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Malice
Malice: We are strangers to Christian love, if we harbor malice or revenge in our hearts toward any of our fellow-creatures, whatever…
Man
Man: Man is the crowning of history and the realization of poetry, the free and living bond which unites all nature to that God who created…
Manhood
Manhood: Power in its measure and degree is the measure of manhood.
Manliness
Manliness: The manliness of Christian love, and the putting away from ourselves of all fear, because we are "perfected in love," is one of…
Meditation
Meditation: Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand.
Meekness
Meekness: Avoid all refined speculations; confine yourself to simple reflections, and recur to them frequently. Those who pass too rapidly…
Memory
Memory: What thousands and millions of recollections there must be in us! And every now and then one of them becomes known tous; and it…
Mercy
Mercy: Consider this, That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation; we do pray for mercy ; And that same prayer doth teach…
Merit
Merit: He who thinks to be justified by any strength or merit of his own, and not by faith, puts himself in the place of God.
Millennium
Millennium: Thus everywhere and always God's agents — small and great - are at work, unsettling the wrong, establishing the right, and…
Ministers
Ministers: Our high mission, our noble calling, is to build up souls, to perfect the Christian life, and to make manhood acceptable to God…
Miracles
Miracles: A miracle is a supernatural event, whose antecedent forces are beyond our finite vision, whose design is the display of almighty…
Missions
Missions: Men may glorify the fatherhood of God, and the brotherhood of man, but such beliefs will never send missionaries to face the…
Morality
Morality: Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it…
Motive
Motive: It is not the motive, properly speaking, that determines the working of the will; but it is the will that imparts strength to the…
Murmuring
Murmuring: I have noticed this, that when a man is full of the Holy Ghost he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.
Mystery
Mystery: Whoever believes in a God at all, believes in an infinite mystery; and if the existence of God is such an infinite mystery, we can…