Success is the blessing of God on a good cause, and His curse on a bad. Ralph Venning
Author: Robert Leighton
Comments by Robert Leighton (1611-84) on 1 Peter 3.8.
Finally be ye all of one mind having compassion one of another; love as brethren be pitiful be courteous.
A WORD TO PARENTS A. W. Pink One of the saddest and most tragic features of our twentieth-century “civilization” is the awful prevalence of disobedience on the part of children to their parents during the days of childhood, and their lack of reverence and respect when they grow up. This is evidenced in many ways, …
God’s people have tender hearts. Wicked men have hearts of stone, and when God smites them, they are not grieved. John Bunyan
EVIL COMPANY Sophronius, a wise teacher, would not suffer his children, even when grown up, to associate with those whose conduct was not morally pure and upright. “Dear father,” said his daughter Eulalia to him one day, when he forbade her, in company with her brother, to visit a thoughtless friend; “dear father, you must …