Tag Archives: Meditation

Spider Webs Over God’s Eyes In the old time, when the Greek worshipped images of their gods, it was said that when spiders stretched their webs across the eyelids of the image of Jupiter, the people were regular in their … Continue reading →

How Big a God Do You Have? When Henry Norris Russell, Princeton astronomer, had concluded a lecture on the Milky Way, a woman came to him and asked: “If our world is so little, and the universe is so great, … Continue reading →

Give God Credit For Ignorance A Theological student came to Charles Spurgeon one day, greatly concerned that he could not grasp the meaning of certain verses in the Bible. The noted preacher replied kindly but firmly, “Young man, allow me … Continue reading →

Tennessee’s All-Seeing Christ Gatlinburg is a tourist city buried deep in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. This city of 1,764 inhabitants all but rolls up sidewalks in the winter but is literally working alive in the summer. In and … Continue reading →

Putting Ocean In a Hole Augustine, that great saint of God, was once walking upon the shore of the ocean, while greatly perplexed about the doctrine of the Trinity. As he meditated, he observed a little boy with a sea … Continue reading →

To Comprehend God John Wesley said: “Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the triune God!” Never try to arouse faith from within. You cannot stir up … Continue reading →

So Can God Fill Us Standing on the deck of a ship in mid-ocean, you see the sun reflected from its depths. From a little boat on a mountain lake you see the sun reflected from its shallow waters. Looking … Continue reading →

The Third Person Is God Once when Lord Moynihan, great British surgeon, had finished operating before a gallery full of distinguished visiting doctors he was asked how he could work with such a crowd present. He replied: “You see, there … Continue reading →

So Great Yet So Little One of the most infamous freethinkers of England was a man by the name of Anthony Collins, who died in 1729. He was author of the well-known “Discourse on Freethinking.” This Collins one day met … Continue reading →

No Place To Flee A heathen chief said to Rabbi Josiah, “My gods are greater than thy gods.” “Why?” asked the sage. “Because,” replied the heathen, “when your God appeared in the thorn bush Moses hid his face, but when … Continue reading →