Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of his fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil. It is the Heavenly Father's will thus to exercise them so as to put his own children to a definite test. Beginning with Christ, his first-born, he follows this plan with all his children.
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Related I often think about Christ having all power, but He abdicated the power to live a sacrificial life f... MONICA JOHNSON O Heavenly Children, God has blessed you all with many treasures that only the most purehearted alre... SUZY KASSEM I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Easter Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 God, who is Almighty, Alpha and Omega, Fi... JOHN DONNE The time for a person to instantly interact with his own soul, inspect his own mind and introspect w... ANUJ SOMANY And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were th... BIBLE Foreseeing the needs of His children, a loving Heavenly Father placed directions and rescuers along ... HENRY B. EYRING At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to ... ORSON PRATT The world follows its own course. Each possesses his own thoughts, each treads his own path. So it i... HARUKI MURAKAMI The Will of God is the same for all. He has no favorites within His household. All He has ever done ... EDDIE CAPPARUCCI The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as l... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Bob is a true role model. He lives his life in such a way that we should all teach our children to b... BECKY PAPE My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for ser... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA The Father's plan is designed to provide direction for His children, to help them become happy, ... DAVID A. BEDNAR And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of t... BIBLE The soul that is yielded to Christ becomes His own fortress, which He holds in a revolted world, and... ELLEN G. WHITE He has one code of morals for himself, and quite another for his children. He requires his children ... MARK TWAIN Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze.... LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such ... RONAN FARROW The Covenant of Grace is that eternal and intimate bond of friendship that God has established with ... JOSEPH C. MORECRAFT III Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564 Therefore Adam could have stood if he w... JOHN CALVIN Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 I can see no intellectual objection to ... DONALD O. SOPER The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man oug... G. K. CHESTERTON Hence a commander who advances without any thought of winning personal fame and withdraws in spite o... SUN TZU Now let's move on to the subject of how a real man treats his wife. A real man doesn't slap even a t... S.M. STIRLING Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him al... BIBLE Man does not live for himself alone in this mortal body, in order to work on its account, but also f... MARTIN LUTHER There are many things which a person can do alone, but being a Christian is not one of them. As the ... WILLIAM T. HAM Maundy Thursday There are many things which a person can do alone, but being a Christian is not o... WILLIAM T. HAM We are spirit children of a loving Heavenly Father who placed us in mortality to see if we would cho... HENRY B. EYRING Yes, our Father has a plan, Ciminae,” he said. “But he leaves it up to his children to accept hi... SHAUN MESSICK Jesus never concealed the fact that his religion included a demand as well as an offer. Indeed, the ... JOHN R.W. STOTT The everlasting God has in His wisdom foreseen from eternity the cross that He now presents to you a... ST. FRANCIS DE SALES We all colour devotion according to our own likings and dispositions. One man sets great value on fa... FRANCIS DE SALES Jonathan is a very bright kid, and he is very conscious about his academics as well as his relations... BOB CIMMINO But that's not so with John. He was very much at the height of his popularity and his creativity. It... BUDDY HOLLY It's hard when you lose one of your own. Right now we want to focus on his family and his children a... CARMAN APPLE I imagine that Elian and his family must be very happy that they have now returned to daily Cuban fa... AYMEE HERNANDEZ Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist He is the true Gospel-bearer that carries it in his hands,... DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 3. the ministry of listening ... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist Paul, using the examples of differing opinions about food a... KOKICHI KUROSAKI Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 2. the ministry of meekness ... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER As long as he retains externally the habits of a Christian he can still be made to think of himself ... C.S. LEWIS A man is born; his first years go by in obscurity amid the pleasures or hardships of childhood. He g... ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE When a poor soul is somewhat awakened by the terrors of the Lord, then the poor creature, being born... GEORGE WHITEFIELD Just as God's love to us believers, his children, is unalterably the same, whatever may be the m... GEORGE MULLER Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l... KUO HIS Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l... KUO HIS He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any... JOHN STUART MILL Signý knew she would die a thousand deaths upon seeing another woman with him, bearing his children... FARRAH NASEEM As sure as God puts His children in the furnace he will be in the furnace with them CHARLES H. SPURGEON And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his fat... BIBLE John is super committed to his plan. Everybody has a plan. But the key to John is that he sticks to ... DAN HENNING Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac... KAREN A. ANDERSON Secondly, the proper counsel and intention of God in sending his Son into the world to die was, that... JOHN OWEN Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan... MARGARET MITCHELL He wanted to wake up every morning to her. Go to sleep with his body wrapped tightly around hers. He... CHRISTINE FEEHAN What does a man gain in marriage?
