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  • Presidential Quotes on the Bible

     I have always said and always will say that the studious perusal of the Sacred Volume will make better citizens, better fathers, better husbands…. The Bible makes the best people in the world.

    –THOMAS JEFFERSON:

  • 5 Things the New Testament Says About Gossip

    5 Things the New Testament Says About Gossip

    The Gossips - 1948 - Norman Rockwell
    The Gossips – 1948 – Norman Rockwell

    In Matthew 12:33-34 Jesus taught us:

    • that we will be known by our fruit
    • and the mouth bears the fruit of the heart.

    Gossip is a particularly aggressive sin against the commandment to love thy neighbor. We can go out of our way to gossip, or we can do it without giving it a second thought.

    How ever we do it, the result is never good.

    Scripture leaves little doubt as to how God feels about gossip. Here are five things the New Testament has to say about the aspects gossip:

    1. The tongue is a small member that can cause big trouble – James 3:5
    2. Corrupt speech is sinful Ephesians 4:29-31
    3. Mind your own business 1 Thessalonians 4:11, 2 Thessalonians 3:11-12
    4. Babbling is ungodly 2 Timothy 2:16
    5. Lay aside the evil thoughts 1 Peter 2:1

     

  • Wisdom Calls

    1 Wisdom calls to you like someone shouting;
    understanding raises her voice.
    2 On the hilltops along the road and at the crossroads,
    she stands calling.
    3 Beside the city gates, at the entrances into the city,
    she calls out:
    4 “Listen, everyone, I’m calling out to you;
    I am shouting to all people.
    5 You who are uneducated, seek wisdom.
    You who are foolish, get understanding.

    –NCV Proverbs 8:1-5

  • The Value of Pleasing Men

    I ‘M nobody! Who are you?
    Are you nobody, too?
    Then there ‘s a pair of us — don’t tell!
    They ‘d banish us, you know.

    How dreary to be somebody
    How public, like a frog
    To tell your name the livelong day
    To an admiring bog!

    –Emily Dickinson

    Contrast this bit of verse to Galatians 1:10.  It seems the Apostle Paul and Emily Dickinson had the same distaste for trying to please men.

  • Quotes on the Bible

    My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising…. It seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day…. It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

    -John Quincy Adams

  • A Time for Everything

    1To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

    2A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

    3A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

    4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

    5A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

    6A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

    7A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

    8A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

    KJV Ecclesiastes 3:1-8