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			 Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well 
instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and read more 
	 Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well 
instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and 
obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief. 
		
 
	
			 The task of the people of God is to proclaim the kingdom of God, which is a universal kingdom extending read more 
	 The task of the people of God is to proclaim the kingdom of God, which is a universal kingdom extending to every aspect of human life. In a secular society, religion cannot remain a department of life. It must be the expression of a faith that extends over the whole of life, or it will be nothing. 
		
 
	
			 Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content read more 
	 Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills -- neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action. 
		
 
	
			 If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as read more 
	 If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time, and fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means of great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head, that softness and idleness were to be avoided, that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul. 
		
 
	
			 Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  I desire to exercise my faith in the most difficult read more 
	 Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  I desire to exercise my faith in the most difficult point, for to credit ordinary and visible objects is not faith, but persuasion. Some believe the better for seeing Christ's Sepulchre, and when they have seen the Red Sea, doubt not the miracle. Now contrarily I bless myself, and am thankful that I lived not in the days of miracles, that I never saw Christ nor His Disciples; I would not have been one of those Israelites that passed the Red Sea, nor one of Christ's patients, on whom He wrought His wonders; then had my faith been thrust upon me, nor should I enjoy that greater blessing pronounced to all that believe and saw not. 
		
 
	
			 We love orthodoxy. It is good. It is the best. It is the clean, clear cut teaching of God's Word, read more 
	 We love orthodoxy. It is good. It is the best. It is the clean, clear cut teaching of God's Word, the trophies won by truth in its conflict with error, the levees which faith has raised against the desolating floods of honest or reckless misbelief or unbelief; but orthodoxy, clear and hard as crystal, suspicious and militant, may be but the letter well shaped, well named, and well learned, the letter which kills. Nothing is so dead as a dead orthodoxy -- too dead to speculate, too dead to think, to study, or to pray. 
		
 
	
			 Joy was characteristic of the Christian community so long as it was growing, expanding, and creating healthfully. The time came read more 
	 Joy was characteristic of the Christian community so long as it was growing, expanding, and creating healthfully. The time came when the Church had ceased to grow, except externally in wealth, power, and prestige; and these are mere outward adornments, or hampering burdens, very likely. They do not imply growth or creativeness. The time came when dogmatism, tyranny, and ignorance strangled the free intellectual activity of the Church, and worldliness destroyed its moral fruitfulness. Then joy spread her wings and flew away. The Christian graces care nothing for names and labels; where the Spirit of the Lord is, there they abide, but not in great Churches that have forgotten Him. How little of joy there is in the character of the religious bigot or fanatic, or in the prudent ecclesiastical statesman! A show of cheerfulness they may cultivate, as they often do; but it is like the crackling of thorns under a pot: we cannot mistake it for the joy of the Lord which is the strength of the true Christian. 
		
 
	
			 Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, read more 
	 Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are; If, never leaving Thee, we have no need Our wandering spirits back again to lead Into Thy presence, but continued there Like angels standing on the highest stair Of the Sapphire Throne: this were to pray indeed! 
		
 
	
			 Pardon comes not to the soul alone; or rather, Christ comes not to the soul with pardon only! It is read more 
	 Pardon comes not to the soul alone; or rather, Christ comes not to the soul with pardon only! It is that which He opens the door and enters by, but He comes with a Spirit of life and power.