Showing posts with label rules. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rules. Show all posts
Monday, 15 March 2010
Thursday, 5 March 2009
If we, in our prosperity, neglect religious instruction and authority
Daniel Webster was one of the great orators of the mid-1800s. As a Member of Congress; debater before the Supreme Court; and twice Secretary of State, he loved America. He once said: “If we, in our prosperity, neglect religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us that shall bury all of our glory in profound obscurity.”
We have become a nation of idol worshippers. No, I don’t mean that we carve out little forms, put them on an altar and kneel before them. Though that would be no more offensive to God than the things we do. When we think only of our man-made security; when the things we treasure are material (for “where your treasure is, there your heart will be also”); when we believe that we ourselves are responsible for our successes; when we drag God down and turn Him into mortal man and worship that man as God - then we have turned away from God and are worshipping idols. We have been warned that, as the result of such abandonment, “there shall be great tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world nor ever shall be.” We are asking for that “great tribulation.” Our conduct as a nation, is begging to be destroyed. Our hearts should be repentant and our prayer should be for forgiveness before we have the nerve to ask God for His blessing.
Abraham Lincoln wrote: “We have forgotten the gracious Hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.”
- A Christian in CaliforniaMonday, 23 February 2009
Love is like playing the piano
"Love is like playing the piano.
First you must learn to play by the rules,
then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."
- Unknown
"Those who love in the Lord never see
each other for the last time."
- German Proverb
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness,
a tender look which becomes a habit."
- Peter Ustinov
"Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness,
but rejoices with the truth."
1 Corinthians 13:6
"Love does not act unbecomingly;
it does not seek its own,
is not provoked,
does not take into account a wrong suffered."
1 Corinthians 13:5
"Love bears all things,
believes all things,
hopes all things,
endures all things."
1 Corinthians 13:7
Dear God let love grow in my heart
and let me be able to share my love with others
in tenderness and patience.
First you must learn to play by the rules,
then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."
- Unknown
"Those who love in the Lord never see
each other for the last time."
- German Proverb
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness,
a tender look which becomes a habit."
- Peter Ustinov
"Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness,
but rejoices with the truth."
1 Corinthians 13:6
"Love does not act unbecomingly;
it does not seek its own,
is not provoked,
does not take into account a wrong suffered."
1 Corinthians 13:5
"Love bears all things,
believes all things,
hopes all things,
endures all things."
1 Corinthians 13:7
Dear God let love grow in my heart
and let me be able to share my love with others
in tenderness and patience.
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