Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. The Bible, 1 Peter 3:3 Fashion: A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey. Ambrose Bierce Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. Henry Thoreau Fashion is a form … Continue reading “FASHION”
FANATIC
It is part of the nature of fanaticism that it loses sight of the totality of evil and rushes like a bull at the red cloth instead of at the man who holds it. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Earth’s fanatics make too frequently heaven’s saints. Elizabeth Barrett Browning A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind … Continue reading “FANATIC”
FAMINE
There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life. Mother Teresa
FAMILY LIFE
See: Families
FAMILIES WORSHIP
Let family worship be performed consistently and at a time when it is most likely for the family to be free of interruptions. Richard Baxter Pray together and read the Bible together. Nothing strengthens a marriage and family more. Nothing is a better defense against Satan. Billy Graham We realize that our Christian faith must … Continue reading “FAMILIES
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FAMILIES
See also: Children; Church; Fathers; Husbands; Mothers; Parenting; Wives God sets the lonely in families … The Bible, Psalm 68:6 Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a … Continue reading “FAMILIES”
FAME
Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna. Author unknown All is ephemeral, fame and the famous as well. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. Horace Greeley The fame of great men ought to be … Continue reading “FAME”
FALSE TEACHING
Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. The Bible, 1 Timothy 4:2, 3 … he is … Continue reading “FALSE
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FALSE TEACHERS
See also: False teaching See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. The Bible, Colossians 2:8
FALSEHOOD
Falsehood: See Violence