Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 28
Your heavenly Father knoweth. —Matthew 6:32
The Master judges by the result, but our Father judges by the effort. Failure does not always mean fault. He knows how much things cost, and weighs them where others only measure. Your Father! Think how great store His love sets by the poor beginnings of the little ones, clumsy and unmeaning as they may be to others. All this lies in this blessed relationship, and infinitely more. Do not fear to take it all as your own. —Mark Guy Pearse
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 27
Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived, and by it slew me. —Romans 7:11
Christian, beware how thou thinkest lightly of sin. Take heed lest thou fall by little and little. Sin, a little thing? Is it not a poison? Who knows its deadliness? Sin, a little thing? Do not the little foxes spoil the grapes? Doth not the tiny coral insect build a rock which wrecks a navy? Do not little strokes fell lofty oaks? Will not continual droppings wear away stones? Sin, a little thing? It girded the Redeemer's head …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 26
Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. —2 Peter 3:18
Grace has its dawn as well as day; grace has its green blade, and afterwards its ripe corn in the ear; grace has its babes and its men in Christ. With God’s work there, as with all His works, “in all places of His dominion,” progress is both the prelude and the path to perfection. Therefore we are exhorted to grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 25
Do thou that which is good. —2 Kings 10:5
Keep as few good intentions hovering about as possible. They are like ghosts haunting a dwelling. The way to lay them is to find bodies for them. When they are embodied in substantial deeds they are no longer dangerous. —William Arnot
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Thoughts for the Quiet hour - July 24
Cleanse thou me from secret faults. —Psalm 19:12
The world wants men who are saved from secret faults. The world can put on an outside goodness and go very far in uprightness and morality, and it expects that a Christian shall go beyond it, and be free from secret faults. A little crack will spoil the ring of the coin… The world expects, and rightly, that the Christian should be more gentle, and patient, and generous, than he who does not profess to be a disciple of the Lord Jesus. For the …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 23
Blessed is the man…that keepeth the Sabbath. —Isaiah 56:2
The Sabbath is the savings-bank of human life, into which we deposit one day in seven to be repaid in the autumn of life with compound interest. —Selected
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 22
…Sinners of whom I am chief…Now unto the King, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen. —1 Timothy 1:15, 17
Only those who have struck the deepest note of penitence can reach the highest note of praise. —A. J. Gordon
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 21
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling: for it is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure. —Philippians 2:12, 13
What a staggering weight of thought is excited by these words! Stay, my soul, and wonder that the Eternal God should stoop to work within thy narrow limits. Is it not a marvel indeed, that He, whom the heavens cannot contain, and in whose sight they are not clean, should trouble Himself to work on such material, so unpromising, and amidst circumstances …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 20
Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy. —Matthew 8:6
We, in this age of the church, are in the position of that sick servant at Capernaum. To the eye of sense we are separated from the Savior. We see Him not—we can touch Him not—the hand cannot steal amid the crowd to catch His garment hem—we cannot hear His loved footsteps as of old on our threshold; but faith penetrates the invisible; the messenger—prayer—meets Him in the streets of the New Jerusalem; and faith and prayer together, the twin delegates …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 19
Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe. —Psalm 119:117
Do not spoil the chime of this morning’s bells by ringing one half a peal! Do not say, “Hold thou me up,” and stop there, or add, “But all the same I shall stumble and fall!” Finish the peal with God's own music, the bright words of faith that He puts into your mouth: “Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe!” —Frances Ridley Havergal
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