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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
Henry Ward Beecher
Marriage
Married
Shackles
Wings
Well
Person
Poorly
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
Henry Ward Beecher
Hour
Principles
Ages
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
Henry Ward Beecher
Good
Evil
Others
Some
Individual
Influence
Either
Humblest
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Hosea Ballou
Parents
Correction
Brevity
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
Hosea Ballou
Exaggeration
Relation
Falsehood
Blood
Nearly
Never be so brief as to become obscure.
Hosea Ballou
Become
Obscure
Never
Brief
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
Hosea Ballou
Book
World
Everything
Exists
End
Up
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
Hosea Ballou
Experience
Only
Always
Tangible
Very
Theories
Thin
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
Hosea Ballou
Charity
Latter
Divine
Outrun
Never
Human
Former
Your
Zeal
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
Howard Crosby
Truth
Teacher
Mind
Preparation
Illustration
Neglect
Part
Almost
Wisely
His
Afford
Essential
Ordinary
Chosen
Fasten
China is not to be won for Christ by quiet, ease-loving men and women... The stamp of men and women we need is such as will put Jesus, China, souls first and foremost in everything and at every time - even life itself must be secondary.
Hudson Taylor
Life
Time
Women
Christ
Will
Men
Men And Women
First
Every
Every Time
Secondary
Everything
Must
Put
Souls
Foremost
Won
Itself
Quiet
China
Stamp
Even
Jesus
Need
We sometimes hear the argument, 'All the world' thinks this, or does that, given as a reason for our doing likewise; but that is an argument that should have no weight with the Christian, who is commanded not to be conformed to the world.
Hudson Taylor
World
Sometimes
Argument
Christian
Our
All The World
Given
Weight
Likewise
Does
Doing
Hear
Should
Reason
Who
Thinks
I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.
Ignatius of Antioch
God
Food
Me
You
Writing
Will
Wild
Way
Churches
Only
Beasts
Gladly
Known
Am
Die
Stand
Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment... come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.
Ignatius of Antioch
Me
Broken
Christ
Long
Fire
Cross
Beasts
Attain
Come
Disciple
Begin
Flock
Now
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Bones
Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.
Ignatius of Antioch
Peace
Better
Nothing
Earthly
Foes
Brought
Than
Heavenly
Which
Warfare
Naught
There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first passible and then impassible: Jesus Christ our Lord.
Ignatius of Antioch
Life
Death
God
Man
Son
Christ
Physician
First
Our
Our Lord
Spirit
Mary
True
True Life
Lord
Then
Flesh
Originate
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
Ignatius of Antioch
God
You
Deceived
Indeed
Devoted
Deceive
Any
Inasmuch
Then
Wholly
Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
Ignatius of Antioch
God
You
Would
Reverence
Command
Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.
Isaac Mayer Wise
Half
One Half
Entire
Russia
Contains
Inhabitants
Europe
Fourth
Number
Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.
Isaac Mayer Wise
Great
Progress
Problems
Difficulties
Thousand
Would
Solved
Disturbed
Spirit
More
Civilization
Had
Imposed
Been
Years
Years Ago
Middle
Being
Middle Ages
Hebrews
Which
Ages
Now
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
Isaac Mayer Wise
Best
Thoughts
Soul
Grief
Book
Darkness
Mind
Despair
Composed
Triumph
Constructed
Contains
Over
Conceived
Powers
Sorrow
Brink
All men ought to think of Christ because of the office Christ fills between God and man. He is the eternal Son of God through whom alone the Father can be known, approached, and served. He is the appointed Mediator between God and man through whom alone we can be reconciled with God, pardoned, justified, and saved.
J. C. Ryle
God
Alone
Man
Son
Christ
Father
Men
Think
Saved
Ought
Reconciled
Pardoned
Through
He
Between
Known
Because
Office
Eternal
Justified
Whom
Fills
Mediator
Served
Appointed
Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.
J. C. Ryle
Life
Nature
New Life
Made
Outcome
Inseparable
Born
Born-Again
He
New
Principle
Always
Regeneration
Sanctification
Again
Who
Creature
Lives
Receives
Consequence
Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept.
J. C. Ryle
Christmas
World
Way
Religious
Some
One-Way
Observe
Almost
Almost All
Over
Another
Wherever
Which
Holiday
Keep
Season
Christians
Kept
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?
J. C. Ryle
Bible
Man
Book
Invention
Christianity
Other
More
Volume
Mere
How
Than
Authority
Any
Uninspired
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and not a supernatural, divine revelation, how is it that it has wrought such a complete alteration in the state of man kind?
J. C. Ryle
Man
Invention
Christianity
State
Complete
Kind
Supernatural
Divine
Mere
Wrought
Alteration
Revelation
How
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