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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 - April 18
Lo, I am with you all the days. —Matthew 28:20 (R. V., margin)
“All the days”—in winter days, when joys are fled; in sunless days, when the clouds return again and again after rain; in days of sickness and pain; in days of temptation and perplexity, as much as in days when the heart is as full of joy as the woodlands in spring are full of song. That day never comes when the Lord Jesus is not at the side of His saints. Lover and friend may stand afar, but He …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - April 30
Be it unto thee even as thou wilt. —Matthew 15:28
Oh, the victories of prayer! They are the mountain-tops of the Bible. They take us back to the plains of Mamre, to the fords of Peniel, to the prison of Joseph, to the triumphs of Moses, to the transcendent victories of Joshua, to the deliverances of David, to the miracles of Elijah and Elisha, to the whole story of the Master’s life, to the secret of Pentecost, to the key-note of Paul’s unparalleled ministry, to the lives of saints and the deaths of …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - May 17
Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. —Matthew 6:33
We need have only one care, that we put the first thing first—faithfulness to God. Then all else we need for both worlds will be supplied. God will never fail us; but we forget, sometimes, in our rejoicing over such an assurance, that we must fulfill our part if we would claim the divine promise.
It will not always be easy. To-morrow it may mean a distasteful task, a disagreeable duty …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - May 28
Him they compelled to bear His cross. —Matthew 27:32
There are many Christians of whom this is true. They are compelled to bear the cross, but how does it come? It comes by their running away from it. They make up their minds they won’t have Christ’s cross; and they find when the cross does come that it comes in a more terrible form, with a more crushing weight than ever it would have come had they only been content to submit themselves to the divine direction; for the cross has …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 28
Not as I will, but as Thou wilt. —Matthew 26:39
There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God. —Faber
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - April 15
Could ye not watch with me one hour? —Matthew 26:40
Oh! ye who sigh and languish, and mourn your lack of power,Heed ye this gentle whisper, “Could ye not watch one hour?”To fruitfulness and blessing, there is no “royal road”;The power for holy service is intercourse with God.—Selected
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - April 27
He…said…I…hid thy talent in the earth…His Lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant. —Matthew 25:24-26
Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. —Adolphe Monod
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - May 2
In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. —John 1:4
Ye are the light of the world. —Matthew 5:14
In the light we can walk and work. We walk in the light and become entirely children of light. We let our light, the light of God, shine, so that men may see our good works, and glorify our Father in heaven. Gently, silently, lovingly, unceasingly, we give ourselves to transmit the light and the love God so unceasingly shines into us. Our one work is to wait …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - May 22
Whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in nowise lose his reward. —Matthew 10:42
We are in danger of looking too far for opportunities of doing good and communicating. In reaching for rhododendrons we trample down the daisies. —Selected
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