Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - December 22
Be not doubtful, but followers of them also, through faith and patience, inherit the promises. —Hebrews 6:12
God makes a promise. Faith believes it. Hope anticipates it. Patience quietly awaits it. —Selected
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - December 21
The sea wrought, and was tempestuous. —Jonah 1:11
Sin in the soul is like Jonah in the ship. It turns the smoothest water into a tempestuous sea. —Selected
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - December 20
Ye know not what shall be on the morrow. —James 4:14
“To-morrow” is the devil's great ally—the very Goliath in whom he trusts for victory. “Now” is the stripling sent forth against him. . . The world will freely agree to be Christians to-morrow if Christ will permit them to be worldly to-day. —William Arnot
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - December 19
A hearer of the word . . . a doer of the work. —James 1:23, 25
Religion may be learned on Sunday, but it is lived in the week-day’s work. The torch of religion may be lit in the church, but it does its burning in the shop and on the street. Religion seeks its life in prayer, but it lives its life in deeds. It is planted in the closet, but it does its growing out in the world. It plumes itself for flight in songs of praise, but its actual flights are …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - December 18
Cleanse Thou me from secret faults. —Psalm 19:12
The world needs men who are free from secret faults. Most men are free from gross, public faults. —Selected
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - December 17
Lot . . . pitched his tent toward Sodom. —Genesis 13:12
And soon Lot moved into Sodom; and before long Sodom moved into him. —Theodore Cuyler
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - December 16
He (Thomas) . . . said, Except I shall see . . . I will not believe. . . Jesus . . . said . . . Be not faithless, but believing. —John 20:25, 27
Every doubt in the heart of a Christian is a dishonor done to the Word of God, and the sacrifice of Christ. —Selected
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - December 15
Now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. —1 Corinthians 13:13
Love is the greatest thing that God can give us: for Himself is Love; and it is the greatest thing we can give to God: for it will give ourselves, and carry with it all that is ours. —Jeremy Taylor
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - December 14
Having therefore these promises. —2 Corinthians 7:1
The forests in summer days are full of birds’ nests. They are hidden among the leaves. The little birds know where they are; and when a storm arises, or when night draws on, they fly, each to his own nest. So the promises of God are hidden in the Bible, like nests in the great forests; and thither we should fly in any danger or alarm, hiding there in our soul’s nest until the storm be overpast. There are no castles in this world so …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - December 13
The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. —Acts 11:26
This name suggests that the clear impression made by our character, as well as by our words, should be that we belong to Jesus Christ. He should manifestly be the center and the guide, the impulse and the pattern, the strength and reward, of our lives. We are Christians. That should be plain for all folks to see, whether we speak or be silent.
Is it so with you? —Alexander McLaren