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April 1, 1991
MEMORANDUM
TO:
DAVID DEMAREST
FROM:
CAROLYN CAWLEY
RE:
HOUSTON CHURCH SERVICE
I. SAINT MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
-- activities per the Gulf War
Like cities all across America, Houston was
decked out with yellow ribbons and flags. Businesses
in the area did everything they could to make life
easier for families. Church attendance was up as
people sought solace and focused on what is really
important to them.
St. Martin's began to pray for peace in the Gulf
region on Sunday, August 5, just days after Iraqi
tanks rolled into Kuwait and the President ordered
US troops to deploy. Special prayers were included every
Sunday from then on, as well as in mid-week services.
The Episcopal Church maintains special prayerbooks
and crosses for servicemembers. St. Martin's sent
them early on (August) to members of the
congregation/family members of members, etc.
At Christmastime, little kids in the Sunday School
handmade Christmas cards -- 1/2 were sent to
troops in the Gulf; 1/2 were sent to the USSR
to help them celebrate their first Christmas in
religious freedom.
When the air war started, daily prayers were held
at noon in the chapel.
The church bulletin published the names of those
serving in the military, in the Gulf or elsewhere.
At the daily noon prayer services, each was called
out by name.
Luckily, St. Martin's lost no members as
war casualties.
**
St. Martin's received a letter from Air Force
Captain John F. Hunnell (jet pilot). Capt. Hunnell
wrote to Rev. Joseph Di Paola, the Associate Rector who
was responsible for sending the prayer books and
crosses to troops.
It's an excellent letter -- I'm sure the President
would be moved by it.
He describes in vivid detail his second combat mission
and the daily 3 prayers that kept him going. A "Must
Read"!!!!!!!!!!
I highlighted the attached copy for you -- but I will
get another for you to give to the President.
NOTE: Captain Hunnell has returned from the Gulf and
is back at his base in Florida (he retains membership
at St. Martin's though). His parents, John and Lee
Hunnell attend St. Martin's and will be present on
Sunday.
The Rector tells me that they are planning to contact
all parents of servicemembers and invite them to
the service (reserved seating area for them).
Also, as far as he knows, there will not be any
servicemembers in the audience who have returned
from the Gulf.
II. QUOTES -- Old Testament/New Testament/Secular
Worship
God is to be worshipped by faith, hope, and love.
-- St. Augustine: On Faith, Hope, and Charity
God
Without God nothing shall be possible.
-- New Testament, Luke I:37
If God be for us, who can be against us?
-- New Testament, Romans 8:31
God is our refuge and strength, a very present
help in trouble.
-- Old Testament, Psalm 46
He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my
defense; I shall not be greatly moved.
-- Psalm 62
When God measures a man, He puts the tape around
the heart (instead of the head.)
-- Anonymous
Might be a good point in
reference to church activities
Faith
prayers on the war.
The just shall live by faith.
-- New Testament, Romans I:17
We walk by faith, not by sight.
-- New Testament, II Corinthians 5:7
Without faith, we are as stained glass windows
in the dark.
-- Anonymous
It is not faith and works.
It is not faith or works.
It is faith that works.
-- Anonymous
Churches
Bless all the churches, and blessed be God, who, in
this great trial, giveth us the churches.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Re: church attendance up,
daily prayer services, etc.
A church is God between four walls.
-- Victor Hugo
Prayer
I have been driven many times to my knees by
the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere
else to go.
OR
-- Abraham Lincoln
The wings of prayer carry high and far.
-- Anonymous
Re: capt. Hunnells letter
Prayer serves as an edge and border to preserve the
web of life from unraveling.
-- Anonymous
The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man
availeth much.
-- New Testament, James 5:16
Prayer is not only the "practice of the presence of
God", it is the realization of his presence.
-- Joseph Fort Newton
Prayer opens our eyes that we may see ourselves and
others as God sees us.
-- Clara Palmer in Weekly Unity
"Prayer, like radium," scientist Alexis Carrel once
said, "is a luminous and self-generating form of
energy."
-- Norman Vincent Peale
Prayer is the burden of a sigh,
the falling of a tear,
The upward glancing of an eye
When none but God is near.
-- John Montgomery: What Is Prayer?
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not
the definition of helplessness, but the feeling
of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of
soul.
-- Hannah More
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer,
and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
-- Philip Melanchthon
Wisdom
Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get
wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
-- Old Testament, Proverbs 4:7
Patriotism
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.
-- Old Testament, Psalms 33:12
Be just and fear not;
Let all ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,
thy God's and truth's.
-- Shakespeare, Henry VIII
After what I owe to God, nothing should be more
dear or more sacred to me than the love and respect
I owe my country.
-- Jacques Auguste de Thou
Whatever makes men good Christians makes them
good citizens.
-- Daniel Webster
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but
in striving that our country shall be righteous
as well as strong.
-- James Bryce
Sincere Christianity and true patriotism have much
in common. Our finest patriotic hymn, "My Country
'Tis of Thee, " was written in 1832 by a Baptist
clergyman, Samuel Francis Smith. And the Pledge
of Allegiance was written in 1892 by another Baptist
minister, Francis Bellamy.
-- Ernest K. Emurian
War
To every thing there is a season, and time to every
purpose under the heaven;
A time to be born, and a tie to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is
planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to breakdown,
and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a
time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep,
and a time to cast away;
A time to rand, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence,
and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and time
of peace
"
-- Old Testament, Ecclesiastes 3
There was never a good war or a bad peace
-- Benjamin Franklin
The last great hope for the survival of mankind
rests not in implements of war but in a strong and
abiding faith in God.
-- H.S. Jackson: Indiana Freemason
Peace
Blessed are the peacemakers.
-- New Testament, Matthew 5:9
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill
toward men.
-- New Testament, Luke 2:14
Peace be to this house
-- New Testament, Luke 10:5
To be spiritually minded is life and peace.
-- New Testament, Romans 8:6
The peace of God, which passeth all understanding.
-- New Testament, Philippians 4:7
The Lord will bless his people with peace.
-- Old Testament, Psalms 29:11
Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of
good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace;
and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
-- New Testament, II Corinthians 13:11
The Lord will give strength unto his people;
the Lord will bless his people with peace. "
-- Old Testament, Psalm 18
Where there is peace, God is.
-- George Herbert
The people wait at the haven's gate to greet the
men who win!
Thank God for peace! Thank God for peace,
when the great gray ships come in!
-- Guy Wetmore Carryl, When the Great Gray Ships
Come In
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
-- Cicero
Thanks
In every thing give thanks.
-- New Testament, I Thessalonians 5:18
It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord.
-- Old Testament, Psalms 92:1
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his
courts with praise.
-- Old Testament, Psalms 100:4
O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good;
for his mercy endureth for ever.
-- Old Testament, Psalms 107:1
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to
anger, and plenteous in mercy.
-- Old Testament, Psalm 103
Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion.
Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception.
Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.
Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and
limps along the spiritual road.
-- John Henry Jowett
O Lord, that lends me life, lend me a heart
replete with thankfulness.
-- Shakespeare, Henry VI
The private and personal blessings we enjoy,
the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty, and
integrity, deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.
-- Jeremy Taylor
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Hosea
Leviticus
Nehemiah
Joel
Numbers
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Amos
Deuteronomy
Job
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Song of Solomon
Habakkuk
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Isaiah
Zephaniah
1 Kings
Jeremiah
Haggai
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Lamentations
Zechariah
1 Chronicles
Ezekiel
Malachi
THE NEW TESTAMENT (NT)
Matthew
Ephesians
Hebrews
Mark
Philippians
James
Luke
Colossians
1 Peter
John
1 Thessalonians
2 Peter
Acts
2
Thessalonians
1 John
Romans
1 Timothy
2 John
1 Corinthians
2 Timothy
3 John
2 Corinthians
Titus
Jude
Galatians
Philemon
Revelation
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following deuterocanonical books: (following Nehemiah) Tobit, Judith, Esther with the
additions, 1-2 Maccabees; (following Song of Songs) Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus; (following
Lamentations) Baruch including the Letter of Jeremiah; (following Ezekiel) Daniel with
the additions.
In addition to these books, the Bible of the Greek Orthodox community includes 1 Esdras,
the Prayer of Manasseh, Psalm 151, 3 Maccabees, with 4 Maccabees as an appendix.
Protestants regard the deuterocanonical books as not part of the OT canon and either
do not include them in their Bibles, or print them in a separate section ("Apocrypha")
following the OT or at the end of the Bible.
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PSALM 18
my God:
PSALM 16
7 Show thy marvelous loving-kindness,
the sleep
Jer. 51:39
David seeks preservation and blessing
O thou that savest by thy right hand
them which put their trust in thee from
prevailed
A Mich'-tam of David
those that rise up against them.
31:21
ouble me
P
RESERVE* me, O God: for in thee do
8 Keep me as the apple of the eye; hide
25:2; 38:16
I put my trust.
17:8
me under the shadow of thy wings,
ercy; my
2 0 my soul, thou hast said unto the
9 from the wicked that oppress me, from
on. 52:8
LORD, Thou art my LORD: "my goodness
my deadly enemies, who 'compass me
cause he
extendeth not to thee;
Job 35:7
about.
27:12
surround
96:1
3R but to the saints that are in the earth,
10 They are inclosed in their own fat:
and to the excellent, in whom is all my
with their mouth they speak proudly.
delight.
101:6
119:63
11 They have now compassed us in our
4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that
steps: they have set their eyes "bowing
hasten after another god: their drink
down to the earth;
88:17 37:14
David
offerings of blood will I not offer, "nor take
12 like as a*lion that is greedy of his
t, There
up their names into my lips.
Josh. 23:7
prey, and as it were a young lion lurking
ey have
5 The LORD is "the portion of mine inher-
in secret places.
7:2
one that
itance and of my cup: thou maintainest
13 Arise, O LORD, 'disappoint him, cast
m. 3:10-12
my lot.
73:26; Lam. 3:24
him down: deliver my soul from the
heaven
6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleas-
wicked, which is thy sword:
anticipate
if there
ant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
14 from men which are thy hand, O
seek
7 I will bless the LORD, who hath given
LORD, from men of the world, which have
Chr. 22:19
me counsel; my 'reins also instruct me
their portion in this life, and whose belly
are all
in the night seasons.
guidance mind
thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they
one that
8"I have set the LORD always before me:
are full of children, and leave the rest of
corrupt
because he is at my right hand,R I shall not
their substance to their babes. Luke 16:25
uity no
be moved.
Acts 2:25-28
112:6
15 As for me, I will behold thy face in
as they
9 Therefore my heart* is glad, and my
righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when
ORD.
glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall "rest
I awake, with thy likeness.
1 John 3:2
for God
in hope.
13:5 4:8
us.
10 "For thou wilt not leave my soul in
of the
hell;" neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy
ge.
One to see corruption. 49:15
Acts 13:35
PSALM 18
el were
11 Thou wilt show me the "path of life:
bring-
in thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy
Thanksgiving for deliverance
:, Jacob
right hand there are pleasures for ever-
To the chief musician. A psalm of David,
ad.
more.
Mat. 7:14
36:7,
8
the servant of the LORD, who spake
unto the LORD the words of this song
in the day that the LORD delivered him
PSALM 17
from the hand of all his enemies, and
from the hand of Saul: And he said,
A prayer for protection against oppressors
I
WILL love thee, O LORD, my strength.
A prayer of David
2 The Lord is my rock, and my for-
taber-
H
EAR the right, O LORD, attend unto
tress, and my deliverer; my God, my
y holy
my cry; give ear unto my prayer,
strength, "in whom I will trust; my buck-
sojourn
that goeth not out of 'feigned lips. deceitful
ler, and the horn of my salvation, and my
I work-
2 Let my 'sentence come forth from thy
high tower.
Heb. 2:13
shield
strength
e truth
presence; let thine eyes behold the things
3 I will call upon the LORD, "who is
that are equal.
103:6
fate
98:9
ech. 8:16
worthy to be praised: SO shall I be saved
th his
3 Thou hast 'proved mine heart; thou
from mine enemies.
76:4; 96:4
ghbor,
'hast visited me in the night; thou hast
4 "The sorrows of death 'compassed me,
ist his
tried me, and shalt find 'nothing: I am
and the floods of ungodly men made me
eceiveth
purposed that my mouth shall not trans-
afraid.
116:3
engulfed
gress.
tested
examined
no
evil
5 The sorrows of hell compassed me
3 con-
at fear
4 Concerning the works of men,R by the
about: the snares of death prevented me.
word of thy lips I have kept me from the
6R In my distress I called upon the LORD,
S own
sth. 3:2
paths of the destroyer.
119:9
violent one
and cried unto my God: he heard my voice
ney to
5 "Hold up my goings in thy paths,
out of his temple, and my cry came before
st the
that my footsteps slip not.
119:133
him, even into his ears.
50:15 3:4
things
6 "I have called upon thee, for thou wilt
7 Then the earth shook and trembled;
hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto
the foundations also of the hills moved
t. 16:19
me, and hear my speech.
116:2
and were shaken, because he was wroth.
PSALM 18
526
8 There went up a smoke out of his nos-
30 As for God, "his way is perfect: the
PSALM 19
trils," and fire out of his mouth devoured:
word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler
The creation and covenants
coals were kindled by it.
50:3
to all those that trust in him.
19:7
9 He bowed the heavens also, and came
To the chief musician. A psal:
down: and darkness was under his feet.
31 "For who is God save the LORD? Or
who is a rock save our God?
10 And he rode upon a*cherub, and did
1 Sam. 2:2
T
HE "heavens "declare the g
and the firmament showet
fly: yea, "he did fly upon the wings of the
32 It is God that girdeth me with
iwork.
Ron
wind,
80:1 104:3
strength, and maketh my way perfect.
2 Day unto day uttereth {
11 He made darkness his secret place;
33 He maketh my feet like hinds'
night unto night showeth kno
his pavilion round about him were dark
feet, and setteth me upon my high places.
3 There is no speech nor
waters and thick clouds of the skies.
34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that
where their voice is not hearc
12 At the brightness that was before
a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
4 "Their line is gone out
him his thick clouds passed, hail stones
and coals of fire.
35 Thou hast also given me the shield of
the earth, and their words to
104:2 Hab. 3:5
thy salvation: and 'thy right hand hath
the world. In them hath he'set
13 The LORD also thundered in the heav-
ens, and the Highest gave "his voice; hail
holden me up, and "thy gentleness hath
for the sun,
Rom
stones and coals of fire.
made me great.
33:20
63:8
5 which is as a bridegroom
138:6
29:3
36 Thou hast 'enlarged my steps under
of his chamber, and rejoiceth
14 "Yea, he sent out his arrows, and
me, that my feet did not slip.
man to run a race.
scattered them; and he shot out light-
supported
144:6
37RI have pursued mine enemies, and
going forth is from th
nings, and discomfited them.
heaven, and his circuit unto
15 Then the channels of waters were
overtaken them: neither did I turn again
it: and there is nothing hid fr
seen, and the foundations of the world
till they were consumed.
44:5
thereof.
were discovered at thy rebuke, 0 LORD,
38 I have wounded them that they were
7 The law of the LORD is p
at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
not able to rise: they are fallen under my
feet.
verting the soul: the testin
16 "He sent from above, he took me, he
36:12 47:3
LORD is sure, making wise the
drew me out of many waters.
144:7
39 For thou hast girded me with strength
8 The statutes of the LORD a
17 He delivered me from my strong
unto the battle: thou hast subdued under
joicing the heart: the comm
enemy, and from them which hated me:
me those that rose up against me. v.
32
the LORD is pure, enlightening
for they were too strong for me.
59:1
40 Thou hast also given me the necks of
9 The fear of the LORD is clea
18 They prevented me in the day of my
mine enemies; that I might destroy them
for ever: the judgments of tl
calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
that hate me.
94:23
true and righteous altogether
19 "He brought me forth also into Ta
41 They cried, but there was none to save
10 More to be desired are the
large place; he delivered me, because he
them: "even unto the LORD, but he an-
yea, than much fine gold: S
delighted in me.
31:8 broad
swered them not.
Job 27:9
than honey and the honeycoi
20 "The LORD rewarded me according
42 Then did I beat them small as the
11 Moreover by them is
to my righteousness; according to the
dust before the wind: I did "cast them out
warned: and in keeping of th
cleanness of my hands hath he recom-
as the dirt in the streets.
Zech. 10:5
great"reward.
17:
pensed me.
Job 33:26
Job 22:30
12 Who can understand
21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD,
43 Thou hast delivered me from the
Cleanse thou me from secret
and have not* wickedly departed from my
strivings of the people; and "thou hast
13 Keep back thy servant al
God.
made me the head of the heathen: Ra peo-
37:34
2 Chr. 34:33
sumptuous sins; let them n
22 For all his' judgments were before
ple whom I have not known shall serve
minion over me: then shall I
me.
2 Sam. 8 Is. 52:15
me, and I did not put away his statutes
and I shall be innocent fron
from me.
44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall
119:30
transgression.
Num.
ordinances
23 was also upright before him, and
obey me: the strangers shall 'submit them-
14 Let the words of my moi
I kept myself from mine iniquity.
selves unto me.
66:3 yield
19:12
meditation of my heart, be a
24 "Therefore hath the LORD recom-
45 The strangers shall fade away, and
thy sight, o LORD, my stren
pensed me according to my righteous-
be afraid out of their 'close places. hiding
redeemer.
ness, according to the cleanness of my
46 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my
hands in his eyesight.
1 Sam. 26:23
Rock; and let the God of my salvation be
25 "With the merciful thou wilt show
exalted.
Job 19:25
51:14
PSALM 20
thyself merciful; with an upright man thou
47 It is God that "avengeth me, and
"Some trust in chariot.
wilt show thyself upright;
1 Ki. 8:32
subdueth the people under me.
94:1
To the chief musician. A psa.
26 with the pure thou wilt show thy-
48 He delivereth me from mine enemies:
self pure; and with the froward thou
yea, "thou liftest me up above those that
T
HE LORD "hear thee" in
wilt show thyself froward. perverse opposed
rise up against me: thou hast delivered me
trouble; the name of the (
27 For thou wilt save the afflicted peo-
from the violent man.
3:7
59:1
defend thee;
ple; but wilt bring down high looks.
49 Therefore will I 'give thanks unto
2 send thee help from the
28 For thou wilt light my candle: the
thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and
and strengthen thee out of 2
LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
sing praises unto thy name.
confess
3 remember all thy offerin
29 For by thee I have "run through a
50 Great deliverance giveth he to his
cept thy burnt sacrifice. Selal
troop; and by my God have I°leaped over
king; and showeth mercy to his anointed,
4 Grant thee according to
a wall.
118:10-12 40:2
to David, and to his seed for evermore.
heart, and fulfill all thy cour
PSALM 29
530
PSALM 27
2 Hear the voice of
PSA
"The Lord is my light and my salvation"
when I cry unto thee,
A psalm of David
hands toward thy oracle.
A thanksgiving for
3 Draw me not away with the wicked, 5:7
A psalm and house song
T
HE LORD is my light and my salvation;
whom shall I fear? The LORD is the
and with the workers of iniquity, "which
speak peace to their neighbors, but 'mis-
WILL 'extol the
strength of my life; of whom shall I be
chief is in their hearts.
12:2
I
"lifted me up,
afraid?
Is. 60:20; Mic. 7:8
4 Give them according to their deeds,
foes to rejoice over
2 When the wicked, even mine enemies
and according to the wickedness of their
2 0 LORD my God
and my foes, came upon me to "eat up my
endeavors: give them after the work of
thou hast healed m
flesh, they stumbled and fell.
14:4
their hands; render to them their desert
3 o LORD, thou
3 "Though a host should encamp against
5 Because "they 'regard not the works
soul from the gra
me, my heart shall not fear: though war
of the LORD, nor the operation of his
alive, that I should
should rise against me,¹ in this will I⁸be
hands, he shall destroy them, and not
4 Sing unto the I
confident.
3:6 in spite of this
Job 4:6
build them up.
Is. 5:12 pay no attention
and give thanks a
4 "One thing have I desired of the LORD,
6 Blessed be the LORD, because he hath
his holiness.
that will I seek after; that I may "dwell in
heard the voice of my supplications.
5 For his anger e
the house of the LORD all the days of my
7 The LORD is my strength and my
in his favor is life
life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and
shield; my heart "trusted in him, and I
for a night, but joy
to inquire in his temple.
26:8
23:6
am helped: therefore my heart greatly re-
6 And in my pr
5 For "in the time of trouble he shall
joiceth; and with my song will I praise
never be moved.
hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of
him.
18:2
13:5; 112:7
7 LORD, by thy fat
his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall
8 The Lord is their strength, and he is
mountain to stan
"set me up upon a rock.
50:15 40:2
the saving strength of his anointed.
hide thy face, and
6 And now shall "mine head be "lifted
9 Save thy people, and bless "thine in-
8 I cried to thee,
up above mine enemies round about me:
heritance: feed them also, "and lift them
LORD I made suppl
therefore will I offer in his tabernacle
up for ever.
33:12; Deut. 9:29
Is. 40:11
9 What profit is
sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will
rgo down to the pit
sing praises unto the LORD.
3:3 107:22
thee? Shall it decl
7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my
PSALM 29
10 Hear, O LORD
voice:¹ have mercy also upon me, and an-
The voice of the Lord in the storm
me: LORD, be thou
swer me.
4:3
show favor
13:3
11 Thou hast tur
A psalm of David
8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face;
ing into dancing:
my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD,
G
IVE unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give
sackcloth, and gir
will I*seek.
Amos 5:6
34:4
unto the LORD glory and strength.
12 to the end th
9 "Hide not thy face far from me; put
2 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto
praise to thee, an
not thy servant away in anger: thou hast
his name; worship the LORD in the beauty
my God, I will giv
been my help; leave me not, neither for-
of holiness.
glorious sanctuary
2
Chr.
20:21
ever.
sake me, O God of my salvation.
69:17
3 The voice of the LORD is upon the wa-
10 When my father and my mother
ters: "the God of glory thundereth: the
forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
LORD is upon many waters.
Job 37:4,5
11 "Teach" me thy way, O LORD, and lead
4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the
me in a plain path, because of mine ene-
voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
mies.
25:4; 86:11
point out
5 The voice of the LORD 'breaketh the
12 Deliver me not over unto the will of
cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh "the cedars
PS
mine enemies: "for false witnesses are
of Leb'-a-non.
is in command Is. 2:13
"In thee, 0 Lo
risen up against me, and such as breathe
6 "He maketh them also to 'skip like a
To the chief musi
out cruelty.
Deut. 19:18; Mat. 26:60
calf; Leb'-a-non and Sir'-i-on like a young
114:4
obey promptly
13 I had fainted, unless I had believed
unicorn. 7 The voice of the LORD 'divideth controls the
I
N "thee, O LORI
me never be Rg
to see the goodness of the LORD "in the land
of the living.
flames of fire.
thy righteousness
Job 28:13; Ezek. 26:20
14 "Wait on the LORD: be of good courage,
8 The voice of the LORD shaketh the wil-
2 "Bow down tl
and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait,
derness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness
me speedily: be th
Num. 13:26
I say, on the LORD.
trust, Prov. 20:22
of "Kadesh.
a house of defense
9 The voice of the Lord "maketh the
3 "For thou art n
PSALM 28
hinds to calve, and discovereth the for-
therefore "for thy
ests: and in his temple doth every one
and guide me.
A prayer for God's help
speak of his glory.
Job 39:1 deer
4 'Pull me out O:
A psalm of David
10 The LORD sitteth upon the flood;
laid privily for
NTO thee will I cry, 0 LORD my rock;
yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.
strength.
U
"be not silent to me: "lest, if thou be
his people; the LORD will bless Is. 40:29 his people 37:11
11 "The LORD will give strength unto
5 "Into thine ha
silent to me, I become like them that go
truth. thou hast redeem
down into the pit.
83:1
88:4
with peace.
PSALM 24
528
PSALM 22
22 "I will declare thy name unto "my
2 For he hath f
brethren: in the midst of the congregation
and established i
A cry of anguish and song of praise
will I praise thee.
Heb. 2:12
Rom.
8:29
3 "Who shall a
To the chief musician upon Ai'-je-leth
23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him;
LORD? Or who
Sha'-har. A psalm of David
all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him;
and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
place? 4 He that hat
M
Y "God, my God, why hast thou for-
24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred
pure heart; who ]
saken me? Why art thou so far from
the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath
unto vanity, nor
helping me, and from the words of my
he hid his face from him; but "when he
5 He shall rece
'roaring?
Mat. 27:46
lamentations
cried unto him, he heard.
31:22;
Heb.
5:7
LORD, and righte
2 0 my God, I*cry in the daytime, but
25 My praise shall be of thee in the great
his salvation.
thou hearest not; and in the night season,
congregation: RI will pay my vows before
6 This is the
and am not silent.
42:3; 88:1
them that fear him.
35:18
Eccl.
5:4
"seek him, that
3 But thou art holy, O thou that in-
26 The meek shall eat and be' satisfied:
Selah.
habitest the praises of Israel.
99:9
they shall praise the LORD that seek him:
7 Lift up you
4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they
your heart shall live for ever.
107:9
be ye lifted up, y
trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
27 All the ends of the world shall re-
the King of glor
5 They cried unto thee, and were de-
member and turn unto the LORD: and all
8 Who is thi
livered: "they trusted in thee, and were
the kindreds of the nations shall worship
LORD strong and
not confounded.
Is. 49:23
shamed
before thee.
82:8 86:9
in battle.
6 But I am "a worm, and no man; a
28 For the kingdom is the LORD'S: and
9 Lift up your
reproach of men, and despised of the peo-
he is the governor among the nations.
lift them up, ye
ple.
Job 25:6
Is.
53:3
29 All they 'that be fat upon earth shall
King of glory sh
7 "All they that see me laugh me to
eat and worship: all they that go down
10 Who is this
scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake
to the dust shall bow before him: and none
of hosts, he is th
the head, saying,
Mat. 27:39
ridicule
can keep him alive his own soul. prosperous
8 He' trusted on the LORD that he would
30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be
deliver him: "let him deliver him, seeing
accounted to the LORD for a generation.
he delighted in him. relied on
Mat. 27:43
31 They shall come, and shall declare
9 "But thou art he that took me out of
his righteousness unto a people that shall
the womb: thou didst make me hope when
]
be born, that he hath done this.
*
I was upon my mother's breasts.
71:6
A prayer for
10 I was cast upon thee from the womb:
PSALM 23
thou art my God from my mother's belly.
Ap
"The Lord is my shepherd"
11 Be not far from me; for trouble is
NTO thee,
near; for there is none to help. 2 Ki. 14:26
A psalm of David
soul.
12 Many bulls have compassed me:
strong bulls of Bashan have beset me
THE LORD is "my shepherd; "I shall not
2 0 my God,
Is. 40:11
Phil.
4:19
be
in
need
be ashamed,
round.
Deut. 32:14; Amos. 4:1
encircled
me
2 "He maketh me to lie down in green
triumph over m
13 They gaped upon me with their
pastures: he leadeth me beside the still
3 Yea, let no
mouths, a ravening anda roaring lion
waters.
Ezek. 34:14; Rev. 7:17
ashamed: let
14 I am poured out like water, and all
3 He 'restoreth my soul: "he leadeth me
transgress with
my bones are out of joint: my heart
in the paths of righteousness for his
4 "Show me t]
is like wax; it is melted in the midst of
name's sake.
brings back 5:8
thy paths.
my bowels.
4 Yea, though I walk through the valley
5R Lead me in
15 My strength is dried up like a pots-
of "the shadow of death, I will fear no evil:
for thou art th
herd; and "my tongue cleaveth to my jaws;
for thou art with me; thy rod and thy
thee do I"wait a
and thou hast brought me into the dust
staff they comfort me.
3:6
Is.
43:2
6 Remember,
of death.
John 19:28
5 Thou preparest a table before me in
cies and thy lo
16 For dogs have compassed me: the
the presence of mine enemies: thou "anoint-
have been ever
assembly of the wicked have inclosed me:
est my head with oil; my cup runneth
7 Remember
they pierced my hands and my feet.
78:19
92:10
over.
nor my transg
17 I may tell all my bones: they look
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall fol-
mercy rememb
and stare upon me.
count
Mat. 27:39,
low me all the days of my life: and I will
ness' sake, OL
18 "They part my garments among them,
dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
8 Good and
and cast lots upon my vesture. Luke 23:34
fore will he tea
19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD:
PSALM 24
9 The meek
O my strength, haste thee to help me.
and the meek
The king of glory
20 Deliver my soul from the sword; "my
10 All the pa
darling from the power of the dog. 35:17
A psalm of David
and truth unto
21 "Save me from the lion's mouth: "for
T
HE earth is the LORD'S, and the fullness
and his testim
thou hast heard me from the horns of the
thereof; the "world, and they 89:11 that
11 "For thy n
"unicorns.
2 Tim. 4:17
Is. 34:7
wild oxen
dwell therein.
1 Cor. 10:26
Ps.
mine iniquity;
PSALM 37
534
dishonor that magnify themselves against
2 For they shall soon be cut down like
24 "Though he fall,
me.
defeat
Job
19:5
the grass, and wither as the green herb.
terly cast down: for t
27 "Let them shout for joy, and be glad,
"Trust in the LORD, and do good; so
him with his hand.
that favor my righteous cause: yea, let
shalt thou "dwell in the land, and verily
25 I have been youn
them say continually, Let the LORD be
thou shalt be fed.
62:8 Deut. 30:20
yet have"I not seen the
magnified, which hath pleasure in the
4 "Delight thyself also in the LORD; and
nor his seed begging b
prosperity of his servant.
Rom. 12:15
he shall give thee the desires of thine
26 "He is ever mero
28 And my "tongue shall speak of thy
heart.
