |
60107 | Why, then, be so particular about hunting up all the crusts of bread and bits of fish that were lying round in the grass? |
60107 | Why, then, did you not do penance? |
60107 | Why, then, do some people stay away from their Easter duty? |
60107 | Why, then, if that is the object, does he promise us that if we humble ourselves we shall be exalted? |
60107 | Why, then, not try such a simple remedy? |
60107 | Why, then, stay? |
60107 | Why, when called upon to bear a little part of the priest''s burden, are so many people like an old gun that hangs fire? |
60107 | Why? |
60107 | Why? |
60107 | Why? |
60107 | Why? |
60107 | Will not God give us what our Lord approves of, any way, whether we ask it or not? |
60107 | Will you ever look upon the old, familiar crucifix again? |
60107 | Will you go on so to the end of your lives? |
60107 | Will you still persist in rejecting the Saviour? |
60107 | Would it not be so with us, too, if God should take away all the bad seed of temptation out of our hearts? |
60107 | Yet is it not true? |
60107 | You grumble at the inconvenience to which you are put, but what do you do to help them? |
60107 | You know the story of the old crab, who said to her little ones,"Why do you walk sideways?" |
60107 | You unfortunate drunkards that totter as you walk, who fall in the gutter and by the wayside, is your modesty known to all men? |
60107 | You want men to condone your offences and look over your shortcomings and defects? |
60107 | You want, for instance, to be kept from sin; but what sin? |
60107 | Young men, old men, women, girls, children, people, priests, rich and poor, where are all of you going? |
60107 | _ And Jesus saith to them: Why are you fearful, ye of little faith?_--St. Matt. |
60107 | _ But he, willing to justify himself, said to Jesus: And who is my neighbor?_--St. Luke x. |
60107 | _ Thou shalt not steal._ And what is it to deceive or over- reach some one else in business? |
60107 | _ Were not ten made clean? |
60107 | _ What went you out into the desert to see? |
60107 | _ Which of these three in thy opinion was neighbor to him that fell among the robbers? |
60107 | _ Why do you think evil in your hearts?_--St. Matthew ix. |
60107 | _ Why seest thou the mote in thy brother''s eye, but the beam that is in thy own eye thou considerest not?_--St. Luke vi. |
60107 | a man clothed in soft garments? |
60107 | a prophet? |
60107 | a reed shaken with the wind? |
60107 | a reed shaken with the wind?_--St. Matthew xi. |
60107 | and where are the nine? |
60107 | and where are the nine?_--St. Luke xvii. |
60107 | but seldom do they ever think of adding,"and how shall we die?" |
60107 | did you not know that I must be about the things that are my Father''s? |
60107 | do n''t you feel how the mustard- seed burns and stings? |
60107 | do n''t you feel the sharp mustard- seed getting into your eyes? |
60107 | do n''t you think they are waiting for you-- praying for you that you may be there with them? |
60107 | do they not both fall into the ditch? |
60107 | he will say to you,"you tried to serve two masters, did you? |
60107 | how are you preparing for that supreme moment? |
60107 | how readest thou? |
60107 | is it possible that one who has the faith and is possessed of reason can slight such a gift from the God who has redeemed him? |
60107 | is not our lesson plain? |
60107 | is thy eye evil because I am good? |
60107 | just ask yourself:"Am I a peaceable, good- natured man?" |
60107 | may we not some of us have good reason to fear that we shall one day be judged as hypocrites? |
60107 | my friend, how are you? |
60107 | say, shall he still find you so when he returns? |
60107 | was it so? |
60107 | what ails me or my family, or my neighbors, that I am always in hot water, and can scarcely call one day in ten really happy?" |
60107 | what pity have you for the poor sinner? |
60107 | what sawest thou in the way? |
60107 | what sayest thou of thyself? |
60107 | what shall we eat? |
60107 | whence then hath it cockle? |
60107 | where are the nine?" |
60107 | why am I so miserable? |
60107 | why care so much for the goods of this world? |
60107 | { 122} But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle? |
60107 | { 124} Why does he so often get the"cold shoulder"as people say, when he asks a little help? |
60107 | { 129} How does the pedestrian manage to run so as to obtain his fame, his thousand dollars, and his gate- money? |
60107 | { 150} But is there no excuse? |
60107 | { 155} How shall we live? |
60107 | { 167} And perhaps you are even inclined to say:"What ever did the church get up Lent for at all? |
60107 | { 193} What practical meaning has this Passion- time for us, my brethren? |
60107 | { 199} What is this lesson? |
60107 | { 207} Who is it upon whom the great voice of the church liturgy, in the Holy Sacrifice, calls to- day? |
60107 | { 20}"Where, then, shall the unjust and the sinner appear?" |
60107 | { 210} What kind of a life would I rise to on the day of resurrection, if I died to- night? |
60107 | { 211} But what is the cause of our joy? |
60107 | { 270} What was this change which was worked in the souls of the apostles? |
60107 | { 279} or how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull the mote out of thy eye, when thou thyself seest not the beam in thy own eye? |
60107 | { 27} And when they went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: What went you out into the desert to see? |
60107 | { 286}"Why,"then,"seest thou the mote in thy brother''s eye, but the beam in thy own eye thou considerest not?" |
60107 | { 293} And what have you done-- many of you, at least? |
60107 | { 303} And what is that means above all others? |
60107 | { 313} Are you in poverty? |
60107 | { 341} But who are these friends to be? |
60107 | { 346} Moreover, what sort of a good name is that which that man knows is a false one? |
60107 | { 352} He may have called those who sold in the temple thieves, because they were cheating their neighbors; but is it not as bad to cheat him? |
60107 | { 373} What wonder is it that it is so hard to pray, and that there are so many distractions? |
60107 | { 394} And which of you by thinking can add to his stature one cubit? |
60107 | { 40} For who was this One who had stood in their midst, and whom they had not known? |
60107 | { 448} Who are these enemies? |
60107 | { 471} Have you been a drunkard? |
60107 | { 63} Who are these that I speak of? |
60107 | { 73} And he said to them: How is it that you sought me? |
60107 | { 74} What do you see? |
60107 | { 87} For what is marriage now in the church of Christ? |
60107 | { 92} How do you treat those fellow- Christians? |
60267 | Did you not know,he said to them when they found him,"that I must be about my Father''s business?" |
60267 | Do men,says our Divine Lord,"gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?" |
60267 | How is it that you sought me? |
60267 | Know you not,says St. Paul,"that all run in the race?" |
60267 | We have,he says to us,"a little to suffer here, but what is it after all? |
60267 | We know,he says,"that we have passed from death to life"; and why? |
60267 | What if you are weak and the temptation is strong? 60267 What shall I render to God for all he hath rendered to me?" |
60267 | Which of you shall convince me of sin? |
60267 | Why,said he,"did you take such trouble to see him? |
60267 | 16 Who is not shocked by the recital of Herod''s cruelty? |
60267 | A man clothed in soft garments? |
60267 | A prophet? |
60267 | A reed shaken with the wind? |
60267 | A reed shaken with the wind?_--Gospel Of The Day. |
60267 | Am I in the employment of others, and, if so, do I fulfil my calling worthily by doing all that strict justice or Christian charity requires of me? |
60267 | Am I not, on the contrary, forced for decency''s sake to pass over other shameless sins, which all but the blind and deaf know of among us? |
60267 | Am I the father or mother of a family? |
60267 | And Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day? |
60267 | And Jesus saith to her: Woman, what is that to me and to thee? |
60267 | And Jesus saith to them: Whose image and inscription is this? |
60267 | And Jesus saith to them: Why are you fearful, O ye of little faith? |
60267 | And Jesus seeing their thoughts, said: Why do you think evil in your hearts? |
60267 | And answering them, he said: Which of you whose ass or his ox shall fall into a pit, and will not immediately draw him out on the Sabbath day? |
60267 | And behold a certain lawyer stood up, tempting him, and saying: Master, what must I do to possess eternal life? |
60267 | And beside these, are there not more blessings which we can see if we look back on the year, standing out from the rest? |
60267 | And do n''t you think that these"valleys"are a very good likeness of all the things which we have left undone in our lives? |
60267 | And do you not know that your poor soul is either sick or runs the risk of catching a deadly sickness every day you live? |
60267 | And does_ Christian humility_ mean nothing in act? |
60267 | And for raiment why are you solicitous? |
60267 | And have we not also to obey the special decrees of the Holy Father, of our bishop, and of our pastor? |
60267 | And he asked them: How many loaves have ye? |
60267 | And he called him, and said to him: What is this I hear of thee? |
60267 | And he said to them: How is it that you sought me? |
60267 | And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? |
60267 | And he spoke also to them a similitude: Can the blind lead the blind? |
60267 | And he that doth all things well, would he not do his whole duty as Son, would he not be a model Son? |
60267 | And his disciples answered him: From whence can any one satisfy them here with bread in the wilderness? |
60267 | And how did this unjust steward act? |
60267 | And how have we every one heard our own tongue wherein we were born? |
60267 | And how have you, dear brethren, requited such infinite love? |
60267 | And how is it quenched? |
60267 | And how is that peace gained? |
60267 | And how will knowing that they are weak save them? |
60267 | And if Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? |
60267 | And if one does not love God above all things, how can he be saved? |
60267 | And if we do rightly trust in God''s favor, how can we forget that progress in virtue is a necessary condition of our remaining virtuous at all? |
60267 | And is he not associated every way, historically and in the devotions of our religion, with the prince of the Apostles, St. Peter? |
60267 | And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus asked them saying: What think you of Christ? |
60267 | And the servants said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up? |
60267 | And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me the stewardship? |
60267 | And they asked him, and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet? |
60267 | And they asked him: What then? |
60267 | And they said one to another: Who shall roll us back the stone from the door of the sepulchre? |
60267 | And they were all amazed and wondered, saying: Behold, are not all these who speak Galileans? |
60267 | And what answers in the spiritual life to the consciousness of social position? |
60267 | And what answers to human talents and ability? |
60267 | And what except divine love could be as sweet as the taste the soul enjoys in the reception of the sacraments? |
60267 | And what is this cause and source of joy? |
60267 | And what though it be all stained and spotted with mortal sin; is there no such thing as true repentance? |
60267 | And when he was come near, he asked him, saying: What wilt thou that I do to thee? |
60267 | And when they went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: What went you out into the desert to see? |
60267 | And who is he that can hurt you, if you be zealous of good? |
60267 | And you, fathers and mothers of families, what are these conversations which you hold one with the other? |
60267 | And, secondly, Why is it specially selected as the object of our devotion? |
60267 | Are not all men redeemed by the Blood of Christ? |
60267 | Are not the newspapers filled with stories which pander to this uncharitable spirit? |
60267 | Are not you of much more value than they? |
60267 | Are our souls asleep? |
60267 | Are the laws of the church irksome to you and so avoided? |
60267 | Are the sacraments she offers you the source and support of your life? |
60267 | Are there no fountains of living waters in the sacraments in which it may be washed whiter than snow? |
60267 | Are there no gems of divine grace with which it may be decked out as a bride waiting for the bridegroom? |
60267 | Are they in any way improper, or such that you would be ashamed to have them repeated in the presence of your parents? |
60267 | Are they laboring under the incredible and awful delusion that they commit no great sin when they entertain or give expression to such thoughts? |
60267 | Are they not doing an injury to her Son by over- honoring his Mother? |
60267 | Are they not men, and are they not purchased by the Blood of Christ? |
60267 | Are we always trying to give him no more than we can help, and keep as much as we can for ourselves? |
60267 | Are we better, more perfect, nearer to God now than we were last year, or even ten years ago? |
60267 | Are we careless or indifferent about the one thing needful for us-- our soul''s salvation? |
60267 | Are we never to do as we desire, but always to have a restraint and a yoke upon us? |
60267 | Are you sick? |
60267 | Are you tempted? |
60267 | Are you tired out? |
60267 | Are you, my friends, willing to take that trouble for your soul''s sake, or do you prefer to fall as you have fallen before? |
60267 | Art thou Elias? |
60267 | Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? |
60267 | Art thou the prophet? |
60267 | As St. Paul says,"If God be for us, who is against us? |
60267 | As we do see this, are we not bound to keep in check,_ at all costs_, this source of evil? |
60267 | As we look back on our lives, do we find that this has actually been fulfilled in them? |
60267 | As you sit here to- day, do the words of the Apostle offer no rebuke to you, do you not feel their sting? |
60267 | At that time: Jesus said to his disciples: I go to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me: Whither goest thou? |
60267 | At that time: Jesus said to the multitude of the Jews: Which of you shall convince me of sin? |
60267 | At that time: The Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and levites to John, to ask him: Who art thou? |
60267 | Be not solicitous therefore, saying: What shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed? |
60267 | Brethren, has it ever occurred to you that each one of us has a vocation in this life? |
60267 | Brethren, shall I say a word about gratitude due to us of the sanctuary? |
60267 | Brethren: Know you not that they who run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize? |
60267 | But Jesus, knowing their wickedness, said: Why do you tempt me, ye hypocrites? |
60267 | But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle? |
60267 | But again: what does a man do who takes the pledge? |
60267 | But as the newness, the freshness of the Easter joy and triumph passes away, does not another feeling come and mingle with it? |
60267 | But do you wish me to tell you the easiest way to be sober? |
60267 | But have not you had a pretty good chance for these amusements for the last few months? |
60267 | But have you done so? |
60267 | But he answered:"Why are you fearful, O ye of little faith?" |
60267 | But he answering one of them, said: Friend, I do thee no wrong; didst thou not agree with me for a penny? |
60267 | But he said to him: What is written in the law? |
60267 | But he, willing to justify himself, said to Jesus: And who is my neighbor? |
60267 | But how are they to be made? |
60267 | But how can this be? |
60267 | But how can we do it? |
60267 | But how can we do this? |
60267 | But how is the Holy Ghost in the Catholic Church? |
60267 | But how is this leaven, or yeast? |
60267 | But how many of the thousands who made these promises have kept them? |
60267 | But how shall we best do so? |
60267 | But how will it be in fact; how is it too often, after such times of grace and fervor? |
60267 | But may we not turn the question around and learn another good lesson from it? |
60267 | But of what do the majority of men most readily converse? |
60267 | But once more: what does a man do who takes the pledge? |
60267 | But somebody might say: Father, ca n''t you tell us something to make the morning prayers easy? |
60267 | But suppose he does not die immediately after baptism, how is it with him then? |
60267 | But the men wondered, saying: Who is this, for even the winds and the sea obey him? |
60267 | But was this way of growing only meant for God''s church in the beginning? |
60267 | But what are the sins of the tongue we most often hear? |
60267 | But what does the word"mortify"mean? |
60267 | But what is our sanctification? |
60267 | But what saith the Scripture? |
60267 | But what shall obtain for us at that last moment the faith, hope, and charity which we need? |
60267 | But what that glory is who shall tell? |
60267 | But what was their mistake? |
60267 | But what went you out to see? |
60267 | But what went you out to see? |
60267 | But what, therefore, is the first thought that must enter our hearts? |
60267 | But who among you can face, without flinching, the tears of so good a friend as our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ? |
60267 | But why do we ask ourselves these questions? |
60267 | But why do we select the Heart of our Lord, or rather why has he himself selected it, as a special object of our adoration? |
60267 | But why should we not speak of it often? |
60267 | But, my dear brethren, mid all these rejoicings may there not be some poor soul among us who does not participate in the joys of Easter time? |
60267 | But, then, who, except indeed the fisherman, wants you to eat fish? |
60267 | But, you ask again, is he a human person also? |
60267 | But, you say, what about a purpose of amendment? |
60267 | Can any one be a mother and not be mother of a person? |
60267 | Can he, however, demand this permission to enter heaven immediately after his death if he has committed only venial sin? |
60267 | Can we kill them? |
60267 | Can we tell what the result will be? |
60267 | Could God be long in our hearts and we be altogether ignorant of it? |
60267 | Dear brethren, shall we be slow to go to him who comes with healing for our immortal souls? |
60267 | Did you never notice that pride and hardness of heart go together? |
60267 | Do I exaggerate? |
60267 | Do I furnish them proper reading matter, or do I allow them to waste their time and ruin their souls with the vile penny literature of the day? |
60267 | Do I make my home pleasant and agreeable for my children? |
60267 | Do I supply them with suitable home amusements? |
60267 | Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? |
60267 | Do not sinners rest quite secure in their wickedness just because they believe in the true religion? |
60267 | Do our conversations, like theirs, contain nothing reprehensible? |
60267 | Do they not feel sure of salvation because they know how to be saved? |
60267 | Do we care, as it is, to be near Jesus? |
60267 | Do we even care for his presence by grace in our souls, which they always had in its fulness, and never dimmed by the shadow of sin? |
60267 | Do we not know by observation and experience that where the wrath of God sets apart a single victim his tender love wins over a thousand? |
60267 | Do we not make rather too much fuss and complaint over what is not really such a very great penance? |
60267 | Do we not owe them much? |
60267 | Do we not receive in our baptism, as infants, the grace that destroys original sin? |
60267 | Do we owe_ them_ nothing? |
60267 | Do we try to have our own way as much as possible, and never to step out of it for his sake, unless compelled by force or threats? |
60267 | Do you covet that happiness? |
60267 | Do you fairly understand it? |
60267 | Do you not see that this exhibition of mercy in the Judge only renders the justice of the sentence more evident to you and more dreadful? |
60267 | Do you take in its full meaning and application? |
60267 | Do you think that such a loving Father would teach us, his children, A B C except with the set purpose of going clean through to X Y Z? |
60267 | Do you trust to your knowledge of spiritual things and your pious talk? |
60267 | Do you want to die as you are living? |
60267 | Do you want to know how she is able to do this? |
60267 | Do you wish that your name, too, should be written in the book of life? |
60267 | Does God give more of this world''s goods to one man than to another because he loves one more than another? |
60267 | Does any one want to be God- like? |
60267 | Does it, then, still move the world in this way? |
60267 | Does not God forgive us also our mortal sins, giving us time to repent, and even waiting patiently for our repentance? |
60267 | Does not St. John also make it the test of our salvation? |
60267 | Does not that dwell specially on the future? |
60267 | Does not the Psalmist say that God''s mercy"is above all his works"? |
60267 | Does she feel quite certain that she may not be subjected to insult or worse? |
60267 | Fathers, are you solicitous for the little household which Almighty God himself has so fondly entrusted to your care? |
60267 | For if one does not love God enough to offend bad men for his sake, how can he love him above all things? |
60267 | For is not your church named for St. Paul? |
60267 | For what is a grace? |
60267 | For what is it that is meant, perhaps, by that? |
60267 | For what is it to love any one; how do we act towards one whom we really and truly love? |
60267 | For what is this which is called flirting? |
60267 | For who hath known the mind of the Lord? |
60267 | Forgiving one another, as they say the Lord has forgiven them? |
60267 | From how many shameful falls have you not been raised up? |
60267 | Had he no special purpose in this? |
60267 | Had they not shown enough love and care for him? |
60267 | Had they proved themselves unworthy of him? |
60267 | Has it ever been so? |
60267 | Have our consciences been lulled into a false security concerning the state of our immortal souls? |
60267 | Have they never had a favor done them? |
60267 | Have we thanked him for all these? |
60267 | Have you at heart the interests of God''s holy church; are her sorrows, her wants, her trials yours? |
60267 | Have you been guilty of soul- murder? |
60267 | Have you ever been very sick? |
60267 | Have you ever pondered over these beautiful words, and made them the subject of your meditation? |
60267 | Have you ever tried to find out their true meaning, and thus make them profitable to your souls? |
60267 | Have you not bowed down to idols of clay when you have steeped yourselves in drunkenness, in impurities, in the many sins of the flesh? |
60267 | Have you not bowed down when you chose to gratify your lower instincts at the cost of your spiritual ruin? |
