By Charles Spurgeon English preacher and author, in John Ploughman’s Talks: Plain Advice for Plain People, (chapter two, edited), 1869 This book (and much more by Spurgeon) can be viewed at: http://www.spurgeon.org/misc/plowman.htm When a man has a particularly empty head, he will often set himself up as a great judge, especially in […]
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One time when I was a little kid some friends were coming over, and I wanted to play with a new toy I just received. My mother knew that whenever I got together with those rowdies we’d get wild and things always got broke, so she advised against it. I kept begging
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From Holy Living by Jeremy Taylor (1613-67) (paraphrased) (…continued) 9. Let us often call to mind what it would be like to be without such blessings as we now possess. Consider how desirable health is to a sick man or liberty to a prisoner. If even a toothache seizes you with violence, all of
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From Holy Living by Jeremy Taylor (1613-67) (paraphrased) (…continued) 4. Never compare your condition with those who have more than you; but to secure your contentment, look upon those many with whom you would not want to exchange your fortune and condition. There are but a few kings in the world, but countless
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From Holy Living by Jeremy Taylor (1613-67) (paraphrased). Taylor was an English clergyman, author, and chaplain to King Charles I. He was called “the Shakespeare of the pulpit.” God has appointed a simple remedy for many of the evils in the world and that is a spirit of contentment. For since much of the
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For the pyramid no reason has ever been given adequate to the cost and labor of the work. The narrowness of the chambers proves that it could afford no retreat from enemies, and treasures might have been deposited at far less expense with equal security. They seem to have been erected only in
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Our dissatisfaction plays such a huge part in our sinfulness that when God gave the ten commandments, he made two of the ten about this very thing. The prohibition against stealing gets only one commandment, and the commandment against taking the life of another gets only one commandment, and marriage is protected
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I remember my parents often telling me to ‘just be satisfied.’ Anytime I got into a store there was no end to what I wanted, and I often had to be told to be quiet and be satisfied with what I had. That’s an essential lesson for parents to teach their children, and
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I Can’t Get No Satisfaction was recorded by the Rolling Stones in 1965. Keith Richards woke up one night with the tune in his head, turned on a tape recorder and hummed a few bars, and then fell back asleep. The next morning the recorder played back one minute of one
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From Telling Yourself the Truth, by William Backus and Marie Chapian, 1980, pages 31-33 Are you comparing yourself and your life with someone else who seems better in some way, or are you looking at yourself in the light of God’s Word? D. L. Moody once said that the best way to show that
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