 Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificied on the altar of conformity and popularity. Topics: Character |
| A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. Topics: Character, Death |
| No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers. Topics: Character |
| Feel for others - in your pocket. Topics: Charity |
| God never punishes his children in the sense of avenging justice. He chastens as a father does his child, but he never punishes his redeemed as a judge does a criminal. It is unjust to exact punishment from redeemed souls since Christ has been punished in their place. How shall the Lord punish twice for one offense? Topics: Chastisement, Atonement |
| You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come. Topics: Children, Examples |
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| A child of five, if properly instructed, can as truly believe and be regenerated as an adult. Topics: Children, Salvation |
| A child who knowingly sins can savingly believe. Topics: Children, Believing |
| If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up. Topics: Children |
| Those children who are of sufficient years to sin and be saved by faith have to listen to the gospel and receive it by faith. And they can do this, God the Holy Spirit helping them. There is no doubt about it, because great numbers have done it. I will not say at what age children are first capable of receiving the knowledge of Christ, but it is much earlier than some fancy. Topics: Children, Salvation |
| Train up a child in the way he should go - but be sure you go that way yourself. Topics: Children, Examples |
| We are convinced that all of our race who die in infancy partake in the redemption wrought out by our Lord Jesus. Whatever some may think, we believe that the whole spirit and tone of the Word of God, as well as the nature of God Himself, lead us to believe that all who leave this world as babes are saved. Topics: Children, Death
Source: Sermons, 24.583. |
