Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - December 27
He ever liveth. —Hebrews 7:25
It is our hope for ourselves, and for His truth, and for mankind. Men come and go. Leaders, teachers, thinkers, speak and work for a season, and then fall silent and impotent. He abides. They die, but He lives. They are lights kindled, and therefore, sooner or later quenched, but He is the true Light from which they draw all their brightness, and He shines for evermore. —Alexander McLaren
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - December 26
God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. —Galatians 6:14
The cross is the great center of God’s moral universe! To this center God ever pointed, and the eye of faith ever looked forward, until the Savior came. And now we must ever turn to that cross as the center of all our blessing, and the basis of all our worship, both on earth and in heaven—in time and throughout all eternity.
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - December 25
A multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest. —Luke 2:13, 14
Angels had been present on many august occasions, and they had joined in many a solemn chorus to the praise of their Almighty Creator. They were present at the creation: “The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.” They had seen many a planet fashioned between the palms of Jehovah, and wheeled by His eternal hands through the infinitude of space. They had sung solemn songs over …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - December 24
Continue in prayer. —Colossians 4:2
Our prayers often resemble the mischievous tricks of town children, who knock at their neighbor’s houses and then run away; we often knock at heaven’s door and then run off into the spirit of the world; instead of waiting for entrance and answer, we act as if we were afraid of having our prayers answered. —Williams
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - December 23
Go and sit down in the lowest room. —Luke 14:10
He who is willing to take the lowest place will always find sitting room; there is no great crush for the worst places. There is nothing like the jostling at the back there is at the front; so if we would be comfortable, we shall do well to keep behind. —Thomas Champness
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
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