Job 22:26; Is. 58:14
and his 'seed is blesse
righteousness and of thy praise all the
5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust
27 "Depart from evil
day long.
51:14; 71:15, 24
also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
dwell for evermore.
PSALM 36
6 "And he shall bring forth thy righteous-
28 For the LORD lov
ness as the light, and thy judgment as the
forsaketh not his sa
The steadfast love of God
noonday.
Job 11:17; Is. 58:8, 10
served for ever: "but th
To the chief musician. A psalm of David
7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently
shall be cut off.
the servant of the LORD
for him: fret not thyself because of him
29 "The righteous sh
who prospereth in his way, because of the
and dwell therein for
T
HE transgression of the wicked saith
man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
30 "The mouth of th
within my heart, that "there is no
8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath:
wisdom, and his ton
fear of God before his eyes.
Rom. 3:18
2 For he" flattereth himself in his own
fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
ment.
eyes, until his iniquity be found to be
9 For evildoers shall be 'cut off: but those
31 "The law of his
Deut. 29:19
that wait upon the LORD, they shall "in-
none of his steps shal
hateful.
herit the earth.
32 The wicked "wat
destroyed
Is.
3 "The words of his mouth are iniquity
57:13
and seeketh to slay h
and deceit: "he hath left off to be wise,
10 For yet a little while, and the wicked
33 The LORD "will
and to do good.
10:7
94:8; Jer. 4:22
shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently
hand, nor condemr
4 "He deviseth mischief upon his bed;
consider his place, and it shall not be.
judged.
he setteth himself in a way that is not
11 "But the meek shall inherit the earth;
34 "Wait on the Lo
good; he abhorreth not evil.
Prov. 4:16
and shall delight themselves in the*abun-
and he shall exalt the
5 Thy*mercy, 0 LORD, is in the heavens;
dance of peace.
Mat. 5:5 .72:7
when the wicked ar
and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the
12 The wicked plotteth against the just,
see it.
clouds.
57:10; 103:11; 108:4
and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
35"I have seen the V
6 Thy "righteousness is like the great
13 The LORD shall laugh at him: for he
and spreading him
mountains; "thy judgments are a great
seeth that "his day is coming.
Job 18:20
tree.
J(
deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and
14 The wicked have drawn out the
36 Yet he passed
beast.
71:19
77:19; Job 11:8
sword, and have bent their bow, to cast
not: yea, I sought h
7 How 'excellent is thy loving-kindness,
down the poor and needy, and to slay
be found.
0 God! Therefore the children of men put
such as be of upright conversation.
37 Mark the perfe
their trust under the shadow of thy
15 Their sword shall enter into their
the*upright: for the
wings.
precious flee for refuge to
own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
peace.
v. 18
8 "They shall be abundantly satisfied
16 A little that a righteous man hath
38 "But the trans
with the fatness of thy house; and thou
is better than the riches of many wicked.
stroyed together: tl
shalt make them drink of "the river of thy
17 For the arms of the wicked shall be
shall be cut off.
pleasures.
63:5; Is. 25:6
Job 20:17
broken: but the LORD upholdeth the right-
39 But the"salvati
9 For with thee is the fountain of life:
eous.
10:15; Job 38:15; Ezek. 30:21
of the LORD: he is
in thy light shall we see light.
Jer.
2:13
18 The LORD "knoweth the days of the
time of trouble.
10 O continue thy loving-kindness unto
upright: and their inheritance shall be
40 And "the LORD
them that know thee; and thy righteous-
1:6; 31:7
deliver them: he sh
for ever.
ness to the upright in heart.
Jer. 22:16
19 They shall not be ashamed in the
the wicked, and sav
11 Let not the foot of pride come against
evil time: and in the days of famine they
trust in him.
me, and let not the hand of the wicked
shall be satisfied.
33:19
PSA
remove me.
drive me away
12 There are the workers of iniquity
20 But the wicked shall perish, and the
enemies of the LORD shall be "as the fat of
The prayer of
fallen: they are cast down," and shall not
lambs: they shall consume; into smoke
A psalm of D:
be able to rise.
140:10; Is. 26:14
shall they consume away.
Lev. 3:11
reme
21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth
O
LORD, "rebuke
PSALM 37
not again: but "the righteous showeth
neither chaster
mercy, and giveth.
112:5,
9
is
gracious
pleasure.
The true state of the wicked
22 "For such as be blessed of him shall
2 For thine arrov
A psalm of David
inherit the earth; and they that be*cursed 5:3
thy hand presseth
F
RET "not thyself because of evildoers,
of him shall be cut off. Prov. 3:33
Job
3 There is no sou
neither be thou envious against the
23 The steps of a good man are ordered
cause of thine ange
workers of iniquity.
by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
rest in my bones b
73:3; Prov. 3:31
PSALM 46
538
10 Thou makest us to "turn back from
4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously,
5 God isʳin the midst of
the enemy: and they which hate us spoil
because of truth and meekness and right-
not be moved: God shall
for themselves.
Lev. 26:17; Josh. 7:8
eousness; and thy right hand shall
that right early.
De
11 "Thou hast given us like sheep ap-
teach thee 'terrible things.
6 "The heathen raged,
wonderful
pointed for meat; and hast "scattered us
5 Thine "arrows are sharp* in the heart
were moved: he uttered his
among the heathen. v. 22 food
"melted.
2:1,
2
18:13;
J
Deut. 4:27
of the King's enemies; whereby the people
12 "Thou sellest thy people for nought,
fall under thee.
7 The LORD of hosts*is W
18:14;
120:4
2
6 "Thy throne, O God, is for ever 18:14 and
Sam.
and dost not increase thy wealth by their
of Jacob is our refuge. Sel
price.
Judg. 2:14; 3:8; Is. 52:3, 4
ever: the scepter of thy kingdom is a right"
8 Come, behold the worl
13 "Thou makest us a reproach to our
scepter.
what "desolations he hatl
93:2; Heb. 1:8, 9 true 98:9
neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them
7 Thou"lovest righteousness, and hatest
earth.
66:5 gaze on
that are round about us.
wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath
9 "He maketh wars to
Deut. 28:37
14 "Thou makest us a byword among the
"anointed thee with the oil of gladness
end of the earth; he bre
heathen, a shaking of the head among
above thy fellows.
11:7; 33:5
and cutteth the spear in su
the people.
Job 17:6; Jer. 24:9
8 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and
eth the chariot in the fire.
aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces,
10 Be still, and know th
15 My confusion is continually before
me, and "the shame of my face hath cov-
whereby they have made thee glad.
will be exalted among the
69:7; 2 Chr. 32:21
9 Kings' daughters were among thy
be exalted in the earth.
ered me,
16 for the voice of him that reproacheth
honorable women: upon thy right hand
11 "The LORD of hosts is 1
and blasphemeth; "by reason of the enemy
did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
of Jacob is our refuge. Sel
and avenger.
8:2
10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider,
17 "All this is come upon us; yet have
and 'incline thine ear; forget also thine
PSALM 47
we not forgotten thee, neither have we
own people, and thy father's house; listen
dealt falsely in thy covenant.
Dan.
9:13
11 so shall the King greatly desire thy
"God is the king of all
18 Our heart is not turned back, neither
beauty: for he is thy*Lord; and worship
To the chief musician. A
have our steps declined from thy way;
thou him.
Gen. 18:12; 1 Pet. 3:6
Eph.
5:33
sons of Kor'.
19 though thou hast sore broken us in
12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be
"the place of dragons, and covered us "with
there with a gift; even "the rich among
O
"CLAP your hands
shout unto God W:
the shadow of death.
Job 30:29
Job 3:5
the people shall entreat thy favor. Is. 49:23
20 If we have forgotten the name of our
*triumph.
98
13 The King's daughter is all glorious
2 For the LORD most }
God, or "stretched" out our hands to
within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
he is a great King over al
strange god;
Deut. 6:14
worshiped
81:9
14 She shall be brought unto the King
3 "He shall subdue the
21 "shall not God search this out? For he
raiment of needlework: the virgins her
and the nations under ou
knoweth the secrets of the heart. 139:1,2
companions that follow her shall be
4 He shall choose our
22 "Yea, for thy sake are we killed all
brought unto thee.
S. of S. 1:4
Judg 5:30
the day long; we are counted as*sheep for
15 With "gladness and rejoicing shall
us, the "excellency of Jacol
Selah.
1 Pet. 1:4
Am
the slaughter.
Rom.
8:36
Is.
53:7;
Jer.
12:3
they be brought: they shall enter into the
23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord?
King's palace.
Acts 2:46
5 God is gone up with
with the sound of a trum
Arise, cast us not off for ever.
78:65
16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy
24 "Wherefore 'hidest thou thy face,
children, "whom thou mayest make
Sing praises to God,
and "forgettest our affliction and our op-
praises unto our King, si
princes in all the earth. 1 Pet. 2:9; Rev. 1:6
7 For God is the King
pression?
Job 13:24
do you not look
42:9
17 I will make thy name to be remem-
bered in all generations: therefore shall
sing ye praises with un
25 For our soul is bowed down to the
the people praise thee for ever and ever. *
8 God reigneth over t
dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
sitteth upon the throne
26 Arise "for our help, and redeem us for
9 The princes of the pe
thy mercies' sake.
a
help
for
us
6:4;
25:22
together, even the peop
PSALM 45
PSALM 46
Abraham: for the shi
belong unto God: he is g
A psalm for the king's marriage
"God is our refuge and strength"
To the chief musician upon Sho-shann'-
To the chief musician for the sons of
im, for the sons of Kor'-ah. A Mas'-chil,
Kor'-ah. A song upon Al'-a-moth
PSALM
A song of loves
M
G
OD is our refuge and strength, "a very
"God is our
Y heart is 'inditing a good matter: I
present help in trouble.
Deut. 4:7
A song and psalm for th
speak of the things which I have
2 Therefore will not we fear, though the
made touching the King: my tongue is the
earth be removed, and though the moun-
G
REAT is the LORD,
pen of a ready writer.
overflowing with
tains be carried into the midst of the sea;
praised in the city
2 Thou art fairer than the children of
3 "though the waters thereof roar and
mountain of his holines
men: grace is poured into thy lips: there-
be troubled, though the mountains shake
2 Beautiful for situal
fore God hath blessed thee for ever. 21:6
with the swelling thereof. Selah. 93:3, 4
whole earth, is mount
3 'Gird thy "sword upon thy thigh, RO
4 There is a river, the streams whereof
of the north, the city of
shall make glad the city of God, the holy
3 Godᵀis known in
most Mighty, with thy glory and thy
majesty.
prepare for war
Is. 34:6
Is. 9:6
place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
refuge.
has ma
539
PSALM 49
nd of in THE
God is in the midst of her; she shall
4 For, lo, "the kings were assembled,
e THE
5 be moved: God shall help her, and
they passed by together.
2 Sam. 10:6-19
hee SS; and shall
that not right early.
Deut. 23:14; Is. 12:6
5 They saw it, and so they marveled;
Terrible things.
6 "The heathen raged, the kingdoms
they were troubled, and hasted away.
ne "arrows are sharp in the wonderful heart
were moved: he 2:1, uttered 2 18:13; his Joel voice, 2:11 the Amos earth 9:5
6 Fear *took hold upon them there, and
der King's enemies; whereby the
pain, as of a woman in travail.
Ex. 15:15
thee. 18:14; 120:4 2 Sam. people
melted. 7 The LORD of hosts"is with us; the God
7 Thou breakest the"ships of Tar'-shish
y throne, O God, is for ever 18:14
of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. Num. 14:9
with an east wind.
1 Ki. 10:22
e scepter of thy kingdom is a 'right' and
8 Come, behold the works of the LORD,
8 As we have heard, so have we seen in
93:2; Heb. 1:8, 9 true
what "desolations he hath made in the
the"city of the LORD of hosts, in the city
ness: ed therefore God, thy God, hath
u"lovest righteousness, and hatest 98:9
66:5
Is. 61:4; Jer. 51:43
of our God: God will"establish it for ever.
earth. 9 "He maketh wars to cease unto the
gaze on
Selah.
46:4; 87:3; Mat. 5:35
87:5;
Is.
2:2
thee with the oil of gladness
end of the earth; he breaketh the bow,
9 We have thought of thy loving-kind-
hy fellows.
and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burn-
ness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
thy garments smell of myrrh, and
33:5 2:2
eth the chariot in the fire.
Ezek. 39:9
10 According to thy name, 0 God, so is
nd cassia, out of the ivory palaces,
10 Be still, and know that I am God: "I
thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy
y they have made thee glad.
will be exalted among the heathen, I will
right hand is full of righteousness.
ble gs' daughters were among thy
be exalted in the earth.
100:3
Is.
2:11,
17
11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daugh-
women: upon thy right hand
11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God
ters of Judah be glad, because of thy
d the queen in gold of Ophir.
of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Deut.
23:14
judgments.
97:8
cities
arken, 0 daughter, and consider,
12 Walk about Zion, and go round about
cline thine ear; forget also thine
her: ⁺tell the towers thereof.
number
ple, and thy father's house; listen
PSALM 47
13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, con-
shall the King greatly desire thy
"God is the king of all the earth"
sider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the
n. for he is hy"Lord; and worship
generation following.
Set your heart to
To the chief musician. A psalm for the
Gen. 18:12; 1 Pet. 3:6 Eph. 5:33
14 For this God is our God for ever and
1 the daughter of Tyre shall be
sons of Kor'-ah
ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
ith a gift; even "the rich among
le shall entreat thy favor. Is. 49:23
O
"CLAP your hands, all ye people;
"shout unto God with the voice of
PSALM 49
King's daughter is all glorious
*triumph.
98:8
Is. 12:6
106:47
her clothing is of wrought gold.
2 For the LORD most high is terrible;
Trust in God, not wealth
shall be brought unto the King
he is a great King over all the earth.
To the chief musician. A psalm for the
nt of needlework: the virgins her
3 "He shall subdue the people under us,
sons of Kor'-ah
ons that follow her shall be
and the nations under our feet.
18:47
unto thee.
S. of S. 1:4
4 He shall choose our "inheritance for
H all ye people; give ear, all
h "gladness and rejoicing Judg shall 5:30
us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved.
ye inhabitants of the world:
78:1
Selah.
Amos 6:8; 8:7; Nah. 2:2
2 both and high, rich and' poor, to-
rought: alace. they shall enter into the
1 Pet. 1:4
gether.
62:9 helpless alike
Acts 2:46
5 God is gone up with a shout, the LORD
ead of thy fathers shall be thy
with the sound of a trumpet.
68:18,2 25
3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and
"whom thou mayest make
6 "Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing
the meditation of my heart shall be of un-
1 all the earth. 1 Pet. 2:9; Rev. 1:6
derstanding.
37:30
119:130
praises unto our King, sing praises. 68:4
Il make thy name to be remem-
7 For God is the King of all the earth:
4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I
all generations: therefore shall
sing ye praises with understanding.
will open my dark saying upon the harp.
e praise thee for ever and ever. *
8 God reigneth over the heathen: God
5 Wherefore should I"fear in the days of
sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.
evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall
9 The princes of the people are gathered
compass me about?
23:4; 27:1
surround
together, even the people of the God of
6 They that "trust in their wealth, and
PSALM 46
Abraham: for the shields of the earth
boast themselves in the multitude of their
Job 31:24; Prov. 11:28; Mark 10:24
d is our refuge and strength"
belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.
riches;
7⁺ none of them can by any means redeem
hief musician for the sons of
his brother, nor give to God a ransom
h. A song "upon Al'-a-moth
PSALM 48
for him:
no man
Mat.
25:8,
9
Job
36:18,
19
our refuge and strength, "a very
"God is our God"
8 (for the redemption of their soul is
ent help in trouble.
Deut. 4:7
precious, and it ceaseth for ever:) costly
ore will not we fear, though the
A song and psalm for the sons of Kor'-ah
9 that he should still live for ever, and
emoved, and though the moun-
G
REAT is the LORD, and greatly to be
"not" see corruption.
89:48
be destroyed
rried into the midst of the sea;
praised in the city of our God, in the
10 For he seeth that wise men die, like-
h the waters thereof roar and
mountain of his holiness.
46:4 2:6
wise the fool and the brutish person
d, though the mountains shake
2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the
perish, and leave their wealth to others.
welling thereof. Selah. 93:3, 4
whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides
11 Their inward thought is, that their
a river, the streams whereof
of the north, the city of the great King.
houses shall continue for ever, and their
glad the city of God, the holy
R
3 God'is known in her palaces for a
dwelling places to all generations; they
tabernacles of the Most High.
refuge.
has made Himself known.46:7
call their lands after their own names.
PSALM 62
544
know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the
PSALM 61
10 Trust not
ends of the earth.
Selah.
"Lead me to the rock that is higher than I"
come not vair
14 And "at evening let them return;
To the chief musician upon Neg'-i-nah.
crease, set not
and let them make a noise like a dog, and
go round about the city.
A psalm of David
11 God hath"
v.6
heard this; th
15 Let them wander up and down for
H EAR* my cry, O God; attend unto my
God.
J
meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
prayer.
64:1 86:6
12 Also unto
16 But I will' of thy power; yea, I
2 From the end of the earth will I cry
mercy: for "tho
will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morn-
unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed.
according to hi
ing: for thou hast been my defense and
refuge in the day of my trouble.
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I;
21:13
17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I
3 for thou hast been a shelter for me,
and a strong tower from the enemy.
sing: for God is my "defense, and the God
4 I will abide in thy 'tabernacle for ever:
of my mercy.
9; 18:1 10
RI will trust in the covert of thy wings.
God sati
Selah.
23:6, 27:4; 1 Chr. 29:3
17:8,
91:4
5 For thou, O God, hast heard my vows:
A psalm of D:
thou hast given me the heritage of those
Wilc
that thy name.
86:11. revere
6 Thou wilt' prolong the king's life: and
O
GOD, tho
seek the
PSALM 60
his years as many generations.
21:4
thee, my flesh
7 He shallabide*before God for ever: 0
and thirsty lar
A prayer for help against the foe
prepare mercy "and truth, which may
2 to see "thy
To the chief musician upon Shu'-shan-
preserve him.
remain
41:12
40:11
save
I have seen the
e'-duth. A Mich'-tam of David, to teach;
8 So will I"sing praise unto thy name
3 Because th
when he strove with Ar'-am-na-ha-
for ever, that I may "daily perform my
than life, my li
ra'-im and with Ar'-am-zo'-bah, when
vows.
30:4; 33:2; 71:22; Judg. 5:3 65:1
4 Thus will
Jo'-ab returned, and smote of E'-dom in
will lift up my
the valley of salt twelve thousand
5 My soul S
marrow and fa
O
GOD, "thou hast cast us off, thou hast
praise thee wit
scattered us, thou hast been dis-
6 when I rel
PSALM 62
pleased; O turn thyself to us again. 44:9
and meditate C
God only is my rock and my salvation
7 Because th
2 Thou hast made the earth to tremble;
fore Tin the*sl
thou hast broken it: "heal the breaches
To the chief musician, to Je-du'-thun.
thereof; for it shaketh.
18:7
2 Chr. 7:14
A psalm of David
rejoice.
3 "Thou hast showed thy people hard
8 My soul
T
RULY my soul waiteth upon God:
thy right hand
things: "thou hast made us to drink the
from him cometh my salvation.
9 But those
wine of astonishment.
71:20
Jer. 25:15
2 He only is my*rock and my salvation;
stroy it, shall
4 "Thou hast given a banner to them
he is my defense; I shall not be greatly
the earth.
that fear thee, that it may be displayed
moved.
89:26
protection
v.
6;
59:17
10 They sha
because of the truth. Selah. 20:5; Is. 5:26
3 How long will ye imagine mischief
shall be'a por
5 That thy beloved may be delivered;
against a man? Ye shall be slain all of
11 But the
save with thy right hand, and hear me.
you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as
"every one th
6 .God hath spoken in his holiness; I will
a tottering fence. Is. 30:13
are
soon
to
collapse
glory: but the
rejoice, I will divide "Shechem, and mete
4 They only consult to cast him down
lies shall be st
out the valley of Succoth. Gen. 12:6; 33:18
from his excellency: "they delight in lies:
7 Gil'-e-ad is mine, and Ma-nas'-seh is
they' bless with their mouth, but they
mine; E'-phra-im also is the strength of
curse inwardly. Selah.
4:2 28:3, 55:21
mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
5 My soul, 'wait thou only upon God; for
"Moab is my washpot; over E'-dom will
my expectation is from him. look for help
I cast out my shoe: Philis'-ti-a, triumph
6 He only is my rock and my salvation:
Plc
thou because of me. 2 Sam. 8:2 2 Sam. 8:14
he is my defense; I shall not be moved.
To the chief m
9 Who will bring me into the strong
7 "In God is my salvation and my glory:
city? Who will lead me into E'-dom?
the rock of my strength, and my refuge,
H
EAR my \
"preserve
10 Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst
is in God.
85:9; Jer. 3:23 46:1
enemy.
cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst
Trust in him at all times; ye people,
2 Hide me f
"not go out with our armies?
Josh.
7:12
"pour out your heart before him: God
the wicked; fr
11 Give us help from trouble: for'vain is
is a refuge for us. Selah.
37:3, 5 42:4
workers of inio
the help of man. 118:9; 146:3 of no real help
9 "Surely men of low degree are "vanity,
3 who 'whet
12 Through God "we shall 'do val-
and men of high degree are a lie: to be
"and bend their
iantly: for he it is that shall tread down
"laid in the balance, they are altogether useless
even bitter wo
our enemies.
Num. 24:18
move with power
lighter than vanity.
49:2
39:5
559
PSALM 92
ys of
BOOK IV-The Numbers Book
2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge
Is. 9:7
Concerning Israel and the Nation
and my fortress: my God; in him will I
and
PSALM 90
"trust."
142:5
v.
9
18:2
25:2
confide
7:14
"From everlasting to everlasting thou art God"
3 Surely he shall deliver thee from
keep'
the snare of the fowler, and from the
11:28
A prayer of Moses the man of God
Tnoisome pestilence.
raging epidemic
gres-
Lord, "thou hast been our dwelling
4 He shall cover thee with his feathers,
with
in all generations.
Ezek. 11:16
and under his wings shall thou trust:
; 21:9
2 *Before the mountains were brought
his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
ness
forth, or ever thou hadst "formed the earth
5 "Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror
nor
and the world, even from everlasting to
by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by
letely
everlasting, thou art God Prov. 8:25 created
day;
Job 5:19-23
S. of S.3:8
64:4
nor
3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and
6 nor for the pestilence that walketh
my
sayest, Return, ye children of men.
in darkness; nor for the destruction that
omise
4 *For a thousand years in thy sight are
wasteth at noonday.
epidemic
destroys
ness
but as yesterday when it is past, and as
7 A thousand shall fall at thy side,
)S 4:2
a'watch in the night.
39:5
Matt. 14:25
and ten thousand at thy right hand; but
and
5 Thou carriest them away as with a
it shall not come nigh thee.
Josh. 14:10
72:5
flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning
8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou be-
they are like grass which groweth up.
hold and see the reward of the wicked.
S in
6 In the morning it "flourisheth, and
9 Because thou hast made the LORD,
6:19
groweth up; in the evening it is cut down,
which is "my refuge, even the Most High,
ab-
and withereth.
Job 14:2
92:7; Matt. 6:30
thy habitation;
90:1
nine
7 For we are consumed by thine anger,
10 "there shall no evil befall thee,
20:6
and by thy wrath are we troubled destroyed
neither shall any plague come nigh thy
ant
8 "Thou hast set our iniquities before
"dwelling.
112:8; Prov. 12:21
tent
his
thee, our "secret sins in the light of thy
11 For he shall give his angels charge
5:16
countenance.
Jer. 16:17
19:12;
Eccl.
12:14
over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
ges;
9 For our days are passed away in
12 "They shall bear thee up in their
to
thy wrath; we spend our years as a tale
hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a
:2,5
that is told.
78:33
stone.
Is. 41:10; Job 5:23
hold
im:
10 The days of our years are threescore
13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and
rob
years and ten; and if by reason of strength
adder: the young lion and the dragon
'his
they be fourscore years, yet is their
shalt thou trample under feet.
Dan.
6:22
ne-
'strength' labor and sorrow for it is soon
14 Because he hath set his love upon me,
80:6
cut off, and we fly away. violence
Eccl. 12:2-7
therefore will I*deliver him: I will Tset
of
11 Who knoweth the power of thine an-
him on high, because he hath known my
and
ger? Even according to thy fear, so is thy
name.
145:20
59:1
exalt
9:10
1:10
wrath.
76:7
Neh. 5:9
15 He shall "call upon me, and I will
ase,
12 "So teach us to number our days,
answer him: I will be with him in trouble;
d.
that we may "apply our hearts unto wis-
I will deliver him, and honor him. Job 12:4
ort-
dom.
39:4; Deut. 32:29
Prov.
2:1-6
16 With "long life will I satisfy him,
me.
13 Return, O LORD, how long? And let
and show him my salvation.
Prov. 3:2
):29
it repent thee concerning thy servants.
hy-
14 O"satisfy us early with thy mercy;
PSALM 92
ike
"that we may rejoice and be glad all our
days.
36:8; 65:4; 103:5; Jer. 31:14 85:6
Praises for the Lord's goodness
0:4
is:
15 Make us glad according to the days
A psalm or song for the sabbath day
in?
wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the
all
years wherein we have seen evil.
86:4
I
T is a good thing to give thanks unto
16 Let thy work appear unto thy ser-
the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy
oul
:29
vants, and thy glory unto their children.
name, O Most High:
147:1
135:3
ig-
17 And let the beauty of the LORD our
2 to "show" forth thy loving-kindness
God be upon us: and "establish thou the
in the morning, and thy "faithfulness
ito
work of our hands upon us; yea, the work
every night,
59:16
talk about
89:1
in the
4:5
of
of our hands establish thou it.
37:23
3 "upon an instrument of ten strings,
and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with
m
PSALM 91
a "solemn sound. 33:2; 1 Sam. 10:5; deep tone
4 For thou, LORD, hast made me glad
re-
God is a refuge and a fortress
through thy work: I will" triumph in the
ve
ed.
H
E that dwelleth in the secret place of
works of thy hands.
40:
5
106:47
8:6
the Most High shall abide "under
5 O LORD, how great are thy works!
re.
the shadow of the Almighty.
17:8
And thy thoughts are very deep. Is. 28:29
48
PSALM 95
560
6 A "brutish man knoweth not; neither
5 They" break in pieces thy people, 0
4 In his hand are 1
doth a fool understand this.
unthinking
LORD, and afflict thine heritage. Is. 3:15
earth: the strength
7 When the wicked' spring as the grass,
6 They slay the widow and the stranger,
5 "The sea is his,
and when all the workers of iniquity do
and murder the fatherless. 22:22; Is. 10:2
his hands formed th
flourish; it is that they shall be "de-
7 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see,
6 o come, let us W(
stroyed for ever:
90:5
94:4
37:38
neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
let us kneel before t
8 "but thou, LORD, art most high for
8 Understand, ye "brutish" among the
7 For he is our G
evermore.
83:18 in control 93:4; 113:5
people: and ye fools, when will ye be
people of his pastu
9 For, lo, thine enemies, 0 LORD, for,
wise?
stupid
92:6
53:1
his hand. Today if
lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the
9 He that planted the ear, shall he not
8 harden not you
workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
hear? He that formed the eye; shall he not
provocation, and as
10 But "my" horn shalt thou exalt like
see?
Ex. 4:11; Prov. 20:12
Gen.
6:5
tion in the wilderne
the horn of a'unicorn: I shall be "anointed
10 He that "chastiseth the heathen,
9 when "your fa
with
fresh
my
strength
wild
ox
23:5
shall not he correct? He that teacheth man
proved me, and sav
11 "Mine eye also shall see my desire
knowledge, shall not he know? punishers
10 "Forty years lo
on mine enemies, and mine ears shall
11 The LORD knoweth the thoughts of
this generation, an
hear my desire of the wicked that rise up
man, that they are vanity.
empty
that do err in their
against me.
54:7; 91:8
12 Blessed is the man whom thou "chas-
not known my way
12 "The righteous shall' flourish like the
tenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of
11 unto whom Is
palm tree: he shall grow like a*cedar in
thy
law;
corrects
119:71; Deut. 8:5
119:171
they should not ent
Leb'-a-non.
Ps.
1:3
prosper
104:16;
Ezek.
31:3
13 that thou mayest give him "rest"from
13 Those that be planted in the house of
the days of adversity, until R the pit be
the LORD shall flourish in the courts of
digged for the wicked. relief
Job 34:29
9:15
our God.
80:15; Is. 60:21
100:4;
116:19
14 For" the LORD will not cast off his
14 They shall still bring forth fruit in
people, neither will he forsake his in-
PS
old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
heritance. 1 Sam. 12:22; Lam. 3:31; Rom. 11:2
A call t
15 To show that the LORD is upright:
15 Butjudgmentsh: return untoright-
"he is my rock, and "there is no unright-
O
SING unto 1
eousness: and all the upright in heart
eousness in him. to prove Deut. 32:4 Rom. 9:14
shall follow it.
97:2; Is. 42:3; Mic. 7:9
sing unto the
16 Who will"rise up for me against the
2 Sing unto the
evildoers? Or who will stand up for me
show forth his sal
PSALM 93
against the workers of iniquity? Num. 10:35
3 Declare his
The Lord is clothed with majesty
17 Unless the LORD had been my help,
his wonders amon
T
HE LORD reigneth, he is' clothed with
my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
4 For "the LORD I
majesty; the LORD is clothed with
18 When I said, "My foot slippeth; thy
be praised: "he is
strength, "wherewith he hath girded him-
mercy, O LORD, held me up.