60267 | Have you not heard of a sudden and unprovided death and then remembered how years ago that man started a disreputable business? |
60267 | Have you washed your past life clean from sin by this Easter duty? |
60267 | Have your virtuous lives and edifying example brought home the truths and beauties of the Catholic faith to those outside the church? |
60267 | He commands us to hope; but in what shall our hope be placed? |
60267 | He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how hath he not also with him given us all things?" |
60267 | How about the practice of it? |
60267 | How am I walking in the vocation in which I am called? |
60267 | How can a young girl know the character of him with whom she is dancing? |
60267 | How can any one seriously attempt what he believes to be impossible? |
60267 | How can it be explained? |
60267 | How can you ask such a question? |
60267 | How can you sleep a moment or be at rest a single instant longer while knowing you are condemned already, because you have not made your Easter duty? |
60267 | How could he regret what none knew so well as he was to be a punishment all too light for the crimes of the Jews? |
60267 | How could it be otherwise? |
60267 | How could our Saviour weep over a downfall so well deserved? |
60267 | How did it happen, people sometimes ask concerning this or that person, that she did not marry? |
60267 | How do we act then? |
60267 | How do we lose the light of faith which he gives? |
60267 | How does he treat me, notwithstanding my many, many sins? |
60267 | How have we done this in the past? |
60267 | How is it that we harden our hearts? |
60267 | How is it with us? |
60267 | How is it, then, that man finds himself in his actual condition? |
60267 | How is this? |
60267 | How is this? |
60267 | How many are there who, when they examine their conscience, ever think of questioning themselves upon the duties of their position in life? |
60267 | How many business- men question themselves as to the honesty or propriety of this or that mode of action they have been following? |
60267 | How many graces and blessings do you not owe to that crucified Lord? |
60267 | How many of those who were not leading a Christian life before the mission are now doing so? |
60267 | How will that countenance look to us at that moment? |
60267 | How will those ears listen to our reports of our own lives? |
60267 | How will those lips speak to us in that dread moment? |
60267 | How would I feel if I were spoken of in this manner? |
60267 | How, then, are they to have the truth brought home to them? |
60267 | How, then, can we best practise this forgiveness which is so necessary for us? |
60267 | How, then, can we expect to comprehend the nature and the inner life of God? |
60267 | How, then, will the bearing of others burdens help us to serve God better? |
60267 | I answer by a comparison: Why do men plant and then reap a field of wheat? |
60267 | I say, why has he himself selected it? |
60267 | If David then called him Lord, how is he his son? |
60267 | If I say the truth to you, why do you not believe me? |
60267 | If all that we are and have is from God, by him and in him, how can we set ourselves apart from him, or claim anything for ourselves against him? |
60267 | If so, do I discharge the duties of my calling? |
60267 | If so, why do we not seek it more? |
60267 | If we know that we are in danger, and that we can escape from it, but only by God''s help, why does not that help come and save us? |
60267 | If you can not make him better, what is the sense of making him miserable? |
60267 | In how many bitter sorrows have you not been comforted? |
60267 | In how many sore temptations have you not been defended and strengthened? |
60267 | In order to be a sincere Christian, what has a man to do? |
60267 | In such a case as this is it true that even then all will be just as if the sin had never been committed? |
60267 | In the first place, then, we will ask, What is the nature of the worship which we render to the Sacred Heart of Jesus? |
60267 | In the words of St. Paul, are we not continually biting and devouring one another? |
60267 | In what way may these duller and obtuser minds learn to appreciate these higher things? |
60267 | Indeed? |
60267 | Is everyone who comes near a Catholic girl or woman conscious of this influence? |
60267 | Is he not personally her son? |
60267 | Is his presence in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar a consolation to us? |
60267 | Is it because Christ our Lord has come to save us from sin and eternal ruin? |
60267 | Is it freedom from conflict? |
60267 | Is it not merely to make up your mind to confess your sins and to keep for a few days as you ought to be, and then be pretty much as you were before? |
60267 | Is it not our first duty to love God so strongly that we prefer him to all things else, even our nearest relatives? |
60267 | Is it not the best praise of an individual that he is prosperous, and of a nation that it is wealthy? |
60267 | Is it possible that one of their Apostles told them to do that? |
60267 | Is it that a Protestant minister is an immoral or vicious character, with whom we should have nothing to do? |
60267 | Is it the virtues of your neighbors that are spoken of and recounted for your own edification and your children''s imitation? |
60267 | Is it the way we consider God''s service? |
60267 | Is n''t that enough? |
60267 | Is not the blessed privilege of the holy faith the secret reason of many a person''s delay of repentance? |
60267 | Is not the life more than the food, and the body more than the raiment? |
60267 | Is not the love of God the end of all religion? |
60267 | Is not the love of God the one absorbing duty of our lives? |
60267 | Is not the love of our neighbor the second great commandment, like to and founded on the first? |
60267 | Is not the possession of riches deemed the most enviable happiness? |
60267 | Is not this the most anxious inquiry, How shall I get rich? |
60267 | Is she not engaged in a dance which borders on immodesty? |
60267 | Is she not the Mother of our Lord, personally his Mother? |
60267 | Is she satisfied that her mother would be pleased to see her with her present companions? |
60267 | Is the Christian to have no battle to fight, no enemy to overcome? |
60267 | Is the desire for freedom, which is implanted in us, all a delusion? |
60267 | Is the kingdom of heaven of which he was speaking that heaven into which all the saved are to enter? |
60267 | Is there a time in our lives when that debt is not binding? |
60267 | Is there any poor little cripple in the family? |
60267 | Is there no special significance in his choice of those words? |
60267 | Is there not a mystery here? |
60267 | Is this the way we act? |
60267 | It is a mistake, and why? |
60267 | It is necessarily this: How will that Man receive us when we are called into his presence, one by one, as we leave this world? |
60267 | It is this:"What am I here for? |
60267 | It is, How is the baby this morning? |
60267 | It might be asked, dear brethren, what need God has of_ our_ testimony, or why the creature should act the part of witness for the Creator? |
60267 | Let me ask, however, what kind of sorrow have you? |
60267 | Let us see how this is; how is this love going to work to keep us in the safe and sure track? |
60267 | Mothers, do you strive to make yourselves patterns of the Christian virtues of gentleness and forbearance? |
60267 | Need I mention them? |
60267 | Now do you not see why our Lord, his Apostles, and his church made so much of the love of one''s neighbor? |
60267 | Now if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to- day is, and to- morrow is cast into the oven: how much more you, ye of little faith? |
60267 | Now what can be the reason of the failure of these good people in prayer? |
60267 | Now, I say this is very beautiful, is it not? |
60267 | Now, brethren, what is there in the spiritual life that answers to good clothes? |
60267 | Now, how does all this apply to us? |
60267 | Now, how is it in fact? |
60267 | Now, in view of what I have said, ask yourselves, is this way of acting the mark of all Catholics? |
60267 | Now, is such our religion? |
60267 | Now, what does our Lord say of those who thus put temptation in the way of the young and innocent? |
60267 | Now, what is exactly this precept of the Easter duty? |
60267 | Now, what is the faith in hell? |
60267 | Now, what is the reason of all this sad want of perseverance? |
60267 | Now, what is the reason of this contemptible sneaking and meanness in those who ought to be brave and generous soldiers of Christ? |
60267 | Now, what is this that we should love; what is our treasure in heaven? |
60267 | Now, who has done so much for us as our parents? |
60267 | Now, why has the church, by selecting the account of the Transfiguration at this season, turned our thoughts to what seems so inappropriate a subject? |
60267 | Now, why not try to follow this line? |
60267 | One should get leave to do so, of course; but if you have no sin on your conscience, what is easier than to say so to the priest? |
60267 | Or am I a business- man who deals squarely and honestly with my neighbors, never on the alert to take advantage of the ignorant and weak? |
60267 | Or am I just to men who work for me? |
60267 | Or are you standing afar off ready to give an approving nod when the world smiles, or slink off like a coward when the world frowns? |
60267 | Or is there not some other meaning which we may give to the words? |
60267 | Or what woman having ten groats, if she lose one groat, doth not light a candle and sweep the house and seek diligently until she find it? |
60267 | Or who hath been his counsellor? |
60267 | Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made to him? |
60267 | Or, if he can make such an arrangement, why should he not work for one in the morning, and another in the afternoon? |
60267 | Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? |
60267 | Other people have comfort; why should not they? |
60267 | Ought it to be such a great penance for a Christian to come and spend a little while in the presence of Him with whom he hopes to dwell for ever? |
60267 | Ought not each one of us strive to get ourselves into that blessed state? |
60267 | Peace, then, we should have in our spiritual combat; but how in the battle for our temporal life? |
60267 | Shall a man do less for God than for himself? |
60267 | Shall a man not do as much for the good of his soul and for eternal life in the next world? |
60267 | Shall we not take a little trouble when such tremendous interests are at stake? |
60267 | Shall we simply take our trouble because we can not help it, and fret as little as we can, because fretting only makes it worse? |
60267 | Shall we trust to luck when a little effort will make heaven sure? |
60267 | She has been introduced, to be sure, but what of that? |
60267 | Since, then, this our mission is so important, brethren, how are we to fulfil it? |
60267 | So we may learn, perhaps, another lesson from the question in the Gospel by reversing it and asking,"Who is not my neighbor?" |
60267 | Such a one is well described by our Blessed Lord as"a whited sepulchre? |
60267 | Such do not really try to avoid it; how can they? |
60267 | Sup- pose you had a habit of spitting on your neighbor''s face or clothes by preference to any other place, how long would he endure it? |
60267 | Suppose our Lord should suddenly quit the sacramental form of the host and ask a communicant at the altar- rail,"What do you wish for?" |
60267 | Tell us, therefore, what dost thou think, Is it lawful to give tribute to CÃ ¦ sar, or not? |
60267 | That is plain enough, is it not? |
60267 | The Jews therefore said to him: Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? |
60267 | The Jews, therefore, answered and said to him: Do we not say well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? |
60267 | The publicans who were farthest from God came and asked:"Master, what shall we do?" |
60267 | The thought of heaven was the joy and strength of the martyrs; why should it not be the constant support of ordinary Christians, too? |
60267 | Then he said to another: And how much dost thou owe? |
60267 | Then the servants of the master of the house came and said to him: Master, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? |
60267 | There is, however, a sanctification that we ought to expect from this Lent, and what is it? |
60267 | Therefore calling together every one of his lord''s debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord? |
60267 | They said therefore unto him: Who art thou, that we may give an answer to them that sent us? |
60267 | They set out to do as they pleased, and how has it ended? |
60267 | This is the example he has left us that we should follow his steps; shall we refuse to profit by it? |
60267 | This is whom we have when we have Christ, and should we not rejoice at having such a one? |
60267 | To another he says: What are you doing there, you who are so fault- finding and overbearing? |
60267 | To lose that, had it been possible, would have been a thousand deaths to them; what is it to us? |
60267 | Very well; was that adding anything to the Christian faith? |
60267 | Was it because he was like a reed shaken by the wind? |
60267 | Was it that they never expected it to be otherwise? |
60267 | Was it that those who made their confessions then were not sincere; that they made promises which they did not really expect to keep? |
60267 | Was the law then against the promises of God? |
60267 | We believe his word, we are in his true church, we receive his saving and life- giving sacraments; how, then, shall we not be saved? |
60267 | We revere that real Presence of our Lord, but do we love it? |
60267 | Well, the witch- hazel of the Christian soul is just this question: How much confidence have you in the love of our Lord Jesus Christ for you? |
60267 | Well, then, what is the matter? |
60267 | Were they altogether wrong in wishing for liberty? |
60267 | What are the topics most commonly treated of in your Christian homes? |
60267 | What are the trials of the church now compared to those at the very beginning? |
60267 | What are these white lies? |
60267 | What but the grace of God, with, which our souls should be provided, and without which they are in the state of mortal sin? |
60267 | What could our Lord have meant when he said that the two were alike? |
60267 | What do I mean by a tolerably good Christian? |
60267 | What do they believe, and what do they teach? |
60267 | What do you think of persons who actually make a living in selling journals which are but the pictured proceedings of the police courts? |
60267 | What does a man do when he takes the pledge? |
60267 | What does he do? |
60267 | What does the Apostle mean by this? |
60267 | What else is that wonder of the world called the faith of Catholics? |
60267 | What fruit therefore had you then in those things, of which you are now ashamed? |
60267 | What is it that gives to many such that singular taste for and perception of what is pure, beautiful, and true, which they unmistakably possess? |
60267 | What is it to follow God? |
60267 | What is more edifying than the virtue of a good father? |
60267 | What is that, among all religious practices, which he would have us do as a token of inner and outer reverence? |
60267 | What is the best way? |
60267 | What is the goal to which it is tending? |
60267 | What is the reason, the doctrine, of the Catholic''s devotion to Mary? |
60267 | What is the spirit? |
60267 | What is to be thought of those who act in this way? |
60267 | What is, then, the harm exactly of going to a Protestant minister to get married? |
60267 | What lesson can_ we_ learn from these events? |
60267 | What more could I have done for my vineyard which I have not done? |
60267 | What must the murderers of little children expect? |
60267 | What one of us but has his daily task-- his allotted work? |
60267 | What parched his tongue with such burning thirst? |
60267 | What peace can we have while its issue is still uncertain, its events yet unknown? |
60267 | What platted the crown of thorns, and drove those sharp spikes deep into his sacred head? |
60267 | What pointed the spear of the impious Roman soldier, and hurled it deep into the Sacred Heart, whence issued the red torrent of the Precious Blood? |
60267 | What sent those nails through his hands and feet, fixing them to the tree of shame? |
60267 | What was his special motive in this extraordinary course of penance? |
60267 | What was the reason that they did not persevere? |
60267 | What was this difficulty? |
60267 | What way is there of spreading the light? |
60267 | What were those things which he had yet to say to them, but which they could not then bear? |
60267 | What would you have me do?" |
60267 | What, in short, is more common than detraction, and even slander? |
60267 | What, then, are these laws? |
60267 | What, then, does the Catholic faith teach us about her? |
60267 | What, then, have we to fear if we will only keep close to him? |
60267 | What, then, is human about him? |
60267 | What, then, is it? |
60267 | What, then, is the nature of our worship of the Sacred Heart? |
60267 | What, then, must we do? |
60267 | When may we hope that the promise of our Lord will be fulfilled and labor shall be crowned with success? |
60267 | When we have anything to do, we must say, Would God do this way or that way? |
60267 | When, therefore, we see this great goodness of our Lord towards us, how can we be so heedless of our own good as to turn away from him? |
60267 | Where do they get money to buy them? |
60267 | Where is he, that we may find him? |
60267 | Where or in what but his mercy? |
60267 | Where, then, is our peace in this inevitable war, this contest which demands all the energies of our body and soul? |
60267 | Where, then, is the purpose of amendment? |
60267 | Which is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk? |
60267 | Which of these three in thy opinion was neighbor to him that fell among the robbers? |
60267 | Which of us, dear brethren, is without his burden or his care? |
60267 | Which of you shall convince me of sin? |
60267 | Which of_ you_, my brethren? |
60267 | Which one of the children is best loved by the father and mother? |
60267 | Who are these people whom he would find fault with? |
60267 | Who are these? |
60267 | Who can count himself safe so much as one day from his own natural feebleness, or from the wiles of Satan, or from human respect? |
60267 | Who dare say that he has nothing to fear from the judgments of God? |
60267 | Who in our day are like Herod? |
60267 | Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? |
60267 | Who is it that prepares the Supper, they or the Lord? |
60267 | Who is scandalized, and I do not burn? |
60267 | Who is weak, and I am not weak? |
60267 | Who will help us to persevere when the enemies of our salvation are making the most of their last chance to snatch it from us? |
60267 | Whom dost thou make thyself? |
60267 | Whose money pays for it? |
60267 | Whose son is he? |
60267 | Why can we not leave judgment to God, and treat poor sinners after our Lord''s example, praying and suffering for them? |
60267 | Why did she not marry? |
60267 | Why did you think so much of him? |
60267 | Why do Catholics pay so much honor to the Virgin Mary? |
60267 | Why do all this hard work? |
60267 | Why do we say that"Christmas comes but once a year,"if not because we feel that there is nothing else that can take its place? |
60267 | Why does not the world now come to us as it did in those former days of its anxiety and doubt? |
60267 | Why is it that it has such a warm place in our hearts? |
60267 | Why not have something to show for all our trouble at the end of our time here on earth? |
60267 | Why not make it, as we may, into a crown to take with us into that life which has no end? |
60267 | Why should it not be so to us all? |
60267 | Why should they be treated so harshly? |
60267 | Why suffer this poverty, this sickness, this worry and distress of mind? |
60267 | Why then was the law? |
60267 | Why was it that they had the same sad story to tell when they came back this time that they had a few years ago? |
60267 | Why will not the generosity of God towards us lead us to show a like spirit towards our brethren? |
60267 | Why will you not see the hand of God directing the whole course of your life?" |
60267 | Why, then, are you so careless about morning prayers? |
60267 | Why, then, does not the church increase more rapidly? |
60267 | Why? |
60267 | Why? |
60267 | Will it make them strong? |
60267 | Will those with whom we have enjoyed life then stand by to help us? |
60267 | Will you heed this warning, or will you still put off the day of your conversion to God? |
60267 | Will you remain thus, you who are in sin? |
60267 | Would he not at least have told them if such had been his plan? |
60267 | Would he not grant her lightest wish while he lived with her on earth, will he not gladly do so now in heaven? |
60267 | Would he not say rather that we were indeed like reeds, turning to one side or another, according to the wind that happens to be blowing? |
60267 | Would it not be fearful to see him stagger up to the altar of God in the state of intoxication? |
60267 | Would it not be horrible for a man to come in on the altar and utter repeated curses? |
60267 | Would it not, perhaps, even be a painful restraint? |
60267 | Would our answer be as pleasing to God as theirs was? |
60267 | Would we care for this presence which they so bitterly missed? |
60267 | Would you find it easy to do such a thing yourself, however guilty? |
60267 | Yes, sorrow may come in such an overflowing torrent as to break down and sweep away all obstacles in its path; but how often does it come so? |
60267 | Yet another might say: But, Father, what about the sacraments, and what about the practice of prayer, and what about the laws of the church? |
60267 | Yet how can we call any class of virtues little? |
60267 | You are sorry that things were so that you had to tell a lie; but if things were so again to- morrow, would not you tell the lie again? |
60267 | You fail, and why? |
60267 | You wish to succeed? |
60267 | _ And he said to them: What are these discourses that you hold one with another? |
60267 | _ Brethren, know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize? |
60267 | _ Shouldst not thou then have had compassion on thy fellow- servant, even as I had compassion on thee?_--St. Matthew, xviii. |
60267 | _ What is this receiving of God''s grace in vain, my brethren, against which St. Paul warns us in these words of the Epistle of to- day? |
60267 | _ What went you out into the desert to see? |
60267 | _ Where are the nine?_--St. Luke xvii. |
60267 | _ Which of these three, in thy opinion, was neighbor to him that fell among robbers? |
60267 | _ Which of you shall convince me of sin?_--John viii. |
60267 | _ Who is my neighbor?_--From the Gospel of the Sunday. |
60267 | and where are the nine? |
60267 | dear brethren, and what do we see in the world about us? |
