Tag Archives: Moral Stories

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 →

No Eyes To See Him Augustine was once accosted by a heathen who showed him his idol and said, “Here is my god; where is thine?” Augustine replied, “I cannot show you my God; not because there is no God … Continue reading →

Edinburgh’s Course Opener Dr. John Baillie made it a practice to open his course on the doctrine of God at Edinburgh University with these words: “Gentlemen, we must remember that in discussing God we cannot talk about Him without His … Continue reading →

Matter Into Energy In northern Alabama some of our electricity comes from the Brown’s Ferry nuclear plant near Decatur, Alabama. This is the world’s largest nuclear energy plant. Its fuel is uranium. When just one gram of Uranium 235 fissions, … Continue reading →

Unsinkable Ship At the time of the sinking of the Titanic, one of our great American preachers was in Belfast, Ireland. The Titanic had been built in Belfast, and there was a great local pride over the mighty ship. She … Continue reading →

He Carried Boy and Burden A preacher was busy in his study, while his little boy looked at a book of pictures by the fireside. He suddenly wanted a large book he had left upstairs, and asked his boy to … Continue reading →

Jonathan Edwards’ Conversion Jonathan Edwards was suddenly converted, as by a flash of light, in the moment of reading a single verse of the New Testament. He was at home in his father’s house; some hindrances kept him from going … Continue reading →