Standing between the wrath of God and the hatred of man, and enduring both to its utmost strength and extremity, never was anyone so acquainted with grief as Jesus was
Read MoreThe authority, with which God has invested you as parents and governors of families, is a talent committed to your trust, and which you are bound to improve to your Master's honor.
Read MoreAbsolute sinlessness will not be realized until we are at home with the Lord. Still, the goal toward which each believer must strive, toward which the Holy Spirit enlivens us, is perfect holiness.
Read MoreHis love is in perpetual bloom. It is always in summertime. The roots are deeply buried in Himself; therefore the branches cannot fade.
Read MoreWe too have “[provoked] the Holy One of Israel” and grieved the Spirit of our gracious God by our persistent unbelief; for many a time have we thought, even if we have not said it, “Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?” when His loving, bounteous hand has been preparing and spreading it before us!
Read MoreThe believer will not ultimately be ashamed of their hope in God, of choosing Christ and turning their back on the world, when we come to the end of all things and our lives are forever a demonstration that God was worth our all.
Read MoreThe words of human beings are unstable things. But not so the words of God. They stand forever, as abidingly valid expressions of His mind and thought.
Read MoreJesus Christ himself is to us precept, for he is the way: he is to us doctrine, for he is the truth: he is to us experience, for he is the life. Let us make him the pole star of our religious life in all things.
Read MoreThen shalt Thou rest in us, as now Thou workest in us; and so shall that be Thy rest through us, as these are Thy works through us. But Thou, Lord, ever workest, and art ever at rest.
Read MoreOur communion with God lies in His giving of Himself to us and our giving of ourselves and all that He requires to Him.
Read MoreTake heart…O ye saints, and be strong; your cause is good, God himself espouseth your quarrel, who has appointed you His own Son, general of the field, called ‘the Captain of our salvation,’ He shall lead you on with courage and bring you off with honor.
Read MoreLord, I feel my heart to be weak and prone to wander. My affections are often scattered to the ends of the earth. “Unite my heart to fear Thy name.” Concentrate every thought, every desire, in Thyself, as the one object of attraction.
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