38:16; 73:2
"gods.
self: the world also is stablished, that it
19 In the multitude of my thoughts
5 For all the g
cannot be "moved.
covered
within me thy comforts delight my soul.
idols: but the LOF
65:6
shaken
2 "Thy throne is established of old: thou
20 Shall "the throne of iniquity have
6 "Honor and m
"art from everlasting. 45:6; Lam. 5:19 90:2
fellowship with thee, which frameth mis-
strength and be
3 The floods have "lifted up, O LORD, the
chief by a law? Amos 6:3 be friendly 50:16
tuary.
floods have lifted up their voice; the floods
21 They gather themselves together
7 Give unto th
lift up their waves. 96:11; 98: 7, 8 raised up
against the soul of the righteous, and"con-
the people, give u
4 "The LORD on high is mightier than
demn the innocent blood. 56:6 Prov. 17:15
strength.
22 But the LORD is my defense; and my
8 Give unto the
the noise of many waters, yea, than the
mighty waves of the sea. 65:7; 89: 6, 9; 92:8
God is the rock of my refuge. 18:2; 71:7 9:9
his name: bring
23 And he "bring upon them their
into his courts.
5 Thy testimonies are very Tsure: "holi-
ness "becometh thine house, O LORD, for
own iniquity, and shall "cut them off in
9 o worship the
ever.
19:7
certain
in
their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our
holiness: fear be
29:2
will
appear
God shall cut them off.
7:16 Gen. 19:15
10 Say among
PSALM 94
LORD reigneth: th
tablished that it
"How long shall the wicked triumph"
PSALM 95
shall judge the P
O
LORD God, to whom vengeance be-
11 "Let the hea
longeth; O God, to whom vengeance
A psalm of praise to the great God
earth be glad; "1
belongeth, "show thyself. let yourself be seen
COME, let us"sing unto the LORD: let
fullness thereof.
2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the
us make a joyful noise to the rock of
12 Let the field
earth: render a reward to the proud.
our salvation.
66:1;
81:1
89:26
therein: then sha
3 LORD, "how long shall the wicked, how
2 Let us "come before his "presence
rejoice
55:12
long shall the wicked triumph? Job
20:5
with thanksgiving, and make a joyful
13 before the L
4 How long shall they "utter and speak
noise unto him with psalms. Mic. 6:6 face
cometh to judge
Thard things? and all the workers of in-
3 For "the LORD is a great God, and a
the world with
iquity boast themselves?
31:18
willful
great King above all gods. 96:4; 97:9 rulers
people with his t
563
PSALM 104
11 My days are like a shadow that de-
5 who" satisfieth thy mouth with good
clineth; and I am withered like grass.
things; so that "thy youth is renewed like
12 But thou, O LORD, shall' endure for
the eagle's.
107:9; 145:16
Is. 40:31
ever; and thy"remembrance unto all gen-
6 The LORD*executeth righteousness and
nent:
erations. 9:7; 10:16; Lam. 5:19
135:13; Ex. 3:15
judgment for all that are oppressed. 99:4
51:14
13 Thou shalt arise, and have' mercy
7 "He made known his ways unto Moses,
1 per-
upon Zion: for the time to favor her, yea,
his acts unto the children of Israel. 147:19
unto
the set time, is come. 12:5
Is. 60:10
119:126
8 The LORD is merciful and gracious,
ith a
14 For thy servants take pleasure in her
slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
11:4
stones, and favor the dust thereof.
9 "He will not always chide: neither will
mine
15 So the*heathen'shall fear the name
he keep his anger for ever. 30:5; Is. 57:16
turn
of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth
10 "He hath not dealt with us after our
23:6
thy glory.
67:7; 1 Ki. 8:43
nations
138:4
sins; nor rewarded us according to our
me:
16 When the LORD shall build up Zion,
iniquities.
Deut. 9:5; Ezra 9:13; Lam. 3:22
esteem
"he shall appear in his glory 60:1, 2
11 For"as the heaven is high above the
eigh-
17 He will regard the prayer of the
earth, so'great isʳhis mercy toward them
ath a
destitute, and not despise their prayer.
that fear him. 36:5; 57:10
mighty
Gen. 18:26
not I
18 This shall be "written for the genera-
12 As far as the east is from the west, so
; 10:4
tion to come: and the people which shall
far hath he "removed our transgressions
thful
be created shall praise the LORD. Deut. 31:19
from us.
2 Sam. 12:13; Is. 43:25; Zech. 3:9
1 me:
19 For he hath "looked down from the
13 Like as a father pitieth his children,
shall
height of his sanctuary; from heaven did
so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
119:1
the LORD behold the earth;
14:2; 53:2
14 For he knoweth our frame; he re-
lwell
20 to hear the groaning of the prisoner;
membereth that we dust.
Gen. 3:19
shall
to loose those that are appointed to death;
15 As for man, his days are as grass:
lished
21 to "declare the name of the LORD in
as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
ed of
Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem; 22:22
16 For the wind passeth over it, and it
cked
22 when the people are gathered to-
is gone; and the place thereof shall "know
75:10
gether, and the kingdoms, to serve the
it
no
more.
Is. 40:7
Job 7:10; 8:18
remember
LORD. 22:27; 86:9; Is. 49:22, 23; Zech. 8:20-23
17 But the mercy of the LORD is from
23 He weakened my strength in the
everlasting to everlasting upon them that
way; he "shortened my days.
39:5
fear him, and his "righteousness unto
24 "I said, O my God, take me not away
children's children;
25:6
105:8; Ex. 20:6
in the midst of my days: *thy years are
18 "to such as keep his covenant, and
is
throughout all generations.
39:13
90:2
to those that remember his command-
25 ROf old hast thou laid the foundation
ments to do them.
Deut. 7:9
com-
agreement
of the earth: and the heavens are the work
19 The LORD hath prepared his throne
of thy hands.
Gen. 1:1; Neh. 9; 6 96:5
in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth
my
26 "They shall perish, but thou shalt
over all.
11:4
47:2, 8; Dan. 4:25
2:23
endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like
20 Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that
day
a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change
R excel in strength, that Rdo his command-
ear
them, and they shall be changed: Is. 34:4
ments, 'hearkening unto the voice of his
swer
27 but "thou art the same, and thy years
word.
148:2
29:1
Matt. 6:10
Heb.
1:14
69:17
like
shall have no end.
Is. 41:4; 43:10; Mal. 3:6
21 Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts;
28 "The children of thy servants shall
ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.
as a
continue, and their "seed shall be es-
22 Bless the LORD, 'all his works in all
1:13
ered
tablished before thee. 69:36
shall dwell
89:4
places of his'dominion: bless the LORD, O
read.
my soul.
145:10
sovereignty
ing
19:20
PSALM 103
PSALM 104
ess:
2:14
Thanksgiving for God's mercy
God's preservation of nature
lone
R
A psalm of David
16:32
BLESS the LORD, O my soul: and all
BLESS, the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my
thou art very great; thou art
day;
that is within me, bless his holy name.
clothed with honor and majesty:
103:22
are
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and"forget
2 who coverest thyself with "light as
65:15
and
not'all his benefits: Deut. 6:12; 8:11 any
of
with a garment: who stretchest out the
80:5
3 who forgiveth all thine iniquities;
heavens like a curtain:
Dan. 7:9
Is. 40:22
who "healeth all thy diseases;
Ex. 15:26
3 "who layeth the beams of his chambers
thy
and
4 who redeemeth thy life from destruc-
in the waters: who maketh the clouds his
tion; "who crowneth thee with loving-
chariot: who walketh upon the wings of
27:21
kindness and tender mercies;
5:12
the wind:Amos 9:6
thick clouds
Is. 19:1
18:10
PSALM 118
570
"Wherefore should the heathen say,
8 "For thou hast delivered my soul from
10 All nations compas
"Where is now their God?
79:10
42:3,10
death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet
but in the name of the Loi
3 But our God is in the heavens: he hath
from falling.
56:13; 86:13
them.
done whatsoever he hath pleased.
9 I will walk before the LORD "in the land
11 They "compassed me
4 "Their idols are silver and gold, the
of the living.
27:13
compassed me about: but
work of men's hands.
135:15; Jer. 10:3
10 "I believed, therefore have I spoken:
the LORD I will destroy th
5 They have mouths, but they speak
I was greatly
2 Cor. 4:13 88:7
12 They compassed me i
not: eyes have they, but they see not:
11 "I said in my haste, "All men are
they are quenched as th
6 they have ears, but they hear not:
liars.
31:22 Rom. 3:4
for in the name of the LOI
noses have they, but they smell not:
12 What shall I"render unto the LORD
them.
Deut. 1:44
7 they have hands, but they handle not:
for all his benefits toward me? 2 Chr. 32:25
13 Thou hast thrust'sc
feet have they, but they walk not: neither
13 I will take the of salvation, and
might fall: but the LORD }
speak they through their throat.
call upon the name of the LORD.
16:5
14 "The LORD is my stre
8 "They that make them are like unto
14 I will pay my vows unto the LORD
and is become my salvati
them; so is every one that trusteth in
now in the presence of all his people.
15 The "voice of rejoicin
them.
Is. 44:9
15 "Precious in the sight of the LORD is
is in the tabernacles of
9 O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he
the death of his saints.
72:14
the"right hand of the L
is their help and their shield.
118:2, 3
16 0 LORD, truly I am thy servant; I
iantly.
68:3 tents
10 0 house of "Aaron, trust in the LORD:
am thy servant, and the son of thine
16 "The right hand of the
he is their help and their shield.
135:19
handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
the right hand of the I
11 Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the
17 I will offer to thee "the sacrifice of
iantly.
LORD: he is their help and their shield.
thanksgiving, and will®call upon the name
17 RI shall not die, but li
12 The LORD hath been mindful of us:
of the LORD.
50:14 v. 13
the works of the LORD.
he will bless us; he will bless the house of
18 I will pay my vows unto the LORD
18 The LORD hath chas
Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.
now in the presence of all his people,
but he hath not given me
13 "He will bless them that fear the
19 in the "courts' of the LORD'S house,
19 "Open to me the gat
LORD, both small and great.
128:1
in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise
ness: I will go into them,
14 "The LORD shall increase you more and
ye the LORD.
96:8 house
the LORD:
more, you and your children.
Deut. 1:11
20 "this gate of the Lc
15 Ye are "blessed of the LORD "which
PSALM 117
the righteous shall enter.
made heaven and earth. Gen. 14:19 Neh. 9:6
"The truth of the Lord endureth forever"
21 I will praise thee:
16 The heaven, even the "heavens, are
the LORD'S: but the*earth hath he given to
O
"PRAISE the LORD, all ye nations:
heard me, and art becom
22 "The stone which the
the children of men.
89:11 8:6
praise him, all ye people. Rom. 15:11
is become the head stone
17 "The dead praise not the LORD, neither
2 For his merciful kindness is great to-
any that go down into silence.
ward us: and "the truth of the LORD en-
23 "This is the LORD'S (
6:5
dureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD. 100:5
velous in our eyes.
1
18 "But we will bless the LORD from this
24 This is the day whic
time forth and for evermore. Praise the
made; we will rejoice and
LORD.
113:2; Dan. 2:20
25 Save now, I beseecl
PSALM 118
0 LORD, I beseech thee,
Thanksgiving for the Lord's salvation
perity.
26 "Blessed be he that
PSALM 116
O
"GIVE thanks unto the LORD; for he is
name of the LORD: we h
good: "because his mercy endureth
Praise for deliverance from death
out of the house of the Lc
for ever.
1 Chr. 16:8 136:1-26
27 God is the LORD, wh
I
LOVE the LORD, because he hath heard
2 "Let Israel now say, that his mercy
us light:¹ bind the sacr
my voice and my supplications. 18:1
endureth for ever.
115:9
even unto the horns of th
2 Because he 'hath inclined"h ear unto
3 Let the"house of Aaron now say, that
28 Thou art my God, a
me, therefore will I call upon him as long
his mercy endureth for ever.
115:10
thee: thou art my God, I
as I live.
is ready to hear 17:6
4 Let them now that fear the LORD say,
29 0 give thanks unto
3 "The sorrows of death compassed me,
that his mercy endureth for ever.
is good: for his mercy en
and the pains of hell gat hold upon me:
5 RI called upon the LORD in distress:
I found trouble and sorrow.
18:4
sheol
the LORD answered me, and set me in a
4 Then called I upon the name of the
large place.
120:1 prosperity
LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my
6 "The LORD is on my side; I will not
PSALM 11
soul.
18:6
17:13; 22:20
fear: what can man do unto me?
27:1
ALEPH
5 "Gracious is the Lord, and "righteous;
7 "The LORD taketh my part with them
yea, our God is merciful.
103:8
Neh. 9:8
that help me: therefore shall I see my de-
The Lord's judgments C
The LORD preserveth the simple: I was
sire upon them that hate me.
54:4
LESSED are the und
brought low, and he helped me. Prov. 1:4
8 "It is better to trust in the LORD than
who walk in the law
7 Return unto thy "rest, O my soul; for
to put confidence in man.
40:4
2 Blessed are they tha
"the LORD hath dealt bountifully with
9 "It is better to trust in the LORD than
monies, and that"seek hir
thee.
Jer. 6:16; Mat. 11:29 13:6
to put confidence in princes.
146:3
heart.
obey ]
609
ECCLESIASTES 3
7:2-7
2 I said of laughter, It is mad: and of
17 Therefore I"hated life; because the
7:8-10
*mirth, What doeth it?
7:3, 6; Prov. 14:13
work that is wrought under the sun is
3 I sought in mine heart*to give myself
grievous unto me: for all is vanity and
7:11,12
unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart
vexation of spirit.
ry.7:13,14
4:2
with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I
18 Yea, I hated all my labor which I had
7:15-22
might see what was that good for the sons
taken under the sun: because I should
of men, which they should do under the
leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
7:23-29
heaven all the days of their life.
Ps.
104:15
19 "And who knoweth whether he shall be
Is
8:1-9
Great works are vain
a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule
over all my labor wherein I have labored,
8:10-9:16
4 I made me great works; "I builded me
and wherein I have showed myself wise un-
8:10-14
houses; I planted me vineyards: 1 Ki. 7:1-12
der the sun. This is also vanity. 1 Ki. 12:13
8:15-9:16
5 I made me gardens and orchards, and I
20 "Therefore I went about to cause my
9:17-12:8
planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
n
heart to despair of all the labor which I
6 I made me "pools of water, to ⁸water¹
9:17-10:15
took under the sun.
therewith the wood that bringeth forth
Deut. 28:39
21 For there is a man whose labor is in
10:16-20
trees:
Neh. 2:14; 3:15, 16
Is. 58:11
irrigate
7 I got me servants and maidens, and*had
wisdom, and in knowledge, and in "equity;
yet to a man that hath not labored therein
11:1-8
servants born in my house; also I had
11:9-12:8
shall he leave it for his "portion. This also
great possessions of "great and small cattle
12:9-14
is vanity and a great evil. skill inheritance
12:9,10
above all that were in Jerusalem before
22 "For what hath man of all his labor,
12:11,12
me:
Gen. 14:14; 15:3
slaves
1
Ki.
4:23
and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he
12:13,14
8 "I gathered me also silver and gold, and
hath labored under the sun? v. 11; 1:3; 3:9
and C. 5,584 words
the peculiar treasure of kings and of the
23 For all his days are sorrows, and his
provinces: I "gat me men singers and
travail grief; yea, his heart "taketh not rest
women singers, and the delights of the sons
to come with
of men, as musical instruments, and that of
in the night. This is also vanity. finds no relief
all sorts.
1
Ki.
9:28
1
Ki.
20:14
secured
Joy in labor
2:16; 9:5
9 So I was great, and increased more than
24 "There is nothing better for a man,
2
all that were before me in Jerusalem: also
than that he should eat and drink, and
over Israel in
my wisdom remained with me.
1:16
that he should "make his soul enjoy good in
12; 7:27; 12:8-10
10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I
his labor. This also I saw, that it was from
to seek and
kept not from them, I withheld not my
the hand of God. 3:12, 13, 22 delight his senses
ning all things
heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced
25 For who can eat, or who else can
n: this sore
in all my labor: and "this was my portion
hasten hereunto, more than I?
e sons of man
of all my labor.
5:18; 9:9
26 For God giveth to a man That is good
7
3:10
busy
with
11 Then I looked on all the works that my
in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and
that are done
hands had wrought, and on the labor that I
joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to
all is"vanity
had labored to do: and, behold, all was
2:11,
"vanity and vexation of spirit, and there
gather and to heap up, that "he may give
to him that is good before God. This also is
d cannot be
was no profit under the sun.
1:3,14
vanity and vexation of spirit. what
Prov. 28:8
ch is "wanting
Wisdom and folly
7:13 lacking
wn heart, say-
12 And I turned myself to behold wis-
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tate, and have
dom, and madness, and folly: for what can
A time for everything
all they that
the man do that cometh after the king?
alem: yea, my
even that which hath been already done.
T "time to every purpose under the
every thing there is a season, and a
f wisdom and
13 Then I saw that wisdom excelleth
folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
heaven:
v. 17; 8:6
13 learned much
14 "The wise man's eyes are in his head;
2 A time to be born, and "a time to die;
to know wis-
d folly: I per-
but the fool walketh in darkness: and I my-
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that
on of spirit.
self perceived also that "one event hap-
which is planted;2 Sam. 14:14;Job 14:5; Heb. 9:27
; much grief:
peneth to them all. 8:1 9:2, 3, 11; Ps. 49:10
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time
nowledge in-
15 Then said I in my heart, As it hap-
to break down, and a time to build up;
12:12; 2 Tim. 3:7
peneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a
me; and why was I then more wise? Then
I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
time to mourn, and a time to dance;
c. 940 B.C.
16 For there isⁿno remembrance of the
5 A time to cast away stones, and a time
wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing
to gather stones together; a time to em-
0 now, I will
that which now is in the days to come shall
brace, and "a time To refrain from em-
all be forgotten. "And how dieth the wise
bracing;
Joel 2:16; 1 Cor. 7:5
to
be
far
from
erefore enjoy
man? as the fool. 4:16; 9:5 v. 14; 2 Sam. 3:33
6 A time to *get, and a time to lose; a
Iso is vanity.
time to keep, and a time to cast away; gain
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7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a
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CHAI
time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
Oppressions increase vanity
8 A time to love, and a time to "hate; a
Caution agai
time of war, and a time of peace. Luke 14:26
S
I returned, and considered all the op.
9 "What profit hath he that worketh in
pressions that are done under the sun:
K
EEP thy foot W
house of God, a
that wherein he laboreth?
1:3; 2:11; 5:16
and behold the tears of such as were op-
10 "I have seen the 'travail, which God
pressed, and they had no comforter; and
hear, than to give
hath given to the sons of men to be'exer-
on the "side of their oppressors there was
for they consider not
power; but they had no comforter.
2'Be not rash with t
cised in it.
1:13; 2:26
work
occupied
hand
thine heart be hasty
11 He hath'made every thing beautiful in
2 "Wherefore I praised the dead which
before God: for God
his time: also he hath set the world in
are already dead more than the living
which are yet alive.
upon earth: therefor
their heart, so that "no man can find out
2:17; Job 3:11-26
few.
Prov. 20:25 is
the work that God maketh from the begin-
3 "Yea, better is he than both they, which
3 For a dream come
hath not yet been, who hath not seen the
ning to the end.Gen. Gen. 1:31
8:17;
Rom.
11:33
tude of business; ar
evil work that is done under the sun. 6:3
12 I know that there*is good in them,
known by multitude
but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in
Vanity increased by envy, idleness, covetousness
4 When thou vowe
his life.
2:24
nothing better for them than
4 "Again, I considered all travail, and
defer not to pay it; fo
13 And also "that every man should eat
every right work, that for this a man is
in fools: pay that whi
5 "Better is it that
and drink, and enjoy the good of all his
envied of his neighbor. This is also vanity
vow, than that thou sh
labor, it is the gift of God.
2:24; 5:19
and vexation of spirit.
v. 16 skillful
pay.
Prov. 2
14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it
5 "The fool foldeth his hands together,
6 Suffer not thy mou
shall be for ever: "nothing can be put to it,
and eateth his own flesh.
Prov. 6:10; 24:33
to sin; "neither say th
nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth
6 "Better is a handful with quietness,
that it was an*error: W
it, that men should fear before him. Jas. 1:17
than both the hands full with Travail and
be angry at thy voice, a
15 That which hath been is now; and
"vexation of spirit. labor.anziety
of thine hands?
that which is to be hath already been; and
7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity un-
7 For in the multit
God requireth that which is past.
seeks
der the sun.
many words there are a
8 There is one alone, and there is not a
but "fear thou God. va
God judges righteous and wicked
second; yea, he hath neither child not
brother: yet is there no end of all his labor;
The vanity
16 And moreover "I saw under the sun
the place of judgment, that wickedness was
neither is his eye satisfied with riches;
8 If thou "seest the
there; and the place of righteousness, that
neither saith he, For whom do I labor, and
poor, and violent "perv
iniquity was there.
4:1; 5:8; 8:9
bereave my soul of good? This is also van-
and justice in a province
ity, yea, it is a sore travail. grievous burden
matter: for he that
17 I said in mine heart, "God shall judge
the righteous and the wicked: for there is
Two are better than one; because they
highest regardeth; and t
a time there for every purpose and for
have a good reward for their labor. Ex. 17:12
every work. Rom. 2:6-8; 2 Cor. 5:10; 2 Thes. 1:6
10 "For if they fall, the one will lift up his
9 Moreover the profit do n.
fellow: "but woe to him that is alone when
all: the king himself is
18 I said in mine heart concerning the
he falleth; for he hath not another to help
estate of the sons of men, that God might
him up.
John 15:13
2 Chr. 28:15
Ps.
31:11
dance with increase: nor thi
fied with silver; he
10 He that loveth silve S
manifest them, and that they might see
11 Again, if two lie together, then they
that they themselves are beasts. may prove
have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
creased that eat them:
"When goods incre
19 "For that which befalleth the sons of
12 "And if one prevail against him, two
men befalleth beasts; even one thing be-
shall withstand him; and a threefold cord 1:10
there to the owners
of them with ther
falleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the
is not quickly broken.
1
Cor.
other; yea, they have all one breath; so
13 Better is a*poor and a wise child than
12 The' of a laboi the
that a man hath no preëminence above a
an old and foolish king, who' will no advice more
eat little
the rich wil 0
beast: for all is vanity. 9:12; Ps. 49:12, 20; 73:22
be admonished.
not
accept
20 All go unto one place; "all are of the
whereas also he that is born in his kingdom
14 For*out of prison 7:19 he cometh will to reign;
dust, and all turn to dust again. 12:7; Gen. 3:19
13 wThere sun, a
sore evil
becometh poor.
Gen. 41:14, 41-43
14 namely, to r.
21 "Who knoweth the spirit of man that
goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast
15 I considered all the living which walk that
ail: and But those riches their per h
under the sun, with the second child
that goeth downward to the earth?
12:7
shall stand up in his stead.
22 "Wherefore I perceive that there is
16 There is no end of all the people, they
nothing better, than that a man should re-
of all that have been before them:
joice in his own works; for "that is his "por-
also that come after shall
tame, womb, I which nothing 16 and he naked in he may he shall his begetteth came shall hand. take forth he notl a re
tion: for who shall bring him to see what
shall be after him?
'Surely this also is" 1:14;
2:24; 5:18
2:10
share
of spirit.
And this also carry is away a sor
1097
II CORINTHIANS 13
t apostles,
4 "For though he was crucified through
10 "Therefore I write these things being
elf 1 Cor. 3:7
weakness, yet "he liveth by the power of
absent, lest being present I should use
ostle were
God. For we also are weak Tin him, but we
sharpness, according to the power which
atience, in
shall live with him by the power of God
the Lord hath given me to edification, and
deeds.
toward you.
1 Pet. 3:18
10:3,
4
with him
not to destruction.1 Cor. 4:21 ;Tit. 1:13
authority
e were in-
5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in
; it be that
the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye
0 you? for-
not your own selves, how that Jesus
Conclusion and benediction
Cor. 1:7; 9:12
Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
6 But I trust that ye shall know that we
11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be "per-
m ready to
are not'reprobates.
failures
fect, be of good comfort, be of one mind,
urdensome
7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil;
live in peace; and the God of love "and
it you: for
not that we should appear approved, but
peace shall be with you.
mature
Rom. 15:33
up for the
children.
that ye should do that which is honest,
12 Greet one another with a holy kiss.
nd and be
though "we be as reprobates. honorable
6:9
nore abun-
8 For we can do nothing against the
13 All the saints "salute you.
greet
oved.
truth, but for the truth.
only for
14 "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,
ırden you:
9 For we are glad, when we are weak,
and the love of God, and "the communion
aught you
and ye are strong: and this also we wish,
of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. A'-men.
I agree 11:9
"even your "perfection. 1 Thes. 3:10
maturity
Rom. 16:24
Phil. 2:1
fellowship
by any of
ake advantage
im I sent a
2 CORINTHIANS
in of you?
it? walked
Old Testament Passages for Cross-Reference Study (Citations in parentheses are of II Corinthians)
my advantage
(4:13) Ps. 116:10
(6:2) Is. 49:8
(6:16) Ex. 29:45. Lev. 26:12. Jer. 31:33. Jer. 32:38. Ezek. 37:26,27.
inthians
Zech. 8:8. 13:9
(6:17) Is. 52:11.
(6:18) Jer. 31:1,9
(8:15) Ex. 16:4, 15,18
(9:9) Ps. 112:9
(10:17)
Is. 65:16. Jer. 9:23,24
(11:3) Gen. 3:1-5
(11:24) Deut. 25:2,3
(13:1) Num. 35:30. Deut. 17:6. 19:15
excuse our-
ore God in
dearly be-
2 upbuilding
me, I shall
and that "I
S ye would
envyings,
hisperings,
)r. 4:21 riots
n, my God
and that I
sinned al-
of the un-
lascivious-
1. mourn over
c. A.D. 60
is of sin
coming to
three wit-
blished.
ell you, as
time; and
m which
all other,
spare:
st "speak-
not weak,
4 1 Cor. 9:2
GALATIANS 5
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CHAPTER 5
c. A.D. 58
even in this; "Thou shalt love thy neighbor
CHAPTER
as thyself.
Living by faith
Lev. 19:18; Mat. 7:12 Mat.
Applications of new p
TAND fast therefore in the liberty
wherewith Christ hath made us free,
another. take heed that ye be not
15 But if ye bite and devour one another devour one another
and be not entangled again with the yoke
such B a one in the spirit of
RETHREN, ye which man
act like animals destroyed
a are S
Walking in the Spirit
of bondage.
John 8:32; Acts 15:10; Rom. 6:18
2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that "if ye
16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit,
sidering thyself, lest thou
2 Bear ye one another's
be circumcised, Christ shall' profit you
and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
fulfill "the law of Christ.
nothing.
Acts 15:1 benefit
17 For "the flesh lusteth against the
3 For "if a man think hin
3 For I testify again to every man that
Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and
thing, when "he is nothir
is circumcised, "that he is Ta debtor to do
these are contrary the one to the other:
himself.
Rom. 12:3;
the whole law.
2:16; 3:10
obligated
would. "so that ye cannot do the things that ye
4 But "let every man pro
4 Christ is become of no effect unto you,
Rom.
7:23
in opposition
Rom.
7:15
and then shall he have rej
whosoever of you are justified by the law;
18" But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are
alone, and not in another.
"ye are fallen from grace. you have given up grace
not under the law.
Rom. 6:14; 7:6; 8:2
5 For "every man shall b
5 For we through the Spirit wait for the
19 Now "the works of the flesh are "mani-
Rom.
den.
hope of righteousness by faith.
look
fest, which are these; adultery, fornication,
6 "Let him that is taug
6 For in Jesus Christ neither circum-
uncleanness, lasciviousness, Eph. 5:3 plain
"communicate unto him t
cision availeth any thing, nor uncircum-
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance,
all good things.Rom. 15:27; 1
cision; but faith which worketh by love.
emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, here-
7 Be not deceived; God
7 Ye "did run well; who did hinder you
sies,
jealousies divisions
for "whatsoever a man SO
that ye should not obey the truth?1 Cor. 9:24
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, rev-
he also reap.
Job 13:9;
8 This persuasion cometh not of him that
ellings, and such like: of the which I tell
8'For he that soweth to
calleth you.
1:6; Rom. 8:28
you before, as I have also told you in time
the flesh reap "corruption;
9 A little leaven "leaveneth the whole
past, that they which do such things shall
eth to the Spirit shall of
lump.
1 Cor. 5:6; 15:33 raises
not inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Cor. 6:9
life everlasting. Hos. 8:7; 10
10 I have confidence in you through the
9 And "let us not be wea
Lord, that ye will be none otherwise
V. The Fruit of the Holy Spirit
for in due season we sh
minded: but he that troubleth you shall
'faint not. 1 Cor. 15:58 Mat
bear his judgment, whosoever he be. 1:7
(A) 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
10 "As we have theref
peace, long-suffering, "gentleness, good-
11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach cir-
"let us do good unto all
ness, "faith,
Col.
3:12
Rom.
15:14
1
Cor.
13:7
cumcision, why do I yet suffer persecu-
23 Meekness, temperance: "against such
tion? then Tis the offense of the cross
there is no law.
1 Tim. 1:9
ceased.
has the stumbling-block
been
done
away
24 And they that are Christ's "have cru-
12 "I would they were "even cut off
cified the flesh with the "affections and
GALATIANS
which trouble you.
Josh. 7:25 emasculated
lusts.
Rom. 6:6; 13:14; 1 Pet. 2:11 passions
13 For, brethren, ye have been called
25 "If we live in the Spirit, let us also
Old Testament Passages fo
unto liberty; only "use not liberty for an
walk in the Spirit.
v. 16; Rom. 8:4, 5
(3:8) Gen. 12:3. 18:18. 22:18
occasion to the flesh, but "by love serve one
26 "Let us not be desirous of "vain glory,
13:15. 17:7. 22:18. 24:7
(4:4
(5:14) Lev. 19:18.
another.
