"The next day Mr. Payne, of Georgetown, and I started on our return. We got along very well for a few miles, when we encountered a...

The meaning of Three Stories higher seems somewhat obscure, you are to understand, then, that Faith, Hope and Charity have been called...

His first, Catherine "Kitty" Garniss‑a warm, outgoing, attractive young woman whom he loved passionately‑died in 1835 from complications of childbirth after eighteen months of marriage. She was only twenty-three. Her death was "so overwhelming, so unexpected," he told his friend Cleveland, that he could barely function. "I wish you could have known her," he wrote. "She was universally beloved by her acquaintances….She was gifted with unusual intellectual power…And now I feel

There was a boy in Massachusetts whose father was a drunkard and whose family was wasteful. There was, also, a godly man in that town who took an interest in the boy in that wretched family. The lad seemed to have promise. Among other things, he made the debating team in the school. The good man introduced the boy to the Lord, and before long persuaded the boy to take a vow hat he would never drink. As the young fellow grew up he was entrusted with a message to John Quincy Ad

What was slowly dawning on me during those weeks was the miserable realization that I did not know Jesus Christ for myself. I could not depend on my parents' faith. Christian influence in the home could have a lasting impact on a child's life, but faith could not be passed on as an inheritance, like the family silver. It had to be exercised by each individual.

From the trial of Joan of Arc:

Louis de Coutes: "As far as I was in a position to know, Joan was a very good and honest woman, living in Catholic fashion. She very readily heard mass and never missed going to hear it if that was possible for her. She waxed very wrath when she heard the name of God blasphemed, or if she heard someone swear. Several times, I heard, when the lord Duke of Alencon swore or spoke some blasphemy, that she reprimanded him, and in general nobody in the army dared, before her, swear

Carey took the prophet's words addressed to ancient Israel in a time of distress and applied it to the Church in his day. Indeed, there was much in his own experience of the Church to confirm the sullen image Isaiah paints: a barren widow, bereft of her husband, with no offspring to give hope or cheer. Yet the prophet calls for rejoicing, not lamentation; for celebration, not sorrow. The promise is this: God is about to restore the Church and His work will be extraordinary an

Also from the start, however, European believers took a religious interest in America. As the career of Christopher Columbus illustrates, it was an interest with both the fidelity and the tragedy that would characterize the whole history of Christianity in North America. Columbus's very first entry in the diary that recorded his journey to America in 1492 expressed the hope that he could make contact with the native peoples in order to find out "the manner in which may be und

Do but keep in remembrance your general principles: “What is mine? What is not mine? What has been given me? What does God will that I do now, what does He not will?” a little while ago it was His will for you to be at leisure, to converse with yourself, to write about these things, to read, to listen, to prepare yourself; you had time sufficient for that. Now God says to you, “Come at length to the contest, show us what you have learned, how you have trained yourself. How lo

Does God so neglect His own creatures, His servants, His witnesses, whom alone He uses as examples to the uninstructed, to prove that He both is, and governs the universe well, and does not neglect the affairs of men, and that no evil befalls a good man either in life or in death? – Yes, but what if He does not provide food? – Why, what else but that as a good general He has sounded the recall? I obey, I follow, lauding my commander, and singing hymns of praise about His deed

Give up wanting to keep your husband, and nothing of what you want fails to happen. Give up wanting him to live with you at any cost. Give up wanting to remain in Corinth, and, in a word, give up wanting anything but what God wants. And who will prevent you, who will compel you? No one, any more than anyone prevents or compels Zeus.

Churchill on Adversity: