Paul W. Powell Legacy Library

If love is to continue in your marriage, it must be kept alive. There are some things that must be tended or else they will die a natural death. Love is like a fire. The Bible says, “Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out” (Proverbs 26:20). A fire left untended will soon die a natural death. Gossip without someone to spread it will also die a natural death. Love in marriage is the same way....

Sigmund Freud, the famous psychiatrist, was hostile toward Christianity. When he was two years old a nursemaid employed by his family made a profound impression on Freud. She took him to church, read the Bible to him, and indoctrinated him in the beliefs of her church. He was so impressed with her that upon returning from church he often pretended that he was a preacher. Unfortunately she was c...

I once had a long-distance telephone conversation with an angry caller. The person felt that I had ignored a member of his family in a time of need and so proceeded to “dress me down” for it. When I tried to explain that I was not aware that I had neglected the relative and that it certainly was not intentional, he accused me of not being very bright. That’s hard to take—even for a preacher. I...

H. G. Wells, the famous writer, once described God as “an ever absent help in time of trouble.” After studying history for 50 years he came to the conclusion that God does nothing, absolutely nothing in the affairs of men.

Such ideas are not new. Back in the 17th and 18th centuries a group of European philosophers called Deists proposed a philosophy called Deism that became very popular...

Will Durant, in his book The Story of Civilization, spoke extensively about revolutions. He wrote, “The only real revolution is the revolution of the individual. The only real revolutionists are the philosophers and the saints.” What an insight! He was saying to us that violent revolutions do not redistribute the wealth; they just destroy the wealth. Advocates of viole...