1 Cor. 8:9; 9:19
1
Pet. 2:16; 2 Pet. 2:19
provoking one another, envying one an-
14 For "all the law is fulfilled in one word,
other.
Phil. 2:3 pride irritating
EPHESIANS
Old Testament Passages for (
V(A) "The fruit of the Spirit is love." Only as we live in love can we fulfill the will of God in our lives. The
(1:20) Ps. 110:1
(1:22) Ps. 8:6
believer must become love-inspired, love-mastered and love-driven (Page 1091-II Cor. 5:14). Without the
Gen. 2:24
(6:2-3) Deut. 5:16
fruit of the Spirit (love), we are just a religious noise (Page 1082-I Cor. 13:1).
"The fruit of the Spirit is love," and it is manifested in joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness,
faith, meekness, temperance:
(1) Joy is love's strength.
(2) Peace is love's security.
(3) Long-suffering is love's patience.
(4) Gentleness is love's conduct.
(5) Goodness is love's character.
(6) Faith is love's confidence.
(7) Meekness is love's humility.
(8) Temperance is love's victory.
"Against such there is no law."
A Holy Spirit-controlled man needs no law to cause him to live a righteous life. The secret of a Spirit-
controlled life is found: (Page1066-Rom. 12:1,2). Put your all on the altar, and the Holy Spirit will fill your
heart with the love of God (Page1059-Rom. 5:5).
Now return to Master Study Outlines, page 879, sson number five.
II THESSALONIANS 3
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THE
CHAPTER 2
c. A.D. 54
CHAPTER 3
N
OW we "beseech you, brethren, by the
c. A.D. 54
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and
F
INALLY, brethren, "pray for us, that
by our gathering together unto him, beg
the word of the Lord may have "free
2 That ye be not soon "shaken in mind,
course, and be "glorified, even as it is with
or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by
you:
Eph. 6:19
unhindered action
triumphant
word, nor by letter as from us, as that the
2 And "that we may be delivered from
Date. The first letter tc
day of Christ is at hand.
Mat. 24:4
upset
unreasonable and wicked men: "for all men
Titus were written duri
3 Let no man deceive you by any means:
have not faith.
Rom. 15:31
Acts 28:24
work between Paul's tw
for that day shall not come, except there
3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall
A date somewhere betw
come a falling away first, and that man of
stablish you, and keep you from evil.
set since the second ep
sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 And we have confidence in the Lord
the last words found fr
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself
touching you, that ye both do and will do
fore his martyrdom (4:
"above all that is called God. or that is
the things which we command you.
A.D. 65 and 68.
worshiped: so that he as God sitteth in the
5 And the Lord direct your hearts into
temple of God, showing himself that he is
the love of God, and into The patient wait-
Structure and Theme
God.
Is. 14:13
divine
ing for Christ. 1 Chr. 29:18 the patience of Christ
est form the structure C:
1 Cor. 8:5
5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet
6 Now we command you, brethren, in the
Charge, (B) Praise, (1
with you, I told you these things?
name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye
other way it is: (A)
6 And now ye know what withholdeth
withdraw yourselves from every brother
Prose. This simple pa
that he might be revealed in his time.
that walketh disorderly, and not after
bound together by a do
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth al-
the tradition which he received of us.
is repeated three times
ready work: only he who now letteth will
T 7 For yourselves know how ye ought to
body, and the conclu
let, until he be taken out of the way.
follow us: for we behaved not ourselves
woven together that th
8 And then shall that Wicked be re-
"disorderly among you; imitate
only serve to focus a
irresponsibly
vealed, whom the Lord shall consume
8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for
to Timothy.
At the conclusion (
with the spirit of his mouth, and shall de-
nought; but wrought with labor and
stroy with the brightness of his coming:
travail night and day, that we might not
other charge, again tw
9 Even him, whose coming is "after the
be "chargeable to any of you:
together by the doxolog
an expense
9" Not because we have not "power, but
same proportions are
working of Satan with all power and
Deut. 13:1
to make ourselves an example unto you
longer section (6:3-1
"signs and lying wonders, John 8:41
of the principal themes
10 And with all "deceivableness of un-
to follow us. v. 7; 1 Cor. 9:6; 1 Thes. 2:6
the
right
portion (6:17-21) C(
righteousness in them that perish; be-
10 For even when we were with you, this
moving appeal, "O Ti
cause they received not the love of the
we commanded you, that if any would not
In like manner, the
truth, that they might be saved. deceitfulness
work, neither should he eat.
be allowed
(2:1-6:2) is subdivi
11 And "for this cause God shall send
11 For we hear that there are some which
graph (3:14-4:5)
them strong delusion, "that they should
"walk among you disorderly, working not
the lines of the ancien
believe a lie:
Rom. 1:24
error
1 Tim. 4:1
at all, but are busybodies. live irresponsibly
Paul is probably the
12 That they all might be "damned who
12 Now them that are such we command
section of this major p
believed not the truth, but "had pleasure in
and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ,
public aspects of the (
unrighteousness.
condemned
Rom. 1:32
"that with quietness they work, and eat
culminating in the me
13 But we are "bound to give thanks
their own bread.
warn
Eph. 4:28
In the second portio
always to God for you, brethren beloved of
13 But ye, brethren, "be not weary in
aspects are stressed, I
the Lord, because God "hath from the be-
well doing.
degree the themes stat
Gal. 6:9
ginning chosen you to salvation through
example, the reference
14 And if any man obey not our word by
'sanctification of the Spirit and belief of
sets forth the princip
this epistle, note that man, and "have" no
the
truth:
in the Church; where
obliged
1 Thes. 1:4
being
set
apart
by
company with him, that he may be
in the second part, de
14 Whereunto he called you by our gos-
ashamed.
message
Mat. 18:17
nothing to do
personal problem of
pel, to "the "obtaining of the glory of our
15 "Yet count him not as an enemy, but
Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Pet. 5:10
gaining
admonish him as a brother. Lev. 19:17
warn
15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and
16 Now the Lord of peace himself give
CH.
hold the traditions which ye have been
taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
you peace always by all means. The Lord
Paul
16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself,
be with you all.
Rom. 15:33
in every way
an apost
and God, even our Father, which hath
17 "The "salutation of Paul with mine
commandmen
loved us, and hath given us everlasting
own hand, which is the Token in every
Lord Jesus Christ
consolation and good hope through grace,
epistle: so I write. 1 Cor. 16:21
greeting
sign
2 Unto Timothy
17 Comfort your hearts, and stablish
18 "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
faith: Grace. mei
1187
REVELATION 8
opened the fourth
four angels, to whom it was given to'hurt
temple: and he that sitteth on the throne
of the fourth beast
the earth and the sea,
sunrising
damage
shall "dwell among them.
21:3; Is. 4:5, 6
the Lamb 4:7
3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the
16 "They shall hunger no more, neither
ehold a pale horse:
sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the
thirst any more; "neither shall the sun
on him was Death,
servants of our God in their foreheads.
light on them, nor any heat.Is.49:10
Ps.121:6
h him. And power
4 "And I heard the number of them which
17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of
ver the fourth part
were sealed: and there were sealed a
the throne "shall feed them, and shall lead
th sword, and with
hundred and forty and four thousand of all
them unto "living fountains of waters: "and
th, and with the
the tribes of the children of Israel.
9:16
God shall wipe away all tears from their
ades
to
him
wild
beasts
5 Of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve
eyes. Ps. 23:1; John 10:11, 14
springs
21:4; Is. 25:8
ened the fifth seal,
the souls of them
Of thousand. the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve
CHAPTER 8
C. A.D. 96
: word of God, and
thousand.
The seventh seal
:h they held:
8:3
Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve
h a loud voice, say-
thousand.
A
ND "when he had opened the seventh
d, holy and true,
6 Of the tribe of Asher were sealed twelve
seal, there was silence in heaven
thousand.
d avenge our blood
Of the tribe of Naph'-tali were sealed twelve
about the space of half an hour.
6:1
the earth? Zech. 1:12
thousand.
2 "And I saw the seven angels which
were given unto
R Of the tribe of Manas'-seh were sealed
stood before God; "and to them were given
d it was said unto
twelve thousand.
Gen. 48:14
seven trumpets.
Luke 1:19
2 Chr. 29:25-28
rest yet for a little
7 Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve
3 And another angel came and stood at
thousand.
W servants also and
Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve
the altar, having a golden censer; and there
hould be killed as
thousand.
was given unto him much incense, that he
lfilled.
3:4
be quiet
Of the tribe of Is'-sachar were sealed twelve
should offer it with "the prayers of all
he had opened the
thousand.
saints upon "the golden altar which was
e was a'great earth-
8 Of the tribe of Zeb'-ulun were sealed twelve
before the throne.
present
5:8
Ex. 30:1
thousand.
came black as sack-
Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve
4 And "the smoke of the incense, 'which
moon became as
thousand.
came with the prayers of the saints, as-
nt
Joel 2:10
turned red
Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve
cended up before God out of the angel's
eaven fell unto the
thousand.
hand.
Ps. 141:2; Luke 1:10
went
up
ee casteth her un-
The numberless multitude
5 And the angel took the censer, and
shaken of a mighty
filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it
8:10 of the sky unripe
9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great
Tinto the earth: and "there were voices, and
eparted as a scroll
multitude, which no man could number,
thunderings, and lightnings, "and an earth-
ether; and "every
"of all nations, and kindreds, and people,
quake.
upon
16:18
2 Sam. 22:8; 1 Ki. 19:11
vere moved out of
and tongues, stood before the throne, and
Ps. 102:26
Jer. 3:23
before the Lamb, "clothed with white
The trumpets
the earth, and the
robes, and palms in their hands; 5:9
v.
14
6 And the seven angels which had the
men, and the chief
10 And cried with a loud voice, saying,
seven trumpets prepared themselves to
ty men, and every
"Salvation to our God which sitteth
'sound.
blow the trumpets
ree man, "hid them-
upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.Ps. 3:8
7 The first angel sounded, "and there fol-
in the rocks of the
11 And all the angels stood round about
lowed hail and fire mingled with blood, and
2:10, 19, 21; 24:21 under
ountains and rocks,
the throne, and about the elders and the
they were cast "upon the earth: and the
four beasts, and fell before the throne on
third part of trees was burnt up, and all
IS from the face of
e throne, and from
their faces, and "worshiped God, boweddownto
green grass was burnt up. Ezek. 38:22 . 16:2
8 And the second angel sounded, and as
:
Luke 23:30 anger
12 "Saying,
it were a great mountain burning with
f his wrath is come;
Amen: 'Blessing, and glory, and wisdom,
to stand?
and thanksgiving, and honor, and power,
fire was cast into the sea: "and the third
and might, be unto our God for ever and
part of the sea became blood;
16:3
ever. Amen.
5:13, 14
Praise
9 "And the third part of the creatures
ER 7
c. A.D. 96
13 And one of the elders "answered, say-
which were in the sea, and had life, died;
ing unto me, What are these which are'ar-
and the third part of the ships were de-
sealed
rayed in "white robes? and whence came
stroyed.
9:1; 16:3; Is. 14:12
living
things
gS I saw four angels
they?
asked
dressed
v.
9
10 And the third angel sounded, and
our corners of the
14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou know-
there fell a great star from heaven, burn-
winds of the earth,
est. And he said to me, "These are they
ing as it were a'lamp, "and it fell upon the
not blow on the
which came out of great tribulation, and
third part of the rivers, and upon the foun-
or on any tree. 9:4
have "washed their robes, and made them
tains of waters;
torch
9:1; 16:4; Is. 14:12
r angel ascending
white in the blood of the Lamb. 6:9-Is.1:18
11 "And the name of the star is called
e seal of the living
15 Therefore are they before the throne
Wormwood: and the third part of the
a loud voice to the
of God, and serve him day and night in his
waters became wormwood; and many men
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termined it to be 365.2420 days, whereas the Gre-
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gorian calendar year is 365.2425.
five days were added to complete the 365-day year.
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cause the Incas did not have a written language,
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be
PRAYER
PRAYER
PRAYER
God's voice is the
He will listen to
Lord, teach us to pray.
poses. It is a telephone call to headquarters
New Testament: Luke II: I
for orders. It is not bending God's will to
ours, but our will to God's. In prayer, we tap
Andrew Murray
Men ought always to pray, and not to faint.
vast reservoirs of spiritual power whereby
God can find fuller entrance into the hearts
ve everything, of
New Testament: Luke 18: I
of men.
unbelief, but by
at He can do.
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in
G. Ashton Oldham
1 (Texas) Times,
you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall
All-Church Press
be done unto you.
He who prays as he ought, will endeavor to
New Testament: John 15: 7
live as he prays.
John Owen
),
to keep;
Pray without ceasing.
New Testament: I Thessalonians 5: 17
ke,
Prayer opens our eyes that we may see our-
to take.
selves and others as God sees us.
Pray for us.
England Primer
New Testament: II Thessalonians 3: I
Clara Palmer, in Weekly Unity
alt not be as the
The prayer of faith shall save the sick.
"Prayer, like radium," scientist Alexis
to pray standing
New Testament: James 5: 15
Carrel once said, "is a luminous and self-
e corners of the
generating form of energy."
en of men.
The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous
Norman Vincent Peale: Pageant
t, enter into thy
man availeth much.
shut thy door,
New Testament: James 5: 16
Sometimes
God answers our prayers in
$ in secret; and
the way our parents do, who reply to the
ret shall reward
Thou art coming to a King,
pleas of their children with "Not just now"
Large petitions with thee bring
or "I'll have to think about that for a little
Matthew 6: 5-6
For His grace and power are such
while."
None can ever ask too much.
things ye have
John Newton
Roy M. Pearson: United Church Herald
Prayer is not only "the practice of the
Prayer is not a lazy substitute for work. It is
: Matthew 6: 8
presence of God," it is the realization of His
not a short cut to skill or knowledge. And
presence.
sometimes God delays the answer to our
u; seek, and ye
Joseph Fort Newton
prayer in final form until we have time to
all be opened
build up the strength, accumulate the know-
God grant me the serenity to accept things
ledge, or fashion the character that would
I cannot change, courage to change things I
make it possible for Him to say "yes" to what
Matthew 7: 7
can, and wisdom to know the difference.
we ask.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Ibid.
th; and he that
The most important thing in any prayer is
I pray God to keep me from being proud.
Matthew 7: 8
not what we say to God, but what God says
Samuel Pepys: Diary
to us. We are apt to pray and then hurry
ouse of prayer;
away without giving God a chance to answer.
Prayers travel more strongly when said in
thieves.
North Carolina Christian Advocate
unison.
latthew 21: I3
Petronius: Fragments, no. 92
Prayer is the chief agency and activity where-
when ye pray,
by men align themselves with God's purpose.
Pray for peace and grace and spiritual food,
and ye shall
Prayer does not consist in battering the walls
For wisdom and guidance, for all these are
of heaven for personal benefits or the success
good,
of our plans. Rather it is the committing of
But don't forget the potatoes.
: Mark II: 24
ourselves for the carrying out of His pur-
John Tyler Pettee: Prayer and Potatoes
ERQ-M
345
PRAYER
PRAYER
PRAYER
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,
essential part. Listening to God's voice is the
Uttered or unexpressed,
Lord, teach u
secret of the assurance that He will listen to
The motion of a hidden fire
mine.
That trembles in the breast.
Andrew Murray
Men ought al
Prayer is the burden of a sigh,
The falling of a tear,
Beware in your prayer, above everything, of
The upward glancing of an eye
limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by
When none but God is near.
fancying that you know what He can do.
If ye abide i
you, ye shall
James Montgomery: What Is Prayer?
Andrew Murray: Houston (Texas) Times,
be done unto
All-Church Press
Spread out your petition before God, and
then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done."
Now I lay me down to sleep,
Pray without
The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's
I pray thee, Lord, my soul to keep;
New Te
school is to let the Lord choose for me.
If I should die before I wake,
I pray thee, Lord, my soul to take.
Dwight L. Moody
Pray for us.
New England Primer
New T
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not
the definition of helplessness, but the feeling
When thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the
The prayer
of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of
hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing
soul.
in the synagogues and in the corners of the
streets, that they may be seen of men.
The effectu
Hannah More
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy
man availet
O sad estate
closet, and when thou hast shut thy door,
Of human wretchedness; so weak is man,
pray to thy Father which is in secret; and
thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward
Thou art C(
So ignorant and blind, that did not God
Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask,
thee openly.
Large petit
We should be ruined at our own request.
New Testament: Matthew 6: 5-6
For His gra
None can e
Hannah More: Moses in the Bulrushes,
Pt. I
Your Father knoweth what things ye have
need of, before ye ask him.
Prayer is
Prayer is not artful monologue
New Testament: Matthew 6: 8
presence of
Of voice uplifted from the sod;
presence.
It is Love's tender dialogue
Between the soul and God.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye
shall find; knock, and it shall be opened
John Richard Moreland
unto you.
God grant
I cannot cl
New Testament: Matthew 7: 7
Come to prayer! Come to prayer!
can, and W
For prayer is better than sleep!
Every one that asketh receiveth; and he that
Call of the Moslem muezzin at the five
seeketh findeth.
The most
daily hours of prayer
New Testament: Matthew 7: 8
not what
to us. We
Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse
to which we respond when we are in trouble:
My house shall be called the house of prayer;
away with
but ye have made it a den of thieves.
No
prayer is a life attitude.
Walter A. Mueller: The ABC's of Prayer:
New Testament: Matthew 21: I3
Prayer is t
United Church Herald
What things soever ye desire, when ye pray,
by men al
believe that ye receive them, and ye shall
Prayer do
Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue;
receive them.
of heaven
God's voice in response to mine is its most
of our pla
New Testament: Mark II: 24
ourselves
344
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PRAYER
PRAYER
PRAYER
r,
To pray well is the better half of study.
Let not that happen which I wish, but that
Martin Luther: Table Talk: Of Prayer
which is right.
day Thought
Menander: Fragment
Prayer is love raised to its greatest power;
vay conversa-
and the prayer of intercession is the noblest
Do not lose the habit of praying to the un-
ortant part is
and most Christian kind of prayer because in
seen Divinity. Prayer for worldly goods is
worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength
it love-and imagination-reach their high-
C. Laubach
est and widest range.
of soul is that passion of the soul which
catches the gift it seeks.
Robert J. McCracken: "What Happens
George Meredith
the greatest
When We Pray for Others?" The
frankly and
Reader's Digest, October, 1956
Who rises from prayer a better man, his
stance in our
prayer is answered.
He who fashions sacred images of gold or
er Lawrence
marble does not make them gods, he makes
George Meredith: The Ordeal of Richard
Feverel, ch. 12
them such who prays to them.
to my knees
Martial: Epigrams, Bk. VIII, ep. 24, 1. 5
Not what we wish, but what we want,
nithat I had
Oh! let thy grace supply,
Religion is no more possible without prayer
The good unask'd, in mercy grant;
iam Lincoln
than poetry without language or music with-
The ill, though ask'd, deny.
out atmosphere.
James Merrick: Hymn
Him to give
James Martineau
ve are right;
This is the secret of delayed prayer. Prayer
y Him, too,
All seeking is not in vain because it does
is educative. The man who prays grows; and
right. What
not achieve its purpose as quickly as our
the muscles of the soul swell from this whip-
impatience for God demands.
cord to iron bands.
am Lincoln
Philip Mauro
Frederick B. Meyer
Prayer has marked the trees across the
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
more or less,
wilderness of a skeptical world to direct the
Can every anguish calmly bear.
1 my prayer.
traveller in distress and all paths lead to a
Richard Monckton Milnes: The Sayings
n another:
single light.
of Rabia
believe.
Douglas Meador: Matador (Texas)
W: Christus,
Tribune
If by prayer
Incessant I could hope to change the will
Pt. III
Of him who all things can, I would not cease
Lord, help me live from day to day
To weary him with my assiduous cries.
er
In such a self-forgetful way,
That even when I kneel to pray,
John Milton: Paradise Lost, Bk. XI, 1. 307
to bear
re,
My prayer shall be for-others.
Rewards for prayerssaid by people assembled
r.
Charles Delucena Meigs: Others
together are twice those said at home.
Mohammed
fellow: The
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer,
Life, st. 10
and prayer drives away perplexity and
There are few men who dare publish to the
trouble.
world the prayers they make to Almighty
God.
yer.
Philip Melanchthon
rtin Luther
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he
Prayer moves the arm which moves the
tress of the
seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom
world,
weapon.
of the sea.
And brings salvation down.
: Of Prayer
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
James Montgomery: Prayer
343
PRAYER
PRAYER
PRAYER
To pray well
To saints their very slumber is a prayer.
Lord, make me wiser every year,
St. Jerome
And better every day.
Martin
Charles Lamb: A Birthday Thought
Prayer is lov
Every man wants to pray the day before he
Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversa-
and the pray
dies. As he does not know when his time will
come, he must pray every day in order to be
tion-and for me the most important part is
and most Ch
listening to God's replies.
it love-and
safe.
est and wide
Frank C. Laubach
Jewish Proverb
Robert J
We ought to act with God in the greatest
W
I know of no good prayers but those in the
Book of Common Prayer.
simplicity, speaking to Him frankly and
plainly, and imploring His assistance in our
Samuel Johnson
affairs, just as they happen.
He who fas
marble does
Brother Lawrence
You should pray for a sound mind in a sound
them such V
body; for a stout heart that has no fear of
I have been driven many times to my knees
Martial:
death.
by the overwhelming conviction that I had
Juvenal: Satires
nowhere else to go.
Religion is
Abraham Lincoln
than poetry
And help us, this and every day,
out atmosp
To live more nearly as we pray.
We, on our side, are praying to Him to give
John Keble: The Christian Year: Morning
us victory, because we believe we are right;
but those on the other side pray Him, too,
All seeking
not achieve
Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and in-
for victory, believing they are right. What
haling the spirit of God.
must He think of us?
impatience
Edwin Keith
Abraham Lincoln
I kneel not now to pray that thou
Prayer has
You know I say
Make white one single sin,-
wilderness
Just what I think, and nothing more or less,
I only kneel to thank thee, Lord,
traveller ir
And, when I pray, my heart is in my prayer.
For what I have not been.
I cannot say one thing and mean another:
single light
Harry Kemp: A Prayer
If I can't pray, I will not make believe.
Do
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Christus,
Prayer does not change God, but changes
Pt. III
him who prays.
Lord, help
Sören Kierkegaard
In such a
Let one unceasing, earnest prayer
That even
Be, too, for light,-for strength to bear
There is an "Archimedian" point outside
My prayer
Our portion of the weight of care,
the world which is the little chamber where
That crushes into dumb despair.
a true suppliant prays in all sincerity, where
One half the human race.
he lifts the world off its hinges.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The
Trouble a
Sören Kierkegaard
Goblet of Life, st. 10
and pray
trouble.
Woe be unto those who pray, and who are
The fewer words the better prayer.
negligent at their prayer: who play the hypo-
Martin Luther
crites, and deny necessaries to the needy.
He offered
The Koran, ch. 107
seemed kr
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the
of the sea
I ask and wish not to appear
church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
More beauteous, rich or gay:
Martin Luther: Table Talk: Of Prayer
342
PRAYER
PRAYER
PRAYER
The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his
Serving God is doing good to man, but pray-
The person
field to weed it, the prayer of the rower
ing is thought an easier service and therefore
protection is
kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true
more generally chosen.
prayers heard throughout nature.
Benjamin Franklin
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, First
Prayer
Series: Self-Reliance
Prayer is a cry of hope.
breathing.
Gerald ]
No man ever prayed heartily without learn-
French Proverb
ing something.
God does no
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Miscellanies:
A good prayer, though often used, is still
Nature
proud.
fresh and fair in the ears and eyes of Heaven.
Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed,
Thomas Fuller: Good Thoughts in Bad
Cannot withhold his conquering aid.
Times
It is good for
Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Nun's
prayers, that
Aspiration
Ejaculations are short prayers darted up to
practice.
God on emergent occasions.
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of
Ibid.
life from the highest point of view. It is the
Who goes to
soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul.
Maketh two
It is the Spirit of God pronouncing his works
Prayer should be the key of the day and the
good.
lock of the night.
Geor
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thomas Fuller: Gnomologia
Prayers and
To
pray
is to desire; but it is to desire
None can pray well but he that lives well.
Georg
what God would have us desire. He who
desires not from the bottom of his heart,
Ibid.
offers a deceitful prayer.
Resort to ser
François de Salignac de La Mothe
Pray as though no work would help, and
Praying's the
Fénelon: Advice Concerning
work as though no prayer would help.
Prayer
German Proverb
God, who's i:
He who prays without confidence cannot
hope that his prayers will be granted.
When you cannot pray as you would, pray
If not to th'
as you can.
François de Salignac de La Mothe
Fénelon: Maximes: On Prayer
Dean Edward M. Goulburn
Prayers and
Lambs, by t
Prayer is the soul getting into contact with
Good prayers never come creeping home.
due.
the God in whom it believes.
I am sure I shall receive either what I ask,
Harry Emerson Fosdick
or what I should ask.
Joseph Hall
In prayer th
God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can
Without the
press a button to get things.
Prayer serves as an edge and border to
Harry Emerson Fosdick: Prayer
preserve the web of life from unraveling.
He prays well who is so absorbed with God
Robert Hall
Good when
Nor less V
that he does not know he is praying.
St. Francis de Sales
Prayer is like the turning on of an electric
E'en crosses
switch. It does not create the current; it
Are blessi
Work as if you were to live 100 years; pray
simply provides a channel through which
as if you were to die tomorrow.
the electric current may flow.
Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's
Max Handel: Rosicrucian Fellowship
Pray for you
Almanac
Magazine
John
340
PRAYER
PRAYER
PRAYER
Confidence should arise from beneath, and
If Christians spent as much time praying as
Know tha
power descend from above.
they do grumbling, they would soon have
when tho
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, in Thiers:
nothing to grumble about.
thou pray
Consulate and Empire, Vol. I, P. 44
Anonymous
thou cans
Atheno
Power is a dangerous thing to handle, even
Prayer and provender hinder no man's
in religion.
journey.
Grant us
Joseph R. Sizoo: Preaching Unashamed,
Anonymous
as to dese
Abingdon Press
Away in foreign fields they wondered how
The power of kings (if rightly understood)
Their simple words had power-
Is but a grant from Heaven of doing good.
At home the Christians, two or three had met
Our pray
William Somerville: Fables, no. 12
To pray an hour.
they are
Yes, we are always wondering, wondering
how-
Once more the Heavenly Power
Because we do not see
Makes all things new,
And domes the red-plough'd hills
Someone-perhapsunknown and faraway-
Prayer is
On bended knee.
Phil
With loving blue;
The blackbirds have their wills,
Anonymous
The throstles too.
"Oh, Gc
In the morning, prayer is the key that opens
I would
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Early Spring, st. 1
to us the treasures of God's mercies and bless-
prayer i
He never sold the truth to serve the hour,
ings; in the evening, it is the key that shuts
Sir
us up under His protection and safeguard.
To
Nor paltered with Eternal God for power.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ode on the Death
Anonymous
of the Duke of Wellington
Seven d
Doubt not but God who sits on high,
To whatever side you turn, you are forced
Thy secret prayers can hear;
to acknowledge your own ignorance and the
When a dead wall thus cunningly
Conveys soft whispers to the ear.
The m:
boundless power of the Creator.
is a cap
Voltaire
Anonymous
he can
There is nothing so powerful as truth; and
Long tarries destiny, but comes to those who
often nothing so strange.
pray.
Aeschylus: Chaephorae, 1. 464
If you
Daniel Webster: Arguments on the
on you
Murder of Captain White,
Vol. VI, p. 68
I sit beside my lonely fire
And pray for wisdom yet:
For calmness to remember
Right and truth are greater than any power,
I pray
and all power is limited by right.
Or courage to forget.
cork (
Charles Hamilton Äidé: Remember or
ferme
Benjamin Whichcote: Moral and
Forget
Religious Aphorisms
The only prayer which a well-meaning man
Praye
can pray is, O ye gods, give me whatever is
is no
fitting unto me!
howe
Apollonius of Tyana
it, wl
PRAYER
happ
be su
The wings of prayer carry high and far.
Prayer is the pillow of religion.
Arab Proverb
our (
Anonymous
whol
336
WORSHIP
WORSHIP
WORSHI
Nothing in the affairs of men is worth worry-
dispositions in which his highest improve-
Man alway
ing about.
ment consists.
sees the I
Hugh Blair
thing finit
Plato: Republic, Bk. X, sec. 604
see it in a
Blessed is the man who is too busy to worry
For worship is a thirsty land crying out for
well to fix
in the daytime, and too sleepy at night.
rain,
Thoma
It is a candle in the act of being kindled,
Earl Riney: Church Management
It is a drop in quest of the ocean,
It is a voice in the night calling for help,
Worship i
All worry is atheism, because it is a want of
It is a soul standing in awe before the mys-
T
trust in God.
tery of the universe,
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
It is time flowing into eternity,
a man climbing the altar stairs to God.
Gainst minor evils let him pray,
We should
Dwight Bradley: Leaves From a Spiritual
Who fortune's favour curries,-
present. I
Notebook, Harper & Row, Publishers,
For one that big misfortunes slay,
worship, i
Inc.
Ten die of little worries.
George Robert Sims: Occasional Lines
He who neglects worship neglects that which
separates man from the birds, the animals,
It is only
the insects; the fishes.
they begin
Ibid.
WORSHIP
A human being must be graded according to
his capacity for worship.