60267 | did you not know that I must be about the things that are my Father''s? |
60267 | do they not both fall into the ditch? |
60267 | have pity on me, for this is my dear son, dead in mortal sin? |
60267 | he still says to us,"why are you so slow and dull of heart to understand? |
60267 | how much you are losing, and for what? |
60267 | how readest thou? |
60267 | is it not our sins? |
60267 | is thy eye evil because I am good? |
60267 | or how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull the mote out of thy eye, when thou thyself seest not the beam in thy own eye? |
60267 | what end do I hope to obtain?" |
60267 | what is the use, what is the purpose of all this life which I am living? |
60267 | what sayest thou of thyself? |
60267 | whence then hath it cockle? |
60267 | where is thy sting? |
60267 | where is thy victory? |
60267 | { 109} Is it because we fast, say long prayers, visit the church, or even because we receive the sacraments often? |
60267 | { 127} What does this oil mean that the foolish virgins neglected to provide for themselves and to have in their lamps? |
60267 | { 138} Plenty of this seed has, then, been sown in us; but where is the fruit, the harvest that should have come from it? |
60267 | { 158} And, when we come to look at it, is it such a very terrible infliction? |
60267 | { 159} Now, after the fast and abstinence, what is left? |
60267 | { 174} Now if I cast out devils in Beelzebub, in whom do your children cast them out? |
60267 | { 189} Where, then, is liberty to be found? |
60267 | { 195} Is there any way in which he can be made clean? |
60267 | { 198} What is this veil which obscures the cross of Jesus Christ and makes his Passion of no effect? |
60267 | { 206} Now, what is the truth which these services have it for their object to impress upon our minds? |
60267 | { 215} And what is the remedy for this dread? |
60267 | { 21} Why was it that he made such a strange choice? |
60267 | { 222} But what would you think if those gifts of the kind father served only to estrange from him the heart of his child? |
60267 | { 225} What is this peace? |
60267 | { 24} But would our Saviour be able to praise us so highly, my brethren, if he should come down now in our midst? |
60267 | { 253} What is the first thing to be done to begin to live in this way? |
60267 | { 256} Or, lastly, is the reason for their disappointment that they were praying for others whose will was obstinately set against their prayers? |
60267 | { 260} For how could they have made the purpose of amendment which a good confession requires? |
60267 | { 277} And why seest thou the mote in thy brother''s eye, but the beam that is in thy own eye thou considerest not? |
60267 | { 283} How did they understand him? |
60267 | { 284} Do we truly hope that this sad fate will not be ours? |
60267 | { 289} How would you like to have yourself thrust aside and one of them called by the Lord to take your place at his table? |
60267 | { 28} Now what was it that the pope did in defining the Immaculate Conception? |
60267 | { 340} What are the deeds of the flesh? |
60267 | { 341} Is it really so hard as it seems? |
60267 | { 346} What, then, shall be our hope? |
60267 | { 353} Who are they? |
60267 | { 35} Now, how is this"way of the Lord"to be"made straight"in the spiritual desert of our hearts? |
60267 | { 361} Suppose that your child is sick, what is your first word in the morning? |
60267 | { 381} Are not all men creatures of God? |
60267 | { 387} And Jesus answering, said: Were there not ten made clean? |
60267 | { 396} And which of you by thinking can add to his stature one cubit? |
60267 | { 397} Yet, brethren, is not the whole Christian world absorbed in seeking after what should be the heathen''s peculiar treasure? |
60267 | { 39} What is this root of sin in us? |
60267 | { 400} But somebody might say, How about the love of God? |
60267 | { 402} What does our Lord mean by this, my brethren? |
60267 | { 403} But I seem to hear some one say,"Father, are you not pushing this matter rather too far? |
60267 | { 411} But, some one might say, what if your child has got beyond you and will be bad in spite of every best endeavor on your part-- what then? |
60267 | { 419} Another says: Brains is the standard; good clothes and social position-- what are they but miserable vanity and prejudice? |
60267 | { 42} What is the reason of all this failure of what began so well? |
60267 | { 433} Do I oblige them to come to Mass and approach the sacraments, while I neglect these duties myself? |
60267 | { 436} Have you never seen a blind man whose eyes seemed perfectly good, clear, and bright, and yet utterly blind? |
60267 | { 451} And what is the harm? |
60267 | { 57} What is it to bring up children to burn in the flames of hell for ever, as some Christian parents do? |
60267 | { 67} And his mother said to him: Son, why hast thou done so to us? |
60267 | { 78} Do I say this is strange? |
60267 | { 83} Well, brethren, let us ask if Almighty God has not set up any particular sign of reverence that we are to pay him? |
60267 | { 88} Will He, then, who has done so much for us, not complete his work? |
60267 | { 98} Can you stand up and with a clean heart proclaim that this is honest? |
10116 | And what will ye do in the end thereof? |
10116 | From whence,he says,"come wars and quarrels among you? |
10116 | Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? 10116 Lord,"they answer,"when saw we Thee?" |
10116 | So runs my dream; but what am I? 10116 Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans? |
10116 | To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? 10116 What?" |
10116 | Why seek ye the living among the dead? 10116 Why should God go out of His way, as it were, to care for such a paltry folly as the pride of an ignorant, weak, short- sighted creature like man? |
10116 | Will he be praised, rewarded, mentioned in the newspapers, if he fights well? |
10116 | Will he get food enough, water enough, care enough, if he is wounded? |
10116 | Will the officers lead us right? |
10116 | ? à ¦ ata à ¦ a? |
10116 | ? à ¦ ata à ¦ a? |
10116 | ? Ã ¦ ata-- sorrows are lessons; and that the most truly pitiable people often are those who have no sorrows, and ask for no man''s pity. |
10116 | A Gospel? |
10116 | A child''s first impressions of this life, what are they but pleasure? |
10116 | Above all, I may say-- Who will lead us into all truth? |
10116 | All true love of husband and wife, mother and child, sister and brother, friend and friend, man to his country,--what does it mean but this? |
10116 | Am I discontented with myself, or with things about me, and outside of me? |
10116 | Am I speaking almost to deaf ears? |
10116 | And are not you, too, soldiers-- soldiers of Jesus Christ? |
10116 | And deeper still, why does a little child know when it has done wrong? |
10116 | And do we not know that so it is? |
10116 | And do you not know that it is among such people as these that pestilence is always bred? |
10116 | And even if He had not, would not common sense tell us that He intended us to do so? |
10116 | And how can you best do that? |
10116 | And how does he try to bring them round to him? |
10116 | And how far shall we have to go to find ourselves face to face with God? |
10116 | And how shall we become like God? |
10116 | And how? |
10116 | And how? |
10116 | And how? |
10116 | And if God has made it bear even the poorest fruit in me, why should He not make it bear fruit in other men and in all the world? |
10116 | And if not, is not the pestilence of the soul more subtle and more contagious than any pestilence of the body? |
10116 | And if they shall make answer,"And who is He that I did not know Him? |
10116 | And if you ask me, How is it a sacrifice to God to confess to Him that we are sinners? |
10116 | And in the kingdom of nature how does God begin with mankind? |
10116 | And is it not as true for us now, ay, for all nations and all mankind now, as it was when it was uttered? |
10116 | And is not the answer the most essential of all answers? |
10116 | And know you not Who that Light is, and what He said of little children? |
10116 | And no doubt it is perfectly and literally true: but answer me this, when does the wicked man do that which is lawful and right? |
10116 | And no man ever gained it but what he found the truth of St Peter''s own words,"Who will harm you if ye be followers of that which is good?" |
10116 | And now, my dear friends, what has this to do with us? |
10116 | And shall I forget Thee, disobey Thee, neglect to praise, and honour, and worship Thee, and thank Thee day and night, for Thy great glory? |
10116 | And shall there be no noble indignation in God when He beholds all the wrong which is done on earth? |
10116 | And that we are chastised for pride, who does not know? |
10116 | And the people asked him saying, What shall we do then? |
10116 | And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? |
10116 | And therefore I must ask, in sober sadness, how long would His influence last? |
10116 | And they say, How doth God know? |
10116 | And to that the other party will answer, Has not God said,"Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself?" |
10116 | And what answer is that? |
10116 | And what are they like, those blessed beings of whom the text speaks? |
10116 | And what are they? |
10116 | And what are those heavenly places? |
10116 | And what did they do? |
10116 | And what do they do, those blessed beings? |
10116 | And what followed? |
10116 | And what has He made? |
10116 | And what if, as needs must happen at whiles, the sovereign were not a man, but a woman or a child? |
10116 | And what is our duty in them? |
10116 | And what is that mob? |
10116 | And what is that? |
10116 | And what is the grace of Christ? |
10116 | And what is the grace of life? |
10116 | And what is the gracious law which will save you from the terrible law which will make you go on from worse to worse? |
10116 | And what is this but self- conceit-- ruinous, I had almost said, blasphemous? |
10116 | And what is this witness of which the apostle speaks? |
10116 | And what right thing? |
10116 | And what was our Lord''s answer-- seemingly more stern than ever? |
10116 | And when one asks in astonishment-- You call yourselves Christians? |
10116 | And whence comes the population of parents whom these children represent? |
10116 | And who are easy- going folk like you and me, that we should arrogate to ourselves a place in that grand company? |
10116 | And who are they? |
10116 | And who is He? |
10116 | And who is the Judge but God Himself, who is set on His throne judging right, while you are doing wrong? |
10116 | And who is the officer, to whom that judge will deliver you? |
10116 | And who save God has put them into the world''s heart? |
10116 | And who was that adversary? |
10116 | And whose voice can that be but the voice of Christ, and the Spirit of God? |
10116 | And why does that please God? |
10116 | And why? |
10116 | And why? |
10116 | And why? |
10116 | And why? |
10116 | And why? |
10116 | Are any of you, again, in the habit of cheating your neighbours, or dealing unfairly by them? |
10116 | Are not such thoughts unjust and uncharitable to your neighbours, to your country, to all mankind? |
10116 | Are not they enough to possess? |
10116 | Are not they enough wherewith to lie down at night in peace, and rise to- morrow to take what comes to- morrow, even as he took what came to- day? |
10116 | Are they the anxious people? |
10116 | Are those who do most work, either the plotting or intriguing people? |
10116 | Are we not apt to say to them"Raca"--to speak cruelly, contemptuously, fiercely of them, if they thwart us? |
10116 | Are we not( I am, I know, may God forgive me for it) apt to be angry with our brethren without a cause, out of mere peevishness? |
10116 | Are we selfish? |
10116 | As for any real improvement in human nature-- where is it? |
10116 | Ask yourselves each, Am I at peace? |
10116 | Ay, more, which can not only make these tiny living things, but, more wonderful still, make them make themselves? |
10116 | But Lord, how could I do less? |
10116 | But does our Lord bid us copy a cheat? |
10116 | But for the honour of our Lord, we may say, Does not this story shew that the Lord is humane enough, tender enough, to satisfy all mankind? |
10116 | But from whom do they come? |
10116 | But from whom does that good come, save from Christ and from the Spirit of Christ, from whom alone come all good gifts? |
10116 | But how are such souls recompensed in the earth? |
10116 | But how could that be? |
10116 | But how is it that they are ever needed? |
10116 | But how many? |
10116 | But how shall we know Christ''s sheep when we see them? |
10116 | But how shall we know these temptations? |
10116 | But how to worship Him? |
10116 | But how? |
10116 | But if so; why does our Lord mention it? |
10116 | But if that be all, why can they not say their prayers at home? |
10116 | But if we can find a Father of our spirits, of our souls, shall we not rather be in subjection to Him and live? |
10116 | But if you will do the thing you know to be right, and say the thing you know to be true, then what can harm you? |
10116 | But in what sense is He not content? |
10116 | But is that all? |
10116 | But may not Christ have His elect among them? |
10116 | But should we know Him merely by His bearing and character? |
10116 | But some one will say, how can that be, when so many of the old Hebrews seem to have known nothing about the next life? |
10116 | But the Holy Spirit is spoken of in Scripture under the likeness of a dove? |
10116 | But then comes the question, Of all the flowers in a single field, is one in ten thousand ever looked at by child or by men? |
10116 | But then what does he say is their sin? |
10116 | But those who were trying earnestly to do their work, though amid many mistakes and failures, why should they dread the coming of the kingdom of God? |
10116 | But what does that mean? |
10116 | But what does that mean? |
10116 | But what has that to do with us, free self- governed Englishmen, in this peaceful and prosperous land? |
10116 | But what has that, again, to do with us? |
10116 | But what is good? |
10116 | But what is it that troubles you? |
10116 | But what is our Lord''s solemn answer? |
10116 | But what kind of comfort do we not merely like but need? |
10116 | But what manner of man was St John the Baptist in the meantime? |
10116 | But what name? |
10116 | But what picture of St John the Baptist shall we choose whereby to represent him to ourselves, as the forerunner of the incarnate God? |
10116 | But what says Easter day? |
10116 | But what shall we say to that lost sheep? |
10116 | But where, oh where? |
10116 | But where? |
10116 | But which is to come first,--love to God, or love to man? |
10116 | But who are they? |
10116 | But who has seen those countless tribes, which have been living down, in utter darkness, since the making of the world? |
10116 | But who is the adversary of that man, and who is the judge, and who is the officer? |
10116 | But who may abide the day of His coming? |
10116 | But who will help us to drink the bitter cup? |
10116 | But why should God resist the proud? |
10116 | But why should it be true? |
10116 | But why? |
10116 | But why? |
10116 | But with what are they not content? |
10116 | But yet, as in Judea of old, would He not be only too successful? |
10116 | But you may say, What is all this to us? |
10116 | But, after all, why should you try to improve? |
10116 | But, some of you may say, Is it not so after all? |
10116 | Can any man put off these bad habits in a moment, as he puts off his coat? |
10116 | Can he feel for frail me? |
10116 | Can we suppose that God would take one view of these Corinthians, and then inspire St Paul to take another view? |
10116 | Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee? |
10116 | Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are? |
10116 | Come they not hence, even of the lusts which war in your members? |
10116 | Commended him for cheating him a second time, and teaching his debtors to cheat him? |
10116 | Did He mean us not to love them, after He has made us love them, we know not how or why? |
10116 | Did He say in vain,"All power is given unto me in heaven and earth?" |
10116 | Did He say in vain,"Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world?" |
10116 | Did He speak with a frown, or with something like a smile? |
10116 | Did not Christ bring heaven with Him whithersoever He went? |
10116 | Did the apostles, then, believe in these three goddesses? |
10116 | Did they think that He had gone away and left them? |
10116 | Did they, therefore, as would have been natural, weep and lament? |
10116 | Do I mean that we are to submit slavishly to circumstances, like dumb animals? |
10116 | Do I mean, then, that the text has nothing to do with us? |
10116 | Do I say this to frighten you away from being religious? |
10116 | Do not good men often lead lives of poverty and affliction? |
10116 | Do not men make large fortunes, or rise to fame and power, by base and wicked means? |
10116 | Do such people get most work done? |
10116 | Do these men know of Whom they talk? |
10116 | Do they find that in Scripture? |
10116 | Do we indulge our passions? |
10116 | Do we neglect our duty? |
10116 | Do we not live and move and have our being in God? |
10116 | Do we pride ourselves on being something? |
10116 | Do we squander our money? |
10116 | Do we?--but what use to go on reminding men of truths which no one believes, because they are too painful and searching to be believed in comfort? |
10116 | Do you ask what will Christ give me? |
10116 | Do you believe the Bible? |
10116 | Do you believe the Christian religion? |
10116 | Do you believe the Creeds? |
10116 | Do you doubt that? |
10116 | Do you fancy that I understand them, though my reason, as well as Holy Scripture, tells me that they are true? |
10116 | Do you hear that there are savages and heathens, generations of them, within a rifle- shot of the house? |
10116 | Do you know what it is? |
10116 | Do you know who that Caesar is, my friends? |
10116 | Do you not hear from the psalmists, and prophets, and apostles, of a God who judges and punishes such generations as this? |
10116 | Do you not see the difference, the infinite difference, and the good news in that? |
10116 | Do you not think that God will punish YOU for all this? |
10116 | Do you not understand me? |
10116 | Do you think that God is a tempter and a deceiver? |
10116 | Does He hear me? |
10116 | Does He see me? |
10116 | Does any one say-- These things are too high for me; I can not understand them? |
10116 | Does he hear voices from heaven telling little children that they are lost sinners? |
10116 | Does he know what I go through?" |
10116 | Does he see lightning come from heaven to strike sinners dead, or earthquakes rise and swallow them up? |
10116 | Does it matter very much what I say and do now, provided I make my peace with Him before I die? |
10116 | Does it not sober us to see even a picture of Christ crucified? |
10116 | Does not God punish men every day for their father''s sins? |
10116 | Does not this earth look brighter to him then? |
10116 | Does that seem strange? |
10116 | Does that sound much like a general increase of armaments? |
10116 | Does that state of things look much like progress of the human race? |
10116 | Does this seem strange to you? |
10116 | Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom? |
10116 | Doubtless it means that; but if it meant nothing more at first, why was not the plain word Gift enough for the Apostles? |
10116 | For do we not find, do we not find, my friends, in practice, that our Lord''s words are true? |
10116 | For is not the Old Testament spiritual as well as the New? |
10116 | For says David again,"Lord, who shall dwell in Thy tabernacle, or who shall rest upon Thy holy hill? |
10116 | For then comes in the question-- not merely is God good? |
10116 | For to understand the original question-- Is it lawful to pay tribute to Caesar or no? |
10116 | For was not St Paul an inspired apostle? |
10116 | For what does he say-- and say not( remember always) of Christian magistrates in a Christian country, but actually of heathen Roman magistrates? |
10116 | For what has a man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he has laboured under the sun? |
10116 | For what has a slave to do with pride? |
10116 | For what is growth, but a thing making itself? |
10116 | For what is it that thou lovest in thy neighbour? |
10116 | For what is life that we should make such ado about it, and hug it so closely, and look to it to fill our hearts? |
10116 | For what keener, what nobler enjoyment for rational and moral beings, than satisfaction with, and admiration of, a Being better than themselves? |
10116 | For what says the 26th verse of this chapter? |
10116 | For when He ascended to heaven out of their sight, did they consider that was seeing Him no more? |
10116 | For when I ask you the solemn question, Would you know Christ if He came among you? |
10116 | For who is our Lord? |
10116 | Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? |
10116 | Has He not commanded us to love our wives, our children? |
10116 | Has He not meant us to use them? |
10116 | Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? |
10116 | Hast thou given the horse strength? |
10116 | Have His words passed away? |
10116 | Have his father''s sins kept him ignorant, or in anywise hindered his rise in life? |
10116 | Have his father''s sins made him unhealthy? |
10116 | Have the father''s sins made the son poor? |
10116 | Have they no time-- I am sure they have the heart-- to tend the wounded and the fever- stricken, that they may rise and fight once more? |
10116 | He will make you like Himself, partaker of His grace; and what is that? |
10116 | High pay? |
10116 | How are we to look at it? |
10116 | How can He be? |
10116 | How can I tell whether I should recognise, after all, my Saviour and my Lord? |
10116 | How can she help being distracted by the thought of to- morrow? |
10116 | How can they be to any finite and created being? |
10116 | How can they be too strong, in face of what is now passing in a neighbouring land? |
10116 | How could he be? |
10116 | How dare any man say-- Bad I am, and bad I must remain-- while the God who made heaven and earth offers to make you good? |
10116 | How dare he be covetous, ambitious, revengeful, false? |
10116 | How do I know that if He said, as in Judea of old,"Will ye too go away?" |
10116 | How else dare Abraham ask of God,"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" |
10116 | How else has God''s command to the old Jews any meaning,"Be ye holy, for I am holy?" |
10116 | How is it your duty to deal, then, with these poor children? |
10116 | How is that, my friends? |
10116 | How shall I make myself safe against the chances and changes of life? |
10116 | How should I be able to pull through such a trouble? |
10116 | How then dare I ask it of you? |
10116 | How were they recompensed in the earth? |
