- Numbers Have Many Charms Charles Babbage
Numbers have many charms, unseen by vulgar eyes, and only discovered to the unwearied and respectful sons of Art. Sweet joy may arise from such contemplations.
- Steadfast Love of the Lord King David
But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him,and his righteousness to children’s children.
- Be Self Controlled Paul the Apostle
Urge the younger men to be self-controlled.
- Danny Hyde on the Lord's Day Daniel Hyde
All of this teaches us that instead of seeing the Lord’s Day as a rule that stifles our ‘weekend,’ we need to view it as a gift from God that actually structures our …
- If God Were Indeed a Human Projection Herman Bavinck
If ‘God’ were indeed a human projection or creation, a human effort to explain reality now known to us via science, or a means of providing security, comfort, and …
- Love the Father has Given Us John the Evangelist
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.
- Employment Outside the Home Wendell Berry
I do not belive that ’employment outside the home’ is as valuable or important or satisfying as employment at home, for either men or women.
- Wendell Berry on the Influence of TV Wendell Berry
By television and other public means, we are encouraged to believe that we are far advanced beyond sitting till bedtime with the neighbors on a Kentucky ridgetop.
- Christ Not Raised? Apostle Paul
And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.
- Jane Austen on Boys and Girls Jane Austen
It would be , could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire; how little it is biased by the texture of …
- Flavel on Providence John Flavel
Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.
- I Will Sing to the Lord King David
I will sing to the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me.
- Defilement of Processed Food Robert Wolke
It seems that some people take the word refined as an indication that we humans have somehow defied the law of Nature by having the audacity to remove some undesirable …
- Chopin on Difficulties Slurred Over Frederic Chopin
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
- Mortimer Adler on When to Agree or Disagree Mortimer J. Adler
Do not say you agree, disagree, or suspend judgment, until you can say, ‘I understand.’
- At the Lamb's high feast we sing Unknown
Where the paschal blood is poured, death’s dark angel sheathes his sword; Israel’s host triumphant go though the wave that drowns the foe. Praise we Christ, whose blood …
- Bunyan on Conversion John Bunyan
Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think it; otherwise man’s heart would never have been compared to fallow ground and God’s Word to a …
- MacArthur on the Miracle of Redemption John MacArthur
The great miracle of redemption is not that we accept Christ, but that he accepts us.
- Fesko on Baptism and the Red Sea John Fesko
According to Paul, baptism foreshadowed in Israel’s Red Sea crossing) is not a miscellaneous cleansing rite or a general sign of initiation, but is that which brings …
- Owen on Loving Goodness Richard Sibbes
If I do truly love goodness in rich apparal, why do I not also love it in rags?
- Einstein on the Expected Chaos Albert Einstein
Well, a priori, one should expect a chaotic world which cannot be grasped by mind in any way. There in lies the weakness of the positivists and professional atheists.
- Calvin on Doctrine and Life John Calvin
Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue, but of the life; is not apprehended by the intellect and memory merely, like other branches of learning; but it is received only …
- Rend Your Heart Joel
So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing …
- Calvin on Astronomy John Calvin
For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.
- Institutions Controlling our Chidren's Lives John Taylor Gatto
Two institutions currently control our children’s lives: television and schooling, in that order.
- Clement on Beards Clement of Alexandria
For God wished women to be smooth and to rejoice in their locks alone growing spontaneously, as a horse in his mane. But He adorned man like the lions, with a beard, and …
- No Ordinary People C. S. Lewis
There are no ordinary people. You have never met a mere mortal.
- Things of This World Richard Sibbes
Thorns will not prick of themselves, but when they are grasped in a man’s hand they prick deep. So this world and the things thereof are all good, and were all made of …
- Owen on Fearing Temptation John Owen
Let no man, then, pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation to it.
- Feynman on Knowledge Richard Feynman
You can know the name of the bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird. You’ll only know …
- We Are Not Innocent Victims of Sin John Piper
We are not innocent victims of sin. We are co-conspirators with sin against God.
- Comfort on a Dying Bed Thomas Brooks
Certainly happiness lies not in those things that cannot comfort a man upon a dying bed. Is it honors, riches, or friends that can comfort thee when thou comest to die? …
- Directories of Worship Terry Johnson
The current situtation, where even churches which identify themselves as heirs of the Reformation, such as the PCA, and which, in the name of freedom, fail to provide …
- As Though God Could Be Indebted Charles Spurgeon
We show our scorn of God’s sufficiency, by secret thoughts of meriting from him by any religious act, as though God could be indebted to us, and obliged by us. As though …
- The Trouble with Eschatology Geerhardus Johannes Vos
The trouble with eschatology in the experience of the church has frequently been that it was either dead or overmuch pathologically alive.
- Nature and the Soul Charles Spurgeon
He who forgets the humming of the bees among the heather, the cooing of the wood-pigeons in the forest, the song of birds in the woods, the rippling of rills among the …
- Striving After the Wind The Teacher
And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my …
- Test of a Gentleman William Lyon Phelps
This is the first test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.
- The flowers beneath the mower’s hand Isaac Watts
Like flowery fields the nations stand Pleased with the morning light; The flowers beneath the mower’s hand Lie withering ere ‘tis night.
- The Wonderful Exchange John Calvin
This is the wonderful exchange he has made with us: that, becoming Son of man with us, he has made us sons of God with him.
- Love Builds Up Augustine of Hippo
Never stop reflecting on that maxim of the apostle, ‘Knowledge puffs up, love builds up.’
- America's Answer to Intractable Problems Neil Postman
America’s answer to any intractable problem is schools.
- Extreme Mental Modesty G.K. Chesterton
We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.
- The History of Man Charles Spurgeon
The grass lives, grows, flowers, falls beneath the scythe, dries up, and is removed from the field: read this sentence over again, and you will find it the history of …
- God's Bidding Augustine of Hippo
God bids us to do what we cannot, that we may know what we ought to seek from Him.