The philosopher aspires to explain away all
The hap
Ibid.
nature th
mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mys-
tery on the other hand is demanded and
Man is a religious being; the heart instinc-
pursued by the religious instinct; mystery
tively seeks for a God. Whether he worships
constitutes the essence of worship.
on the banks of the Ganges, prays with his
And wha
Henri Frédéric Amiel: Journal
face upturned to the sun, kneels towards
nation th
Mecca or, regarding all space as a temple,
R
God is to be worshipped by faith, hope, and
communes with the Heavenly Father accord-
love.
ing to the Christian creed, man is essentially
St. Augustine: On Faith, Hope, and
devout.
They tha
Charity
William Jennings Bryan
Would W
The
For the Christian who loves God, worship is
Ah why
the daily bread of patience.
Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect
God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore
Aye, call
Honoré de Balzac
Only among the crowd and under roofs
The SC
I have never known a man, who habitually
That our frail hands have raised?
They ha
fo
and on principle absented himself from the
William Cullen Bryant: A Forest Hymn,
public worship of God, who did not sooner
1. 16
Freedom
or later bring sorrow upon himself or his
Felici
family.
Worship renews the spirit as sleep renews
Henry Whitney Bellows
the body.
Richard Clarke Cabot
Man wor
It is for the sake of man, not of God, that
the dust
worship and prayers are required; that man
The man who does not habitually worship
is but a pair of spectacles behind which there
lously be
may be made better-that he may be con-
and wan
firmed in a proper sense of his dependent
is no eye.
state, and acquire those pious and virtuous
Thomas Carlyle
478
WISDOM
WISDOM
WOMAN
disarmed every
Wisdom precedes, religion follows; for the
Well, God give them wisdom that have it;
knowledge of God comes first, His worship
and those that are fools, let them use their
Tertullian
is the result of knowledge.
talents.
Lactantius: Divine Institutes
William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night,
it just this-an
Act I, SC. 5, 1. 14
God and nature
The wise man does not lay up treasure.
Lao-tze: The Simple Way, no. 81
The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.
David Thoreau
Emanuel Swedenborg: Divine Love and
Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harm-
Wisdom, par. 28
of religion have
less as doves.
New Testament: Matthew IO: 16
To have a low opinion of our own merits and
e of Wellington
to think highly of others is an evidence of
Wisdom is justified of her children.
wisdom.
ad seen but one
New Testament: Matthew II: 19
Thomas à Kempis
Almighty God,
h a thing again.
The children of this world are in their
He who provides for this life, but takes no
e of Wellington
generation wiser than the children of light.
care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but
a fool forever.
New Testament: Luke 16: 8
John Tillotson
The wisdom of this world is foolishness with
God.
Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools,
New Testament: I Corinthians 3: 19
Wisdom cannot be passed from one having
it to another not having it,
limits on man's
The price of wisdom is above rubies.
Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of
on his stupidity
proof, is its own proof.
Old Testament: Job 28: 18
Walt Whitman: Song of the Open Road,
he Churchman
Great men are not always wise.
sec. 6
1.
Old Testament: Job 32: 9
The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to
e: Soliloquies, I
bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.
So teach us to number our days, that we may
apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Pope Xystus I: The Ring
of the wise; the
they have found
Old Testament: Psalms 90: I2
The wise man is also the just, the pious, the
ek him because
upright, the man who walks in the way of
I others may say,
Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get
truth. The fear of the Lord, which is the
ht hand?"
wisdom: and with all thy getting get under-
beginning of wisdom, consists in a complete
Richard Cecil
standing.
devotion to God.
Old Testament: Proverbs 4: 7
Otto Zockler
should scale the
Wisdom is better than rubies.
1.
Old Testament: Proverbs 8: II
sk, Bk. III, 1. 221
WOMAN
In much wisdom is much grief.
is like glass; it
Old Testament: Ecclesiastes I: 18
The weaker sex, to piety more prone.
and reflects it.
Julius Charles
Wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
Sir William Alexander: Doomsday: The
Hare
Fifth Hour, st. 55
Old Testament: Ecclesiastes 7: I2
Despise not yourselves, ye women: the Son
in was wise.
The words of the wise are as goads.
of God was born of a woman.
ey, Bk. II, 1. 320
Old Testament: Ecclesiastes 12: II
St. Augustine: On the Christian Conflict
469
)N, VISIONS
inspiration. It
elligently culti-
bert A. Weaver
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WAR
It is the business of the church to make my
business impossible.
War, being a consequence of the disregard
Sir Douglas Haig
of God, is not inevitable if man will turn to
him in repentance and obey his law. There
A day of battle is a day of harvest for the
is, then, no irresistible tide that is carrying
devil.
man to destruction. Nothing is impossible
William Hook: Sermon
with God.
The last great hope for the survival of man-
Amsterdam Assembly
kind rests not in implements of war but in
I am of the opinion that, unless you could
a strong and abiding faith in God.
bray Christianity in a mortar and mold it
H. S. Jackson: Indiana Freemason
into a new paste, there is no possibility of a
holy war.
There have been three historic scourges:
famine, pestilence and war. The first two
Sir Francis Bacon
have been slain by science. The last one
science cannot kill. War can be abolished
God is generally for the big squadrons against
only by love.
the little ones.
Charles E. Jefferson
Roger de Bussy-Rabutin: Letters
If Christian nations were nations of Chris-
War will never yield but to the principles of
tians there would be no wars.
universal justice and love, and those have
Soame Jenyns
no sure roots but in the religion of Jesus
Christ.
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
William Ellery Channing
Hiram Johnson: Speech, U.S. Senate
Men will carry guns until they learn to carry
There is no such thing as an inevitable war.
the cross.
If war comes it will be from failure of human
wisdom.
Employment Counselor
Andrew Bonar Law: Speech before World
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
War I
Chaplain Howell M. Forgy: at Pearl
O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assist-
Harbor, December 7, 1941
ing the enemy and leave the rest to me.
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau: accord-
Benjamin Franklin: Letter to Quincy
ing to Carlyle-Life of Frederick the
Great, Bk. XV, ch. 14
Between Christ and war there is unalter-
able opposition; there cannot possibly be
Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray,
harmony.
that this mighty scourge of war will speedily
pass away.
Charles W. Gilkey
Abraham Lincoln
467
THANKSGIVING
THANKFULNESS
THANK
Thanksgiving for a former, doth invite God
Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up
Wouldst 1
to bestow a second benefit.
in a single day.
for every
thou wou
Robert Herrick: Noble Numbers
Robert Caspar Lintner
An easy thing, O Power Divine,
Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and
O Lord, t
To thank Thee for these gifts of Thine,
reverent lifting of the heart to God in hon-
For summer's sunshine, winter's snow,
our and praise for His goodness.
replete W
Willia
For hearts that kindle, thoughts that glow;
James R. Miller
But when shall I attain to this—
To thank Thee for the things I miss?
In every thing give thanks.
Let never
Thomas Wentworth Higginson: The
New Testament: I Thessalonians 5: 18
But still r
Things I Miss
Williar
I don't think the Lord wants any pompous
Count your blessings,
proclamation of thanks on one Thursday
Name them one by one;
Shakespe
in November as much as He wants a little
Count your blessings,
the poor
humble service from us every day in the year.
See what God hath done.
made it
Burton Hillis: Better Homesand Gardens,
J. Oatman, Jr.
back to I
© Meredith Publishing Company
Wi
It is a good thing to give thanks unto the
Lord, for the erring thought
Lord.
Not into evil wrought:
From to
Old Testament: Psalms 92: I
Lord, for the wicked will
From
Betrayed and baffled still:
We than
For the heart from itself kept,
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and
What
into his courts with praise.
Our thanksgiving accept.
That no
William Dean Howells: Thanksgiving
Old Testament: Psalms 100: 4
That de
That ev
Rest and be thankful.
O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good:
Wind
Inscription on stone seat in the Scottish
for his mercy endureth for ever.
Highlands; title of one of Wordsworth's
Old Testament: Psalms 107: I
poems
The pri
The worship most acceptable to God comes
the bless
If you have good health, unimpaired eye-
from a thankful and cheerful heart.
and into
sight, clear mental faculties and full use of
Plutarch
whole 1
all your limbs, you have the four greatest
causes of thankfulness in this world. These
"Before theology comes doxology." John
are four great corner-stone blessings.
Be thar
Baillie thinks thankfulness is the germ of
I. Q. M.
be meet
religious response. The very fact that a man
is thankful implies Someone to be thankful
Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to
to.
In than
count up past mercies.
Charles E. Jefferson
Eliot Porter. From Forward, 1937, copy-
so beco
right 1937, by the Presbyterian Board
Life without thankfulness is devoid of love
of Christian Education, U.S.A. Used
and passion. Hope without thankfulness is
by permission
Now th
With h
lacking in fine perception. Faith without
Who W
thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.
Were there no God, we would be in this
In who
Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is
glorious world with grateful hearts: and no
maimed and limps along the spiritual road.
one to thank.
C
John Henry Jowett
Christina Georgina Rossetti
ER(
440
FULNESS
THANKSGIVING
THEOLOGY
to be shut up
Wouldst thou first pause to thank thy God
THEOLOGY
for every pleasure, for mourning over griefs
thou wouldst not find the leisure.
A blind man in a dark room searching for a
spar Lintner
Friedrich Ruckert
black cat which isn't there-and finding it.
: a glad and
Anonymous
God in hon-
O Lord, that lends me life, lend me a heart
S.
replete with thankfulness.
All my theology is reduced to this narrow
es R. Miller
William Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part II,
compass, "Jesus Christ came into the world
Act I, SC. 1, 1. 20
to save sinners."
Archibald Alexander
Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass,
onians 5: 18
But still remember what the Lord hath done.
Theology is but the science of mind applied
William Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part II,
to God. As schools change, theology must
Act II, SC. 1, 1. 85
necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but
our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but
Shakespeare called thanks "the exchequer of
our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
the poor." Let us thank God that He has
Henry Ward Beecher
made it possible for us to give something
Oatman, Jr.
back to Him.
The post-obits of theology.
William C. Skeath: Today, copyright
George Gordon, Lord Byron: Don Juan, I
ks unto the
1942, The Westminster Press
A theology at war with the laws of physical
'salms 92: I
From too much love of living,
nature would be a battle of no doubtful
From hope and fear set free,
issue. The laws of our spiritual nature give
We thank with brief thanksgiving
still less chance of success to the system which
giving, and
Whatever gods may be
would thwart or stay them.
That no life lives forever;
William Ellery Channing
alms 100: 4
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
None but a theology that of eternity
he is good:
Winds somewhere safe to sea.
can carry you and me safely to and through
Algernon Charles Swinburne: The
eternity.
ilms 107: I
Garden of Proserpine, st. 11
Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
The private and personal blessings we enjoy,
I have only a small flickering light to guide
God comes
the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty,
me in the darkness of a thick forest. Upcomes
art.
and integrity, deserve the thanksgiving of a
a theologian and blows it out.
Plutarch
whole life.
Denis Diderot
Jeremy Taylor
gy." John
The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly nar-
e germ of
Be thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou
rowed to village theologies.
hat a man
be meet to receive greater.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Conduct of Life:
e thankful
Thomas à Kempis
Fate
In thankfulness for present mercies nothing
937, copy-
so becomes us as losing sight of past ills.
The cure for false theology is mother-wit.
ian Board
Lew Wallace: Ben Hur
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Conduct of Life:
.S.A. Used
Worship
permission
Now thank we all our God,
With heart and hand and voices
The theological problems of original sin,
be in this
Who wondrous things hath done,
origin of evil, predestination, and the like
:s: and no
In whom His world rejoices.
are the soul's mumps, and measles, and
Catherine Winkworth: Tr. of Johann
whooping-coughs.
1 Rossetti
Crüger: Nun danket alle Gott
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Spiritual Laws
ERQ-P
441
MPTATION
THANKSGIVING
THANKFULNESS
happily to be
It is easier to stay out than get out.
Some hae meat and canna eat,
inless he has
Mark Twain: Pudd'nhead Wilson's New
And some wad eat that want it;
ed to do the
Calendar
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit.
John Ruskin
To attempt to resist temptation, abandon
Robert Burns: The Selkirk Grace
our bad habits, and to control our dominant
d yet to rush
passions in our own unaided strength, is like
The people wait at the haven's gate to greet
r fingers into
attempting to check by a spider's thread the
the men who win!
might not be
progress of a ship borne along before wind
Thank God for peace! Thank God for peace,
and tide.
when the great gray ships come in!
homas Secker
Benjamin Waugh
Guy Wetmore Carryl: When the Great
Gray Ships Come In, st. 4
nother thing
I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
A thankful heart is not only the greatest
Shakespeare
virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
No degree of temptation justifies any degree
Cicero: Oratio Pro Cnaeo Plancio,
not drive me
of sin.
XXXIII
Nathaniel Parker Willis
: to come on.
John Henry Jowett said: "Gratitude is a
: King John,
When a man resists sin on human motives
vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic."
I, SC. 3, 1. 12
only, he will not hold out long.
This is a most searching and true diagnosis.
Daniel Wilson
Gratitude can be a vaccine that can prevent
ho sins most?
the invasion of a disgruntled attitude. As
Measure for
antitoxins prevent the disastrous effects of
I, SC. 2, 1. 163
certain poisons and diseases, Thanksgiving
THANKSGIVING,
destroys the poison of faultfinding and
re use to you
THANKFULNESS
grumbling. When trouble has smitten us, a
spirit of thanksgiving is a soothing anti-
I thank Thee for a daily task to do,
septic.
on Spurgeon
For books that are my ships with golden
Clinton C. Cox: The Upper Room Pulpit,
industrious,
wings,
November, 1952, Vol. 10, no. 2
dle.
For mighty gifts let others offer praise-
Lord, I am thanking Thee for little things.
As we offer our small rejoicing
on Spurgeon
Anonymous
For the love that surrounds our days,
All the wonderful works of Thy goodness
ve no power
Without Thy sunshine and Thy rain
Shall open before our gaze;
esire within.
We could not have the golden grain;
Through the gates of our narrow thanks-
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Without Thy love we'd not be fed;
giving
We thank Thee for our daily bread.
We shall enter Thy courts of praise.
ill according
Anonymous
Annie Johnson Flint
remy Taylor
Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble
Many favors which God gives us ravel out
mind is the soil out of which thanks natur-
for want of hemming through our unthank-
tries a just
ally grow.-A proud man is seldom a grate-
fulness; for, though prayer purchases bless-
ful man, for he never thinks he gets as much
ings, giving praise keeps the quiet possession
m of Christ,
as he deserves.
of them.
Bk. I, ch. 13
Henry Ward Beecher
Thomas Fuller
ions against
Some people always sigh in thanking God.
The finest test of character is seen in the
wardice.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Aurora
amount and the power of gratitude we have.
Mark Twain
Leigh
Milo H. Gates
439
PEACE
PEACE
PEAC
Peace doth not dwell in outward things, but
Blessed are the peacemakers.
When
within the soul; we may preserve it in the
New Testament: Matthew 5: 9
maket
midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remain
him.
firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs
Think not that I am come to send peace on
from acquiescence, not in an exemption
earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
from suffering.
New Testament: Matthew IO: 34
His na
François de Salignac de La Mothe
Peace.
Fénelon
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth
peace, good will toward men.
Peace, like every other rare and precious
New Testament: Luke 2: 14
Thou
thing, doesn't come to you. You have to go
mind
and get it.
Peace be to this house.
in the
Faith Forsyte: Tit-Bits
New Testament: Luke IO: 5
Peace is such a precious jewel that I would
How 1
give anything for it but truth.
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto
feet of
you.
publis
Matthew Henry
New Testament: John 14: 27
Where there is peace, God is.
To be spiritually minded is life and peace.
They
George Herbert: Jacula Prudentum,
daugh
New Testament: Romans 8: 6
Peace
no. 729
We've got to recognize that we are not work-
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live
ing (primarily) for a peaceful world. Peace
peaceably with all men.
Fair I
New Testament: Romans 12: 18
belon
will be a by-product of something else. We
are working for a world of justice and right-
ness. Peace is a by-product of justice and
The peace of God, which passeth all under-
Five §
mercy.
standing.
-ava
Stanley High: The Evangel
New Testament: Philippians 4: 7
if the
infall
Depart in peace, ye messengers of peace.
The Lord will bless his people with peace.
Jewish Prayer for the Eve of Sabbath
Old Testament: Psalms 29: II
An e
will
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is
Mark the perfect man, and behold the up-
diplo
in vain to seek it from outward sources.
right: for the end of that man is peace.
Chris
François de La Rochefoucauld
Old Testament: Psalms 37: 37
citize
the Si
God will keep no nation in supreme peace
that will not do supreme duty.
Great peace have they which love thy law:
and nothing shall offend them.
William McKinley
No P
Old Testament: Psalms II9: 165
fuge
The world will be safe and secure in its peace
for a
only when nations adopt the principles of
Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity
by vi
Christ and play fair with them.
within thy palaces.
the S
which
William Pierson Merrill
Old Testament: Psalms 122: 7
Peace hath her victories
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all
Peop
No less renown'd than war.
her paths are peace.
in h
John Milton
Old Testament: Proverbs 3: 17
they
326
PATRIOTISM
PATRIOTISM
PEAC
PATRIOTISM
And how can men die better
Americ
Than facing fearful odds,
melting
These gentry are invariably saying all they
For the ashes of his fathers
reformi
can in dispraise of their native land; and it
And the temples of his gods?
you've
is my opinion, grounded upon experience,
Thomas Babington Macaulay: Horatius,
you all.
that an individual who is capable of such
st. 27
baseness would not hesitate at the perpetra-
tion of any villainy, for next to the love
of God, the love of country is the best pre-
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg
from which wars are hatched.
PEAC
ventive of crime.
George Borrow: The Bible in Spain, ch. 4
Guy de Maupassant: My Uncle Sosthenes
Peace-
greed.
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag,
Brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God,
but in striving that our country shall be
and famous to all ages.
righteous as well as strong.
John Milton: Tractate of Education
With e
James Bryce
prospe
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.
and th
Standing as I do in view of God and eternity,
comes
Old Testament: Psalms 33: I2
I realize that patriotism is not enough, I
must have no hatred or bitterness towards
anyone. They have all been very kind to me
Righteousness exalteth a nation.
Thou
here.
Old Testament: Proverbs 14: 34
lated i
Edith Cavell. To the English chaplain at
St.
Brussels the night before her execution
My country is the world, and my religion is
to do good.
Peace
Who loves his country cannot hate mankind.
Thomas Paine: Rights of Man, ch. 5
Charles Churchill
That
I do love
Sincere Christianity and true patriotism have
My country's good with a respect more
Boc
much in common. Our finest patriotic hymn,
tender,
My Country "Tis of Thee," was written in
More holy and profound, than my own life.
The I
1832 by a Baptist clergyman, Samuel Francis
huma
Smith; and the pledge of allegiance to the
William Shakespeare: Coriolanus,
flag was written in 1892 by another Baptist
Act III, SC. 3, 1. 112
peace
R
minister, Francis Bellamy.
Ernest K. Emurian
Be just and fear not:
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy
If the
My country is the world; my countrymen are
country's,
will 1
mankind.
Thy God's and truth's.
beaut
William Lloyd Garrison
William Shakespeare: Henry VIII,
the h
Act III, SC. 2, 1. 446
Whe
be pe
Strike-for your altars and your fires;
Strike-for the green graves of your sires;
After what I owe to God, nothing should be
God-and your native land!
more dear or more sacred to me than the
I pre
Fitz-Greene Halleck: Marco Bozzaris
love and respect I owe to my country.
right
Jacques Auguste de Thou
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I
reflect that God is just.
Whatever makes men good Christians makes
them good citizens.
Peac
Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia;
Manners
Daniel Webster
324
HOME
HOME
HOPE
a poor hovel,
Our home joys are the most delightful earth
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
in it is a palace
affords, and the joy of parents in their chil-
And our eternal home.
dren is the most holy joy of humanity. It
Isaac Watts: Psalm XC, st. 1
reen Ingersoll
makes their hearts pure and good, it lifts
men up to their Father in heaven.
stains a home,
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
HOPE
dren grow up
d women is a
The home is a lighthouse which has the lamp
Life with Christ is an endless hope, without
of God on the table and the light of Christ
Him a hopeless end.
Hunt Jackson
in the window, to give guidance to those who
Anonymous
wander in darkness.
fireside is the
Henry Rische: "The Windows of Home"
Thereis more hope for a self-convicted sinner
well it is so,
than there is for a self-conceited saint.
t of the mass
The voice of parents is the voice of gods,
Anonymous
for to their children they are heaven's lieu-
etter to John
tenants.
We are never beneath hope, while above
Armstrong
William Shakespeare
hell; nor above hope, while beneath heaven.
Anonymous
peace which
Nor hell nor heaven shall that soul surprise,
Who loves the rain,
Age is a quality of mind;
tle things;
And loves his home,
If you've left your
nter, wife or
And looks on life with quiet eyes.
Dreams behind,
Frances W. Shaw: Who Loves the Rain
If hope is cold,
e depend.
If you no longer look ahead,
:: Sensibility
When home is ruled according to God's
If your ambitious fires
Are dead,
word, angels might be asked to stay with us,
:, in the land
and they would not find themselves out of
Then, you are old!
their element.
Anonymous
the earth.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
s: Land Ho!
Today well-lived
makes every tomorrow
a vision of Hope.
own house-
A dining room table with children's eager,
Anonymous
hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere
thew IO: 36
dining room table, and becomes an altar.
A religious hope does not only bear up the
Simeon Strunsky: No Mean City,
mind under her sufferings, but makes her
ill serve the
E. P. Dutton Company
rejoice in them.
Joseph Addison
shua 24: I5
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
Hopeful as the break of day.
When that which drew from out the bound-
er nest, so is
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
place.
less deep
Turns again home.
When you say a situation or a person is hope-
overbs 28: 8
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Crossing the Bar,
less, you are slamming the door in the face
of God.
: is heaven
st. 1
Charles L. Allen
The hand that rocks the cradle
mons: The
Know then, whatever cheerful and serene
Is the hand that rules the world.
rfect Peace
Supports the mind, supports the body too:
William Ross Wallace
Hence, the most vital movement mortals feel
d is home-
Is hope, the balm and lifeblood of the soul.
O God. our help in ages past,
John Armstrong: Art of Preserving
terian Life
Our hope for years to come,
Health, Bk. IV, 1. 318
231
GLORY
GLORY
GOD
alth is gold;
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
O how quickly passes away the glory of the
r; what you
Charles Sprague Hall: John Brown's Body
earth.
Thomas à Kempis
iph of Will
To lift up the hands in prayer gives God
glory, but a man with a dungfork in his
Not in utter nakedness,
$ waited too
hand, a woman with a slop-pail, give him
But trailing clouds of glory do we come.
glory too. He is so great that all things give
William Wordsworth: Intimations of
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him glory if you mean they should. So then,
Immortality
my brethren, live.
Contribute
Gerard Manley Hopkins: An Address on
If you want
Saint Ignatius
ball harder.
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The glory of Him who
GOD
Hung His masonry pendant on naught, when
lers not the
the world He created.
God may well be taken as a substitute for
f the giver.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The
everything; but nothing can be taken as a
S à Kempis
Children of the Lord's Supper, 1. ¹77
substitute for God.
Anonymous
e generous.
To God be all the glory.
enerosity, a
Medieval Latin Phrase
The demand of the human understanding
for causation requires but the one old and
To the greater glory of God.
only answer, God.
le U. Wells
Motto of the Society of Jesus
Anonymous
eerful only
If God loved you as much as you love Him,
g as little as
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or what-
where would you be?
ever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Education
Anonymous
New Testament: I Corinthians IO: 31
The only important decision we have to
1 rejects the
There is one glory of the sun, and another
make is to live with God; He will make the
glory of the moon, and another glory of the
rest.
stars: for one star differeth from another
Anonymous
cclesiastical
star in glory.
III, no. 43
New Testament: I Corinthians 15: 41
When God measures a man, He puts the tape
around the heart instead of the head.
Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts,
Anonymous
he is the King of glory.
Old Testament: Psalms 24: IO
God cannot please everybody.
Anonymous
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be
found in the way of righteousness.
Every day God makes silk purses out of sows'
Old Testament: Proverbs 16: 31
ears.
everything
Anonymous
:, and is re-
in another
Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the
whole earth is full of his glory.
To most of us it would be very convenient
if God were a rascal.
ne Comedy,
Old Testament: Isaiah 6: 3
Anonymous
Canto I, l. 1
Like madness is the glory of this life.
Some people treat God like they do a lawyer;
William Shakespeare: Timon of Athens,
they go to Him only when they are in trouble.
Dialogues, I
Act I, SC. 2, 1. 139
Anonymous
163
FREEDOM
FREEDOM
FREE WILL
thers deserve
Not a man exists who talks bravely against
er a just God,
Oh, only a free soul will never grow old!
the Church, but does not owe it to the
Church that he can talk at all.
Jean Paul Richter: Titan, Zykel
H. L. Pierce
Cardinal John Henry Newman:
We find freedom when we find God; we lose
Historical Sketches
it when we lose Him.
Paul E. Scherer
The final contribution of religious faith to
the whole problem of freedom is the freedom
Man is created free, and is free, even though
to confess our sins; the freedom to admit
born in chains.
a from Prison
that we all stand under the ultimate judg-
ment of God.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller:
never forget
Die Worte des Glaubens, st. 2
Ursula W. Niebuhr: Man's Freedom
tic not to find
Under God
secure liberty
No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
The union of faith and freedom is the
Seneca: Epistolae Ad Lucilium, XCII
J. McCracken
essential genius of Protestantism.
Long may our land be bright
Justin Wroe Nixon: Advance
With freedom's holy light;
1 be so stupid
(Congregational)
Protect us by Thy might,
lly were born
Great God, our King.
semblance of
God Almighty
has given to all men a
rivilege above
Samuel Francis Smith: America
natural right to be free, and they have it
nand, and not
ordinarily in their power to make themselves
so, if they please.
Freedom is never a gift. It is the "pearl of
great price" in anguish won.
of Kings and
James Otis: The Rights of the British
Magistrates
Colonies Asserted and Proved
The Theological Concept of Freedom
Heaven knows how to put a proper price
Every man, conducting himself as a good
e you free, ye
citizen, and being accountable to God alone
upon its goods; and it would be strange
at: John 8: 36
indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom
for his religious opinions, ought to be pro-
should not be highly rated.
tected in worshipping the Deity according to
the dictates of his own conscience.
this freedom.
Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, no. 1
George Washington: Letter to the United
t: Acts 22: 28
The American idea
Baptist Chamber of Virginia
a democracy,
1.
-that is, a government of all the people, by
God grants liberty only to those who love it,
all the people, for all the people; of course,
Ibid.
and are always ready to guard it.
a government of the principles of eternal
justice, the unchanging law of God: for
Daniel Webster
reek, there is
shortness sake, I will call it the idea of
$ neither male
Freedom.
n Christ Jesus.
FREE WILL
Theodore Parker: Speech, Boston,
alatians 3: 28
May 20, 1850
Only two possibilities exist: either one must
believe in determinism and regard free will
liberty where-
In the Bible, and particularly in Jesus'
as a subjective illusion, or one must become
e, and be not
spiritual concepts of God and man, all men
a mystic and regard the discovery of natural
e of bondage.
can find the key to victory, not only one evil
laws as a meaningless intellectual game.
Galatians 5: I
system, but in the greater crusade against all
Metaphysicians of the old schools have pro-
falsehood. Mankind, however, appears to
claimed one or the other of these doctrines,
come slowly to the realization that Freedom
erty for a cloke
but ordinary people have always accepted
is not won and held solely by material means.
the dual nature of the world.
rvants of God.
Admiral Arthur Radford: "Battle for
I Peter 2: 16
Max Born: Bulletin of the Atomic
Freedom," Vital Speeches
Scientists, June, 1957
ERC
153
FAITH
FAITH
FAITH
answered.
At the bows it lolls so stalwart
If faith produce no works, I see
In its bluff, broad-shouldered calm
That faith is not a living tree.
Thus faith and works together grow;
Inn, Bray,
But, after the shipwreck, tell me
No separate life they e'er can know:
England
What help in its iron thews,
They're soul and body, hand and heart:
it fails and
Still true to the broken hawser,
What God hath joined, let no man part.
where the
Deep down among sea-weed and ooze?
Hannah More: Dan and Jane
eewill, and
James Russell Lowell: After the Burial
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith,
nuel Kant
A capuchin says: wear a grey coat and a hood,
and the beginning of true faith is the end
a rope round thy body, and sandals on thy
of anxiety.
ine Friend
feet. A cordelier says: put on a black hood.
George Müller: Signs of the Times
le to us by
An ordinary papist says: do this or that work,
hear mass, pray, fast, give alms, etc. But a
true Christian says: I am justified and saved
The experience of life nearly always works
npany, Inc.
towards the confirmation of faith.-It is the
only by faith in Christ, without any works
total significance of life that it reveals God
or merits of my own. Compare these together,
to man; and life only can do this; neither
se if we be
and judge which is the true righteousness.
thought, nor demonstration, nor miracle,
only with
Martin Luther: Table Talk
but only life, weaving its threads of daily
ontent with
toil and trial and joy into a pattern on which,
e habit of
A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above
at last, is inscribed the name of "God."
d rightly-
fear.
Theodore T. Munger
George Macdonald: Sir Gibbie
Education:
Faith marches at the head of the army of
Bio-Geology
The principal part of faith is patience.
progress.-It is found beside the most refined
George Macdonald: Weighed and
life, the freest government, the profoundest
worth,
Wanting
philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest
ds follow.
humanity.
s Plowman
The Calvinistic people of Scotland, Switzer-
Theodore T. Munger
land, Holland, and New England, have been
more moral than the same classes among
1, now used
other nations. Those who preached faith, or
All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined
nglish kings
in other words a pure mind, have always pro-
edifice, before one single word-faith.
duced more popular virtue than those who
Napoleon Bonaparte
preached good acts, or the mere regulation
of outward works.
tin Proverb
If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed,
Sir James Mackintosh
ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove
S might. and
hence to yonder place; and it shall remove;
O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white-handed
are to do our
and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Hope,
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden
New Testament: Matthew 17: 20
n New York
wings!