10116 | How, but by the very test which Christ has laid down, it seems to me, in this very parable? |
10116 | How, then, shall we picture John the Baptist to ourselves? |
10116 | How? |
10116 | I have been a philanthropist: but have I really loved my fellow- men? |
10116 | I have given large sums in charity: but have I ever sacrificed anything for my fellow- men? |
10116 | I should answer with St Peter,"Lord, to whom shall we go? |
10116 | If God can give you common sense about one thing, why not about another? |
10116 | If God were really angry with, really hated, the proud man, or any other man, would He need only to resist him? |
10116 | If St John himself was struck down with awe, what shall we feel, even the best and purest among us? |
10116 | If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him?" |
10116 | If inspiration does not mean that, what does it mean? |
10116 | If our Lord could make stones into bread to satisfy His hunger, why should He not do so? |
10116 | If this chapter was a lesson to our forefathers, how is it to be a lesson to us likewise? |
10116 | If we could feed ourselves by making bread of stones, would not that make us proud enough? |
10116 | If we had such a Comforter as that, could we not take evil from his hands, as well as good? |
10116 | If we have to rebuke our children for doing wrong, do we begin by trying to break their hearts? |
10116 | If you and I could make the whole city worship and obey us, by casting ourselves off this cathedral unhurt, would not that make us proud enough? |
10116 | If you had a tribe of Red Indians on the frontier of your settlement, would you take the less guard against them, because you did not put them there? |
10116 | In the sense in which a hard task- master is not content with his slave, when he flogs him cruelly for the slightest fault? |
10116 | Is God pure? |
10116 | Is God sinless? |
10116 | Is God wise? |
10116 | Is He not as ready to hear in the field, and in the workshop and in the bed- chamber, as in the church? |
10116 | Is it not obvious now, and has it not been notorious in every country, and in all times, that so it is? |
10116 | Is it not the most blessed news, that He who takes away, is the very same as He who gives? |
10116 | Is it not true? |
10116 | Is it something outside you?-- something which is NOT you yourself? |
10116 | Is it your will, my friends; or is it not? |
10116 | Is not God harder on some than on others? |
10116 | Is not Jesus Christ the same yesterday, to- day, and for ever? |
10116 | Is not that blessed news? |
10116 | Is not that man recompensed in the earth? |
10116 | Is not that the question of all questions? |
10116 | Is not the Old Testament inspired, and that by the Spirit of God? |
10116 | Is not the adulteration of food just now as scandalous as it is unchecked? |
10116 | Is not the condition of the masses in many great cities as degraded and as sad as ever was that of the serfs in the middle ages? |
10116 | Is that a hard word? |
10116 | Is that not a sin to bow our hearts as the heart of one man? |
10116 | Is that not noble? |
10116 | Is there a luxury in which a respectable man could safely indulge, which I have denied myself? |
10116 | Is there in one of them the high instincts-- even the desire to do a merciful act? |
10116 | Is there knowledge in the Most High?" |
10116 | Is there no hint in this blessing of God of something more than our mortal life-- something beyond our mortal life? |
10116 | Is there not in every one of them, as in you, the Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world? |
10116 | Is this theory altogether novel and unheard of? |
10116 | Is yours the duty which the good Samaritan felt?--the duty of mere humanity? |
10116 | It was God who sowed the seed in me; surely it is God who has sowed it in other men? |
10116 | Know you not what I mean? |
10116 | Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? |
10116 | Let St Paul answer once more; who should know better than he, save Christ alone? |
10116 | May He not have His sheep among them, who hear His voice though they know not that it is His voice? |
10116 | May not His Spirit be working in some of them? |
10116 | Merely to be comfortable?--To be free from pain, anxiety, sorrow?--To have only pleasant faces round us, and pleasant things said to us? |
10116 | Might He not have been with the Father during those forty days, whenever they had not seen Him? |
10116 | Must it not be so? |
10116 | My dear friends, are they not too high for me likewise? |
10116 | Nay, I would go further still, and say, Is not the righteous man recompensed on the earth every time he hears a strain of noble music? |
10116 | Nay; was He not always in heaven? |
10116 | Not in our parish, and what of that? |
10116 | Not that which is bad in him? |
10116 | Now how could that be a temptation to pride? |
10116 | Now if we can thus have hope for some among the heathen abroad, shall we not have hope, too, for some among the heathen at home? |
10116 | Now what are these spiritual sacrifices? |
10116 | Now what is this, but worshipping the evil spirit, in order to get power over this world, that they may( as they fancy) amend it? |
10116 | Now what was the secret of this inspired herdsman''s strength? |
10116 | Now, is not this self- conceit? |
10116 | Now, my dear friends,--surely beautiful things were made to be seen by some one, else why were they made beautiful? |
10116 | Now, what does this word grace mean? |
10116 | Now, why do I say all this? |
10116 | Now, why was that flower put there? |
10116 | Of the way in which the Spirit of God works in man? |
10116 | Oh, is there a Holy One, whom I may contemplate with utter delight? |
10116 | On what have you set your heart and affections? |
10116 | Our Father has given us the cup-- shall we not drink it? |
10116 | Proud, self- willed thoughts are surely out of place to- day( and what day are they in place?) |
10116 | Refined? |
10116 | Say to your fathers, husbands, brothers, sons, and say too, and that boldly, to the tradesmen with whom you deal-- Do you hear this? |
10116 | Shall not He, who suffered without hope of reward, have His reward nevertheless? |
10116 | Shall the just and holy God look on carelessly and satisfied at injustice and unholiness which vexes even poor sinful man? |
10116 | Shall we even allure it by promises of heaven? |
10116 | Shall we pass over the waste, the hereditary waste of human souls, brought about by similar defects in every great city in the world? |
10116 | Shall we pride ourselves on health and strength? |
10116 | Shall we terrify it by threats of hell? |
10116 | Should we not fear lest that might hurt us? |
10116 | Should we recognise, or should we reject, our Saviour and our Lord? |
10116 | Should we see in Him an utterly ideal personage-- The Son of Man, and therefore, ere we lost sight of Him once more, the Son of God? |
10116 | Sickened by the follies, the failures, the ferocities, the foulnesses of mankind, for ages upon ages past? |
10116 | So we should learn something of how all things were made; and then would come a second question, why all things were made? |
10116 | Somebody must always be rich, why should not I? |
10116 | Somebody must enjoy the money, why should not I? |
10116 | That He who afflicts is the very same as He who comforts? |
10116 | That He who brings us into"the valley of the shadow of death,"is the same as He of whom it is said,"Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me?" |
10116 | That sort of jealousy is a base and wicked passion in man, and dare we attribute it to God? |
10116 | That when we walk across the field, or look out into the garden, we could have the wisdom to remember, Whither, O God, can I go from Thy presence? |
10116 | The amusement and excitement of fires? |
10116 | The difference between our minds and the Mind of God is-- to what shall I liken it? |
10116 | The difficulty in all ages about a standard of morality has been-- How can we fix it? |
10116 | The minute after he has repented? |
10116 | The people-- the farming class-- came to him with"What shall we do?" |
10116 | The question for us is, how ought we to keep it? |
10116 | The vanity of being praised for their courage? |
10116 | Then I too will eat and drink, for to- morrow_ I_ die?" |
10116 | Then came also publicans to be baptized unto them, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do? |
10116 | Then is not God merciful to the world in punishing them, even in destroying them out of the world, where they only do harm? |
10116 | Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? |
10116 | Then said the Jews unto Him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast Thou seen Abraham?" |
10116 | Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we Thee an hungred, and fed Thee? |
10116 | Then why does St. Peter give it as a reason for expecting blessing and happiness in the life to come? |
10116 | These are awful words, but, my dear friends, I can only ask you if you think them too awful to be true? |
10116 | These are serious words; for which of us dare to say that we are greater than John the Baptist? |
10116 | Think ye that they whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? |
10116 | This is God''s method with us in His Church, and what is it but St Paul''s method with these Corinthians? |
10116 | Those who imagine to themselves possible misfortunes, and ask continually-- What if this happened-- or that? |
10116 | Thou did''st die for me-- for whom have I ever died? |
10116 | Thou did''st hunger for me-- for whom have I ever hungered? |
10116 | Thou did''st suffer for me-- for whom have I ever suffered? |
10116 | Thou hast the words of eternal life, and we believe and are sure that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God?" |
10116 | Thou lovest God? |
10116 | Thou lovest God? |
10116 | To make you fear and dread the Spirit of God? |
10116 | To take away comfort from you? |
10116 | True, our hands are more or less clean: but what of that? |
10116 | Was He not always with the Father, the Father who fills all things, in whom all created things live, and move, and have their being? |
10116 | Was it not so? |
10116 | Was not heaven very near them? |
10116 | We let the guilty criminal eat and drink well the morn ere he is led forth to die-- shall we not do as much by those who are innocent? |
10116 | We may, therefore, believe that He would condescend to the level of our modern knowledge; and what would that involve? |
10116 | We say with Abraham,"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" |
10116 | Were you never not merely puzzled-- all thinking men are that-- but crushed and sickened at moments by the mystery of evil? |
10116 | What are a child''s first impressions of this life? |
10116 | What are we to do? |
10116 | What but this? |
10116 | What but your own faculties, your own emotions, your own passions-- in one word, your own selves? |
10116 | What comfort, what example to us here struggling, often sinning, in this piecemeal world? |
10116 | What did he believe? |
10116 | What did he preach? |
10116 | What do I mean? |
10116 | What do you fancy keeps them up to their work? |
10116 | What do you want with it? |
10116 | What does God''s Spirit give us? |
10116 | What does the preacher know of a woman''s troubles? |
10116 | What else could it do? |
10116 | What had our Lord to do, what have we to do, with the opinion of so foolish a man? |
10116 | What have I been after all, with all my philanthropy and charity, but a selfish, luxurious, pompous personage? |
10116 | What helped him to face priests, nobles, and kings? |
10116 | What humility which will not seem self- conceit? |
10116 | What if He gave them their wish? |
10116 | What if He took them at their word? |
10116 | What if they departed and entered the presence of Christ, only to meet with a worse fate than that of Gerontius? |
10116 | What is it you want altered? |
10116 | What is our cleverness-- our strength of mind? |
10116 | What is our knowledge of the world? |
10116 | What is our wisdom-- What does a wise man say of his? |
10116 | What is the grace of Jesus Christ like, and how is it the same as the grace of God''s Spirit? |
10116 | What is the spreading power of fever to the spreading power of vice, which springs from tongue to tongue, from eye to eye, from heart to heart? |
10116 | What is the use of the service, as we call it, if the sermon is the only or even the principal object for which we come? |
10116 | What is there in the character of God which makes it reasonable, probable, likely to be true? |
10116 | What it is? |
10116 | What justice which will not seem unjust? |
10116 | What manner of personage would He be did He condescend to appear among us? |
10116 | What matter to a mother to be called a dog, if she could thereby save her child from a devil? |
10116 | What matter whether they be one mile off or five? |
10116 | What mean the words that we partake of a divine nature? |
10116 | What means the command to be perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect? |
10116 | What more wholesome than to be made holy and humble men of heart? |
10116 | What picture of him and his character can we form to ourselves in our own imaginations? |
10116 | What proverb more common, what proverb more true, than that after pride comes a fall? |
10116 | What purity can we bring into His presence which will not seem impure to Him? |
10116 | What reason is there for it? |
10116 | What says St. James to that? |
10116 | What says a wiser and a better man than I shall ever be, and that not of noble music, but of such as we may hear any day in any street? |
10116 | What was that glory which, as far as we can judge of divine things, He resumed as on this day? |
10116 | What wisdom which will not seem folly? |
10116 | What would become of me then? |
10116 | What, some one will ask, when a man loves a fair face, does he love Christ then? |
10116 | What, then, does this word mean? |
10116 | What, then, was John the Baptist like? |
10116 | What? |
10116 | When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? |
10116 | When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? |
10116 | Whence comes this large population of children who are needy, if not destitute; and who are, or are in a fair way to become, dangerous? |
10116 | Where is that Comforter? |
10116 | Where shall I find friends? |
10116 | Whither can I flee from Thy Spirit? |
10116 | Whither can we go from His spirit, or whither can we flee from His presence? |
10116 | Who am I, that God can not govern the world without my help? |
10116 | Who dare say,--I can not amend-- when God Himself offers to amend you? |
10116 | Who is Lord of joy and sorrow? |
10116 | Who is Lord of life and death? |
10116 | Who is he that God should care more for him than for others? |
10116 | Who is he that God should help him when he prays, more than He will help His whole church if it will but pray? |
10116 | Who is his adversary? |
10116 | Who is our Governor? |
10116 | Who is our Guide? |
10116 | Who is our King? |
10116 | Who is our Lawgiver? |
10116 | Who is she? |
10116 | Who knoweth the spirit of man that it goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that it goeth downward to the earth?" |
10116 | Who loved Him better, and whom did He love better, than St John? |
10116 | Who save the Cause and Maker, and Ruler of all things, past, present, and to come? |
10116 | Who will be the comforter, and give us not mere kind words, but strength? |
10116 | Who will give us the faith to say with Job,"Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him?" |
10116 | Who will give us the firm reason to look steadily at our grief, and learn the lesson it was meant to teach? |
10116 | Who will give us the temperate will, to keep sober and calm amid the shocks and changes of mortal life? |
10116 | Who will harm you, asks St Peter himself,"if you be followers of that which is good? |
10116 | Who, then, was He whose ascent we celebrate? |
10116 | Why can you not open your eyes and of yourselves judge what is right? |
10116 | Why care for any born of woman, if the happiness which depends on them is exposed to a thousand chances-- a thousand changes? |
10116 | Why did God make the worlds? |
10116 | Why did He make it lovely? |
10116 | Why did He put us into it, if He did not mean us to enjoy it? |
10116 | Why did they use Grace? |
10116 | Why do we come to church at all? |
10116 | Why does a little child dance when it hears a strain of music? |
10116 | Why does a little child pick flowers? |
10116 | Why does it love to hear of things beautiful and noble, and shrink from things foul and mean, if what I say is not true? |
10116 | Why has God so ordered the world and human nature, that pride punishes itself? |
10116 | Why has our anxiety come? |
10116 | Why is it so? |
10116 | Why relieve distress which fresh accidents may bring back again to- morrow, with all its miseries? |
10116 | Why seek Him among the dead? |
10116 | Why should it seem strange, my friends, to us, if we are in the habit of training our children, and rebuking our children, as we ought? |
10116 | Why should they shrink from remembering that, though God''s kingdom is not come in perfection and fulness, it is here already, and they are in it? |
10116 | Why should they shrink from that thought? |
10116 | Why should we care for it, even if it be true? |
10116 | Why should we try and say anything more for him? |
10116 | Why should you hurry, if you remember that you are in the kingdom of Christ and of God? |
10116 | Why take so much trouble? |
10116 | Why then love man? |
10116 | Why, where else is every man, you and I, heathen and Christian, bad and good, save in the presence of his Maker already? |
10116 | Will He find me out? |
10116 | Will not they corrupt our servants; and those servants again our children? |
10116 | Will you let the shades of that prison- house of mortality be peopled with little save obscene phantoms? |
10116 | Will you send your help across the Atlantic; and deny it to the sufferers at your own doors? |
10116 | Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? |
10116 | With such a King over us, how can the world but go right? |
10116 | Would He not be at once too liberal for some, and too exacting for others? |
10116 | Would it not be our concern if there was small- pox, scarlet fever, cholera among them? |
10116 | Would you not bestir yourselves then? |
10116 | Would you not question whether the prayers offered up in that chapel would have any answer from Him, save that awful answer He once gave? |
10116 | Would you not turn away from that palace with the contemptuous thought-- Civilized? |
10116 | Wrath and terror and destruction? |
10116 | Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?" |
10116 | Yes, my friends, why seek the living among the dead? |
10116 | You ask, with astonishment and disgust, how comes that there? |
10116 | You believe in God, and the Bible, and Christianity? |
10116 | an actor doing my alms to be seen of men? |
10116 | and are not these words of his inspired by the Holy Spirit of God? |
10116 | and at the same time, what is the reason why he has not the same right over the lives of his fellow- men? |
10116 | and if it be inspired by the Spirit, what can it be but spiritual? |
10116 | and if so, where is He? |
10116 | and in thy name cast out devils? |
10116 | and in thy name done many wonderful works? |
10116 | and is there knowledge in the most High?" |
10116 | and may not He accept us likewise? |
10116 | and who shall stand when He appeareth? |
10116 | and why so many do not obtain it, and are, therefore, not at peace? |
10116 | be justified by having it proved to all the world that God had not forsaken Him? |
10116 | but am not I impure? |
10116 | but, am not I a sinner? |
10116 | but, am not I bad? |
10116 | by the imperfections even of the holiest few? |
10116 | do I not ask myself a question which I dare not answer? |
10116 | doth the eagle mount up at thy command?" |
10116 | for some among that mass of human corruption which welters around the walls of so many of our cities? |
10116 | hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? |
10116 | how shall they converse with them? |
10116 | how shall they know them? |
10116 | how we can obtain it? |
10116 | or fill the appetite of the young lions? |
10116 | or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? |
10116 | or rather like Christ who is both God and man? |
10116 | or the day after? |
10116 | or thirsty, and gave Thee drink?" |
10116 | or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? |
10116 | saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?" |
10116 | say rather weltering in their own life- blood-- and all because they have forgotten the living God? |
10116 | simply to let it all, as it were, run to waste, till after thousands of years one traveller comes, and has a hasty glimpse of it? |
10116 | that is, what sort of thoughts ought to be in our minds upon this day? |
10116 | then am not I a fool? |
10116 | what proportion do those who do good bear to those who do nothing? |
10116 | who is He that I should know Him now?" |
10116 | who shall deliver me from the body of this death? |
10116 | who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" |
10116 | why hast Thou forsaken Me?" |
10116 | why he may not use them for food? |
10116 | why he may use them for his food? |
10116 | why not be content to be just what you are? |
10116 | would He have to wait till the next life to punish him? |
58812 | Can that be the true preaching of''the Word''where the language of that Word so seldom enters in? |
58812 | Can two walk together,says Holy Scripture,"and not be agreed?" |
58812 | Could that be the true preaching of''Christ, and Him crucified,''where any mention of the simple gospel story was almost systematically shut out? |
58812 | Dost Thou not hear,the demon once more cries out impatiently--"Dost thou not hear what the angel says? |
58812 | Is there really a way through this world to heaven? 58812 Jesus saith to her: Woman why weepest thou? |
58812 | O my Divine Spouse,she said,"where wast thou when I was enduring these conflicts?" |
58812 | What is that to thee? 58812 What is that to thee?" |
58812 | What shall I offer to the Lord that is worthy? 58812 What was it they were required to do? |
58812 | What, with all these filthy abominations? |
58812 | Why stand ye all the day idle? |
58812 | Why stand ye all the day idle? |
58812 | Why stand ye here all the day idle? |
58812 | Why stand ye here all the day idle? |
58812 | _ How can this man give us his flesh to eat?_they said. |
58812 | _ What shall I offer to the Lord that is worthy? 58812 _ What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" |
58812 | _ What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?_Will you sin against your own soul? |
58812 | _ What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?_Will you sin against your own soul? |
58812 | _ What shall we say then to these things? 58812 _ Who shall stand to see Him? |
58812 | _ Why weepest thou? 58812 _ Woman why weepest thou? |
58812 | ( a cousin of mine, who is an Episcopalian clergyman) do the same thing?" |
58812 | 3:] Why does the winter come upon us with desolation and storm? |
