I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New Hampshire, because I was bending my steps to a mountain-top on the Sabbath, instead of a church, when I would have gone farther than he to hear a true word spoken on that or any day. He declared that I was 'breaking the Lord's fourth commandment,' and proceeded to enumerate, in a sepulchral tone, the disasters which had befallen him whenever he had done any ordinary work on the Sabbath. He really thought that a god was on the watch to trip up those men who followed any secular work on this day, and did not see that it was the evil conscience of the workers that did it. The country is full of this superstition, so that when one enters a village, the church, not only really but from association, is the ugliest looking building in it, because it is the one in which human nature stoops the lowest and is most disgraced. Certainly, such temples as these shall erelong cease to deform the landscape. There are few things more disheartening and disgusting than when you are walking the streets of a strange village on the Sabbath, to hear a preacher shouting like a boatswain in a gale of wind, and thus harshly profaning the quiet atmosphere of the day.
Henry David ThoreauMots clés humor truth america church profanity sabbath superstition country secular a-god fourth-commandment minister new-hampshire profane the-lord
Our houses are protected by the good Lord and a gun, and you might meet 'em both if you show up here not welcome, son.
Josh ThompsonThe Lord said unto me, 'I will take my rest and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs.
AnonymousMots clés home house lord relaxation rest relax the-lord herbs dwelling herb isaiah-18-4-5
Sometimes the Lord allows us to go through tough times so we learn to rely upon Him.
Shirley CorderMots clés inspirational god the-lord tough-times
Human beings seem to have a perpetual tendency to have somebody else talk to God for them. We are content to have the message second-hand. One of Israel's fatal mistakes was their insistence on having a human king rather than resting on the theocratic rule of God over them. We can detect a note of sadness in the word of the Lord, 'they have rejected me from being king over them' (1 Sam. 8:7). The history of religion is the story of an almost desperate scramble to have a king, a mediator, a priest, a pastor, a go-between. In this way we do not need to go to God ourselves. Such an approach saves us from the need to change, for to be in the presence of God is to change.
Richard J. FosterMots clés god church priest old-testament the-lord pastor spiritual-mediation
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