{"query": "A parable — Pride praise b", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_de582c7ac9a4", "title": "A parable — Pride praise b", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man was praised for his work, and walked taller because of it. By evening he had grown to fit the praise. By morning the praise had moved to another, and he was small again. The praise had not added"}, {"id": "card_n_88bdb0a990f3", "title": "Psalm 150 — Praise Ye the LORD", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power! Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with the sounding "}, {"id": "card_n_5251cf7a9b90", "title": "A parable — Pride praise", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man stood at the front of the temple and thanked God he was not like other men — extortioners, unjust, adulterers. A second man stood at the back and would not lift his eyes, and only said, God be m"}, {"id": "card_n_bd0baa002443", "title": "Psalm 148 — Psalm 148", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him in the heights! Praise him, all his angels! Praise him, all his army! Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars! Praise him, yo"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_135_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 135:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 135:1 — Here is, 1. The duty we are called to - to praise the Lord, to praise his name; praise him, and again praise him. We must not only thank him for what he has done for us, but praise h"}, {"id": "card_n_8cf619b3f99d", "title": "A parable — Pride humility b", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A teacher knelt to tie the shoes of his students before the long walk. The students were embarrassed and tried to refuse; but the teacher said, 'You will walk farther if your shoes are tied. The walki"}, {"id": "card_n_02fa11f83913", "title": "Doxology (Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow)", "shelf": "hymns", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;\nPraise Him, all creatures here below;\nPraise Him above, ye heavenly host;\nPraise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen."}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_145_10", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 145:10", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 145:10 — The greatness and goodness of him who is optimus et maximus - the best and greatest of beings, were celebrated in the former part of the psalm; here, in these verses, we are taught "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_147_12", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 147:12", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 147:12 — Jerusalem, and Zion, the holy city, the holy hill, are here called upon to praise God, Psa 147:12. For where should praise be offered up to God but where his altar is? Where may we "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_108_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 108:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 108:1 — We may here learn how to praise God from the example of one who was master of the art. 1. We must praise God with fixedness of heart. Our heart must be employed in the duty (else we "}, {"id": "card_n_152adfad178f", "title": "A parable — Pride status", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The Son of God, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God — but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was found in fashion as a man. T"}, {"id": "card_n_b3dff7685a9e", "title": "A parable — Kerckhoffs", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A locksmith made a lock so clever no one could open it. His pride was the lock itself. When a thief studied the lock long enough, the lock fell open like all locks fall open, and the locksmith had no "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_65_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 65:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 65:1 — The psalmist here has no particular concern of his own at the throne of grace, but begins with an address to God, as the master of an assembly and the mouth of a congregation; and obs"}, {"id": "card_c_4151157e29b9", "title": "A parable — Pride praise ↔ The Pharisee and the Publican", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "\"He that humbleth himself shall be exalted\" (Lk 18:9-14).  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_n_ca4de1cb31db", "title": "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty", "shelf": "hymns", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation!\nO my soul, praise Him, for He is thy health and salvation!\nAll ye who hear, now to His temple draw near;\nJoin me in glad adoration!\n\nPraise to t"}, {"id": "card_n_90ab16a347bd", "title": "A parable — Suffering grief", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "When his friend died, the Lord did not say, 'do not mourn, for I will raise him.' He wept first. He raised him afterward. The tears were not a failure of faith — they were faith making room for love.\n"}, {"id": "card_n_effe4bf87816", "title": "A parable — Envy", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man kept a ledger of his neighbor's blessings. The ledger grew thick. His neighbor's house, his neighbor's wife, his neighbor's ox, his neighbor's days. He carried the ledger everywhere. He could no"}, {"id": "card_n_7fc1166cbd90", "title": "A parable — Suffering betrayal", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The psalmist wrote: it was not an enemy who reproached me — I could have borne that. It was you, my equal, my companion. The wound from a friend's hand goes deeper than the sword's, because the friend"}, {"id": "card_n_c98e4733373b", "title": "A parable — Tongue", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth. The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity, set on fire of hell. One small spark in a dry forest in summer. The forest was a hundred years growing. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_e586205d665c", "title": "A parable — Least privilege", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A steward of a great house carried every key on his belt. A guest borrowed one key for one room, and when he was found in another room, the steward had no defense, for every door had been open. A wise"}]}