58812 | A man approaches, and addresses Magdelene in the same words that the angels had used:"Woman, why weepest thou? |
58812 | After all, what has she done? |
58812 | Alone, or only with a feeble woman like herself, she goes out late at night, and whither? |
58812 | And are there not some who do this? |
58812 | And are we now really doing any thing for heaven? |
58812 | And by what law is he to be tried? |
58812 | And for what have you done all this? |
58812 | And has not God promised to protect the orphan? |
58812 | And how does our Lord answer her? |
58812 | And if merely to think about God in this life can make us so happy, what must it be to see Him in the life to come? |
58812 | And if not, why are Roman Catholic bishops schismatical intruders in London and New- York? |
58812 | And if the soul is so beautiful in the little rays that escape from the body, what must it be in itself? |
58812 | And is He not present to you as truly as if you saw Him, hearing each imprecation and blasphemy which you utter? |
58812 | And is it so? |
58812 | And is it, then, not credible? |
58812 | And is it, then, only God for whom we are unwilling to do any thing hard? |
58812 | And is not this our crime, that we are idlers and triflers in religion? |
58812 | And is there any thing in this joy and confidence which reason or Christianity would condemn? |
58812 | And oh, are the judgments of God so strict? |
58812 | And that precious soul of yours, before which all the wealth of the world is but worthless dross with what care have you kept that? |
58812 | And the disciples seeing it, wondered, saying: How is it presently withered away?_"[ Footnote 86][ Footnote 86: St. Matt. |
58812 | And the soldiers asked him, saying:"And what shall_ we_ do?" |
58812 | And they spoke to her:"Woman, why weepest thou? |
58812 | And what does that mass think of the Catholic Church? |
58812 | And what is that? |
58812 | And what is to secure you from dying in such a state? |
58812 | And what we do willingly for the world, for our families, for our health, our pleasure, our sins, shall we refuse to do for the great and good God? |
58812 | And when He comes to judgment will not the stars fall from the sky and the heavens be parted as a scroll? |
58812 | And why was all this? |
58812 | And why? |
58812 | And why? |
58812 | And would you attribute conduct so disgraceful among men to our Father in heaven? |
58812 | Are all our real sorrows removed or alleviated by the resurrection of Christ? |
58812 | Are not all times alike to God? |
58812 | Are our faces, my brethren, turned toward the heavenly city? |
58812 | Are the Anglican bishops in these places schismatical intruders or not? |
58812 | Are the stars inhabited? |
58812 | Are there any here to- night in mortal sin? |
58812 | Are there few or many that will be saved? |
58812 | Are there none of you, my brethren, who recognise this as the secret language of your hearts? |
58812 | Are these children faithful Catholics? |
58812 | Are these orgies meant to insult the dead? |
58812 | Are these wishes executed? |
58812 | Are we as faithful to pray for our departed friends, and to get prayers said for them? |
58812 | Are we hastening thither, acknowledging ourselves strangers and pilgrims on the earth? |
58812 | Are we left to our own fancyings and feelings to decide whether we are pardoned or not? |
58812 | Are we living the lives God intended us to live? |
58812 | Are we not afraid of wounding your pride, of alienating your affections? |
58812 | Are we not too apt to speak so of the work of an opponent? |
58812 | Are we really redeeming the past by a true penance? |
58812 | Are we to have no interest, no feeling for each other? |
58812 | Are you distressed and suffering? |
58812 | Are you in doubt about religious truth? |
58812 | Are you in sin? |
58812 | Are you in sin? |
58812 | Are you leading a tepid, imperfect life? |
58812 | Are you not afraid of His vengeance Whom you have offended? |
58812 | Are you not ready to condemn him yourselves to hell? |
58812 | Are you old? |
58812 | Are you sorely tempted to sin? |
58812 | Are you spending your time as you would wish to spend the last year of your life? |
58812 | Are you willing to practise what you do believe? |
58812 | Are you young? |
58812 | Art thou guilty? |
58812 | Art thou in sin after baptism? |
58812 | Art thou sad and lonely? |
58812 | Art thou weak? |
58812 | As he was on his way, St. Laurence followed him weeping and saying:"Father where are you going without your son? |
58812 | As heaven fills up with saints flaming with love, He says,"Whence are these? |
58812 | As reasonable men, I have appealed to you: what is your decision? |
58812 | Ask the Gospel, Who is that servant whom his Lord at His coming will approve? |
58812 | Ask the Psalmist who of us shall see heaven, and he will answer you,"_ Lord, who shall dwell in Thy tabernacle, or who shall rest on Thy holy hill? |
58812 | But do you think we have none of the charity of the Angels? |
58812 | But does this law reach also to the supernatural world? |
58812 | But how can they turn away from Catholicity as it is expressed by the great saints of the Church? |
58812 | But how did you come by that belief? |
58812 | But how does he believe you? |
58812 | But how will you bear the taunts and jeers of the devil and his angels? |
58812 | But is it not necessary to go to communion? |
58812 | But some of you may say, why tell us this? |
58812 | But suppose these evil temptations are importunate, and remain in the soul even when we resist them, and try to turn from them? |
58812 | But the question with many will be, is it possible to attain it? |
58812 | But when? |
58812 | But who are those young people, that young man and young woman? |
58812 | But why is this necessary? |
58812 | But, it may be asked, does man need a revelation on this point? |
58812 | By what means can I be united to Christ? |
58812 | By what way is light spread, and heat divided on the earth? |
58812 | Can God remain united to the soul which has cast Him off by an act of complete and formal rebellion? |
58812 | Can He be very much displeased at my follies? |
58812 | Can He care what my religious belief is? |
58812 | Can He speak, and you go on as if He had not spoken? |
58812 | Can Jesus Christ resist such an appeal? |
58812 | Can there be any thing more dreadful still? |
58812 | Can there be hope for one like that? |
58812 | Can we doubt to what effect our Saviour would have answered? |
58812 | Can we not believe Jesus Christ? |
58812 | Can we say,"I am fulfilling the requirements of my conscience, in the standard which I propose to myself?" |
58812 | Can you blame her for weeping, as she looks, for the last time, on that dear form? |
58812 | Can you carry away a heavy corpse? |
58812 | Can you doubt His power? |
58812 | Can you doubt His truth? |
58812 | Can you pick and choose among His doctrines, and take up one and reject another? |
58812 | Can you, then, innocently refuse to listen? |
58812 | Could any thing He had made escape His knowledge, or any sorrow fail to awaken His compassion? |
58812 | Cut it down therefore; why doth it take up the ground? |
58812 | Did God require to be reminded of the woes and wants of any child of man, by the sympathizing cries of his fellow- creatures? |
58812 | Did He not manifest Himself to the patriarchs? |
58812 | Did His words ever so abide in any heart as in hers? |
58812 | Did any remain in Christ as she did? |
58812 | Did he not speak face to face with Moses? |
58812 | Did it not carry them through fire and sword? |
58812 | Did it not enable them to meet death with joy? |
58812 | Did not our Lord love his Mother? |
58812 | Did not the sun hide its face at the crucifixon of our Lord, and the earth tremble under His Cross? |
58812 | Did the sad news of the daughter''s death go out to the poor mother in the old country, softened with the evidence of that daughter''s piety and love? |
58812 | Did they ever look at a crucifix, or read the story of the Passion? |
58812 | Did you hear that howl? |
58812 | Do these revellers wish to make us believe that their departed friend was, body and soul, the child of Hell as much as they? |
58812 | Do they know in whose name they are baptized? |
58812 | Do we not, like the Pharisees, give an undue value to outward observances? |
58812 | Do you ask me to what I allude? |
58812 | Do you ask me what has been done for your souls? |
58812 | Do you ask me what has been done for your souls? |
58812 | Do you ask what has been done for your souls? |
58812 | Do you hear this, O sinner? |
58812 | Do you hear this, my brethren? |
58812 | Do you judge of a man as you do of a horse or a dog? |
58812 | Do you think that poor widow of whom the Gospel speaks to- day could help weeping? |
58812 | Do you want a better worship than that which His Eternal Son offers? |
58812 | Do you want to have faith? |
58812 | Do you want to know what a mortal sin is? |
58812 | Do you wish to advance in a good life? |
58812 | Do you wish to die with that veil not taken away? |
58812 | Do you wish to go before God as careless and as sensual as you are now? |
58812 | Do you wish to know how to advance in God''s love? |
58812 | Docs she not run a thousand risks? |
58812 | Does God this night see in this church some heart that is in mortal sin? |
58812 | Does it not look like me? |
58812 | Does not Nature sympathize with man? |
58812 | Does not Scripture itself fashion out for her the glorious throne on which the Catholic Church places her? |
58812 | Does not every creature groan and travail for our redemption? |
58812 | Does not the very word, God, mean something different to us from what it does to a saint? |
58812 | Does sin wage a war against you? |
58812 | Does the Bible teach us this? |
58812 | Does the Catholic Church, as you understand it, come up to these descriptions? |
58812 | Does the world allure thee? |
58812 | Dost thou ask the way back to God? |
58812 | Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth? |
58812 | Dost thou wish to know the life thou must practise? |
58812 | Dost thou wish to know where thou wilt gain strength to keep these laws? |
58812 | Even supposing she reaches the place in safety, will she be permitted to approach the grave? |
58812 | For a momentary gratification of appetite? |
58812 | For what are they but the evidences of the greatness of our religion? |
58812 | God is immutable, and yet He is perfectly free: who shall reconcile these together? |
58812 | Grant that yon are not bound to do precisely what they did, are you at liberty to do nothing? |
58812 | Had not St. Paul and St. Peter influence enough with Heaven to carry their wants directly to the throne of grace? |
58812 | Has Christianity, then, accomplished the results that might have been looked for? |
58812 | Has Jesus Christ always been so near me? |
58812 | Has an angel spoken to him, as of old to the prophet Zacharias? |
58812 | Has he seen a vision? |
58812 | Has it awakened you to new life, new hopes, new aspirations? |
58812 | Has it been a task to you to listen to the sermon? |
58812 | Has not God given His revelation complete credibility? |
58812 | Has not St. Magdalene preached an Easter sermon? |
58812 | Has not the solitary place been made glad by the hymns of its anchorites, and the desert blossomed like a rose under their toil? |
58812 | Has that debt been paid? |
58812 | Has the grace of God also its seasons and its times? |
58812 | Have my guardian angel and the demon that has tempted me been always in this very room? |
58812 | Have not empires owned its sway, and kings come bending to seek its blessings? |
58812 | Have not millions of martyrs loved it better than their lives? |
58812 | Have you a secret sorrow? |
58812 | Have you been critical and captious? |
58812 | Have you found me wanting to my duty? |
58812 | Have you kept it as your most sacred treasure? |
58812 | Have you sought only to be amused? |
58812 | Have you valued that soul of yours? |
58812 | Have you, my brethren, so regarded yourselves? |
58812 | He asks:"Is this binding under mortal sin? |
58812 | He had his little trials, but what was it all-- what was poverty or sickness or disappointment? |
58812 | He listens, and asks,"May I believe this?" |
58812 | He says:"Offer it now to thy prince, will_ he_ be pleased with it, or will_ he_ regard thy face?" |
58812 | He whom they loved and trusted is no more; and they, whither shall they go? |
58812 | Hear the Holy Ghost, Himself interpret it:"_ The voice said, cry; and I said, what shall I cry? |
58812 | How can I describe to you the change that takes place in that moment? |
58812 | How can a person"abjure the Catholic Communion"at Rome, by joining that which is confessedly the principal branch of the Catholic Church? |
58812 | How can it be otherwise? |
58812 | How can there be the guilt of apostasy involved in such an act? |
58812 | How could she go fast? |
58812 | How did he prepare men for the coming of Christ? |
58812 | How did the Blessed Virgin arrive at such glory? |
58812 | How did this happen? |
58812 | How do men act about religion? |
58812 | How does it come to pass that there are those two principles within us? |
58812 | How has it been with each of you? |
58812 | How much of good, then, has been and is in the world? |
58812 | How must, then, a man forget himself whose occupation is more secular? |
58812 | How old is the earth which we inhabit? |
58812 | How shall we abide His coming, my brethren I how shall we prepare to meet Him? |
58812 | How shall we express the thoughts of Him that fill our souls? |
58812 | How shall we worship Him? |
58812 | How were they to preserve the continuity of organization and the apostolic succession? |
58812 | How will men attain that which they do not care for, to which they give no thought? |
58812 | I err by excess or defect in my conduct; I bring evil on myself it is true; but what difference can that make to the Supreme Being? |
58812 | I know there are times when every man has felt the words of the Psalmist:"_ What have I in heaven? |
58812 | If God be for us, who shall be against us? |
58812 | If He did, who of us could be saved? |
58812 | If no rule obliges you to spend the night in prayer, are you not obliged to pray often? |
58812 | If not, why not? |
58812 | If she had not believed, if she had not assented, what would have come of it? |
58812 | If we look back at our own lives, do we not see that we have had our special times when Christ visited us? |
58812 | If you are not called to forego all innocent pleasures, are you exempt from every sort of self- denial? |
58812 | If you are not required to flee from your homes, are you not required to forsake the occasions of sin? |
58812 | If you can be chaste in the presence of a virtuous female, why can you not be chaste everywhere? |
58812 | If you can be honest when the eye of man is on you, why can you not be honest when no eye sees you but that of God? |
58812 | In a family, who is so much loved as the one whose thoughts are all for others? |
58812 | In the first place, then, what is the source and nature of the conflict thus indicated by our Lord? |
58812 | In the sense in which the teaching of an uninspired man can be so designated, have you thus listened to the preacher''s words? |
58812 | In what consists the beauty of a man? |
58812 | In what house, indeed, is the family unbroken? |
58812 | In what, then, does our Lord''s Priesthood since His Crucifixion consist? |
58812 | Is Catholic truth, as you appropriate it, so high and glorious a thing as this? |
58812 | Is confession difficult? |
58812 | Is it a light thing that could have bound Me to this cross? |
58812 | Is it a light thing that could have reduced Me to such a state of woe? |
58812 | Is it a mere prejudice that melts before investigation? |
58812 | Is it a mere regularity of form and feature? |
58812 | Is it a stupid fanaticism? |
58812 | Is it hard to bear the remarks of companions? |
58812 | Is it hard to lose a little gain? |
58812 | Is it not a failure? |
58812 | Is it not a story to make one weep? |
58812 | Is it not an unconscious acknowledgment of the presence of God? |
58812 | Is it not superstition? |
58812 | Is it not very caustic? |
58812 | Is it now safe and secure? |
58812 | Is not God always ready to save the sinner, and to bestow the graces necessary to his salvation? |
58812 | Is not faith an act purely intellectual? |
58812 | Is not his fall certain? |
58812 | Is not his presence an offence? |
58812 | Is not the earth for the elect? |
58812 | Is not the natural reason and the natural conscience sufficient to tell us that sin is wrong? |
58812 | Is not this to betray the souls of his own children? |
58812 | Is she not afraid? |
58812 | Is that boy, the object of a mother''s dying tears and prayers, regular at the sacraments? |
58812 | Is that principle so deeply seated in our nature to have no play in Christianity? |
58812 | Is that what you will be punished for? |
58812 | Is the return we are actually making such as He deserves? |
58812 | Is there no trouble in your conscience? |
58812 | Is there not an impression in your minds that the law of God is too strict, or at least that it is too strict for you, and that you can not keep it? |
58812 | Is there nothing frightful to you in a sleepless night, or a sickbed? |
58812 | Is this question answered in the affirmative? |
58812 | Is thy heart weary and inconstant? |
58812 | It is true there are candles and holy water, but where are the pious prayers? |
58812 | Listen to the description which God Himself gives of the results of the gospel:"_ Who are these, that fly as clouds, and as doves to their windows? |
58812 | Look at it; see if it does not belong to me? |
58812 | Mary, dost thou not remember My words-- My promise-- that I would rise again? |
58812 | Mary,--dost thou not believe My angels, bearing testimony to My Resurrection? |
58812 | May He not dishonor it? |
58812 | May he not falsify his message? |
58812 | May we not worship God at home just as well? |
58812 | Me, the Creator of all things, to whom you owe all life and liberty? |
58812 | Men do not ask:"What shall I do to be saved?" |
58812 | Merely because he saw Him with his bodily eyes? |
58812 | Must I forever despair?" |
58812 | Must we go trembling all our days, and be terror- stricken at the hour of death? |
58812 | No matter: are you willing to serve God with a cold heart? |
58812 | No matter: you know what is right; are you willing to do it? |
58812 | Now, amid such ceaseless controversies, what means has our Lord left to protect and defend His people from doubt and error? |
58812 | Now, can salvation be a work so serious to them and so trivial for us? |
58812 | Now, how did these things happen? |
58812 | Now, if she did not merit heaven by becoming the Mother of God, how did she merit it? |
58812 | Now, if you can stop cursing before the priest, why can you not before your wife and children? |
58812 | Now, supposing the offence they take to be justly taken, which is not always the case, what does it prove? |
58812 | Now, to these persons it is a question of the most pressing urgency,"Am I now as I would wish to be when I die? |
58812 | Now, what else could be the result of all this, but a disesteem of Christianity itself? |
58812 | Now, what is all this? |
58812 | Now, what is the blight that destroys all their goodness? |
58812 | Now, what takes place under such circumstances? |
58812 | Now, what was it all about? |
58812 | Now, whence comes this deep and fixed certainty in religion? |
58812 | Now, who can tell us in practice when we have arrived at the limit of venial sin, when we have passed beyond it and are in mortal sin? |
58812 | Now, who does not see here the realization and fulfilment of the great promise of Christ which I have quoted as my text? |
58812 | Now, why is this? |
58812 | Now, why was this? |
58812 | Now, will you tell me that you can not help doing what the martyrs would not do to save them from death? |
58812 | O Dwight, what is there in such a situation to make one remain in it, if one could conscientiously leave it? |
58812 | O my brethren, is the service you are rendering Him at all worthy of Him? |
58812 | O my brethren, need I say more? |
58812 | O my brethren, why do we grovel on earth, when we might have our conversation in heaven? |
58812 | O thou who art afflicted, tossed with tempests and not comforted, what dost thou want?--what wouldst thou have? |
58812 | Of whom it can be said literally,"Whatever thou askest of Me I will do it,"because the condition of union with God is perfectly fulfilled? |
58812 | Oh, why did not the priest speak of this? |
58812 | On the principle of a Protestant, or a Catholic? |
58812 | On the principle of private judgment, or on faith in an infallible authority? |
58812 | One of the strongest things that St. Paul said in his defence before Agrippa was the appeal:"_ King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? |
58812 | Or has it a reasonable basis, and are its foundations deep in the laws of the human mind? |
58812 | Or that married woman who has stepped aside from the path of virtue, did she realize what she was doing? |
58812 | Or, acknowledging the truth you have heard, have you been careless about putting it in practice? |
58812 | Or, if it did, was the intercession of Christ insufficient that any other had to be called in to supplicate? |
58812 | Or, is that sympathy to be a barren sentiment, and to have no results? |
58812 | Or, like Abel, shall we take the firstlings of our flocks, and slay them in His honor? |
58812 | Or, like the Indian devotee, shall we throw ourselves under the wheels of the car that carries the image of the Divinity? |
58812 | Qu.--How many parts are there in a Sacrament? |
58812 | Qu.--What are the benefits whereof we are partakers thereby? |
58812 | Qu.--What is the inward part, or thing signified? |
58812 | Qu.--What is the outward part or sign of the Lord''s Supper? |
58812 | Shall I bring them up?" |
58812 | Shall I give my first- born for my wickedness, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?_"[ Footnote 97][ Footnote 97: Mich. vi. |
58812 | Shall I never see Jesus Christ again? |
58812 | Shall I offer holocausts unto Him, and calves of a year old? |
58812 | Shall she wait to see Him? |
58812 | Shall there be no sympathy between us? |
58812 | Shall we dress an altar, and pile upon it the smoking victims? |
58812 | Shall we make our children pass through the fire in His Name? |
58812 | Shall we never, after we have sinned, have again the assurance that we are pardoned? |
58812 | Shall we never_ hear_ that sweet consoling word:"_ Go in peace, thy sins are forgiven thee?_"Yes, Christ is risen. |
58812 | Shall we not feel an ample respect for each other, my brethren, when we think of what we are? |
58812 | Shall we, like Cain, gather the fairest fruits and flowers, and bring the basket before the Lord? |
58812 | Should our lives be cut off at this moment, of what kind of texture would they be found? |
58812 | So, I ask you, who are you? |
58812 | Some Catholic who has renounced, if not his faith, at least the practice of his faith? |
58812 | Such a friend? |
58812 | Suppose I am in mortal sin, how can I be forgiven? |
