Christ was one of the bravest men the world ever knew, and yet He told
us to be afraid, actually afraid, of things that hurt our souls.

Do not see how near the fire you can go without getting scorched; don't
see how near sin you can go without getting caught. It is poor business.
Take this as your motto when you are inclined to tamper with wrong: "Who
eats with the devil needs a long-handled spoon." The farther you keep
away from him, the better.




THE FIERCEST THING IN THE BIBLE


I suppose if I should ask you which is the fiercest animal mentioned in
the Bible, I should get many different answers. Some of you would say
the lion; some, the bear; some the panther; some, the wolf; and so on.
But none of these is right, and I will tell you why. All of these
animals can be tamed, more or less; but there is one fiercer thing than
all these, and it cannot be tamed, so one of the apostles says.

It is kept behind two red doors and more than twenty white bars, and its
name is spelled as follows: T-O-N-G-U-E. Yes, that is it, the tongue.
James says, "The tongue can no man tame."

It is not only one of the fiercest things mentioned in the Bible, but it
is also one of the crudest. I suppose you never thought that you could
kill a person with your tongue, did you? And yet I have known some