5,159 Quotes About Mean

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.

Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!

Conflicts bring experience and experience brings that growth in Grace which is not to be attained by any other means!

Salvation is all grace, which means, free, gratis, for nothing.

From the descent of the Holy Spirit at the beginning we may learn something concerning His operations at the present time. Remember at the outset that whatever the Holy Spirit was at the first, He is that now, for as God, He remains forever the same-whatever He did then He is able to do still, for His power is by no means diminished.

Adversity is always unexpected and unwelcomed. It is an intruder and a thief. But in the hands of God, adversity becomes the means through which HIS Supernatural Power is demonstrated.

Personally, I avoid deus ex machina like the plague - if you have to use one, it means you failed to set up the universe and the plot properly. It's like a whodunnit where there's no actual way for the reader to identify the perpetrator before the climactic reveal: there's no sense of closure for the reader.

By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.

If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord's will, but does not mean to attend to it, you are not to pamper his presumptions, but it is your duty to assure him that he is not saved.