nothing
his peace he loses it to his wife
his temper he has to let... APURVA GAGLANI I am now convinced that children should not be subjected to the frightfulness of the Christian relig... RUTH HURMENCE GREEN Pentecost Feast of Barnabas the Apostle Let songs of praises fill the sky! Christ, our ascended Lo... THOMAS COTTERILL Those who love fairy-tales do not like it when people speak of the innate tendencies in mankind towa... SIGMUND FREUD Peter didn't answer. He pulled his legs up to his chest, wrapped his arms around them, and put his c... BROM The Dog and the Shadow
A DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, sa... AESOP Continuing a short series on Romans 8: [Of vv. 29,30] The call intended is the effectual cal... CHARLES HODGE A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children wi... HORACE MANN The decker these ***holes brought with them is top tier, but I'm going to stomp his jelly beans so h... AMIE KAUFMAN Christ's Church is, above all, the spiritual temple where every Christian knows he has his place... POPE JOHN XXIII The Faithful God called all believers into a sweet fellowship with his Son, Christ Jesus. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse o... ROBERT CAPA As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made... J.M. SYNGE Farmer Earl is new to the fair. He is a ventriloquist who teaches lessons about agriculture. His sho... JENNIFER JACKOVITZ Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the stri... EDMUND BURKE Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the stri... EDMUND BURKE For his very first slalom, he improved his time by 13 seconds, and that's pretty good. It was a diff... JANIS SERRANO I just adore him, ... He follows his heart. He must be pretty smart in business. He loves his life a... EMMYLOU HARRIS The architect
Built his great heart into these sculptured stones,
And with him toiled his chil... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved fo... BRUCE BARTON Our Scripture awakened that most glorious of things, the spontaneous love our Lord so desires His ch... AMY RACHEL PETERSON The more I understand the doctrine of John Calvin the more I realize what a merciful and graceful Go... NORM TOMLINSON Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the
womb is his reward.
As arrows are ... BIBLE As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them. CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON So that here we have, really, the compound, the overall philosophy of Lincoln: in all those things w... DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330 The cross is laid on every Christian... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The president has formulated a lot of his own views,' said an aide, 'and has a very firm idea of wha... DICK CHENEY He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any... JOHN STUART MILL Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 Both from the confession of the evil... ST. ATHANASIUS You are all soldiers of Christ," he said, "and now is an opportunity given to you to show that you a... G.A. HENTY This is a unilateral declaration on the part of the French president, and it's something he ought to... GERT WEISSKIRCHEN ...the issue becomes not whether a person has experience with a stigma of his own, because he has, b... ERVING GOFFMAN May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life—if inde... DALLAS WILLARD Whoever is truly humbled — will not be easily angry, nor harsh or critical of others. He will be c... JOHN NEWTON As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds.
And his gods they are shaped in his image... DONALD MARQUIS (D.R.P. MARQUIS) ("DON MARQUIS") God has given His children a love that is so great in Christ that the world can't touch it with ... MONICA JOHNSON The Lord gave the wonderful promise of the free use of His Name with the Father in conjunction with ... ANDREW MURRAY Many a man spanks his children for the things his own father should have spanked out of him. DON MARQUIS The Lord has made all things for Himself (Prov.xvi.4): apart from Himself there existed nothing to m... FRANK SHEED The image of the "presence," whatever it was, waiting there for him to go--this image had not yet be... HENRY JAMES Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that u... WENDELL BERRY We know so well what the unique quality was that held this great and beautiful pride and exquisite h... LESSLIE NEWBIGIN
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CALVIN JOHNSON I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know. CALVIN JOHNSON I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits. CALVIN JOHNSON I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod. CALVIN JOHNSON If you feel like you've got a concussion, if you don't know, if you take the test whatever, ... CALVIN JOHNSON Retired life's good, man. CALVIN JOHNSON For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that fee... CALVIN JOHNSON Anything negative that comes at me throughout the week, you just take it and put it in that box over... CALVIN JOHNSON The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game. CALVIN JOHNSON Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still. CALVIN COOLIDGE Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House. 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