John Milton: Comus
Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet
and holds its
have believed.
The faith that will shut the mouths of lions
ich is woven
New Testament: John 20: 29
) mordant of
must be more than a pious hope that they
will not bite.
Missionary Tidings
The just shall live by faith.
II: My Study
New Testament: Romans I: 17
ham Lincoln
A little faith will bring your soul to heaven,
but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your
We walk by faith, not by sight.
soul.
salm,
Dwight L. Moody
New Testament: II Corinthians 5: 7
135
F
2
FAITH
The faith of the head is the faith that is dead;
e
The faith of the heart is better in part;
Without faith, we are as stained glass win-
But the faith of the hand is the faith that will
dows in the dark.
stand,
e
Anonymous
For the faith that will do must include the
first two.
There are no miracles to men who do not
Anonymous
believe in them.
Anonymous
The great believers have been the unwearied
waiters.
It is not faith and works; it is not faith or
Anonymous
works; it is faith that works.
Faith never yet outstripped the bounty of
Anonymous
the Lord.
Anonymous
Faith is the heart of the mind.
Anonymous
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
Anonymous
It is never a question with any of us of faith
or no faith; the question always is, "In what
I need wide spaces in my heart
or in whom do we put our faith?"
Where Faith and I can go apart
Anonymous
And grow serene.
Life gets so choked by busy living,
Kindness so lost in fussy giving
He who is small in faith will never be great
That Love slips by unseen.
in anything but failure.
Anonymous
Anonymous
It takes more than a soft pillow to insure
Faith is the wire that connects you to grace,
sound sleep.
and over which grace comes streaming from
Anonymous
God.
Anonymous
Faith is not merely praying
Upon our knees at night;
We need abounding faith that will cut all
Faith is not merely straying
the t's off all the "Can'ts" and make them
Through darkness into light;
into "Cans."
Faith is not merely waiting
For glory that may be.
Anonymous
Faith is the brave endeavor,
The splendid enterprise,
Faith is, in the spiritual realm, what money
The strength to serve, whatever
is in the commercial realm.
Conditions may arise.
Anonymous
Anonymous
129
CHURCH
CHURCH
CHURCH
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion,
blood, for her adversary, the Devil, is a liar
the church
of which the rewards are distant, and which
and a murderer. The church grows and in-
is animated only by faith and hope, will
creases through blood; she is sprinkled with
thew Henry
glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it
blood.
be invigorated and reimpressed by external
Martin Luther: Table Talk
ing: quit thy
ordinances and by stated calls to worship.
Samuel Johnson
A church is disaffected when it is persecuted,
i's gate.
quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal
-Porch, st. 68
God pity the nation whose factory chimneys
when it is favored and cherished.
rise higher than her church spires.
Thomas Babington Macaulay: Hallam
e church, be
John Kelman
A beggarly people. A church and no steeple.
The Church cannot be restricted to the
Ibid.
Edmund Malone
sanctuary. The Church isn't just a preaching
Church, a sacramental Church, but is in-
volved in the total life of the human being,
If the growth of modern science has taught
a Prudentum
which is another way of saying religion has
anything to religion and to the modern
world, it is that the method of progress is
implications in society.
farther from
the method of evolution, not the method of
Francis J. Lally: Interview with
revolution. Let every man reflect well on
Mike Wallace, 1958
these things before he assists in stabbing to
is, Pt. I, ch. 9
death, or in allowing to starve to death,
The average man goes to church six times a
organized religion in the United States.
e the singing
year and has attended Sunday School for two
it's not ortho-
Robert Andrews Millikan: Time,
afternoons and can sing half a hymn.
Matter, and Values, The Uni-
Stephen Butler Leacock: Winnowed
versity of North Carolina Press,
Watson Howe
Wisdom
1932
r walls.
The Church does not die.
Three, Pt. II,
Legal Maxim
The Christian Church belongs to God and
Bk. III, ch. 2
not to man; the church cannot become a tool
The Church is the mansion-house of the
of any social order, whether it be imperialist,
be carried into
Omnipotent God.
capitalist, or communist.
ere is plenty of
Legal Maxim
Samuel Moffett: Missions
Leigh Hunt
The real unity of the church must not be
organized, but exercised.
The difference between listening to a radio
Johannes Lilje
sermon and going to church, someone has
nurches.
said, is almost like the difference between
Italian Proverb
Bless all the churches, and blessed be God,
calling your girl on the telephone and spend-
who, in this our great trial, giveth us the
ing an evening with her.
:h around the
churches.
Moody Monthly
Abraham Lincoln
orge MacAdam:
ch Around the
When the early church fathers came to-
A minister addressing a conference of
Corner
preachers said that too many of our churches
gether, they talked about their powers; when
modern churchmen come together, they talk
are like "a middle-class solarium where tired
bious man. I am
old spiritual limbs are warmed a bit from
about their problems.
the inside of a
week to week."
Arthur J. Moore
he never passes
Halford E. Luccock: Christian Herald
off his hat. This
The Christian church is a society of sinners.
nciples.
It is impossible for the Christian and true
It is the only society in the world, mem-
Samuel Johnson
church to subsist without the shedding of
bership in which is based upon the single
79
CHURCH
CHURCH
CHURCH
church in every neighborhood, all appre-
The way to preserve the peace of the church
To be of n
ciated as they deserve, are the chief support
is to preserve its purity.
of which th
of virtue, morality, civil liberty, and religion.
is animate
Matthew Henry
Benjamin Franklin
glide by de
Kneeling ne'er spoiled silk stocking: quit thy
be invigora
The church always defaces itself, it always
ordinances
state.
denies God when it seeks to set itself apart
All equal are within the church's gate.
from the world in which it exists; when it
makes itself a place of refuge, a citadel with
George Herbert: The Church-Porch, St. 68
God pity th
high walls inside of which men can hide;
When once thy foot enters the church, be
rise higher
when it shuts doors to close out any part of
bare;
the life of man.
God is more there than thou.
Dr. Franklin Clark Fry: in address, "The
Ibid.
The Churc
Ministry of the Laity in Economic Life"
sanctuary.
Nothing last but the Church.
Church, a
The church alone beyond all question,
volved in the
Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
George Herbert: Jacula Prudentum
which is an
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
The nearer the church, the farther from
implication
Faust, Pt. I, SC. 9, 1. 35
God.
Leave the matter of religion to the family
John Heywood: Proverbs, Pt. I, ch. 9
altar, the church, and the private school,
If you go to church, and like the singing
The averag
supported entirely by private contribu-
better than the preaching that's not ortho-
year and ha
tions. Keep the church and the State for ever
afternoons
dox.
separate.
Step
Ulysses S. Grant: Speech at Des Moines,
Edgar Watson Howe
Iowa
A church is God between four walls.
The Churcl
A Church to me is the symbol of faith in
Victor Hugo: Ninety-Three, Pt. II,
the life eternal; it typifies decency, kindli-
Bk. III, ch. 2
ness and fair dealing; it offers comfort to
The Churc
the sorrowing. With the golden rule it would
The only place a new hat can be carried into
Omnipoten
make neighbors of us all.
with safety is a church, for there is plenty of
room there.
Edgar A. Guest
Leigh Hunt
The real un
The Church of Christ is the world's only
organized, }
social hope and the sole promise of world
There is little piety in big churches.
peace.
Italian Proverb
Sir Douglas Haig
Bless all the
God bless the little church around the
who, in thi
I think all churches are like the spokes of a
corner.
churches.
wheel, all leading into the same goal.
Joseph Jefferson, in George MacAdam:
Esther Hartman
The Little Church Around the
A minister
Corner
preachers sa
The poorer the church, the purer the church.
are like "a m
William Hazlitt: English Proverbs
Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am
old spiritua
afraid he has not been in the inside of a
week to wee
The chief trouble with the church is that
church for many years, but he never passes
Halfor
you and I are in it.
a church without pulling off his hat. This
Charles H. Heimsath: Sermons on the
shows that he has good principles.
It is imposs
Inner Life, Abingdon Press
Samuel Johnson
church to S1
78
CHURCH
CHURCH
STMAS
After all, Christmas is but a big love affair
And whether it be a rich church
ade for a
to remove the wrinkles of the year with
Or a poor church anywhere,
ith every
kindly remembrances.
Truly it is a great church
sing only
John Wanamaker
If God is worshipped there.
Christian
Anonymous
Life still hath one romance that naught can
Century,
bury-
The Church has many critics but no rivals.
23, 1949
Not Time himself, who coffins Life's
Anonymous
romances-
Christ:
till;
For still will Christmas gild the year's
It is not the function of the Christian
mischances,
hill
Church to create a new civilization; it is the
If Childhood comes as here, to make him
Church's function to create the creators of
merry.
a new civilization.
emoriam,
Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton: The
XXVIII
Anonymous
Christmas Tree
The Church faces a generation which is try-
still-
Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-
ing to drink its way to prosperity, war its way
th,
ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and
to peace, spend its way to wealth and enjoy
nightmare, it is a period of necessary de-
its way to heaven.
frosting of chill and hide-bound hearts.
ray: The
Anonymous
the Play
Lenora Mattingly Weber: Extension
The church is never a place, but always a
Take Christ out of Christmas, and Decem-
people; never a fold but always a flock, never
ber becomes the bleakest and most colorless
a sacred building but always a believing
month of the year.
assembly. The church is you who pray, not
A. F. Wells: Link
where you pray. A structure of brick or
marble can no more be a church than your
I love the Christmas-tide, and yet,
clothes of serge or satin can be you. There
I notice this, each year I live;
is in this world nothing sacred but man, no
I always like the gifts I get,
sanctuary of God but the soul.
ray: The
But how I love the gifts I give!
Anonymous
any-Tree
Carolyn Wells: A Thought
A Church exists for the double purpose of
ointment
Thus we can always know that men could
gathering in and sending out.
llowship,
live with goodwill and understanding for
Anonymous
e of good
each other, because one day in each year the
little Divine Prince of Peace still compels
When we walk softly into the church,
them to do it.
Preaching
We feel upon the air
Charles Jeremiah Wells
A summons that is like a hymn,
cheer,
A call that tells of prayer.
ear.
Anonymous
CHURCH
d Pointes
ie, ch. 12
The church has suffered from putting too
This was posted on a Bronx, New York,
high a premium on orthodoxy in words and
church bulletin board: "Do come in-Tres-
humble
too little emphasis upon superiority in deeds
passers will be forgiven."
and character.
1 our way
Anonymous
Advance
Vita-Rays
God sends no churches from the skies,
A room of quiet
a temple of peace.
Out of our hearts they must arise.
The home of faith
where doubtings
Anonymous
cease.
emiologia
75
RITY
CHARITY
CHARITY
circum-
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity
Flatter not thyself in thy faith to God, if thou
d with-
envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is
lackest in charity to thy neighbor; and think
usts the
not puffed up.
not thou hast charity for thy neighbor if thou
it.
New Testament: I Corinthians 13: 4
fail in faith to God.
[assilon
Francis Quarles
Charity never faileth.
)ubtful,
New Testament: I Corinthians 13: 8
Charity is a naked child, giving honey to a
bee without wings.
Idenius
Now abideth faith, hope, charity, these
Francis Quarles: Encheiridion
three; but the greatest of these is charity.
with in-
The charitable give out at the door, and God
nose on
New Testament: I Corinthians 13: I3
puts in at the window.
a work
t of the
Put on charity, which is the bond of perfect-
John Ray: English Proverbs
ness.
How often it is difficult to be wisely charit-
ddleton
New Testament: Colossians 3: I4
able-to do good without multiplying the
sources of evil. To give alms is nothing un-
ich the
Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
less you give thought also. It is written, not
ctly con-
New Testament: I Peter 4: 8
"blessed is he that feedeth the poor," but
e to the
"blessed is he that considereth the poor." A
lete war
Organized charity, scrimped and iced,
little thought and a little kindness are often
In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.
worth more than a great deal of money.
ction of
John Boyle O'Reilly: In Bohemia
John Ruskin
men, IV
Charity cannot take the place of justice un-
Charity begins at hame, but shouldna end
bleating
fairly withheld.
there.
m greet-
Pope Pius XI: Quadragesimo anno,
Scottish Proverb
May 15, 1931
"Sonnet
A tear for pity and a hand
l Poems,
A strong argument for the religion of Christ
Open as day for melting charity.
rs, copy-
is this-that offences against charity are
William Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part II,
Vincent
about the only ones which men on their
Act IV, SC. 4, 1. 31
ssion of
deathbeds can be made-not to understand
a Millay
-but to feel-as crimes.
Charity itself fulfills the law,
And who can sever love from charity?
men and
Edgar Allan Poe: Marginalia
William Shakespeare: Love's Labour's
1 become
Lost, Act IV, SC. 3, 1. 364
vmbal.
For forms of government let fools contest;
ans 13: I
Whate'er is best adminster'd is best;
Charity,
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;
Which renders good for bad, blessings for
ecy, and
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
curses.
owledge;
In faith and hope the world will disagree,
t I could
But all mankind's concern is charity.
William Shakespeare: Richard III,
Act I, SC. 2, 1. 68
charity, I
Alexander Pope: Essay on Man,
Epis. III, 1. 303
As frozen as charity.
ans 13: 2
Robert Southey: The Soldier's
Charity, decent, modest, easy, kind,
S to feed
Wife, st. 4
Softens the high, and rears the abject mind;
dy to be
Knows with just reins, and gentle hand to
True charity is the desire to be useful to
fiteth me
guide,
others without thought of recompense.
Betwixt vile shame and arbitrary pride.
Emanuel Swedenborg: Arcana Coelestia,
ans 13: 3
Matthew Prior: Charity
sec. 3419
47
CHARITY
CHARITY
CHARITY
He who bestows his goods upon the poor,
Did charity prevail, the press would prove
the virtue O
Shall have as much again, and ten times
A vehicle of virtue, truth and love.
infinite obje
more.
William Cowper: Charity, 1. 624
could meet 1
John Bunyan: The Pilgrim's
St. Fr
Progress, Pt. II
Ambition, malice, rage and hate
Are strangers to my soul;
No sound ought to be heard in the church
But peace and joy possess the parts,
He that feed
And charity the whole.
but the healing voice of Christian charity.
and no supp
Daniel Defoe: A Review of the Affairs
Edmund Burke: Reflections on the
Revolution in France
of France and of all Europe, VIII
Charity and
This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.
both feed th
Never to judge rashly; never to interpret the
John Donne
actions of others in an ill-sense, but to com-
passionate their infirmities, bear their bur-
First daughter to the love of God, is charity
Charity is i
dens, excuse their weaknesses, and make up
to man.
virtue, grate
for their defects-to hate their imperfections,
William Drennan
God. But cha
but love themselves, this is the true spirit of
cannot super
charity.
There are two kinds of charity, remedial, and
He
Nicolas Caussin
preventive.-The former is often injurious
in its tendency; the latter is always praise-
Christian charity knows no iron curtain.
worthy and beneficial.
Charity sees
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Tryon Edwards
Foundation. Reprinted by per-
mission from the Christian
The worst of charity is, that the lives you are
asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
Charity gives
Century
itself poor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Conduct of
Life: Considerations by the Way
Charity is the scope of all God's commands.
St. John Chrysostom
As cold as charity.
Charity, like 1
English Phrase
to putting it
squander thei
Charity is, indeed, a great thing, and a gift
to whom it is
of God, and when it is rightly ordered, likens
What is faith? What you do not see.
good.
us to God himself, as far as that is possible;
What is hope? A great thing.
for it is charity which makes the man.
What is charity? A great rarity.
Willi:
St. John Chrysostom: True Almsgiving
Facetiae Cantabrigiensis
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and
Charity is the
Posthumous charities are the very essence of
selfishness when bequeathed by those who,
perhaps it would be no difficult matter to
even alive, would part with nothing.
prove that he is also a fool.
Charles Caleb Colton
Henry Fielding
Charity is the
ness.
There is much truth in the observation that
Did universal charity prevail, earth would
charity eases the conscience of the rich more
be a heaven, and hell a fable.
often than it eases the condition of the poor.
Charles Caleb Colton: Lacon,
There can be ]
Irving H. Flamm: An Economic Pro-
Vol. I, no. 160
of his own po
gram for a Living Democracy
not only to ace
also to assist 01
True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd.
True virtue has no limits, but goes on and
that conceptio
William Cowper: Charity, 1. 573
on, and especially holy charity, which is
Thomas Ho
44
GOD
GOD
GOD
The Will of God-
Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
God ha
Nothing More, Nothing Less.
world t
New Testament: Luke 16: 13
chosen
Motto in G. Campbell Morgan's Study
found 1
No man hath seen God at any time.
How great a God we need; and how much
New Testament: John I: 18
greater is our God than our greatest need.
Eye hat
Motto in a Business Office
Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away
have el
the sin of the world.
things
Hammer away ye hostile hands!
New Testament: John I: 29
that lov
Your hammers break;
God's anvil stands.
We have one Father, even God.
Motto on the seal of a Waldensian church
New Testament: John 8: 4I
I have
gave th
God has breathed and they are dispersed.
The Father is in me, and I in him.
Motto on medal celebrating the victory
New Testament: John 10: 38
over the Spanish Armada
Be not
If this counsel or this work be of men, it will
All things proclaim the existence of God.
come to nought: But if it be of God, ye
Napoleon Bonaparte
cannot overthrow it.
It is a ft
New Testament: Acts 5: 38, 39
the livir
God is always on the side of the big
battalions.
God is no respecter of persons.
Napoleon Bonaparte (Tacitus, Voltaire,
New Testament: Acts IO: 34
Our Go
de Bussy .)
I found an altar with this inscription, To the
Our Father which art in heaven.
Unknown God.
For that
New Testament: Matthew 6: 9
New Testament: Acts 17: 23
shall liv
Net
Fear not them which kill the body, but are
For in him we live, and move, and have our
not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him
being; as certain also of your own poets have
a
which is able to destroy both soul and body
in hell.
said, For we are also his offspring.
New Testament: Matthew IO: 28
New Testament: Acts 17: 28
God is
What therefore God hath joined together,
Let God be true, but every man a liar.
dwelleth
let not man put asunder.
New Testament: Romans 3: 4
New Testament: Mark IO: 9
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
I am Alj
Render therefore unto Caesar the things
New Testament: Romans 3: 18
the end,
that are Caesar's, and unto God the things
that are God's.
God forbid.
It is th
New Testament: Mark 12: 17
New Testament: Romans 3: 31
which C
or imag
There is one God; and there is none other
We know that all things work together for
preme 01
than he.
good to them that love God.
dominio
New Testament: Mark 12: 32
New Testament: Romans 8: 28
a living,
and fror
With God nothing shall be impossible.
If God be for us, who can be against us?
supreme,
New Testament: Luke I: 37
New Testament: Romans 8: 31
180
GOD
GOD
GOLD
Others will punctually come for ever and
God for His service needeth not proud work
A God a
ever.
of human skill.
Walt Whitman: Song of Myself
William Wordsworth: Poel's Dream, I, 65
See 1473: 14
Yet, in the maddening maze of things,
And tossed by storm and flood,
To one fixed trust my spirit clings;
God is not the name of God, but an opinion
GOLI
about Him.
I know that God is good!
Pope Xystus I: The Ring
Do unto
I know not where His islands lift
if they I
Their fronded palms in air;
When you speak of God, you are being
I only know I cannot drift
judged by God.
Beyond His love and care.
Ibid.
The G
John Greenleaf Whittier: The Eternal
merely
Goodness
Thou, my all!
Who fathoms the Eternal Thought?
My theme! my inspiration! and my crown!
Who talks of scheme and plan?
My strength in age-my rise in low estate!
Confuc:
The Lord is God! He needeth not
My soul's ambition, pleasure, wealth!-my
loving-}
world!
The poor device of man.
you wo
My light in darkness! and my life in death!
Ibid.
My boast through time! bliss through
eternity!
And man is hate, but God is love!
Eternity, too short to speak thy praise!
Whate
John Greenleaf Whittier: The Chapel
Or fathom thy profound of love to man!
done to
of the Hermits, st. 75
Edward Young: Night Thoughts,
St.
Night IV
Passive to His Holy will,
Trust I in my Master still,
We sh
Even though He slay me.
By night an atheist half believes in God.
wish fr
John Greenleaf Whittier: Barclay of
Edward Young: Night Thoughts,
Ury, st. 7
Night V
He has
God is, and all is well.
A Deity believed, is joy begun;
Till he
John Greenleaf Whittier: My Birthday
A Deity adored, is joy advanced;
A Deity beloved, is joy matured.
This I know is God's own truth, that pain
Each branch of piety delight inspires.
and troubles and trials and sorrows and
My du
Edward Young: Night Thoughts,
disappointments are either one thing or
as mys
Night VIII
another. To all who love God they are love
should
tokens from him. To all who do not love
God and do not want to love him they are
A God alone can comprehend a God.
merely a nuisance. Every single pain that
Edward Young: Night Thoughts,
Do as
we feel is known to God because it is the
Night IX
that I
most loving touch of his hand.
Ph
Edward Adrian Wilson, who died with
Who worship God, shall find him. Humble
Scott in the Antarctic
love,
And not proud reason, keeps the door of
Zoroa:
He who sincerely praises God will soon dis-
heaven;
which
cover within his soul an inclination to praise
Love finds admission, where proud science
whats
goodness in his fellow man.
fails.
Oliver G. Wilson
Ibid.
190
GOD
GOD
GOD
imagination figure Him, nothing is like
If God is not in us, He never existed.
ole!
muse His
Him. But still He hears and sees all things.
Voltaire: La Loi Naturelle: Exordium
Abdallah Ibn Tumart: Tauhid, or
hty Father,
Confession of Faith
If there were no God, it would be necessary
to invent Him.
lling Year
Reason refuseth its homage to a God who
Voltaire: Letter to the author of the New
can be fully understood.
Book of the Trinity
Ibid.
Martin Farquhar Tupper: Proverbial
Philosophy: Of a Trinity
God has made thee to love Him, and not to
understand Him.
Spirit all,
There is a beauty in the name appro-
Voltaire: La Henriade
des,
priated by the Saxon nations to the Deity,
the whole.
unequalled except by the most venerated
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot
Hebrew appellation. They called Him
think
ons, Spring,
"God" which is literally "The Good." The
1. 849
That this watch exists and has no Watch-
same word thus signifying the Deity and
maker.
His most endearing quality.
does
Voltaire: Epigram
Charles Tennyson Turner
Inspiration
All things change, creeds and philosophies
If you ask me how I believe in God, how God
and outward systems-but God remains.
creates himself in me, and reveals himself to
; of himself,
me, my answer may perhaps provoke your
Mary Augusta Ward: Robert Elsmere
for the use
smiles or laughter, and even scandalize you.
I believe in God as I believe in my friends,
It is impossible to govern the world without
Sermon 93
God. He must be worse than an infidel that
because I feel the breath of his affection,
feel his invisible and tangible hand drawing
lacks faith, and more than wicked that has
innot live.
me, leading me, grasping me.
not gratitude enough to acknowledge his
obligation.
Leo Tolstoy
Miguel de Unamuno: Prosa Diversa,
Selection by J. L. Gili, 1939, Oxford
George Washington
e manifesta-
University Press
the laws of
The most important thought I ever had was
the world
God is no fault-finder, always looking for
that of my individual responsibility to God.
things to condemn in us. He estimates us at
Daniel Webster
Γa, Pt. VIII,
our best, not our worst.
ch. 19
The Upper Room
Religion is the first thing and the last thing,
and until a man has found God, and been
He is rich indeed whom God loves.
found by God, he begins at no beginning
J. de la Veprie: Les Proverbs Communs
and works to no end.
dy: Rock of
H. G. Wells
ges (Hymn)
Reach up as far as you can, and God will
reach down all the way.
There are three things that only God knows:
d master.
John H. Vincent
the beginning of things, the cause of things,
sale, LXIX
and the end of things.
If ye despise the human race, and mortal
Welsh Proverb
arms, yet remember that there is a God who
st we weigh
is mindful of right and wrong.
ne expense.
In the faces of men and women I see God,
Virgil: AEneid, Bk. I, 1. 542
ch: Sonnet
and in my own face in the glass,
Where God and hard fortune call us, let us
I find letters from God drop't in the street,
follow.
and every one is signed by God's name,
space hold
And I leave them where they are, for I know
, Him nor
Virgil: Eneid, Bk. XII, 1. ⁶₇₇
that wheresoe'er I go,
189
GOD
GOD
G(
At last I heard a voice upon the slope
But I lose
Cry to the summit, "Is there any hope?"
Myself in Him, in Light ineffable!
im:
To which an answer pealed from that high
Come, then, expressive Silence, muse His
Hil
land,
praise.
But in a tongue no man could understand;
These, as they change, Almighty Father,
And on the glimmering limit far withdrawn,
these
God made himself an awful rose of dawn.
Are but the varied God. The rolling Year
Re:
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Vision of Sin, V
Is full of Thee.
can
Ibid.
Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit
with Spirit can meet-
What, but God?
Inspiring God! who bound less Spirit all,
Th
Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than
hands and feet.
And on emitting Energy, pervades,
pri:
Adjusts, sustains, and agitates the whole.
une
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Higher
Hel
Pantheism, I, 2
James Thomson: The Seasons, Spring,
"G
1. ⁸₄₉
sam
His
Cast all your cares on God; that anchor
Whate'er we leave to God, God does
holds.
And blesses us.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Enoch Arden
Henry David Thoreau: Inspiration
If y
crea
If God were not a necessary being of himself,
me,
I found Him in the shining of the stars,
he might also seem to be made for the use
smil
I mark'd Him in the flowering of His fields,
and benefit of men.
I be
But in His ways with men I find Him not.
John Tillotson: Works, Sermon 93
beca
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Idylls of the King
feel
God is he without whom one cannot live.
me,
There is an enmity between what is of God
Leo Tolstoy
and what is of man.
There is one evident, indubitable manifesta-
Tertullian: The Christian's Defence
tion of the Divinity, and that is the laws of
right which are made known to the world
God
I fled Him down the nights and down the
through Revelation.
thin
our
days;
Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina, Pt. VIII,
I fled Him, down the arches of the years;
ch. 19
I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways
Of my own mind; and in the midst of
He i
Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
tears
Let me hide myself in Thee!
J.
I hid from Him, and under running
laughter.
Augustus Montague Toplady: Rock of
Reac
Ages (Hymn)
reach
Francis Thompson: The Hound of
Heaven
He who serves God hath a good master.
Torriano: Piazza Universale, LXIX
If ye
But with unhurrying chase,
arms
And unperturbèd pace,
When God is to be served, the cost we weigh
is mi
Deliberate speed, majestic instancy,
In anxious balance, grudging the expense.
They beat-and a Voice beat
Richard Chenevix Trench: Sonnet
More instant than the Feet-
Whei
"All things betray Thee, who betrayest Me."
Time does not contain Him, nor space hold
follow
Ibid.
Him. No intelligence can grasp Him nor
188
GOD
GOD
GOD
our ends,
In the days of my youth I remembered my
We do not resign ourselves to the will of
God!
God; we relate ourselves to His will.
:e: Hamlet,
And He hath not forgotten my age.
The Survey Bulletin
, SC. 2, 1. 10
Robert Southey: The Old Man's
Comforts, and How He
We are, because God is.
Gained Them
IV, Part I,
Emanuel Swedenborg: Divine Providence,
SC. 3, 1. 56
Take what you want and pay for it.
sec. 46
Spanish Proverb
ot in theirs.
If we look closely at this world, where God
: Henry V,
I take a totally different view of God and
seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that
SC. 6, 1. 178
Nature from that which the later Christians
it is he, who, after all, commands the most
usually entertain, for I hold that God is the
fidelity and the most love.
conquering
immanent, and not the extraneous, cause of
Madam Anne Soymanov Swetchine
all things, I say, All is in God; all lives and
y bulwarks.
moves in God.
No man doth well but God hath part in him.
VI, Part I,
Benedict (Baruch) de Spinoza: Epistle 21
Algernon Charles Swinburne: Atlanta in
SC. 1, 1. 26
I looked at God and He looked at me, and
Calydon: Chorus
we were one forever.
to my feet.
It is more religious and more reverent to
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
VI, Part II,
believe in the works of the Deity than to
comprehend them.
SC. 3, 1. 24
As sure as ever God puts His children in the
furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.
Tacitus: Germania
Charles Haddon Spurgeon: Privileges of
Ado About
Trial
God, the ruler of all.
SC. 5, 1. 39
Ibid.
When God had finished the creation of the
1 the sod
world He examined it and found it good.
Under whose feet (subjected to His grace),
£ with God.
Since then there has been no opinion ex-
Sit nature, fortune, motion, time and place.
she Shelley
pressed by Him.
Torquato Tasso: Gerusalemme, IX, 56
K. K. Steincke
nselves.
I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked
Concerning
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
if I might help him. I ended up by asking
ment, ch. 2
Laurence Sterne
him to do his work through me.
d find Him
Hudson Taylor
We had needs invent heaven if it had not
been revealed to us.
kh Proverb
It is a great mistake to suppose that God
Robert Louis Stevenson: St. Ives
is only, or even chiefly, concerned with
religion.
dread,
In all ranks of life the human heart yearns
William Temple, Archbishop of
for the beautiful; and the beautiful things
Canterbury
1,
that God makes are his gift to all alike.
bund,
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The old order changeth, yielding place to
new,
ig to David
He paints the lily of the field,
And God fulfils himself in many ways,
Perfumes each lily bell;
Lest one good custom should corrupt the
d does not
If he so loves the little flowers,
world.
