 Faith is more than Creed. Topics: Faith |
| God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm. Topics: Fear, The Heart |
| The sweetest scents are only obtained by tremendous pressure; the fairest flowers grow amid Alpine show-solitudes; the fairest gems have suffered longest from the lapidary's wheel; the noblest statues have borne most blows of the chisel. All, however, are under law. Nothing happens that has not been appointed with consummate care and foresight. Topics: God |
| A providence is shaping our ends; a plan is developing in our lives; a supreme and loving Being is making all things work together for good. Topics: God, Life, Providence |
| Our God is Jehovah of hosts, who can summon unexpected reinforcements at any moment to aid His people. Believe that He is there between you and your difficulty, and what baffles you will flee before Him, as clouds before the gale. Topics: Grace |
| Yours will be the wings of an eagle's flight, the soaring of a lark, sunward, heavenward, Godward! But you must take time to be holy - in meditation, in prayer, and especially in the use of the Bible. Topics: Holiness, Prayer, The Bible |
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| May we not only be delivered from the outward act or word that grieves Thee, but may the very springs of our nature be purified! Topics: Holiness |
| Jesus Christ, came into the world to glorify the Father, and the Holy Ghost came into the world to glorify the Son. Topics: Holy Spirit |
| When we are born again, a new life - the life of God - is put into us by the Holy Spirit. But the old self-life, which is called in Scripture the flesh, is not taken away. The two may coexist in the same heart. "The flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. Topics: Holy Spirit, Conversion |
| "Amplius" means broader, fuller, wider. That is God's perpetual word to us in relation to filling of the Holy Spirit. We can never have enough to satisfy His yearning desire. When we have apprehended most, there are always unexpected supplies in store ready to be drawn upon. Topics: Holy Spirit, Blessings |
| I used to think that God's gifts were on shelves one above the other and that the taller we grow in Christian character the more easily we could reach them. I now find that God's gifts are on shelves one beneath the other and that it is not a question of growing taller but of stooping lower. Topics: Humility |
| God has a purpose in every life, and when the soul is completely yielded and acquiescent, He will certainly realize it. Blessed is he who has never thwarted the working of the divine ideal. Topics: Life |