58812 | Suppose it is: may not the wind be speaking for the dead? |
58812 | Suppose you do refuse to listen to the warnings which Death suggests, are you therefore free from anxiety? |
58812 | Surely it is as a Catholic he believes? |
58812 | Tell me, O my brethren, did you not, when you were deeply plunged in sinful enjoyment, feel a dreadful pang at your heart? |
58812 | Tell me, did you not at the moment you sinned hear a stern voice speaking in the depths of your heart? |
58812 | Tell me, now that you stand in God''s holy presence, tell me now, is there not something within you that tells you, you are ruined? |
58812 | Tell me, tell me, young men, tell me, children, tell me truly, one and all, what have been the happiest moments of your life? |
58812 | That duty is irksome; is it a great matter if I omit it now and then?" |
58812 | The heart asks,"What is to become of the body that I loved so much?" |
58812 | The only question is, how is it to be attained? |
58812 | The people came to him and asked him,"What shall we do?" |
58812 | Then the officers of the custom came and asked:"What shall_ we_ do? |
58812 | Then, who are the Catholic bishops in Canada, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Texas, and California? |
58812 | They died rather than lift a hand to do a forbidden thing; have you not the same power over your hand that they had? |
58812 | This being so, how is it possible for a man of real merit to remain long unrecognized? |
58812 | This being so, is not her power of intercession fixed beyond dispute? |
58812 | This is the practical question for each one of us: To which of these classes do I belong? |
58812 | This is what the Psalmist expresses so beautifully:"_ Whither shall I go from Thy spirit? |
58812 | To commence with the commencement, then, what shall I say of Trinity Church? |
58812 | To go hence"with the sign of faith,"with the blessing of the Mother of Saints upon you, and the grace of her sacraments within your heart? |
58812 | To have the body of the dead taken away from us, is not that a grief? |
58812 | Upon what are its bases grounded? |
58812 | Very well; but how were they required to deny Christ? |
58812 | Was He not disposed to be obedient to her as his mother? |
58812 | Was he not a Christian? |
58812 | Was he not a friend of God, was not his soul beautiful in God''s sight? |
58812 | Was it for this that He hung on the cross, that_ only now and then_ we should omit some important duty? |
58812 | Was it for this that He sweat those great drops of blood, that we should live a slothful and irreligous life? |
58812 | Was it the hour of some earthly success or triumph? |
58812 | Was it the moments you have spent in sin? |
58812 | Was not God''s own heart as large as theirs? |
58812 | Was not the way of access to God open and easy for every one? |
58812 | Was there ever love like this? |
58812 | Well, is it not better to feel that this life is a state of exile? |
58812 | What aileth thee, O sea, tossed and driven with the waves? |
58812 | What are all the attainments of learned men to Him who is all- wise? |
58812 | What are all the conceptions of genius to Him who is all- beautiful, or the moral excellencies of good men to Him who is all- holy? |
58812 | What are those duties? |
58812 | What are you? |
58812 | What but sin? |
58812 | What could hinder me from being a Roman Catholic but for the fear of doing wrong? |
58812 | What devotion to pleasure? |
58812 | What did they want with Christ? |
58812 | What did you think of Mr. Bennett''s course? |
58812 | What does it matter? |
58812 | What does it mean? |
58812 | What does reason, what does conscience, what does self- interest say? |
58812 | What does the Holy Scripture say? |
58812 | What does the Holy Scripture say? |
58812 | What does the Scripture say? |
58812 | What does this mean? |
58812 | What excessive anxiety about this world? |
58812 | What grief is there that I have not removed?" |
58812 | What has He not done for you? |
58812 | What has gathered these crowds of busy, practical men? |
58812 | What have our past lives been? |
58812 | What is it that has destroyed the peace of so many families? |
58812 | What is it that has happened? |
58812 | What is it that has ruined so many reputations, that once were fair and unblemished? |
58812 | What is it, then, that gives such interest to this scene? |
58812 | What is that reason? |
58812 | What is that sacrifice? |
58812 | What is that worship? |
58812 | What is that? |
58812 | What is the cause of much of the sickness that affects our race? |
58812 | What is the cause of these convulsions of nature, and this terror of the people? |
58812 | What is the end for which God created us? |
58812 | What is the event that can interrupt the great harmonies of Heaven, and furnish the Angels with a new song? |
58812 | What is the history of this universe? |
58812 | What is the meaning of this? |
58812 | What is the point of this observation? |
58812 | What is the reason that Christian art has so far surpassed heathen art? |
58812 | What is the reason that every thing thus honors you? |
58812 | What is the sound that reaches us to- day? |
58812 | What is there, in the act of believing or disbelieving, that is of a moral nature, that deserves praise or blame? |
58812 | What is thy misery? |
58812 | What is thy sorrow? |
58812 | What is thy trial? |
58812 | What keeps them kneeling, or standing quietly in solid masses, for an hour before the exercises commence? |
58812 | What kind of a death naturally follows such a life? |
58812 | What kind of creature is that which renders to God a reluctant and imperfect service? |
58812 | What long periods of utter forgetfulness of God? |
58812 | What loss of time? |
58812 | What makes the character of a mother so beautiful but the trait of self- sacrifice? |
58812 | What more can we want? |
58812 | What must be the wickedness that can force Me to withstand the power of such an appeal?" |
58812 | What need for me to know the very words the priest is using? |
58812 | What of that? |
58812 | What other preacher can say the same words again and again, and never make us weary? |
58812 | What shall it then profit me what others have said in my favor or against me? |
58812 | What shall keep me back? |
58812 | What shall we do? |
58812 | What then? |
58812 | What though many refuse to listen? |
58812 | What was he then? |
58812 | What was his office? |
58812 | What was it that took place on the Cross? |
58812 | What will become of my companions whom I left on the earth, wild and reckless like my self? |
58812 | What wonder is it that men have imagined Fortune to be blindfold[ed], and the ups and downs of life the chance revolutions of her wheel? |
58812 | What would a master do if his slave should strike him? |
58812 | What years spent in neglect, or even in sin? |
58812 | What, then, delayed St. Mary Magdalene so long? |
58812 | What, then, is God''s estimate of sin? |
58812 | What, then, should be each one''s resolution? |
58812 | When did we shut our hearts to Thy grace?" |
58812 | When it speaks of a"way"to heaven, does it not mean that all must walk in that way to reach there? |
58812 | When you come to die, will you not wish to have those sins blotted out? |
58812 | Whence does it arise? |
58812 | Where are such tears shed as over the fresh grave of a self- forgetful friend? |
58812 | Where is there not a vacant seat at the table? |
58812 | Where were they to get bishops? |
58812 | Wherewith shall I kneel before the High God? |
58812 | Wherewith shall I kneel before the High God?" |
58812 | Which of the saints was ever wafted to heaven in this passive way? |
58812 | Which was the acceptable sacrifice? |
58812 | Which was the place where men ought to worship-- Mount Gerazin; or Mount Sion? |
58812 | Which was the right temple? |
58812 | While gratitude lives among men, what shall be the return given to Christ by those whom He has redeemed? |
58812 | Whither are you going, O holy priest, without your deacon? |
58812 | Who are they that are truly happy on this day? |
58812 | Who are they? |
58812 | Who are we? |
58812 | Who but He knew how perfectly to mingle dignity with familiarity, zeal with serenity, and austerity with compassion? |
58812 | Who can give peace to a soul that has sinned? |
58812 | Who can tell how many are living in a state of mortal sin, month by month, day by day, year by year? |
58812 | Who could ever speak an impure word before another if he thought of the dignity of a human soul? |
58812 | Who could listen to His voice in its untempered majesty and not be afraid? |
58812 | Who does not admire a generous, self- sacrificing man? |
58812 | Who is Christ? |
58812 | Who is he that shall condemn? |
58812 | Who is that, that is standing at the foot of his bed? |
58812 | Who is that? |
58812 | Who is the father of the rain, or who hath begotten the drops of dew? |
58812 | Who is there that needs to be told that the Blessed Virgin is splendid in sanctity, dazzling in beauty, and exalted in power? |
58812 | Who makes any sacrifice for it? |
58812 | Who of us does not know such? |
58812 | Who of us has not lost a friend? |
58812 | Who of us has not seen such? |
58812 | Who shall lay anything to the charge of the elect of God? |
58812 | Who shall this be whom Holy Scripture thus clothes with this tremendous power, if it be not the Blessed Virgin Mary? |
58812 | Who takes any pains for it? |
58812 | Who thinks about it? |
58812 | Who went first to China and India? |
58812 | Who will dare to break the seal? |
58812 | Who will roll the stone from the door? |
58812 | Who would lie, or cheat, or steal, if he thought of his soul? |
58812 | Who, I say, can wonder at this, when he looks around him, and sees how little the soul is valued? |
58812 | Who, then, shall be the favored child of man, the favored saint, who shall exercise this power in the fullest degree? |
58812 | Whom seekest thou?" |
58812 | Whom seekest thou?" |
58812 | Whom seekest thou?_"He challenges us. |
58812 | Whom seekest thou?_"These are the first words our Lord spoke after His Resurrection. |
58812 | Whose tones are there that linger in our ears like His, and come like a spell to our hearts in times of temptation and sorrow? |
58812 | Why are men so slow to be wise, and to be happy? |
58812 | Why are the angel and the demon there? |
58812 | Why are we not more active in laboring for them? |
58812 | Why are we so weak in temptation, so despairing in trial, when we might have the peace and joy of the children of God? |
58812 | Why are you not religious?" |
58812 | Why did our Lord become man? |
58812 | Why did you rush into the presence of your Maker without forethought? |
58812 | Why do men grope in darkness? |
58812 | Why do not men take advantage of this loving condescension? |
58812 | Why do summer and winter, seed- time and harvest, return so regularly? |
58812 | Why do they not converse with God? |
58812 | Why do they not think of Him? |
58812 | Why do we follow the Evil One, when He that is beautiful above the sons of men is our Master and our Lord? |
58812 | Why do we not take our place at once, where we shall wish to be found at our Saviour''s coming? |
58812 | Why do we set our hearts on creatures, when we might have the Creator for our friend? |
58812 | Why does He come at all to consciences which do not crave rest, and wills that need no strength? |
58812 | Why does he interrupt the Mass? |
58812 | Why does our Lord leave us subject to this strife? |
58812 | Why does the sun rise in the morning, and go down at night? |
58812 | Why dost thou seek the living among the dead?" |
58812 | Why has not the sound of the gospel gone into all lands, and its words to the end of the world? |
58812 | Why is Jesus Christ there? |
58812 | Why is it always thus? |
58812 | Why is it that the just man perisheth? |
58812 | Why is this? |
58812 | Why is this? |
58812 | Why should their influence be dreaded? |
58812 | Why should we fear? |
58812 | Why should we shut our eyes to the hosts of heaven that march unseen by our side? |
58812 | Why so? |
58812 | Why stand we all the day idle? |
58812 | Why tarry we here in the bondage of Egypt? |
58812 | Why, then, do they commit it? |
58812 | Why, who are you, my brethren? |
58812 | Will He be appeased with thousands of rams? |
58812 | Will His serene Majesty in heaven be affected because I on this earth am carried too far by passions? |
58812 | Will not a careless, thoughtless man, such as I have described, will he not be certain sometimes to go over the fatal line? |
58812 | Will those misgivings help you to die easily? |
58812 | Will you grieve because he has secured for himself the Blissful and Eternal Vision of God? |
58812 | Will you renounce your birthright? |
58812 | Will you tell me they were but seeking a_ more perfect_ life? |
58812 | Will you then forego as you do now those absolving words which our Lord has promised to ratify in heaven? |
58812 | Will you trust all to the uncertain chance of confession in that hour, or to a doubtful contrition? |
58812 | Will you wait, as your Protestantism requires you to do, till he is grown up, for him to form his religious convictions? |
58812 | Will you weep because one you love is taken away from sin, from temptation, from the trouble to come? |
58812 | Will you, by mortal sin, throw away that immortal crown? |
58812 | Will you, by sin, take the course that leads you away from your heavenly home? |
58812 | Wilt thou take a soul like that and place it in thy paradise?" |
58812 | Would it not be taken as an act of contempt and an offence? |
58812 | Would it not be the same, if he were to close His eyes, and yet be aware of His presence? |
58812 | Would it not seem, otherwise, that God made Himself a party to our sins by keeping silence? |
58812 | Would men speak so, if they realized that God and Christ were then and there present? |
58812 | Would they insult God to His face? |
58812 | Would you excuse a son from the guilt of parricide who should strike a knife to his father''s heart, and should miss his aim? |
58812 | Would you know Who it is Whom you have offended? |
58812 | Would you know what the Autumn teaches? |
58812 | Would you know who, at the end of the world, shall reap a rich harvest? |
58812 | Would you not like, as you go out of this world, to step on the firm rock of Peter? |
58812 | Would you not, like St. John, fall down before his feet and adore him? |
58812 | Yet what was the result of all? |
58812 | You were not wo nt to offer sacrifice without me your minister, wherein have I displeased you? |
58812 | [ Footnote 121] Who could look upon the Lord and live? |
58812 | [ Footnote 217] Do you understand? |
58812 | a sure, clear, easy way?" |
58812 | and are not we too called the"_ Sons of God?_"[ Footnote 208][ Footnote 203: Apoc. |
58812 | and are not we too promised a place at his right hand, and to"_ sit on thrones?_"[ Footnote 204] Is she called the"Morning Star?" |
58812 | and are not we too promised a place at his right hand, and to"_ sit on thrones?_"[ Footnote 204] Is she called the"Morning Star?" |
58812 | and besides Thee what do I desire upon earth? |
58812 | and does not our Lord''s question convey to us the keenest reproach? |
58812 | and who are my brethren? |
58812 | and who hath begotten them?" |
58812 | and why did He become Man in the way He did? |
58812 | are you not afraid to add to the sin of irreligion and injustice the crime of breaking faith with the dead? |
58812 | are you not ashamed to do that before the living God which you would be ashamed to do before a man like yourself?" |
58812 | are you sick? |
58812 | can I, a frail creature,"say they,"ignorant and passionate, can I do an injury to God? |
58812 | does he breathe at all? |
58812 | for Christ our Saviour, who did not refuse the Cross to give us an example of the obedience we owe His Father? |
58812 | has not the demon made out his case? |
58812 | he will say, what is this that I see and hear? |
58812 | how can men turn away from Catholicity? |
58812 | if you will not listen to reason, to God, to the angels; will you not listen to your companions lost? |
58812 | is he not a blot on the scene? |
58812 | is not this our misery, that we have left off striving? |
58812 | is this Christianity? |
58812 | it is hard to see one we love die, but is it not harder to our sensitive nature to bury them? |
58812 | my brethren, is not this joy? |
58812 | or was the money retained and squandered? |
58812 | or whither shall I flee from Thy face? |
58812 | or who laid the corner- stone thereof? |
58812 | or will He separate Himself from me eternally because I have happened to violate some law?" |
58812 | our times of grace? |
58812 | red- letter days in the calendar of our life? |
58812 | saved by''sprinkling?''] |
58812 | shall I do this wicked thing, and offend against God?" |
58812 | so prompt and eager in setting out, so tardy in arriving? |
58812 | that the Madonna is so far more beautiful than the Venus de Medicis? |
58812 | that the will is too weak to decide this fearful contest? |
58812 | that we are doing nothing, or at least nothing serious and worthy of our salvation? |
58812 | they were but following the counsels of perfection, which a man is free to embrace or decline? |
58812 | what is thy request? |
58812 | what voice is that which speaks:"_ Woman, why weepest thou?_"It is the voice of Jesus himself, of Jesus whom she mourns. |
58812 | what voice is that? |
58812 | what will it be to the sinful Catholic? |
58812 | who do not seek temptation, but invariably yield to it when it comes across them? |
58812 | why did you not think of these things before? |
58812 | would you hear with equanimity that you had a hopeless disease? |
58812 | { 214} And how do I establish my proposition? |
58812 | { 217} But have we not cause enough to honor man, in the fact that he has a soul, an immortal soul, a soul which shall one day see God? |
58812 | { 226} Is it hard to break a tie of long standing? |
58812 | { 262} Will you draw back, Christian? |
58812 | { 324} Was it for this that He died, that we should not commit_ quite so many_ mortal sins? |
58812 | { 328} If you are not bound to a perpetual fast, are you at liberty to darken your mind and inflame your passions by immoderate drinking? |
58812 | { 334} What is there in this execution thus to gather together all classes of the people? |
58812 | { 348} What kind of death often, in point of fact, follows such a life? |
58812 | { 356} Now, must we for ever go on in this uncertainty? |
58812 | { 359} So, my brethren, as you weep at the graves of your friends, those very friends stand near you and say,"Why weepest thou?" |
58812 | { 360} Has this day been a day of joy to you? |
58812 | { 390} Do you say that I put too much on the will? |
58812 | { 415} Do you ask what has been done for your souls? |
58812 | { 426} What are the precise obligations binding on me as a Christian? |
58812 | { 433} What is it that has impressed on men this universal fear of detection? |
58812 | { 442} They died rather than utter a sinful word; have you not as much power over your tongue as they? |
58812 | { 452} How does he receive it? |
58812 | { 465} Do you feel in yourselves a vocation to a religious or sacerdotal life? |
58812 | { 468} Well, ought you not, then, to rejoice at his safe departure? |
58812 | { 472} Do you call this a decent funeral?" |
58812 | { 492} How can we forego that sweet and solemn action? |
58812 | { 495} And what does all this mean to us? |
58812 | { 75} Do you know any thing about it? |
49618 | Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? |
49618 | Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? |
49618 | Art thou he,asks the King,"that troubleth Israel?" |
49618 | Ave Marias? |
49618 | Can these dry bones live? |
49618 | Come thou and thy family into the ark,--what time could be more opportune than this first day of another year of God''s grace? |
49618 | Have we trials and temptations, is there trouble anywhere? |
49618 | He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him freely give us all things? |
49618 | If God,says the apostle,"spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?" |
49618 | If Thou, O Lord, shouldst mark iniquity, O Lord, who shall stand? |
49618 | Is thine eye evil because I am good? |
49618 | Is this vile world a friend to grace to help me on to God? |
49618 | Lovest thou me--is the question,"more than these,"and where is the evidence? |
49618 | Lovest thou_ me_? |
49618 | Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou_ me_? |
49618 | Thou fool, this hour thy soul shall be required of thee,--and how do you know whether the next summons may not mean you? |
49618 | What are you doing? |
49618 | What hast thou that thou hast not received? |
49618 | What is there to confirmation?--teaching children in their teens to confess a faith they do not half comprehend? |
49618 | What shall it profit a man if he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul? |
49618 | What''s the use of going to church? 49618 What''s the use of going to the Lord''s Supper? |
49618 | Which of you,He challenged His enemies,"convinceth me of sin?" |
49618 | Who by searching,asks Job,"can find out God? |
49618 | Who minds a monk? 49618 Why a priest?" |
49618 | Why instruct the juvenile mind in such fetters of theology? |
49618 | --that is, can such an idle, empty faith save him? |
49618 | A man? |
49618 | A more powerful one held him at his mercy; and what could he do to pluck out the sting of death beneath whose dominion he had completely fallen? |
49618 | After our own plans, doing things to suit our own selves? |
49618 | Again, when we are the recipients of gifts, we examine them, we give them careful scrutiny, we desire to know: What is that which we have received? |
49618 | Am I His, or am I not? |
49618 | And Elijah came unto all the people and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? |
49618 | And are the returns adequate to the cost? |
49618 | And are there any happy effects to be realized from the faithful performance of this duty? |
49618 | And by what influences and agencies is His will done on earth but by this organization established by Himself for that purpose,--His holy Church? |
49618 | And by whom, to continue the parable, will the separation be made? |
49618 | And coming to the Reformed Churches, which of them believes in baptismal regeneration, accepts Baptism to be a christening? |
49618 | And did not Abimelech, when about to fall into a like error, offer apology and make restitution? |
49618 | And even granted that everything shall be propitious in that respect, have you ever seen persons on a sick- or death- bed? |
49618 | And has that original scene on the shore of the Sea of Galilee and that question no concern and no application whatever for us? |
49618 | And having regarded the prevalency of the evil eye, what shall we say to it? |
49618 | And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? |
49618 | And how can God blame and punish us for not being better than He made us? |
49618 | And how is this done? |
49618 | And how is this vital question to be decided? |
49618 | And how may I know whether my name is inscribed in this book of life? |