I know he loves me well.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Passing of
V. Sockman
Maria Straus
Arthur
187
GOD
GOD
GO]
We cannot break God's laws-but we can
There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
In tl
break ourselves against them.
rough-hew them how we will.
A. Maude Royden
William Shakespeare: Hamlet,
A1
Act V, SC. 2, 1. 10
Anything that makes religion a second object
makes it no object.-He who offers to God a
God save the mark!
second place offers Him no place.
William Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part I,
John Ruskin
Act I, SC. 3, 1. 56
Tak
How can man understand God, since he
We are in God's hand, brother, not in theirs.
does not yet understand his own mind, with
William Shakespeare: Henry V,
I ta
which he endeavours to understand Him?
Act III, SC. 6, 1. 178
Nat
John Ruskin
usua
God is our fortress, in whose conquering
imm
When God shuts a door, He opens a window.
name
all t
John Ruskin
Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks.
mov
William Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part I,
B
With God, go over the sea-without Him,
Act II, SC. 1, 1. 26
not over the threshold.
I lo
Russian Proverb
God shall be my hope,
we
My stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.
I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear
William Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part II,
him who fears him not.
Act II, SC. 3, 1. 24
As S
furi
Saadi
Well, God's a good man.
C
William Shakespeare: Much Ado About
In wonder-workings, or some bush aflame,
Nothing, Act III, SC. 5, 1. 39
Men look for God and fancy Him concealed;
Wh
But in earth's common things He stands
The spirit of the worm beneath the sod
wor
revealed
In love and worship, blends itself with God.
Sin
While grass and flowers and stars spell out
Percy Bysshe Shelley
pre
His name.
Minot J. Savage: In Common Things
God helps those who help themselves.
Algernon Sidney: Discourses Concerning
Go
There is a God to punish and avenge.
Government, ch. 2
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller:
Wilhelm Tell, IV, 3, 37
Many millions search for God and find Him
We
in their hearts.
bee
We often praise the evening clouds,
Sikh Proverb
And tints so gay and bold,
But seldom think upon our God,
Tell them, I AM, Jehovah said
In
Who tinged these clouds with gold.
To Moses; while earth heard in dread,
for
And, smitten to the heart,
Sir Walter Scott: On The Setting Sun
tha
At once above, beneath, around,
All Nature, without voice or sound,
Nothing is void of God; He Himself fills His
Replied, o LORD THOU ART.
work.
He
Christopher Smart: Song to David
Seneca: De Beneficiis
I
Our ground of hope is that God does not
If ]
God never repents his first decision.
weary of mankind.
I
Ibid.
Ralph W. Sockman
186
GOD
GOD
GOD
"A still small voice" comes through the wild,
ce of God.
He who bridles the fury of the billows, knows
Like a father consoling his fretful child,
also to put a stop to the secret plans of the
ope: To Augustus
Which banishes bitterness, wrath, and fear,
wicked.-Submitting to His holy will, I fear
Saying-Man is distant, but God is near!
God; I have no other fear.
purge the visual
Thomas Pringle: Afar in the Desert
Jean Baptiste Racine: Athalie, III
all pour the day.
Man proposes, God disposes.
Man doth what he can, and God what he
er Pope: Messiah
will.
Proverb
John Ray: English Proverbs, XCVII
as God of all,
Who hath God hath all; who hath Him not,
W fall,
hath less than nothing.
Every conjecture we can form with regard to
n hurled
the works of God has as little probability as
and now a world.
Proverb
the conjectures of a child with regard to the
works of a man.
on Man, Epis. I
In all thine actions think that God sees thee,
Thomas Reid: Intellectual Powers, Vol. I
and in all His actions labor to see Him.-
0 great, no small;
That will make thee fear Him, and this will
God is an utterable sigh, planted in the
cts and equals all.
move thee to love Him.-The fear of God is
depths of the soul.
Ibid.
the beginning of knowledge, and the know-
ledge of God is the perfection of love.
Jean Paul Richter
e untutored mind
Francis Quarles
There are times when God asks nothing of
S him in the wind.
his children except silence, patience, and
God is a light that is never darkened; an
tears.
Ibid.
unwearied life that cannot die; a fountain
Charles Seymour Robinson
always flowing; a garden of life; a seminary
I calm we find,
of wisdom; a radical beginning of all good-
1 walks upon the
God could have kept Daniel out of the lion's
ness.
den
He could have kept Paul and Silas
Francis Quarles: Emblems, Bk. I
out of jail-He could have kept the three
on Man, Epis. II
Hebrew children out of the fiery furnace
Without Thy presence, wealth are bags of
But God has never promised to keep us
least understood,
cares;
out of hard places
What he has prom-
i'd
Wisdom, but folly; joy, disquiet, sadness:
ised is to go with us through every hard
ou art good,
Friendship is treason, and delights are
place, and to bring us through victoriously.
id.
snares;
Merv Rosell
Universal Prayer
Pleasure's but pain, and mirth but pleasing
madness.
Give us a God-a living God,
Francis Quarles: Emblems, Bk. V
One to wake the sleeping soul,
One to cleanse the tainted blood
/ sage,
God is alpha and omega in the great world:
Whose pulses in our bosoms roll.
endeavour to make Him so in the little
C. G. Rosenberg: The Winged Horn, st. 7
Ibid.
world; make Him thy evening epilogue and
thy morning prologue
so shall thy rest
If there wasn't a God we would have to
be peaceful, thy labours prosperous, thy life
invent one to keep people sane.
cipher, but with
pious, and thy death glorious.
a figure and can
Jean Jacques Rousseau (see also Voltaire)
Francis Quarles: Enchiridion, Cent. II,
d divide for the
no. 28
God often visits us, but most of the time we
are not at home.
rmission granted
God moderates all at His pleasure.
terian Outlook)
Joseph Roux: Meditations of a Parish
François Rabelais: Works, Bk. II
Priest: God, no. 65
E R
185
GOD
GOD
GOD
To escape from evil we must be made, as far
The people's voice is odd,
"A sti
as possible, like God; and this resemblance
It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
Like
consists in becoming just, and holy, and wise.
Alexander Pope: To Augustus
Whic
Plato
Sayin
He from thick films shall purge the visual
God is a geometrician.
ray,
Plato
And on the sightless eyeball pour the day.
Man
Alexander Pope: Messiah
All men are by nature equal, made, all, of
the same earth by the same Creator, and
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,
Who
however we deceive ourselves, as dear to God
A hero perish or a sparrow fall,
hath
is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Atoms or systems into ruin hurled
Plato
And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Alexander Pope: Essay on Man, Epis. I
In all
He best keeps from anger who remembers
and i
that God is always looking upon him.
To Him no high, no low, no great, no small;
That
Plato
He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.
move
Ibid.
the b.
God if He be good, is not the author of all
ledge
things, but of a few things only, and not of
Lo, the poor Indian; whose untutored mind
most things that occur to man.
Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
Plato: The Republic
God
Ibid.
unwe
There is indeed a God that hears and sees
alway
whate'er we do.
Nor God alone in the still calm we find,
of wis
Titus Maccius Plautus: Captivi, II, 2, 6₃
He mounts the storm, and walks upon the
ness.
wind.
Alexander Pope: Essay on Man, Epis. II
It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head
of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to
With
human affairs.
Thou Great First Cause, least understood,
C
Pliny the Elder: Natural History
Who all my sense confin'd
Wisd
To know but this, that thou art good,
Frien
And that myself am blind.
S
It were better to have no opinion of God at
Alexander Pope: The Universal Prayer
Pleasi
all than such an one as is unworthy of him;
n
for the one is only unbelief-the other is
contempt.
Father of all! in every age,
Plutarch
In every clime adored,
By saint, by savage, and by sage,
God i
Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!
endea
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road.
world
Ibid.
But looks through Nature up to Nature's
thy m
God.
be pe
Alexander Pope
Without God I am a mere cipher, but with
pious
Him by my side I become a figure and can
Fr
add, subtract, multiply and divide for the
All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Kingdom's business.
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Presbyterian Tribune (permission granted
Alexander Pope
God I
by Presbyterian Outlook)
184
E1
GOD
GOD
GOD
ht as with a
Nothing is so lofty or so far above danger
The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.
the heavens
that it is not below and in the power of God.
Ibid.
he beams of
Ovid: Tristia
0 maketh the
:th upon the
We understand nothing of the works of God,
As God is propitiated by the blood of a
if we do not assume that He has willed to
th his angels
hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest
fire.
blind some and enlighten others.
offering of incense.
Ibid.
ilms 104: 2-4
Ibid.
hy works! in
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
God's might to direct me,
all: the earth
Thomas Paine
God's power to protect me,
God's wisdom for learning,
salms 104: 24
God's eye for discerning,
It is wrong to say that God made rich and
God's ear for my hearing,
ath he respect
poor; He made only male and female, and
God's word for my clearing.
He gave them the whole earth for their
inheritance.
Attributed to St. Patrick (Sigerson, tr.)
Psalms 138: 6
Thomas Paine
You cannot serve God without Mammon.
beginning of
Suppose I had found a watch upon the
Hesketh Pearson: Biography of George
ground
The mechanism being observed,
Bernard Shaw, Harper & Row
Proverbs I: 7
the inference we think is inevitable that
Publishers, Inc.
the watch must have a maker; that there
recteth.
must have existed, at some time, and at some
God is not in the slightest degree baffled or
'roverbs 3: I2
place or other, an artificer or artificers, who
bewildered by what baffles and bewilders us
formed it for the purpose which we find it
He is either a present help or He is not
: but the Lord
actually to answer; who comprehended its
much help at all.
construction, and designed its use.
J.B. Phillips: New Testament Christianity,
'roverbs 16: 9
William Paley: Natural Theology, ch. 1
The Macmillan Co., New York, and
Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., London
or in the Lord
The world we inhabit must have had an
h.
origin; that origin must have consisted in
Isaiah 26: 4
a cause; that cause must have been intelli-
One on God's side is a majority.
gent; that intelligence must have been
Wendell Phillips
else.
supreme; and that supreme, which always
was and is supreme, we know by the name
Isaiah 45: 22
The issue is in God's hands.
of God.
Pindar: Olympian Odes
Nikita Ivanovich Panin
as a physical
of body. He is
without need-
Have no fear for the unsettlement or the
If any man hopes, in whatever he does, to
re, or form, or
disturbance of the Kingdom of heaven. It
escape the eve of God, he is grievously wrong.
of matter.
began in eternity, it will go on through ever-
Ibid.
lasting; there is no panic in the divine per-
e principiis, I
sonality. God is peace, God gives peace, God
God is truth and light his shadow.
gives rest.
we glow when
Plato
Joseph Parker
d: Fasti, VI, 5
If a man is not made for God, why is he
The world is God's epistle to mankind-his
happy only in God? If man is made for God,
thoughts are flashing upon us from every
t be wretched.
why is he opposed to God?
direction.
ristia, I, C. 10
Blaise Pascal: Pensées
Plato
183
1
)
GOD
GOD
GOD
The eternal God is thy refuge, and under-
Who coverest thyself with light as with a
Nothing is
neath are the everlasting arms.
garment: who stretchest out the heavens
that it is no
Old Testament: Deuteronomy 33: 27
like a curtain: Who layeth the beams of
his chambers in the waters: who maketh the
Be strong and of a good courage; be not
clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the
As God is
afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the
wings of the wind: Who maketh his angels
hundred b
Lord thy God is with thee, whithersoever
spirits; his ministers a flaming fire.
offering of
thou goest.
Old Testament: Psalms 104: 2-4
)
Old Testament: Joshua I: 9
O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in
Belief in a
Canst thou by searching find out God?
wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth
Old Testament: Job II: 7
is full of thy riches.
Old Testament: Psalms 104: 24
It is wrong
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no
God.
Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect
poor; He
Old Testament: Psalms 14: I
unto the lowly.
He gave 1
inheritanc
Old Testament: Psalms 138: 6
The heavens declare the glory of God; and
the firmament sheweth his handywork.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of
knowledge.
Suppose ]
Old Testament: Psalms 19: I
ground
Old Testament: Proverbs I: 7
the int
In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust.
the watch
Whom the Lord loveth he correcteth.
Old Testament: Psalms 31: I
must have
Old Testament: Proverbs 3: 12
place or o
I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and
formed it
my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord
actually t
directeth his steps.
constructi
Old Testament: Psalms 91: 2
Old Testament: Proverbs 16: 9
Willia
For the Lord is a great God, and a great King
Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord
The worl
above all gods.
Jehovah is everlasting strength.
origin; th
Old Testament: Psalms 95: 3
Old Testament: Isaiah 26: 4
a cause; t
gent; tha
The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice.
I am God, and there is none else.
supreme;
Old Testament: Psalms 97: I
was and i
Old Testament: Isaiah 45: 22
of God.
Give thanks unto him, and bless his name.
God must not be thought of as a physical
For Jehovah is good; his lovingkindness
being, or as having any kind of body. He is
endureth for ever, And his faithfulness unto
pure mind. He moves and acts without need-
Have no
all generations.
ing any corporeal space, or size, or form, or
disturbar
Old Testament: Psalms 100: 4, 5 (R.V.)
color, or any other property of matter.
began in
lasting; t
Origen: De principiis, I
sonality.
Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and
gives rest
tender mercies.
There is a God within us, and we glow when
Old Testament: Psalms 103: 4
He stirs us.
Ovid: Fasti, VI, 5
If a mar
The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting
happy or
to everlasting upon them that fear him.
If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.
why is h
Old Testament: Psalms 103: 17
Ovid: Tristia, I, C. 10
182
GOD
GOD
GOD
God hath chosen the foolish things of the
Only God is permanently interesting. Other
imon.
world to confound the wise; and God hath
things we may fathom, but he out-tops our
Luke 16: 13
chosen the weak things of the world to con-
thought and can neither be demonstrated
found the things which are mighty.
nor argued down.
time.
New Testament: I Corinthians I: 27
Joseph Fort Newton: My Idea of God, p. 5
John I: 18
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither
God acts the part of a Geometrician
1 taketh away
have entered into the heart of man, the
His government of the world is no less exact
things which God hath prepared for them
than His creation of it.
: John I: 29
that love him.
John Norris: Practical Discourses,
New Testament: I Corinthians 2: 9
Vol. II, p. 228
d.
John 8: 41
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God
A God-intoxicated man.
gave the increase.
Novalis
him.
New Testament: I Corinthians 3: 6
John IO: 38
Trumpeter, rally us, up to the heights of it!
Be not deceived; God is not mocked
Sound for the City of God.
f men, it will
New Testament: Galatians 6: 7
Alfred Noyes: "Trumpet Call," from
: of God, ye
Collected Poems, Vol. III. Copy-
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of
right 1915, 1943 by Alfred Noyes,
1cts 5: 38, 39
the living God.
published by J. B. Lippincott
New Testament: Hebrews 10: 3I
Company
S.
: Acts IO: 34
Our God is a consuming fire.
Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
New Testament: Hebrews 12: 29
Old Testament: Genesis 18: 25
ption, To the
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we
God will provide.
shall live, and do this, or that.
: Acts 17: 23
Old Testament: Genesis 22: 8
New Testament: James 4: I5 (Hence,
and have our
"If the Lord will" came to be known
God said unto Moses, I am that I am.
vn poets have
as the St. James's reservation, and
ring.
"Sub reservatione Jacobaeo" became
Old Testament: Exodus 3: 14
a Latin proverb.)
: Acts 17: 28
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
God is love; and he that dwelleth in love
Old Testament: Exodus 20: 3
in a liar.
dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Romans 3: 4
New Testament: I John 4: 16
The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-
suffering, and abundant in goodness and
e their eyes.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and
truth.
Romans 3: 18
the end, the first and the last.
Old Testament: Exodus: 34: 6
New Testament: Revelation 22: I3
Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he
It is the dominion of a spiritual being
is God, the faithful God, which keepeth
Romans 3: 31
which constitutes a God: a true, supreme,
covenant and mercy with them that love
or imaginary dominion makes a true, su-
him and keep his commandments to a thou-
together for
preme or imaginary God. And from his true
sand generations.
dominion it follows that the true God is
Old Testament: Deuteronomy 7: 9
Romans 8: 28
a living, intelligent, and powerful Being;
and from his other perfections, that he is
The Lord your God is a God of gods, a Lord
igainst us?
supreme, or most perfect.
of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible.
Romans 8: 31
Sir Isaac Newton: Principia
Old Testament: Deuteronomy 10: 17
181
GOD
GOD
GOD
love his loves,
God should be the object of all our desires,
Just are the ways of God,
:hus to know
the end of all our actions, the principle of all
And justifiable to men;
me.
our affections, and the governing power of
Unless there be who think not God at all.
e Macdonald
our whole souls.
John Milton: Samson Agonistes, 1. 293
Jean Baptiste Massillon
S our last and
Either man's work or his own gifts: who best
Amid all the war and contest and variety of
n because we
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best; his
human opinion, you will find one consenting
hen we learn
state
conviction in every land, that there is one
riven us, not
Is kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed
God, the king and father of all.
esired haven.
And post o'er land and ocean without rest:
Maximus Tyrius
e Macdonald
They also serve who only stand and wait.
I have read up many queer religions; and
John Milton: On His Blindness
there is nothing like the old thing, after all,
now;
I have looked into the most philosophical
O unexampl'd love!
high hills
systems, and have found none that will work
Love nowhere to be found less than Divine!
hprehend.
without a God.
that is God.
John Milton: Paradise Lost, Bk. III, 1. 410
James Clerk Maxwell
and Without,
Pt. I
One sole God; One sole ruler,-his Law;
Spin carefully, spin prayerfully, but leave
the thread to God.
One sole interpreter of that law-Humanity.
God
Giuseppe Mazzini: Young Europe:
Missionary Tidings
General Principles, no. 1
Hope writes the poetry of the boy, but
Ibid.
Each of us may be sure that if God sends us
memory that of the man. Man looks forward
on stony paths, He will provide us with
with smiles, but backward with sighs. Such
strong shoes. He will not send us out on
is the wise providence of God. The cup of
by its gifts?
any journey for which he does not equip us
life is sweetest at the brim, the flavor is im-
less the man
well.
paired as we drink deeper, and the dregs are
from God?
Megiddo Message
made bitter that we may not struggle when
Astronomica
it is taken from our lips.
I live and love in God's peculiar light.
Adolphe Monod
Michelangelo
he image of
God, I can push the grass apart
If God would concede me His omnipotence
Ibid.
And lay my finger on Thy heart!
for 24 hours, you would see how many
changes I would make in the world. But if
Edna St. Vincent Millay: "Renascence,"
He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave
from Collected Poems, Harper &
things will
things as they are.
Row, Publishers, Inc., copyright
arison with
1912-1940 by Edna St. Vincent
J.M.L.Monsabre
Millay, used by permission
God is a great expense but government
McCheyne
of Norma Millay
would be impossible without Him.
Belief of God is acceptance of the basic
George Moore: Confessions of a Young
t is as if he
principle that the universe makes sense, that
Man
sky, seeking
there is behind it an ultimate purpose.
standpoint.
Carl Wallace Miller
I had a thousand questions to ask God; but
[. McGregor
when I met him they all fled and didn't
To the reverent scientist
the simplest
seem to matter.
features of the world about us are in them-
t with God
"I had a thousand questions
from
t as the man
selves so awe-inspiring that there seems no
Inward Ho! by Christopher Morley,
need to seek new and greater miracles of
copyright 1923, 1950 by Christopher
God's care.
Morley, published by
n A. Marcy
Carl Wallace Miller
J. B. Lippincott
179
GOD
GOD
GOI
Why seek the Deity further? Whatever we
thoughts, to choose his will, to love his loves,
God
see is God, and wherever we go.
to judge his judgments, and thus to know
the el
Lucan: De Bello Civili, Bk. IX
that he is in us, is to be at home.
our a
George Macdonald
our V
From God derived, to God by nature joined,
We act the dictates of His mighty mind;
How often we look upon God as our last and
And tho' the priests are mute, and temples
Amid
feeblest resource! We go to him because we
still,
huma
have nowhere else to go. And then we learn
God never wants a voice to speak His will.
convi
that the storms of life have driven us, not
God,
Ibid.
upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.
George Macdonald
Is there any other seat of the Divinity than
I hav
the earth, sea, air, the heavens, and virtuous
there
minds? Why do we seek God elsewhere? He
A voice in the wind I do not know;
I have
is whatever you see; he is wherever you move.
A meaning on the face of the high hills
systen
Whose utterance I cannot comprehend.
Lucan: Pharsalia, IX, 578
witho
A something is behind them: that is God.
George Macdonald: Within and Without,
God doesn't always smooth the path, but
Pt. I
One S
sometimes he puts springs in the wagon.
One S(
Marshall Lucas
All growth that is not towards God
Is growing to decay.
A mighty fortress is our God,
Ibid.
Each (
A bulwark never failing;
on stc
Our helper he amid the flood
strong
Of mortal ills prevailing.
Who can know heaven except by its gifts?
any jo
and who can find out God, unless the man
Martin Luther: Ein Feste Burg
well.
who is himself an emanation from God?
Marcus Manilius: Astronomica
When God contemplates some great work,
I live
He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak,
human creature, to whom He afterwards
Everyone is in a small way the image of
gives aid, so that the enemies who seek to
God.
God, I
obstruct it are overcome.
Ibid.
And la
Martin Luther: Table Talk
Ed
Though God have iron hands which when
Live near to God, and so all things will
they strike pay home, yet hath he leaden
appear to you little in comparison with
eternal realities.
feet which are as slow to overtake a sinner.
John Lyly: Euphues, P. 172
Robert M. McCheyne
Belief
Trust in God and do something.
When a man comes to God, it is as if he
princip
looked from the other side of the sky, seeking
Mary Lyon
there is
the same things from another standpoint.
I fear no foe with thee at hand to bless;
W. M. McGregor
To the
Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness.
feature
Henry Francis Lyte: Eventide
The man who has lost contact with God
selves S
lives on the same dead-end street as the man
need to
God's thoughts, his will, his love, his judg-
who denies him.
God's C
ments are all man's home. To think his
Milton A. Marcy
178
'GOD
GOD
GOD
n God's, they
God is a sun, which, though, but one, is
Let nothing disturb thee,
an those who
sufficient to enlighten and vivify a whole
Let nothing affright thee,
pose.
world.
All things are passing,
Company, Inc.
Michael Le Faucheur
God changeth never.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Santa
Teresa's Bookmark
For God rewards good deeds done here
below-rewards them here.
Though the mills of God grind slowly
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Nathan der
Yet they grind exceeding small;
the Architect
Weise, I, 2
Though with patience He stands waiting,
With exactness grinds He all.
houghts after
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Retribu-
There are two kinds of people: those who
tion (also tr. of Friedrich von Logan)
say to God, "Thy will be done," and those
then studying
to whom God says, "All right, then, have it
God has sifted three kingdoms to find the
astronomy)
your way."
wheat for this planting.
C. S. Lewis: The Great Divorce
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The
lowever little
Courtship of Miles Standish, IV
ws; He knows
11 things; and
"How do you know," a Bedouin asked, "that
Behind the dim unknown,
S.
there is a God?" "In the same way," he re-
rles Kingsley
plied, "that I know, on looking at the sand,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping
watch above his own.
when a man or beast has crossed the desert—
by His footprints in the world around me."
James Russell Lowell: The Present Crisis
y day.
Henry Parry Liddon
nt's Tragedy,
God'll send the bill to you.
Prometheus
James Russell Lowell: The Biglow Papers
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on
our side; my great concern is to be on God's
An' you've gut to git up airly
Koran, ch. 3
side, for God is always right.
Ef you want to take in God.
Abraham Lincoln: Reply to a deputation
Ibid.
tagems.
of Southerners
Ibid.
Whom the heart of man shuts out,
Sometimes the heart of God takes in.
ovidence.
I do not know how the loving father will
James Russell Lowell: The Forlorn
bring out light at last, but he knows and he
ajos Kossuth
will do it.
Darkness is strong, and so is Sin,
David Livingstone
But surely God endures forever!
I find myself
es to me His
James Russell Lowell: Villa Franca,
All is of God. If He but wave His hand,
Conclusion
S Caractères,
The mists collect, the rain falls thick and
sec. 16
loud
'Tis heaven alone that is given away;
Till, with a smile of light on sea and land,
"Tis only God may be had for the asking.
help you.
Lo, He looks back from the departing
James Russell Lowell: The Vision of
cloud.
Sir Launfal
S, Bk. VI, 18
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We do nothing without the leave of God.
a soul that
Lucan: De Bello Civili, Bk. IX
E God. My
Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally
ence of God.
justice triumphs.
Has God any dwelling-place save earth and
er Lawrence
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
sea, the air of heaven and virtuous hearts?
177
GOD
GOD
GOD
The God of many men is little more than
If the blind put their hand in God's, they
God is a
their court of appeal against the damnatory
find their way more surely than those who
sufficient
judgment passed on their failures by the
see but have not faith or purpose.
world.
opinion of the world.
Helen Keller, Doubleday & Company, Inc.
William James: Varieties of Religious
Experience, p. 138
Who thou art I know not,
But this much I know:
For God
God governs the world, and we have only
Thou hast set the Pleiades
below-re
to do our duty wisely, and leave the issue to
In a silver row.
Gotthol
him.
Harry Kemp: God, the Architect
John Jay
All men
are endowed by their Creator
O God, I am thinking Thy thoughts after
There are
with certain unalienable Rights
Thee.
among
say to Go
these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of
Johannes Kepler (when studying
to whom
Happiness.
astronomy)
your way.
Thomas Jefferson
Take comfort, and recollect however little
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
you and I may know, God knows; He knows
Himself and you and me and all things; and
"How do
Thomas Jefferson
His mercy is over all His works.
there is a
Don't bargain with God.
Charles Kingsley
plied, "th
when a m:
Jewish Proverb
by His for
All but God is changing day by day.
From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we
Charles Kingsley: The Saint's Tragedy,
tend,
Prometheus
Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
Sir, my C
Samuel Johnson: Motto for the Rambler,
There is no God but God.
our side; 1
no. 7
The Koran, ch. 3
side, for (
Abraha
Our Father dwells in tents as well as in the
temples, but His favourite abiding-place is
God is the best deviser of stratagems.
in the hearts of mankind.
Ibid.
J. Fred Jones
I do not
History is the revelation of providence.
bring out
God, to be God, must transcend what is. He
Lajos Kossuth
will do it
must be the maker of what ought to be.
Rufus Matthew Jones, in Newton:
The very impossibility in which I find myself
My Idea of God
to prove that God is not, discloses to me His
existence.
All is of (
We know God easily, if we do not constrain
Jean de La Bruyère: Les Caractères,
The mi
ourselves to define him.
sec. 16
lou
Till, with
Joseph Joubert
Help yourself and Heaven will help you.
Lo, He
clo
The sun and every vassal star,
Jean de La Fontaine: Fables, Bk. VI, 18
All space, beyond the soar of angel's wings
Wait on His word; and yet He stays His car
The world appears very little to a soul that
For every sigh a contrite suppliant brings.
contemplates the greatness of God. My
Man is un
John Keble: The Christian Year,
business is to remain in the presence of God.
justice tri
Ascension Day
Brother Lawrence
176
GOD
GOD
GOD
is fitting.
Lord of the light unfading
a proper appreciation of its essential and
Ibid.
From day to reborn day;
historic significance without assuming the
God of the worlds brocading
existence of a belief in a supreme allegiance
This planet's nightly way;
to the will of God.
can never
Master of Hope, and builder
Charles Evans Hughes (Merlo J. Pusey:
Ibid.
Of life's immortal span,
Charles Evans Hughes [New York &
Now, when the days bewilder,
London: Columbia University
Thunder again to man!
Press, 1963])
nprehend
end.
Leigh Mitchell Hodges: Processional, 1933
In this stupendous manner, at which Reason
Not to be
God loves an idle rainbow
stands aghast, and Faith herself is half con-
rehended
No less than laboring seas.
founded, was the grace of God to man at
length manifested.
fold end,
Ralph Hodgson: Reason Has Moons
Richard Hurd: Sermons, Vol. II, p. 287
t' amend.
The great soul that sits on the throne of the
Numbers
universe is not, never was, and never will be,
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
Indian Proverb
in a hurry.
doth ever
Josiah Gilbert Holland: Gold-Foil:
I have never understood why it should be
Patience
; Love:
considered derogatory to the Creator to sup-
rust;
pose that He has a sense of humour.
One unquestioned text we read,
the Just.
All doubt beyond, all fear above;
William R. Inge: in Marchant's Wit and
and Love
Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed
Wisdom of Dean Inge, Longmans
Green & Co., Ltd.
Can burn or blot it: GOD IS LOVE.
down thy
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.: What We
Far better in its place the lowliest bird
All Think
hear thou
Should sing aright to Him the lowliest
song,
Spontaneously to God should turn the soul
Than that a seraph strayed should take the
th, Man's
Like the magnetic needle to the pole.
word
Mourning
Thomas Hood: A Poem Addressed to
And sing His glory wrong.
Rae Wilson
Jean Ingelow: Honours, Pt. II
heir cloth;
faith.
Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
: Proverbs
man to wade far into the things of the Most
Robert Green Ingersoll: The Gods,
High.
Our soundest knowledge is to
Pt. I, p. 2
know that we know him not as indeed he
Ibid.
is, neither can know him; and our safest
God never shuts one door but He opens
eloquence concerning him is our silence,
another.
when we confess without confession that his
nings; out-
Irish Proverb
1; without
glory is inexplicable, his greatness above our
raised up;
capacity and reach.
He who leaves God out of his reasoning does
Richard Hooker: Ecclesiastical Polity,
not know how to count.
above, pre-
ig; wholly
Bk. I, ch. 2, sec. 3
Italian Proverb
in, filling.
