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287 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
These are the stations of grace where His people seek Him, knowing where He is to be found.
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The world's policy, like the world itself, fluctuates and deceives—uncertain in both objects and means, it knows nothing of the steadfastness that religious principle imparts to mind and conduct.
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord—not because the ritual itself is defective, but because the worshipper lacks consideration.
Exell's Victorian commentary illuminates why envy surpasses even explosive anger in spiritual danger.
We treat the present as though it shall never end, and eternity as though it shall never begin.
Life and health form the foundation of all other enjoyments.
Ancient voices—from pagan philosophy to church fathers like Chrysostom—branded her a "necessary evil" and "domestic peril." Italian, German, and English proverbs competed in contempt, suggesting women were the source of all calamity.
The text, "How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?
Matthew Henry observed her strategy: she calls them "simple" and "wanting understanding," inviting them to her school under pretense of refinement.
Yet Scripture is unambiguous: the heart (*leb* in Hebrew, the seat of will and intention) cannot be good while its practice remains evil.
Trusting in riches is spiritually unsatisfactory and necessarily evanescent.
Proverbs 4:25 commands us to keep our eyes "right on" and our eyelids "straight before thee." The wise man, whom commentators identify as Solomon, exhorts careful stewardship of every faculty—each member of our nature requires vigilant guardianship lest any become...
Speech may set forth: right views of God as revealed in Psalm 40:9 and John 17:25–26; right views of personal experience as in Psalm 66:16; right estimates of character, requiring great caution in testimonials; right statements concerning the value of...
Among all creation, this insignificant globe was singled out as the stage for redemption.
Its acquisition presents such difficulties that it is seldom truly found in our age.
All contingencies rest under the direction of God's providence.
Man's true wisdom is a pattern of God's wisdom.
This principle governs both body and spirit: we lose taste for what satisfies us to excess.
The accumulation of light things becomes overwhelmingly ponderous.
All persons are born in a state of ignorance and darkness as to spiritual things; therefore all young persons need instruction.
First, He claims boundless power to satisfy human want and longing.
The Greeks and Romans witnessed friendships that shaped both statecraft and individual virtue—Scipio and Laelius, Cicero and Atticus, Achilles and Patroclus.
The wisdom of Solomon stands in sharp contrast to our modern systems, which often direct men's attention everywhere but inward.
The upright man bequeaths his heirs three precious gifts: (1) His example—a living testimony that sons and daughters may trace throughout their own success.