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Pardon
Pardon: God forgives; forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine prearrangement; forgives universally, on the ground of an…
Parents
Parents: You that are parents, discharge your duty; though you cannot impart grace to your children, yet you may impart knowledge. Let your…
Passions
Passions: We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions.
Patience
Patience: The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.
Patriotism
Patriotism: To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards…
Peace
Peace: When Christ was about to leave the world, He made His will. His soul He committed to His father; His body He bequeathed to Joseph to…
Penitence
Penitence: The law can never save us; and he is nearest to the forgiveness of the gospel who, with a contrite heart, discerns most clearly…
Perfection
Perfection: There is but one true good for a spiritual being, and this is found in its perfection. Men are slow to see this truth; and yet…
Persecution
Persecution: It has become a settled principle that nothing which is good and true can be destroyed by persecution, but that the effect…
Perseverance
Perseverance: Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of…
Piety
Piety: Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.
Pity
Pity: We must watch over pious impressions, and cultivate them, or they will never become vigorous and enduring.
Poverty
Poverty: The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves; " but to our mind, it is just the rich who have most…
Power
Power: It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
Praise
Praise: Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force.
Prayer
Prayer: True prayer is an earnest soul's direct converse with its God.
Prayer-Meetings
Prayer-Meetings: I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can…
Preaching
Preaching: Jesus chose this method of extending the knowledge of Himself throughout the world; He taught His truth to a few men, and then…
Prejudice
Prejudice: I verily believe that the kingdom of God advances more on spoken words than it does on essays written and read; on words, that…
Pride
Pride: Pride is the master sin of the devil.
Procrastination
Procrastination: Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps there is nothing that angels behold with such astonishment as a proud man.
Profanity
Profanity: Nothing is a greater sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulance of an idle tongue. The foolish and…