Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - April 2
The LORD God formed man out of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. —Genesis 2:7
And so this soul of mine is a compound of two worlds—dust and deity! It touches the boundary line of two hemispheres. It is allied on one side to the divine; on the other, to the beast of the field. Its beginning is from beneath, but its culmination is from above; it is started from the dust of the ground, but …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - April 1
In the morning came the word of the LORD unto me. —Ezekiel 12:8
A quiet hour spent alone with God at the beginning of the day is the best beginning for the toils and cares of active business. A brief season of prayer, looking above for wisdom and grace and strength, and seeking for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, helps us to carry our religion into the business of the day. It brings joy and peace within the heart. And as we place all our concerns in the care …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 31
The children of your Father which is in heaven. —Matthew 5:45
The best name by which we can think of God is Father. It is a loving, deep, sweet, heart-touching name, for the name of father is in its nature full of inborn sweetness and comfort. Therefore, also, we must confess ourselves children of God, for by this name we deeply touch our God, since there is not a sweeter sound to the father than the voice of the child. —Martin Luther
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 30
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom. —Song of Solomon 2:15
How numerous the little foxes are! Little compromises with the world; disobedience to the still, small voice in little things; little indulgences of the flesh to the neglect of duty; little strokes of policy; doing evil in little things that good may come; and the beauty, and the fruitfulness of the vine are sacrificed! —J. Hudson Taylor
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 29
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. —Proverbs 4:18
Have I begun this path of heavenly love and knowledge now? Am I progressing in it? Do I feel some dawnings of the heavenly light, earnests and antepasts of the full day of glory? Let all God's dealings serve to quicken me in my way. Let every affection it may please Him to send, be as the moving pillar-cloud of old, beckoning me to move my tent onward, saying, “Arise ye and …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 28
God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. —Genesis 1:4
No sooner is there a good thing in the world than a division is necessary. Light and darkness have no communion; God has divided them, let us not confound them. Sons of light must not have fellowship with deeds, doctrines, or deceits of darkness. The children of the day must be sober, honest, and bold in their Lord’s work, leaving the works of darkness to those who shall dwell in it forever.
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 27
A great multitude…stood before the throne. —Revelation 7:9
A station on the feet in front of the throne in heaven is the effect of being often on the knees before the throne on earth. —Selected
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 26
I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do. —John 17:4
Was the work of the Master indeed done? Was not its heaviest task yet to come? He had not yet met the dread hour of death. Why did He say that His work was done? It was because He knew that, when the will is given, the battle is ended. He was only in the shadows of the garden; but to conquer these shadows was already to conquer all. He who has willed to die has already triumphed over …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 25
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. —Galatians 6:2
By lifting the burdens of others we lose our own. —Selected
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 24
She took for him an ark of bulrushes…and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink. —Exodus 2:3
The mother of Moses laid the ark in the flags by the river’s brink. Aye, but before doing so, she laid it on the heart of God! She could not have laid it so courageously upon the Nile, if she had not first devoutly laid it upon the care and love of God.
We are often surprised at the outward calmness of men who are called upon to do unpleasant and most …
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