The world is charged with the grandeur of
What is there in man so worthy of honor
1: Epistles
God.
and reverence as this, that he is capable of
Gerard Manley Hopkins: God's Grandeur
contemplating something higher than his
with your
own reason, more sublime than the whole
es open-
The essence of religion is a belief in a
universe-that Spirit which alone is self-
arved, the
relation to God involving duties superior
subsistent, from which all truth proceeds,
to those arising out of any human relation.
without which is no truth?
Christian
One cannot speak of religious liberty with
Johann Georg Jacobi
175
GOD
GOD
GOD
The promises of God are certain, but they
God complains not, but doth what is fitting.
Lord
do not all mature in 90 days.
Ibid.
Frc
Adoniram J. Gordon
God
God, and parents, and our master, can never
Th
A god from the machine (Deus ex Machina).
be requited.
Maste
Greek Proverb
Ibid.
Of
Now,
God's mills grind slow but sure.
"Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend
Th
Him, as He is, is labour without end.
Lei
Greek Proverb
Robert Herrick: God Not to be
Comprehended
God
You have to give God the benefit of the
No le
doubt.
God has His whips here to a twofold end,
Sacha Guitry
The bad to punish, and the good t' amend.
Robert Herrick: Noble Numbers
The §
Who believes that equal grace
unive
God extends in every place,
Little difference he scans
God hath two wings, which He doth ever
in a }
move,
'Twixt a rabbit's God and man's.
The one is Mercy, and the next is Love:
Francis Bret Harte: Battle Bunny: Envoi
Under the first the Sinners ever trust;
And with the last he still directs the Just.
One
It is highly convenient to believe in the
All d
Robert Herrick: Mercy and Love
infinite mercy of God when you feel the
Nor (
need of mercy, but remember also his infinite
Can 1
Where God is merry, there write down thy
justice.
fears:
C
Benjamin Robert Haydon: Table Talk
What He with laughter speaks, hear thou
with tears.
Sure, Lord, there is enough in thee to dry
Spont
Robert Herrick: God's Mirth, Man's
Like
Oceans of ink; for as the deluge did
Mourning
Cover the earth, so doth thy majesty.
]
Each cloud distils thy praise, and doth forbid
God sends men cold according to their cloth;
Poets to turn it to another use.
viz. afflictions according to their faith.
Dang
George Herbert (Izaak Walton, Life,
John Heywood: Proverbs
man 1
p. 325)
High
God is no botcher.
know
God strikes with his finger, and not with all
Ibid.
is, ne
his arm.
eloqu
George Herbert: Jacula Prudentum
God is over all things, under all things; out-
when
side all; within but not enclosed; without
glory
God gives his wrath by weight, and without
but not excluded; above but not raised up;
capac
weight his mercy.
below but not depressed; wholly above, pre-
Ibid.
siding; wholly beneath, sustaining; wholly
without, embracing; wholly within, filling.
God strikes not with both hands, for to the
Hildebert of Lavardin: Epistles
The 1
God.
sea He made havens, and to rivers fords.
Why are you so anxious to see God with your
Gei
Ibid.
eyes closed? See him with your eyes open-
in the form of the poor, the starved, the
The
He loseth nothing that loseth not God.
illiterate and the afflicted.
relati
to the
Ibid.
Hindu to a Christian
One
174
GOD
GOD
GOD
O. majesty unspeakable and dread!
Fellow-citizens: God reigns, and the Govern-
Wert Thou less mighty than Thou art,
ment at Washington lives!
glish Proverb
Thou wert, O Lord, too great for our belief,
James Abram Garfield: Speech on the
Too little for our heart.
Assassination of Lincoln
it strikes with
Frederick William Faber: The Greatness
of God
Love is God's essence; Power but his attri-
glish Proverb
bute; therefore is his love greater than his
I do not believe in God, for that implies an
power.
S and made a
effort of the will-I see God everywhere!
Richard Garnett: De Flagello Myrteo, IV
er to say that
lone, but God
Jean Favre
God never made a tyrant, nor a slave.
Man moves himself, but God leads him.
William Lloyd Garrison: Address
Epictetus
François de Salignac de La Mothe
nith, who for
Fénelon: Epiphany Sermon
I believe in God the Father Almighty because
wherever I have looked, through all that I
his village to
He is poor that God hates.
see around me, I see the trace of an intelli-
David Fergusson: Scottish Proverbs
gent mind, and because in natural laws, and
Epitaph
especially in the laws which govern the social
Do as ye wald be done to.
relations of men, I see, not merely the proofs
horn lamb.
Ibid.
of intelligence, but the proofs of beneficence.
ane: Premises
The birth of every new baby is God's vote of
Henry George: Speech
e first makes
confidence in the future of man.
This is well-nigh the greatest of discoveries
Imogene Fey
a man can make, that God is not confined
Euripides
in churches, but that the streets are sacred
Paley's simile of the watch
must be
because His presence is there, that the
1 in God;
replaced by the simile of the flower. The
market-place is one of His abiding places,
.f lends aid.
universe is not a machine but an organism
and ought, therefore, to be a sanctuary. Any
with an indwelling principle of life. It was
tus, frag. 435
moment in any place, the veil can suddenly
not made, but it has grown.
grow thin and God be seen.
John Fiske, in Newton: My Idea of God
R. C. Gillie, A. & C. Black, Ltd.
The way to God is by ourselves.
The Unknown Cause of the universe is Him-
Phineas Fletcher: The Purple Island: To
self a Spirit, whose Word is perfect truth,
the Reader
whose nature is perfect righteousness, whose
law is perfect love.
Many roads lead to God. Travel any one
of them you like and I'm sure you'll come
Washington Gladden
within God's reach.
Claud H. Foster
The task of statesmanship is to discover
where God Almighty is going during the
God does well what He does.
next fifty years.
;elical Beacon
French Proverb
William Ewart Gladstone
all indeed, but
God will know His own.
No one against God, except God himself.
expresses the
French Proverb
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
ered the heart
children, read
As the sensation of hunger presupposes
Autobiography, Bk. XIX
o inscribed at
food to satisfy it, so the sense of dependence
on God presupposes His existence and
As a man is, so is his God; therefore was God
d shedding its
character.
so often an object of mockery.
illiam Everest
Octavius Brookes Frothingham
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Gedichte
173
GOD
GOD
GOD
our languid love, and give firmness to our
God is where He was.
O majes
vacillating purpose.
Wert
English Proverb
George Eliot
Thou we
Too li
God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with
God is an unutterable sigh in the human
iron hands.
Frede
heart, said the old German mystic. And
therewith said the last word.
English Proverb
Havelock Ellis: Impressions and
I do not
When you have shut the doors and made a
Comments, Houghton Mifflin Co.
effort of
darkness within, remember never to say that
you are alone; for you are not alone, but God
God may consent, but only for a time.
is within.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Conduct of Life:
Man mo
Epictetus
Fate
I
Here lies the body of John Smith, who for
Fear God, and where you go men will think
forty years cobbled shoes in this village to
they walk in hallowed cathedrals.
the glory of God.
He is po
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Conduct of
]
Epitaph
Life: Worship
Do as ye
God tempers the cold to the shorn lamb.
The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal,
of the crusaders a crusader, and of the mer-
Henri Estienne: Premises
The birt]
chant a merchant.
Whom God would destroy he first makes
confiden
Ibid.
mad.
God enters by a private door into every
Euripides
Paley's S
individual.
Try first thyself, and after call in God;
replaced
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, First
For to the worker God himself lends aid.
universe
Series: Intellect
with an
Euripides: Hippolytus, frag. 435
not made
To Be is to live with God.
If I were God
John
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Journals, 1865
And man made a mire
The way
Of things: war, hatred,
When the Master of the universe has points
Murder, lust, cobwebs,
Phinea
to carry in his government he impresses his
will in the structure of minds.
Of infamy, entangling
The heart and soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Letters and Social
I would sweep him
Many ro
Aims: Immortality
of them
To one side and start anew.
within G
(I think I would.)
As the bird alights on the bough, then
If I did this,
plunges into the air again, so the thoughts
Would I be God?
God does
of God pause but for a moment in any form.
The Evangelical Beacon
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Letters and Social
Aims: Poetry and Imagination
In form, the word "God" is small indeed, but
God will
There is a crack in everything God has made.
in meaning it is infinite. It expresses the
greatest thought that ever entered the heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Works
of man. It is lisped by the children, read
As the :
and known of all men; but also inscribed at
food to sa
God offers to every mind its choice between
the zenith of the universe, and shedding its
on God
truth and repose.
glory on all below it.
character
Thomas Dunn English: Essays
Harry William Everest
172
GOD
GOD
GOD
inspired,
God of the granite and the rose,
Too wise to err, too good to be unkind,
ptious eye,
de them all.
Soul of the sparrow and the bee,
Are all the movements of the Eternal Mind.
The mighty tide of being flows
John East: Songs of My Pilgrimage
Task, Bk. V
Thro' countless channels, Lord, from Thee.
Elizabeth Doten: Reconciliation
If we seek God for our own good and profit,
ou would'st
we are not seeking God.
S embrace,
It isn't so urgent
whether you believe in
Johannes Eckhart
wast blind
God as whether he can believe in you. If
you will conduct yourself in a manner that
Every law of matter or the body, supposed to
and thine
might encourage him to believe in you, the
govern man, is rendered null and void by
time may come when you feel that you
the law of Life, God.
vine delight
should return the compliment.
Mary Baker Eddy: Science and Health,
divine have
Lloyd Douglas: Invitation to Live,
p. 380, 32-1
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Ibid.
God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite
God's love for poor sinners is very wonder-
Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth,
ful, but God's patience with ill-natured
Love.
saints is a deeper mystery.
Mary Baker Eddy: Science and Health,
ea
Henry Drummond
P. 465, 9-10
ght Shining
By tracing Heav'n his footsteps may be
There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor sub-
of Darkness
found:
stance in matter. All is infinite Mind, and
Behold! how awfully he walks the round!
its infinite manifestation, for God is All in
the more' I
God is abroad, and wondrous in his ways
All. Spirit is immortal Truth; Matter is
The rise of empires, and their fall surveys.
mortal error.
:r D. Curtis
John Dryden: Britannia Rediviva
Mary Baker Eddy: Science and Health,
p. 468, 9-12
ence shares,
WS in their
"Tis god-like God in his own coin to pay.
A true love to God must begin with a delight
Ibid.
in his holiness, and not with a delight in any
mble spares
other attribute; for no other attribute is
the thought
All love is lost but upon God alone.
truly lovely without this.
William Dunbar: The Merle and the
Jonathan Edwards: A Treatise Concern-
're is a God
Nightingale
ing Religious Affections: Works,
Vol. V, p. 143
iere are no
Trying to build the brotherhood of man
without the fatherhood of God is like trying
He who has no friend has God.
le Defender
to make a wheel without a hub.
Egyptian Proverb
Irene Dunne
ly
God is a scientist, not a magician.
ely.
The greatest question of our time is not còm-
Albert Einstein
Waldenses
munism versus individualism, not Europe
versus America, not even the East versus the
God is clever, but not dishonest.
oglyphics of
West: it is whether man can bear to live
dless; whom
without God.
Inscription over a fireplace in Fine Hall,
Princeton, N. J. (Albert Einstein)
and not for
Will Durant
t to his end;
e them still.
The idea of God, and the sense of His
God is living, working still.
presence, intensify all noble feeling and
ohn Donne
John S. Dwight
encourage all noble effort, pour new life into
171
GOD
GOD
GOD
That wheresoe'er I stray and range,
But who with filial confidence inspired,
Whate'er I do, Thou dost not change.
God of
Can lift to heaven an unpresumptious eye,
I steadier step when I recall
Soul of
And smiling say, My Father made them all.
The mi
That, if I slip, Thou dost not fall.
William Cowper: Task, Bk. V
Thro' C
Arthur Hugh Clough: With Whom Is No
Variableness
Acquaint thyself with God, if thou would'st
taste
Praise ye Jehovah, source of every blessing,
His works. Admitted once to his embrace,
It isn't
Before His gifts earth's richest boons are
Thou shalt perceive that thou wast blind
God as
dim;
before:
you wil
Resting in Him, His peace and joy possessing,
Thine eye shall be instructed; and thine
might €
All things are ours, for we have all in Him.
heart
time m
W. Cockburn-Campbell
Made pure shall relish with divine delight
should
Till then unfelt, what hands divine have
God is to me that creative Force, behind and
wrought.
in the universe, who manifests Himself as
Ibid.
energy, as life, as order, as beauty, as thought,
God's 1
as conscience, as love.
God moves in a mysterious way
ful, bu
Henry Sloane Coffin, in Newton: My Idea
His wonders to perform;
saints i
of God
He plants His footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm.
God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with glad-
William Cowper: Hymn: Light Shining
By tra
some voice!
Out of Darkness
for
Ye pine groves, with your soft and soul-like
Behold
sounds!
The more I know of astronomy, the more I
God is
And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow.
believe in God.
The ris
And in their perilous fall shall thunder,
Heber D. Curtis
God!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Hymn before
There is a God! the sky his presence shares,
Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni
His hand upheaves the billows in their
"Tis go
mirth,
Earth with her thousand voices, praises God.
Destroys the mighty, yet the humble spares
Ibid.
And with contentment crowns the thought
All lov
of worth.
Even bein' Gawd ain't a bed of roses.
Charlotte Cushman: There is a God
Marc Connelly: The Green Pastures,
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, and
God honors no drafts where there are no
Trying
Delisle, Ltd.
deposits.
withou
The Defender
to mak
There is a God in science, a God in history,
and a God in conscience, and these three are
Love thy God and love Him only
one.
And thy breast will ne'er be lonely.
The gr
Joseph Cook
Aubrey Thomas DeVere: The Waldenses
munisr
versus
To the bird's young ones he gives food.
One of the most convenient hieroglyphics of
West:
Pierre Corneille: Athalie
God is a circle; and a circle is endless; whom
withou
God loves, he loves to the end; and not for
The servant of God hath a good master.
their own end, to their death, but to his end;
Randle Cotgrave: French-English
and his end is that he might love them still.
God is
Dictionary
John Donne
170
GOD
GOD
GOD
Nature.
Socrates drinking the hemlock,
God has no grandchildren; either you know
and the
And Jesus on the rood;
Him firsthand or you do not know Him
And millions who, humble and nameless,
at all.
1. 1073
The straight, hard pathway plod,-
Christian Life
help me
Some call it Consecration,
he to let
And others call it God.
An old mystic says somewhere, "God is an
and me
William Herbert Carruth: Each in His
unutterable sigh in the innermost depths of
Own Tongue
the soul." With still greater justice, we may
of Mind
reverse the proposition, and say the soul is
God is a spirit, infinite, eternal, and un-
a never ending sigh after God.
changeable in his being, wisdom, power,
Theodor Christlieb
tomy of
holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.
holy, III
Catechism
There is something in the nature of things
which the mind of man, which reason, which
ve heard
When God dawns he dawns for all.
human power cannot effect, and certainly
written
that which produce this must be better than
Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote,
man. What can this be but God?
Pt. II, ch. 4
Cicero
te-Books
God who gives the wound gives the salve.
a better
The celestial order and the beauty of the
1.
Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote,
universe compel me to admit that there
Pt. II, ch. 19
is some excellent and eternal Being, who
!ton, the
deserves the respect and homage of men.
t Angler
God helps everyone with what is his own.
Cicero: De Divinatione, Bk. II, ch. 72,
ough we
Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote,
sec. 148
Pt. II, ch. 26
"God has not body, but a semblance of
tt Cabot
Could we with ink the ocean fill,
body": what "a semblance of body" may
And were the heavens of parchment made,
mean, in the case of God, I cannot under-
est that
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
stand; nor can you either, Velleius, only you
do.
And every man a scribe by trade,
won't admit it.
:, no. 27
To write the love of God above
Cicero: De Natura Deorum, Bk. I, ch. 24,
Would drain the ocean dry,
sec. 68
ry heart.
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
1 Calvin
Though stretch'd from sky to sky.
There is nothing which God cannot effect.
Chaldee Ode
Cicero: De Natura Deorum, Bk. III,
it true,
ch. 39, sec. 92
S in too.
The voice of the people is the voice of God.
Capdueil
Charlemagne
God is a sure paymaster.
John Clarke: Paraemiologia Anglo-Latina
rue, and
If this generation had more respect for divine
guidance it might have less need for guided
Face to face with the universe, man will be
Carlyle
missiles.
the sole evidence of his audacious dreams of
Chilton (Wisconsin) Times-Journal
divinity, since the God he vainly sought is
to knows
himself.
God the All-terrible! King, Who ordainest
Georges Clemenceau: In the Evening of
Carlyle
Great winds Thy clarions, the lightnings
My Thought, p. 503
Thy sword.
Henry Fothergill Chorley: Hullah's Part
It fortifies my soul to know
Music
That though I perish, truth is so;
169
GOD
GOD
GOD
He testified this solemn truth, while phrenzy
Of what I call God, and fools call Nature.
Socrates drin
desolated,
Robert Browning: The Ring and the
And Jesus
Nor man nor nature satisfied whom only
Book: The Pope, 1. 1073
And millions
God created.
The straigl
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Cowper's
As the old Negro said, "Oh Lord, help me
Some call it I
Grave, st. 8
to understand that You ain't gwine to let
And others
nuthin' come my way, that You and me
William H
God himself is the best Poet,
together can't handle."
And the Real is his song.
Edgar White Burrill: Science of Mind
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The Dead
God is a spi
Pan, st. 36
God makes; man shapes.
changeable i
But God has a few of us whom he
Robert Burton: The Anatomy of
holiness, just
whispers in the ear;
Melancholy, III
The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis
It must be remembered that we have heard
we musicians know.
When God d
only one side of the case. God has written
Robert Browning: Abt Vogler
all the books.
Migue
Samuel Butler: Note-Books
I say, the acknowledgment of God in Christ
Accepted by the reason, solves for thee
Doubtless God could have made a better
God who giv
All questions in the earth and out of it.
berry, but doubtless God never did.
Migue
Robert Browning: A Death in the Desert
William Allen Butler: Walton, the
If I stoop
Compleat Angler
God helps ev
Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud,
It is but for a time; I press God's lamp
We cannot get away from God, though we
Migue
Close to my breast; its splendour, soon or
can ignore Him.
late,
James Elliott Cabot
Will pierce the gloom: I shall emerge one
Could we wi
day.
If thou knowest God, thou knowest that
And were t
everything is possible for God to do.
Were every S
Robert Browning: Paracelsus
And every
Callimachus: Fragmenta Incertae, no. 27
To write the
That we devote ourselves to God, is seen
Would dra
In living just as though no God there were.
A sense of Deity is inscribed on every heart.
Nor could th
Ibid.
John Calvin
Though st
God is the perfect poet,
Who in his person acts his own creations.
Oft have I heard, and now believe it true,
Who man delights in, God delights in too.
The voice of
Ibid.
Pons de Capdueil
In some time, His good time, we shall arrive;
He guides me and the bird in His good time.
Blessed be God's voice, for it is true, and
If this genera
falsehoods have to cease before it!
Ibid.
guidance it I
Thomas Carlyle
missiles.
God! Thou art love! I build my faith on that.
Chilt
Ibid.
What this country needs is a man who knows
God other than by heresay.
God the All
Be sure that God
Thomas Carlyle
Great winds
Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns
Th
impart.
A picket frozen on duty-
Henry Fot
Ibid.
A mother starved for her brood—
168
GOD
GOD
GOD
th being
good: it is only by shortening it that it
I would rather walk with God in the dark
ls.
becomes God.
than go alone in the light.
Henry Ward Beecher
el Bailey
Mary Gardiner Brainard: Not Knowing
To some people, God is a peg to hang their
troubles on.
O Rock of Israel, Rock of Salvation, Rock
struck and cleft for me, let those two streams
Dan Bennett
Heaven
of blood and water which once gushed out
In all parts of Nature's spacious sphere,
of thy side
bring down with them sal-
Of art ten thousand miracles appear;
vation and holiness into my soul.
in prove
And will you not the Author's skill adore
Daniel Brevint: Works, p. 17
altimore
Because you think He might discover more?
atechism
You own a watch, the invention of the mind,
He made little, too, of sacraments and
Though for a single motion 'tis designed,
priests, because God was so intensely real
annals of
As well as that which is with greater thought,
to him. What should he do with lenses who
Events
With various springs, for various motions
stood thus full in the torrent of the sun-
original;
wrought.
shine.
itly, you
Richard Blackmore: The Creation,
Phillips Brooks: Sermons, The Seriousness
they roll
Bk. III
of Life
ime, per-
idamus,"
God appears and God is light
It never frightened a Puritan when you bade
countless
To those poor souls who dwell in night;
him stand still and listen to the speech of
But does a human form display
God. His closet and his church were full of
To those who dwell in realms of day.
Bancroft
reverberations of the awful, gracious, beau-
William Blake: Auguries of Innocence.
tiful voice for which he listened.
rd psalm
Ibid.
No worldly thing
hepherd,
Can a continuance have
Unless love back again it bring
God, as some cynic has said, is always on the
ea News
Unto the cause which first the essence gave.
side which has the best football coach.
Boëthius: Philosophiae Consolationis,
Heywood Broun
to us in
Bk. IV, ch. 6, 1. 46
id deep,
The whole world is a phylactery, and every-
disclosed
God is not one thing because He is, and
thing we see is an item of the wisdom, power,
ity of its
another thing because He is just; with Him
or goodness of God.
to be just and to be God are one and the
Sir Thomas Browne
hn Bate
same.
Boethius: De Trinitate, ch. 4, sec. 19
God is like a skillful geometrician.
de meat.
Sir Thomas Browne: Religio Medici,
atechism
There is no door in my theatre through
Pt. I, sec. 16
which God cannot see.
it for a
Edwin Booth
I fear God, yet am not afraid of him.
of life,
From Thee all human actions take their
so low,
Sir Thomas Browne: Religio Medici,
ke confi-
springs,
Pt. I, sec. 52
t mine."
The rise of empires, and the fall of kings.
Beecher
Samuel Boyse: The Deity
Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God.
But for the grace of God there goes John
And only he who sees takes off his shoes,
e, kind-
Bradford.
The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.
d in his
ness, in-
John Bradford, on seeing some criminals
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Aurora
taken to execution
name of
Leigh, Bk. VII, 1. 821
167
GOD
GOD
GOD
God is best known in not knowing him.
There is nothing on earth worth being
good: it
St. Augustine: De ordine, II, 16
known, but God and our own souls.
becomes
Gamaliel Bailey
God is more truly imagined than expressed,
To some
and he exists more truly than is imagined.
Naught but God
troubles
St. Augustine: De Trinitate
Can satisfy the soul.
Philip James Bailey: Festus: Heaven
We can know what God is not, but we cannot
In all P
know what God is.
Reason unaided by revelation can prove
Of art t
Ibid.
that God exists.
And wil
Roman Catholic 1949 Revised Baltimore
Because
We are all dangerous folk without God's
You OWI
Catechism
controlling hand.
Though
William Ward Ayer
At the foot of every page in the annals of
As well
nations may be written, "God reigns." Events
With va
Back of the loaf is the snowy flour,
as they pass away proclaim their original;
wrc
And back of the flour the mill;
And back of the mill is the wheat, and the
and if you will but listen reverently, you
may hear the receding centuries, as they roll
shower,
And the sun, and the Father's will.
into the dim distances of departed time, per-
petually chanting "Te Deum Laudamus,"
God ap]
Maltbie D. Babcock: Give Us This Day
with all the choral voices of the countless
To thos
Our Daily Bread
congregations of the age.
But doe
To thos
Though a sharp sword be laid to thy throat,
George Bancroft
Will
still pray to God for mercy.
A little girl repeating the twenty-third psalm
Babylonian Talmud: Berachoth
No wor
said it this way: "The Lord is my shepherd,
that's all I want."
Can a C
God hangs the greatest weights upon the
Unless ]
smallest wires.
Baraca-Philathea News
Unto th
Sir Francis Bacon
Bc
If the mind of God as discovered to us in
We cannot too often think, that there is a
His word and works is so vast and deep,
never sleeping eye that reads the heart, and
what must His mind be in all its undisclosed
God is
registers our thoughts.
resources in the infinity and eternity of its
another
Sir Francis Bacon
existence?
to be ju
John Bate
same.
It were better to have no opinion of God
B
at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy
God never made mouth but he made meat.
of him: for the one is unbelief, the other is
Thomas Becon: Catechism
There i
contumely.
which (
Sir Francis Bacon: Essays: Of Superstition
God sits effulgent in heaven, not for a
favoured few, but for the universe of life,
The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips,
From I
and there is no creature so poor, or so low,
Bronze cheeks and woolly hair;
that he may not look up with childlike confi-
spri
The Grecian gods are like the Greeks,
The rise
dence, and say, "My Father, Thou art mine."
As keen-eyed, cold, and fair.
Henry Ward Beecher
Walter Bagehot: Literary Studies: The
But for
Ignorance of Man
The very word "God" suggests care, kind-
Bradfor
What men call accident is God's own part.
ness, goodness; and the idea of God in his
infinity is infinite care, infinite kindness, in-
John
Gamaliel Bailey
finite goodness.-We give God the name of
166
GOD
GOD
GOD
.t work for
There is something very sublime, though
Man thinks, God directs.
our grati-
very fanciful in Plato's description of God
Alcuin: Epistles
ntment; in
-"That truth his body, and light his
rkness, our
shadow."
He who knows what it is to enjoy God will
adfastness;
nd trust in
Joseph Addison
dread His loss; he who has seen His face will
fear to see His back.
When all thy mercies, O my God,
Richard Alleine
anonymous
My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view I'm lost,
Man proposes, God disposes.
d ask Him
In wonder, love and praise.
Ludovico Ariosto: Orlando Furioso,
Joseph Addison: Hymn: With All Thy
ch. 46, 35 (also, Thomas à Kempis)
nonymous
Mercies
God has many names though he is only one
one cubit,
God loves to help him who strives to help
being.
himself.
Aristotle
anonymous
Aeschylus: Fragments, frag. 223
God does not ask about our ability or our
ousands of
Set God apart from mortal men, and deem
inability, but our availability.
not that he, like them, is fashioned out
The Arkansas Baptist
of flesh. Thou knowest him not; now he
nonymous
appeareth as fire, now as water, now as
God's wisdom and God's Goodness!-Ah,
gloom; and he is dimly seen in the likeness
: "In God
but fools
of wild beasts, of wind, of cloud, of light-
aved upon
Misdefine thee, till God knows them no
ning, thunder, and of rain. All power hath
mbs! Why?
more.
he; lo, this is the glory of the Most High
God.
Wisdom and Goodness they are God!-what
lew Adams
schools
Aeschylus: Fragments, frag. 239
Have yet so much as heard this simple lore.
isdom and
This no Saint preaches, and this no Church
To the man who strives earnestly, God also
rules:
O Jefferson
lends a helping hand.
"Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.
Aeschylus: Persae, I, 742
Matthew Arnold: The Divinity, st. 3
er,
ver;
God's mouth knows not to utter falsehood,
We, in some unknown Power's employ,
but he will perform each word.
Move on a rigorous line:
Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound, I, 1032
Can neither, when we will, enjoy,
Nor, when we will, resign.
one.
Even God cannot change the past.
Matthew Arnold: Stanzas in Memory of
ndeth Sun,
the Author of Obermann, 1. 133
Agathon
eth Shower
God is working His purpose out as year
A heathen philosopher once asked a
Christian, "Where is God?" The Christian
succeeds to year,
answered, "Let me first ask you, Where is
God is working His purpose out and the time
He not?"
is drawing near;
Nearer and nearer draws the time, the time
Aaron Arrowsmith
that shall surely be,
When the earth shall be filled with the glory
Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the
of God as the waters cover the sea.
heart of man is restless until it finds its rest
; my God,
Arthur Campbell Ainger: God is Working
in Thee.
to Thee!
His Purpose Out
St. Augustine: Confessions
165
GOD
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Some people talk about finding God-as if
In all His dispensations God is at work for
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He could get lost.
our good. In prosperity He tries our grati-
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tude; in mediocrity, our contentment; in
misfortune, our submission; in darkness, our
A man, asked to explain what God is, replied,
faith; under temptation, our steadfastness;
"I know if I'm not asked."
and at all times, our obedience and trust in
Him.
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God has put up with a lot from most of us.
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Most men forget God all day and ask Him
to remember them at night.
God is with those who persevere.
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Whosoever walks toward God one cubit,
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In God's will is our peace.
God runs toward him twain.
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When I am operating, I feel the presence of
All the thousands and tens of thousands of
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God so real that I cannot tell where His skill
gods are all but one God.
ends and mine begins.
of
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Anonymous (attributed to a famous
surgeon)
On U.S. coins is placed the motto: "In God
of
The world we inhabit must have had an
We Trust." But this is not engraved upon
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origin; that origin must have consisted in a
any of our battleships or our bombs! Why?
cause; that cause must have been intelligent;
George Matthew Adams
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that intelligence must have been supreme;
and that supreme, which always was and is
I believe in God and in His wisdom and
supreme, we know by the name of God.
benevolence.
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John Adams: Letter to Jefferson
le
The Mohammedans have ninety-nine names
for God, but among them all they have not
He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower,
"our Father."
Alike they're needful to the flower;
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And joys and tears alike are sent
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To give the soul fit nourishment.
As comes to me or cloud or sun,
We should give God the same place in our
Father! thy will, not mine, be done.
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hearts that He holds in the universe.
Sarah Flower Adams: He Sendeth Sun,
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He Sendeth Shower
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If we have God in all things while they are
Nearer My God, to Thee-
ours, we shall have all things in God when
Nearer to Thee-
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they are taken away.
E'en though it be a cross
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That raiseth me;
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Still all my song shall be
God is great, and therefore He will be
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
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sought: He is good, and therefore He will
Nearer to Thee!
be found.
Sarah Flower Adams: Nearer, my God,
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to Thee!
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