49618 | And how shall we observe it? |
49618 | And how will they look? |
49618 | And how? |
49618 | And in consideration of gifts so unspeakable is any offering of gold, or frankincense, or myrrh too large? |
49618 | And in what way, coming to the second consideration, may we overcome this dangerous evil, worldliness? |
49618 | And is Protestantism exempt? |
49618 | And is his appeal not applicable in our own day? |
49618 | And is the Church exempt? |
49618 | And is there a single heart among the sons and daughters of Adam that dare offer remonstrance? |
49618 | And is there a way of escape, as in the case of Egypt''s death and destruction? |
49618 | And is this a sin to think little of? |
49618 | And now let us regard: How should we read it? |
49618 | And now turn to Christ and His Word,--what does it say? |
49618 | And so, if I choose to remunerate these men after the manner that I have, what hurt or worry is that to thee? |
49618 | And that duty-- where does it begin? |
49618 | And that only- begotten Son, did He not love the world when He gave His heart''s blood to redeem it? |
49618 | And the sorry consequence of all this? |
49618 | And then, to conclude, the members of what Church are we? |
49618 | And think you God is pleased with the dregs of the cup, the refuse and few declining years of a man''s life? |
49618 | And this salvation is to be accomplished in what way? |
49618 | And to this brilliancy of light was added a clear and distant voice ringing through the air,"Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?" |
49618 | And to whom, as you examine the Inspired Volume, are most of its contents directed? |
49618 | And we should go borrowing to them, or hesitate to speak a modest word in our favor? |
49618 | And what are they worrying about? |
49618 | And what assurance have you, my youthful hearers, that you may not be among his victims in the succeeding year? |
49618 | And what can you do to rid yourself of this? |
49618 | And what did Jesus see in any of us to lead Him to visit us with His salvation? |
49618 | And what dispensation is made of this light? |
49618 | And what does a careful survey of that hymn- book reveal to us? |
49618 | And what does it possess? |
49618 | And what does that teach those of maturer years? |
49618 | And what does the disciple reply? |
49618 | And what is it? |
49618 | And what is more God- honoring? |
49618 | And what is that arrangement in respect to the future? |
49618 | And what is the superstructure? |
49618 | And what is to be done, with the scales always rising higher and higher and striking the very beam? |
49618 | And what is to be done? |
49618 | And what sort of a life is it? |
49618 | And what teaching? |
49618 | And what was the decision? |
49618 | And what was the nature of his offense? |
49618 | And what was there in it that is common to every case? |
49618 | And what will that destiny be? |
49618 | And what-- to consider the second and larger part of our discourse-- are some of the distinguishing traits of its members? |
49618 | And when it comes to the New Testament,--how are we to understand the conception of the virgin birth of our Savior? |
49618 | And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto His disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? |
49618 | And whence was deliverance to come? |
49618 | And which are these lessons, and how may this enemy be overcome? |
49618 | And which are these? |
49618 | And which is it? |
49618 | And which is our spiritual sword? |
49618 | And who can resign himself to sleep, the emblem of death, and to his bed, the type of his grave, without saying a few words of Christian committal? |
49618 | And who has not heard and read of the Romans and the ancient Egyptians and Persians? |
49618 | And who is not bent with grief as he reads of David and of Solomon? |
49618 | And who is to blame? |
49618 | And who, during the day, can not find a few moments to lift up his thoughts on high? |
49618 | And why did He love man? |
49618 | And why is a deserter''s doom made so awful? |
49618 | And why not? |
49618 | And why, brethren, bring before you these solemn truths? |
49618 | And why, to come to our next consideration, why is this? |
49618 | And why-- that is the concluding feature of our contemplation, why has it visited us? |
49618 | And why? |
49618 | And why? |
49618 | And will you contend that the Word of God and the water of Holy Baptism make those who hear and receive it hypocrites and spiritual counterfeits? |
49618 | And yet is it not this ordinary, common- sense method, which they apply so keenly otherwise, that so many disregard in matters of soul? |
49618 | And yet, glorious as this all is, is it not true that the Bible is a book that is shut and sealed? |
49618 | And yet, was there no badge, no mark of distinction? |
49618 | Anything further than that the land was fertile? |
49618 | Are there no formalists among those who profess to be members of, and visit, our churches? |
49618 | Are we to say, I am very sorry, and thus hide our light under a bushel? |
49618 | Are you a man, or woman, of prayer? |
49618 | As you grow in age, do you grow in heavenly- mindedness, draw closer to your God? |
49618 | At present we have all living bodies, but in those living bodies, what is the state of the soul? |
49618 | At such times are we shy of doing differently from other people when we know and feel what is right? |
49618 | At that time it was,"Is Jehovah the Lord God?" |
49618 | Aye, does it not frequently call for courage even to be known as a church- member? |
49618 | Because he was so lovable? |
49618 | Because it solves, as nothing else can solve, the great problem of Religion,"How can man be saved, justified before God?" |
49618 | Believe it that when a man can look up like the man Saul of Tarsus, and say,"Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?" |
49618 | Beloved, are we not rapidly falling upon such times? |
49618 | Beloved, as to what is the proper ideal and purpose of the Church, that is for Him to say who founded the Church; and what does He say? |
49618 | Beloved, is this not a particular which many who profess to be Christians do not apprehend? |
49618 | Beloved, when you reflect what this world would be without this divine Christmas gift, then we might well ask, Would life be worth living without Him? |
49618 | Below is its gigantic base; then your eye runs up the mountain side, and you see-- what? |
49618 | Bind yourself? |
49618 | But are we quite sure that we have not imbibed a little of it unconsciously? |
49618 | But does he, therefore, desist from completing the structure? |
49618 | But does not the Bible teach that"by one sacrifice,"_ viz._, by His sacrifice upon Golgotha,"Christ hath forever perfected them that are sanctified"? |
49618 | But does not the Church of Rome believe that too? |
49618 | But had the man nevertheless gone back to his sinful life, would that have made the healing of no account? |
49618 | But have those that so feel ever thought it over? |
49618 | But have you, my dear hearers, ever known of a noble and holy work, no matter what it is, that did not meet with some criticism? |
49618 | But how can the lamb cope with the lion? |
49618 | But how do we secure this satisfaction of an almighty Savior? |
49618 | But how was it to be done? |
49618 | But how were those two mites viewed by Him whose eyes were as a flame of fire, and who searcheth the reins and the hearts? |
49618 | But is it not a delusion? |
49618 | But it was now too late, and yet, whose fault was it? |
49618 | But let us ask ourselves, What if everybody around us did not do so? |
49618 | But let us come to the final question: By what power or remedy does Christian Science heal, or, rather, claim to heal? |
49618 | But shall we abandon to him the territory? |
49618 | But since when are silver and gold and splendid edifices the marks of the Church? |
49618 | But these things must be put in their right place; and which is that? |
49618 | But to whose efforts is this mainly due? |
49618 | But what advantage have they over us? |
49618 | But what means that statue at His side-- whose is it? |
49618 | But what of an explanation of these apparently so contradictory passages? |
49618 | But what say the Scriptures? |
49618 | But when it comes to the questions: Who is God? |
49618 | But where is now his vow, where his altar, where the tenth of all his possessions, as he had promised? |
49618 | But whose shall be the blame, who be the loser? |
49618 | But, asks the voice of our text:"Lovest thou me more than these?" |
49618 | But-- what when the entertainment is over, and your wraps carefully labeled with your name are handed back to you? |
49618 | By attending a few services during which we are present in body, but largely absent in spirit? |
49618 | By lighting up a few candles on our trees? |
49618 | By social science and service? |
49618 | By what are they to know each other and to be known of one another? |
49618 | Can any one take coals of fire into his bosom and not be burned, handle pitch and not be soiled? |
49618 | Can any two opinions be more opposite in appearance? |
49618 | Can faith save him?" |
49618 | Can the Church, through its called ministers, forgive sins? |
49618 | Can we think of these things, and not blush at our own selfishness? |
49618 | Can you bear to be thus slain by the Law? |
49618 | Can you bear to be told that, virtuous as many of you may be, you must seek salvation as sinners? |
49618 | Can you bear to have it forced upon you:"Be not conformed to this world"? |
49618 | Coming down the ladder of life, who were the people that murmured against the owner of the vineyard? |
49618 | Could Peter forgive sins? |
49618 | Could it be He? |
49618 | Could it be true that He whom His nation had crucified was indeed the Messiah, risen and alive? |
49618 | Could the apostles forgive sins? |
49618 | Decorating our windows and walls with some sprigs of garlands and green? |
49618 | Desiring to bear our part in that tuneful service, can our lips be silent on earth? |
49618 | Did God actually create man out of the dust of the ground, or is he the creature of evolution? |
49618 | Did He not perform a miracle, turning water into wine? |
49618 | Did he go to labor elsewhere? |
49618 | Did his health fail? |
49618 | Did not Paul love the world? |
49618 | Did the judgment- hall echo the words of the Philippian jailer,"What shall I do to be saved?" |
49618 | Did virtue conquer? |
49618 | Divorce, what is it practically, in effect, but enabling men and women to live in successive polygamy? |
49618 | Do men act with such infatuation in other and far less important matters? |
49618 | Do not most clergymen of progressive ideas put allegorical interpretations upon its stories, for instance, the fall of man into sin? |
49618 | Do not the hymns drag along at times so dull and spiritless because many never open their lips? |
49618 | Do the fruits of your discipleship abound in greater liberality and activity? |
49618 | Do these things not constitute the light of life of man? |
49618 | Do they think they can, as they claim, improve upon, perfect, that propitiatory sacrifice? |
49618 | Do we not read that God so loved the world that He gave His only- begotten Son? |
49618 | Do you influence it, or are you influenced by it? |
49618 | Do you know of none in your circle of acquaintances swept low by the grim reaper whom we call death? |
49618 | Do you make your choice of friends from these professed worldly men and women? |
49618 | Do you pray thoughtfully, regularly, cheerfully? |
49618 | Do you read God''s Word at home, say grace at table, have family devotion? |
49618 | Do you rejoice at His coming with holy joy? |
49618 | Do you, then, belong among the good? |
49618 | Does Baptism work forgiveness of sin? |
49618 | Does it not lie in the very nature of the Book? |
49618 | Does it pay to be one?_ To begin with, let it be noted that Christianity connects with cost; it_ does_ cost to be a Christian. |
49618 | Does it pay? |
49618 | Does it secularize you and make you unfit for prayer? |
49618 | Does it silence your testimony of Christ, and cool down your interest and enthusiasm for the Church? |
49618 | Does one contract good habits easier than bad, or the reverse? |
49618 | Does this doctrine sound strange and hard to believe to the carnal understanding? |
49618 | Education of mind, culture of intellect? |
49618 | Elijah''s question,"How long halt ye between two opinions?" |
49618 | Else why these perplexing anxieties, this tormenting solicitude? |
49618 | For the clergy, that the ministers might have some texts to preach on? |
49618 | For the determining of the question,"Is Jesus Christ God?" |
49618 | For what is a Christian? |
49618 | For what is a man of prayer? |
49618 | For what is man? |
49618 | For what is the Church? |
49618 | For what? |
49618 | For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? |
49618 | For whom did He cause it to be written? |
49618 | For you to live-- is it Christ? |
49618 | Formulated by the Lord Himself in the Gospel- lesson of this day, it now reads:"What think ye of Christ? |
49618 | From man? |
49618 | Go, and question among Christ''s followers, consult the thousands of books that are flooding the market,--what do they teach? |
49618 | Has death broken the family circle, and is the heart bleeding under bereavement? |
49618 | Has it ever brought you any gain? |
49618 | Has sickness prostrated one? |
49618 | Has that ever been done, you question? |
49618 | Have I not the right to do as I like with my own money?" |
49618 | Have they forgotten the First Commandment which says:"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness to bow thyself down to them"? |
49618 | Have you ever seen anything but a cross raise men? |
49618 | Have you ever, since connected with this church, made one serious attempt to reclaim an erring brother or sister? |
49618 | Have you grown in grace and in the knowledge of your Lord and Savior? |
49618 | Have you paid the first cost? |
49618 | Have you remained unmarried because some people have proved failures in marriage? |
49618 | He asks:"What doth it profit though a man say he hath faith, and hath not works? |
49618 | He had been persecuting the Christians, and now comes a voice from heaven, saying,"Why persecutest thou Me?" |
49618 | He saith to him the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? |
49618 | He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? |
49618 | He should neglect His loving providence, leave and forsake thee this year? |
49618 | He stands before us this very moment again, that omnipotent Son of God, that compassionate Savior, and asks,"Wilt thou be made whole?" |
49618 | He thought within himself:"What shall I do because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?" |
49618 | Helpless, powerless, hopeless creature, how could he cancel the curse that rested upon soul and body and ailing earth? |
49618 | Here is a man who insures his life,--why? |
49618 | Here was the voice of Jehovah Himself,--what could he do but submit? |
49618 | Here, then, are a few criterions, and now, with all sincerity, repeat the question once more,"Lovest thou me?" |
49618 | His great question was,"What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his soul?" |
49618 | How about God''s Christmas gift? |
49618 | How can I overcome my worldliness?_ And may God''s wisdom and blessing attend our meditation! |
49618 | How can a man be a proper child of God who will not so much as give His name as a believer? |
49618 | How can any one who has looked up to that divine Sufferer in faith crucify Him anew by unholy living? |
49618 | How can faith in the Savior then be wrought, maintained, forgiveness of sins secured, hope and salvation? |
49618 | How can they be? |
49618 | How can they prove that the human race and language do not extend back to one common stock? |
49618 | How can they tell that this world of ours is too small to engage Jehovah so deeply for its welfare? |
49618 | How can we expect to conquer that enemy who conquered our first parents in the strength of their original purity? |
49618 | How can you thus be light- bearers, according to God''s direction? |
49618 | How could He secure it? |
49618 | How could I refuse to shun Every sinful pleasure, Since for me God''s only Son Suffered without measure? |
49618 | How could a man tread upon the waters? |
49618 | How could he tell when he was converted? |
49618 | How could the hearers do this if they were prohibited from reading the Bible? |
49618 | How did they get light? |
49618 | How do you regard the things of the world in your heart, and how do you regard the people of the world? |
49618 | How frequently does this lamentation reach a pastor''s ear,"What have I done that God should thus deal with me?" |
49618 | How has it been with the worship, the attendance at services? |
49618 | How imperative, then, that we should analyze what worldliness is and plant an interrogation in our heart: Am I worldly? |
49618 | How is it possible to work for God, or fight for Him, if we are tardy in holding communion with Him? |
49618 | How is that a proof of Christ''s divinity? |
49618 | How is that to be understood? |
49618 | How is the dispute to be settled? |
49618 | How many a one when he asks himself, How was it possible that I should have fallen so deeply and strayed so far from my God? |
49618 | How many ever give thought as to this providential dealing-- have stopped to ask whence it comes, or what profit and lessons may be in it? |
49618 | How many parents cooperate with the Christian instructors? |
49618 | How many times have you gone in these twelve months, these fifty- two Sundays? |
49618 | How often do parents inquire about the Catechism and Bible history lesson? |
49618 | How receive its spiritual and highest blessedness unto ourselves? |
49618 | How shall we face it? |
49618 | How shall we receive Him? |
49618 | How soon this may take place, who can declare? |
49618 | How was it at the time of the Savior? |
49618 | How was it possible for Timothy to tell when he commenced to be a Christian? |
49618 | How were the Israelites affected when God appeared at the Red Sea? |
49618 | How, I ask, can these things be? |
49618 | How, in this busy life of ours, shall we ever be able to give ourselves over to never- ceasing prayer? |
49618 | How, then, does this touchstone apply to you? |
49618 | How, then, to make a few direct words of application, is it with you, my dear hearer? |
49618 | How? |
49618 | How? |
49618 | How? |
49618 | How? |
49618 | I am clear from all sin"? |
49618 | If we are to rise, some to rewards and some to punishments, what-- let each conscience ask-- what shall be my position? |
49618 | If we see a relative or friend deliberately going into danger, taking a course which means ruin to his character, ruin to his soul, what is our duty? |
49618 | If you see young people neglecting religious duties, slinking about after dark in bad company, going with those who bet and gamble,--let them go? |
49618 | In other words, are you a sincere and simple believer in Christ Jesus? |
49618 | In other words, without figure, lay before you the question: Why are you not a church- member? |
49618 | In our own strength? |
49618 | In what respect? |
49618 | Is Baptism administered, the Lord''s Communion received? |
49618 | Is a doctor to be blamed for entering a hospital full of suffering invalids? |
49618 | Is financial depression over all the land, labor unobtainable, wages low, and bread scarce? |
49618 | Is ghastly pestilence mowing down its victims? |
49618 | Is it easier for a sober man to become a drunkard than for a poor, miserable, besotted drunkard to trace his steps back and to become sober? |
49618 | Is it much different-- to take up another point-- with our partaking of the Lord''s Supper? |
49618 | Is it not because you permit every one, without distinction and discrimination, to read the Bible? |
49618 | Is it not fitting that it should be so? |
49618 | Is it not just as incongruous, my dear Christian, for you to perplex yourself with thoughts of anguish that God can not provide for you any more? |
49618 | Is it not rather a blessed demonstration of His fidelity to his profession to go to such ailing people? |
49618 | Is it not simply a matter of convenience, custom, inheritance, yes, sometimes of fashion or of business? |
49618 | Is it reasonable to do this? |
49618 | Is it so now? |
49618 | Is it the Lord''s message, or is it some conceit of his own? |
49618 | Is it the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost, as St. Paul says to Titus, chapter 3? |
49618 | Is it to torment you before the time? |
49618 | Is it, therefore, necessary that every believer should be able to designate the precise time of his conversion? |
49618 | Is my service thy delight? |
49618 | Is not ancient Greece with its music, painting, poetry, and the arts the model of modern states? |
49618 | Is not everything that we find recorded in the Scripture written for our learning, our warning? |
49618 | Is that all that his sickness was intended for, that is included in his recovery? |
49618 | Is that the best that God can give us? |
49618 | Is that the way it is in a well- regulated household? |
49618 | Is the Word of God preached in the"Big Church"? |
49618 | Is there a doubt? |
49618 | Is there a personal devil, or is the devil only to stand for evil in the abstract? |
49618 | Is there an explanation? |
49618 | Is there any sin the grace of Jesus can not pardon, or His blood wash away? |
49618 | Is there any wound this great Physician can not heal? |
49618 | Is there no halting, limping, swaying, and swerving between two opinions? |
49618 | Is there no indecision of conduct there, no limping, no dividing of one''s heart between Baal and Jehovah? |
49618 | Is there no outward ceremonial observance there, no form of godliness without the power thereof? |
49618 | Is there no page of your history that you would obliterate, no leaf that, with God''s permission, you would tear from the book of life''s story? |
49618 | Is there no speech to unsay, no act to undo, no day, Sunday, or evening to spend better? |
49618 | Is this right? |
49618 | Is this the fault of marriage or education? |
49618 | Is your name enrolled among the list of passengers? |
49618 | Is, to conclude, Christ such a light to you? |
49618 | It is Christ''s provision for the salvation of man,--how? |
49618 | It is an old problem and a constantly recurring problem: Why does God deal so, and why does He deal so with those who are His people? |
49618 | It is so with Him who asks"Lovest thou me?" |
49618 | Laughingly he rejoined,"You will never be able to do that, will you?" |
49618 | Listen to the trend of conversation, the topic of discussion in people''s homes-- what is it? |
49618 | Lives there a person so happy as to look back on the past and feel no remorse, or forward to the future and feel no fear? |
49618 | Lord Lyttleton asked,"What is the result of your work?" |
49618 | Lord, what wilt Thou have me do?" |
49618 | Lovest thou my Word, my house, my sacraments? |
49618 | Lutherans? |
49618 | Moreover, what are we coming to if we regard only the rich as under obligation to give? |
49618 | Moreover, what does all this envy of a fellow- man''s better fortune avail? |
49618 | My beloved hearer, what is the measure of your love? |
49618 | My beloved, have you ever reflected what a most excellent appointment that is? |
49618 | My dear hearer, have you entered into that ark? |
49618 | My dear hearer, have you undergone that change of heart, experienced that inner sorrow? |
49618 | My dear hearers, did this love ever in the history of the Church form such a distinguishing badge? |
49618 | Need I inform you what that typified, of whom that lamb was a type and shadow? |
49618 | No one among those with whom you are now living or among those that have gone before-- to whom you would bear yourself otherwise than you have done? |
49618 | Now, beloved, we leave it to the smallest child-- is this making Christ the foundation? |
49618 | Now, how are we to distinguish between the real and pretended messengers of Christ? |
49618 | Now, this is the most important part, how may it be overcome? |
49618 | Now, what shall we make of this wonderful dualism, as we may call it? |
49618 | Now, what shall we think, what say, to sustain ourselves amid experiences like that? |
49618 | Now, whence did this evil come from? |
49618 | Now, where should a physician be but with the sick and the dying? |
49618 | Of the congregation that is looking up into my face this morning, twenty, thirty, fifty years, where shall it be? |
49618 | One has only to look into one''s own heart, and what do you find there, good or evil? |
49618 | Or are there no tests by which to find out? |
49618 | Or are you able to say with the Apostle,"Lord, Thou knowest that I love Thee"? |
49618 | Or do you claim you do not know how? |
49618 | Or do you keep your children from being educated because some educated people are great rascals? |
49618 | Or need we any examples for what harm they have done? |
49618 | Or what to him whose dwelling is in flames, to place a ladder for his rescue, if he will not so much as step upon it? |
49618 | Or, in other words, Is He, Jesus Christ, God? |
49618 | Others come with a commendable degree of regularity, but is there participation in the services and punctuality in arriving? |
49618 | Our question is,_ Why_ does the needle so turn? |
49618 | Over against this, what possessions does our Church glory in? |
49618 | Overcome with remorse, Saul raises his sightless eyeballs on high and asks,"Who art Thou, O Lord?" |
49618 | Peter was grieved because He said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? |
49618 | Prayer: What is there to it? |
49618 | Rather, should I say, who has made that which is great and grand in art, in music, in literature-- the masterpieces, the sublimest productions? |
49618 | Read those letters:"Wanting,"and ask yourself, Does that mean me? |
49618 | Saints and popes? |
49618 | Shall I for that reason keep my hands from filling grapes into my church basket? |
49618 | Shall the Savior say unto thee as Delilah said unto Samson:"How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me?" |
49618 | Shall we not make reprisal upon the enemy, consecrate to the divine Giver His first- fruits? |
49618 | Shall we refuse to take it? |
49618 | Shall we say that we will have none of it? |
49618 | Should we therefore avoid it and dislike it? |
49618 | Should we therefore dislike it, reject it, or should we cleanse the furniture and the floor? |
49618 | Should you, because you are no church officer or esteemed pillar in the sanctuary? |
49618 | Simple, is it not? |
49618 | Simply enough; a man who has been in the very grip of the last enemy and has recovered, can not but reason thus:"What if I had died? |
49618 | So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? |
49618 | Something within us-- something confined to this world? |
49618 | Support of body? |
49618 | Take, drink; this is my blood,"literally or figuratively,"is"meaning"represents"? |
49618 | Taking up some practical lessons on the subject of conversion: What was there in St. Paul''s case that need not be looked for in other cases? |
49618 | That question is,"What''s the use? |
49618 | That where faith in Jesus Christ exists, it must show itself by works._ To begin with,--what is it for a man to be justified? |
49618 | The Mother of Protestantism,--what church is it? |
49618 | The application of all this? |
49618 | The civilization of to- day-- whose product is it but of His religion? |
49618 | The difference? |
49618 | The divine Householder still has occasion to ask,"Is thine eye evil?" |
49618 | The good old Bible Book--"is it really what has been claimed for it?" |
49618 | The malice of the chief priest, the treachery of Judas, the cowardice of Pontius Pilate? |
49618 | The narrative of Balaam, or Jonah, of the men in the fiery oven,--are they to be received as they read? |
49618 | The only determining factor in this, as in all articles of our religious belief, is, What saith the Scripture? |
49618 | The question at issue:"Is the Lord God? |
49618 | The reflections, my beloved, and the constant cry,"What is the Church doing for its members? |
49618 | The supply of man''s foremost and chief requisite-- what is that? |
49618 | The truth had smitten to the heart, and then? |
49618 | The truth of his remarks, however, who would wish to contest? |
49618 | The voice said:"Cry,"and the faithful messenger said:"What shall I cry?" |
49618 | Then saith the woman of Samaria unto Him:"How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria?" |
49618 | Then why envy the man whom God has gifted with talents of mind and tongue? |
49618 | Then, too, when does the Bible say that a man can convert himself at any time that he chooses? |
49618 | There is none of us who fails to take a glance at the daily paper,--why not at the Bible? |
49618 | There was one thing they possessed, which is now so largely lacking,--what is it? |
49618 | These are faults, and when one is overtaken in such a fault, then it becomes my Christian duty and yours to restore such a one-- how? |
49618 | These men gave"much"( much when the amount was considered, much according to their own opinion and their admirers); yet, was it much relatively? |
49618 | They are sometimes disposed to cry out with terror,"What can it mean?" |
49618 | This child resting at His mother''s breast( who can grasp it?) |
49618 | This is our second consideration: Where? |
49618 | This night thy soul shall be required of thee; then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided? |
49618 | This we learn from the next point of consideration: Who shall be the judged? |
49618 | Those four words, and particularly, the one chosen for our immediate devotion,"Tekel,"has it no spiritual warning for us? |
49618 | Through whom has the whole Church been redeemed from the bondage of Antichrist? |
49618 | To David''s prayer,"Lord, remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions,"have you no solemn and hearty Amen? |
49618 | To a life of godliness, to a conduct becoming a Christian, to the duties incumbent upon a member? |
49618 | To amass wealth? |
49618 | To conclude,--there should be any right- thinking, calculating person that, having begun, will fail to complete the building of this tower? |
49618 | To conclude: How far, Christian brethren, have we been faithful to the admonition of the text? |
49618 | To discredit it is to discredit the Bible, to contradict our blessed Lord, to shut one''s eyes willfully against the truth, and what is it? |
49618 | To procure honor? |
49618 | To provide for your family? |
49618 | To repeat and publicly set aright one objection sometimes met with in our circles: What good does Baptism do? |
49618 | To serve the Lord, to speak for Him, is this your delight? |
49618 | To what end had all his efforts in the interest of true religion been if he was to be cut down before they could be carried through? |
49618 | To what extent has it entered, and does it enter, into your religious life? |
49618 | To what? |
49618 | Trembling and astonished he said,"Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?" |
49618 | Was it to conceal his grief at the fatal intelligence he had received from the prophet? |
49618 | Was it, too, dissolved, forfeited, lost? |
49618 | Was there not something very instructive in this appearance at such a time? |
49618 | Was truth victorious? |
49618 | We call this adding of the superstructure, consecration, and what does it involve? |
49618 | We glory that we accept the whole Bible, but who studies the Bible as a whole most earnestly? |
49618 | We had respect to the evil example of parents,--why, correspondingly, should it not make for good? |
49618 | We have in our midst a willing band of Sunday- school teachers; what are they doing but helping to bring the message to the hearts of our youth? |
49618 | We need only settle down to a faithful and impartial scrutiny with ourselves to find out,"Lovest thou me more than these?" |
49618 | Wealth, affluence of estate? |
49618 | Weighed in this balance, what shall we say of our Communion Table? |
49618 | Weighing ourselves, what report have these fifty- two Sundays to give of our congregation as a whole and of you, my dear member, as an individual? |
49618 | Well, then, what right had these self- constituted saints and judges to find fault? |
49618 | Were not the words rather applicable to the early disciples than to us and our days? |
49618 | Were they not common laborers, who had been hired to work for the day, day laborers? |
49618 | What Christian, arising from his bed in the morning, can neglect his prayer? |
49618 | What His purposes toward us men, purposes of damnation for offenses and sins committed against His holiness? |
49618 | What about them? |
49618 | What are health and comfort and wealth, and all earth''s emoluments in comparison with the life hereafter? |
49618 | What are these but the forms of godliness without the power thereof? |
49618 | What are they but vultures that feed on the carrion of sin, making men''s lusts and depraved animal passions a source of ungodly gain? |
49618 | What are those but just so many places and occasions of direct temptation to sin? |
49618 | What are you doing unto the Lord''s brethren and thus unto Him? |
49618 | What attitude, then, becomes those who have upon them declining years? |
49618 | What authority have they for their high- sounding, but hollow assertions? |
49618 | What benefit has it ever brought you? |
49618 | What benefit is there in being a Christian, erecting such a tower? |
49618 | What can afford me peace against a conscience that convicts me of wrong and offense against the holy God? |
49618 | What caused the twenty and three thousand to perish in one day, their white carcasses to strew the wilderness sand? |
49618 | What could he do to show the danger signal? |
49618 | What could it be, that moving form? |
49618 | What did He mean by"life"? |
49618 | What did that prove? |
49618 | What did the Apostle mean by"wood, hay, and stubble"? |
49618 | What does a foundation amount to if the superstructure be not reared? |
49618 | What does it cost to be a Christian?__ II. |
49618 | What does it mean? |
49618 | What does our Lord Himself say was His mission in this world? |
49618 | What does that mean? |
49618 | What does the king do? |
49618 | What does the priest do? |
49618 | What effect has it upon your religious life and professions? |
49618 | What else does? |
49618 | What good does food do you if you do not digest it, take the strength out of it, the necessary qualities? |
49618 | What good does it do? |
49618 | What guarantee has he to count securely on salvation if he refuses to say before men whether he takes Christ as his Redeemer, or not? |
49618 | What guarantee have you that there is a life beyond this? |
49618 | What has it been? |
49618 | What have you that you would n''t have if you had not prayed?" |
49618 | What hinders us from doing likewise, pastors and teachers, educating, tending, and feeding the flock of God? |
49618 | What if the incoming rays do show us the dust that lies upon furniture and floor? |
49618 | What if the spiritual Sun reveals to us our darling sins and ignorances? |
49618 | What if there was a St. Paul and an Augustine and a Luther and a Walther, and if to- day we have men in the ministry who quite overshadow me? |
49618 | What illustrations might I employ? |
49618 | What is His will? |
49618 | What is Lent? |
49618 | What is confirmation? |
49618 | What is it in its significance but the conflict of Mount Carmel over again? |
49618 | What is it that they are holding in their hands, busily twisting the beads while their lips move in devotion? |
49618 | What is it? |
49618 | What is it? |
49618 | What is its object in doing so? |
49618 | What is sin? |
49618 | What is that experience? |
49618 | What is that key? |
49618 | What is that? |
49618 | What is the Lord''s message? |
49618 | What is the best way to prepare for a profitable and advantageous Lent? |
49618 | What is the burden of their care? |
49618 | What is the cause? |
49618 | What is the doctrine of the Trinity? |
49618 | What is the meaning of all this? |
49618 | What is the office or the power of the Keys? |
49618 | What is the remedy, or the remedies, that might be suggested? |
49618 | What is the use of being over- much concerned about the future?" |
49618 | What is this but being ashamed? |
49618 | What is this but being, in reality, ashamed of His words? |
49618 | What is this but staying away because they are ashamed to confess Christ and His words before men? |
49618 | What is worldliness, and how can I tell whether I am worldly or not?__ II. |
49618 | What jurisdiction and power? |
49618 | What kind of report will yours be? |
49618 | What lesson may be gathered from this thrilling story? |
49618 | What message does he deliver? |
49618 | What more satisfactory assurance would we desire for that than what is told us in the text? |
49618 | What parent or mother has not discovered, in correcting a disobedient boy, that he is uniformly punishing the wrong one? |
49618 | What prompted this poor widow to give? |
49618 | What sacrifice art thou bringing? |
49618 | What say you? |
49618 | What secret and invisible hand twists it around and causes it to point always the same way? |
49618 | What self- denial was there connected with it? |
49618 | What sentiment prompted it? |
49618 | What sort of Christian are you? |
49618 | What tactics does this spiritual enemy employ? |
49618 | What was it that caused Sodom and Gomorrah, the cities of the plain, to go down in fire and brimstone? |
49618 | What was it? |
49618 | What was it? |
49618 | What was this but the form of godliness without the power? |
49618 | What would our Lutheran Church be and do with it? |
49618 | What would we do without it? |
49618 | What would we think of a child accepting its holiday gifts without showing appreciation, and speaking not a word of acknowledging thanks? |
49618 | What"these"? |
49618 | What''s the use of prayer? |
49618 | What, then, became of the marriage relation? |
49618 | What, then, is our duty-- to come to the second consideration-- in this respect? |
49618 | What, then, is worldliness? |
49618 | What, then, must their number be? |
49618 | What, then, to come to the next particular, shall we do if we have become guilty in this respect? |
49618 | What, then, was left for Him to do but to return where He had come forth, to ascend on high? |
49618 | What, to begin with, is meant by an"evil eye"? |
49618 | What, to come to the next consideration, is the duty of Christ''s people? |
49618 | What? |
49618 | What? |
49618 | When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? |
49618 | When Jesus, therefore, passed by and saw him in this helpless condition, and knowing his past history, He asked him,"Wilt thou be made whole?" |
49618 | When Saul was smitten down on the way to Damascus, he was asked by a heavenly voice,"Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?" |
49618 | When does His kingdom come? |
49618 | When is God''s name hallowed? |
49618 | When the head of the family commands his children to attend divine service, but himself does not, what, in fact, is he teaching but to stay away? |
49618 | When the minister turns to the people and says,"The Lord be with you,"is he supposed to address only four singers and an organist? |
49618 | When they had finished their meal, Jesus said to Simon Peter,"Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?" |
49618 | When, then,--that is the question to which our text leads up,--when have we the form of godliness together with the power thereof? |
49618 | Whence came all these hundred and one different sects, these endless conflicting opinions, this skepticism among you Protestants? |
49618 | Whence comes the revenue for the support of our Orphanage, Altenheim, Hospital, City Mission? |
49618 | Where are those brilliant statesmen, a Bismarck, a Webster, a Calhoun, and a Clay, upon whose lips admiring senates hung with wonder and delight? |
49618 | Where does the sanctification of that day take place but in His Church, in the observance of its institutions? |
49618 | Where shall I stand? |
49618 | Where shall be_ our_ place, what_ our_ portion at that time, in that day? |
49618 | Where, then, is the exaltation? |
49618 | Where, then, was there room for a sudden and marked change in him? |
49618 | Whether our Lord was a Socialist, or not, that depends upon the definition,"What is a Socialist?" |
49618 | Which are the richest and most prosperous and flourishing nations in our day? |
49618 | Which are we? |
49618 | Which believes in the real presence of Christ''s body and blood in the Sacrament? |
49618 | Which is that seal? |
49618 | Which is that? |
49618 | Which is the correct Bible teaching and practice?_ The Lord grant us understanding and wisdom! |
49618 | Whither? |
49618 | Who are those who have done good? |
49618 | Who can alter them? |
49618 | Who can find out the Almighty to perfection?" |
49618 | Who can question that there is as much to awaken our grateful joy in our Savior''s ascension as in any other event of this marvelous destiny? |
49618 | Who can say what this is? |
49618 | Who dare say that the world in its present condition would be what it still is without this check, this intruder upon the affairs of life? |
49618 | Who does not sleep? |
49618 | Who first gave the Bible to the people? |
49618 | Who has ever brought us information regarding it? |
49618 | Who has footed the bills? |
49618 | Who has taken possession of everything great and grand in our age? |
49618 | Who is the one that is willing to give a helping hand? |
49618 | Who is the sympathetic person? |
49618 | Who is to blame? |
49618 | Who was the first to begin modern mission work? |
49618 | Who will dispute that Rome is rich, possesses much? |
49618 | Who, then, was it? |
49618 | Who, to mention one more particular, gives most liberally for the support of the Church and for charity? |
49618 | Who, we question, was this man Demas? |
49618 | Whoever builds a house without having some unpleasantness, and sometimes great unpleasantness? |
49618 | Whom do they treat of? |
49618 | Whose Son is he?" |
49618 | Whose bosom has failed to beat higher with noble resolution and holy endeavor when kneeling before his God in prayer or at the sacred Communion? |
49618 | Why are we so weak in Christian faith? |
49618 | Why did Ahab shed the blood of Naboth? |
49618 | Why did God address him thus? |
49618 | Why did God ever permit such a dangerous foe to exert his malicious power and tempt mankind? |
49618 | Why did the fabric of their grandeur crumble to pieces? |
49618 | Why did these nations not last? |
49618 | Why do the nations write 1912 in the enumeration of time? |
49618 | Why do what my father fails to do? |
49618 | Why do you not join? |
49618 | Why do you stand aloof from the church? |
49618 | Why else would there be so many apostates, fallings away, in the ranks of confessed believers? |
49618 | Why go farther than our own selves? |
49618 | Why had he been delivered from the Assyrian king if he was thus and now to be removed? |
49618 | Why have sinful habits such power over us? |
49618 | Why not take and drink it? |
49618 | Why not"Peter,"the name He had Himself once bestowed? |
49618 | Why this distinction between the early disciples and our present- day confessors of Christ? |
49618 | Why tinker and twist in order not to make the writings say but the one thing they do say? |
49618 | Why was David persecuted by King Saul? |
49618 | Why was Joseph cast into prison? |
49618 | Why were the martyrs put to death? |
49618 | Why, then, make such conclusions regarding ourselves and others? |
49618 | Why, then, should it not be the rapture of our hearts, the topic of our triumphant song, as it was of his? |
49618 | Why, then, this mass? |
49618 | Why, then, was the great Healer of souls to confine Himself to them? |
49618 | Why? |
49618 | Will you not seize it? |
49618 | Wilt thou receive the absolution of thy God, the forgiveness of thy sins, through the mediation of my suffering and death? |
49618 | With Felix:"Not now,"or,"I will"? |
49618 | Would he remain quiet and let the accident happen? |
49618 | Would such empty professions of charity prove a man to have charity? |
49618 | Would you permit this season to pass without diligently inquiring whether"the Dayspring from on high"has visited your souls? |
49618 | Would you thank any one to offer you the shell without the kernel, or the stalk without the flower, or a purse without the money? |
49618 | Yes, we may press the question still further and ask, Can every Christian forgive sins? |
49618 | Yet, apart from these, what is the religious life of Christians? |
49618 | You are bound already, why speak about binding yourself? |
49618 | You feel the drops of rain falling in gentle showers; what would the soil be without these rivulets and streams that fructify its acres? |
49618 | You go into society, what is the result? |
49618 | _ Our conduct respecting it._ Which is it? |
49618 | _ Which is this gift?_ II. |
49618 | could it be possible that God identifies Himself with these people he, Saul, was seeking to destroy? |
49618 | could you answer as promptly, as heartily as the Apostle did,"Yea, Lord, Thou knowest that I love Thee"? |
49618 | e._, those who have their souls appareled in the garments of Christ''s goodness? |
49618 | how His descent into hell? |
49618 | how His glorious ascension? |
49618 | is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing?" |
49618 | much compared with what others gave whose means were unspeakably less? |
49618 | no possibility of its being said:"I will pass over you"? |
49618 | or, like the publican, did he smite upon his breast, saying,"God be merciful to me a sinner"? |
49618 | sing with their children the religious songs taught? |
49618 | the duty of Christ''s people,--what is it?_ The office of Christ''s ministers,--what is it? |
49618 | the duty of Christ''s people,--what is it?_ The office of Christ''s ministers,--what is it? |
49618 | what ointment of spikenard too costly? |
49618 | who should not prize it, read it, search it? |
49618 | why so wayward and sluggish in our Christian life? |