Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 11
As many as I love I…chasten. —Revelation 3:19
I once saw a dark shadow resting on the bare side of a hill. Seeking its cause I saw a little cloud, bright as the light, floating in the clear blue above. Thus it is with our sorrow. It may be dark and cheerless here on earth; yet look above and you shall see it to be but a shadow of His brightness whose name is Love. —Dean Alford
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 10
He loveth our nation and he hath built us a synagogue. —Luke 7:5
Marble and granite are perishable monuments, and their inscriptions may be seldom read. Carve your names on human hearts; they alone are immortal! —Theodore Cuyler
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 9
Therefore will the LORD wait, that He may be gracious unto you. —Isaiah 30:18
This is God’s way. In the darkest hours of the night His tread draws near across the billows. As the day of execution is breaking, the angel comes to Peter’s cell. When the scaffold for Mordecai is complete, the royal sleeplessness leads to a reaction in favor of the threatened race.
Ah, soul, it may have come to the worst with thee ere thou art delivered; but thou wilt be! God may keep thee waiting, but He …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 8
Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy fathers house. —Genesis 12:1
Abraham…was gathered to his people. —Genesis 25:8
After all communion we dwell as upon islands, dotted over a great archipelago, each upon his little rock with the sea dashing between us; but the time comes when, if our hearts are set upon that great Lord whose presence makes us one, there shall be no more sea and all the isolated rocks shall be parts of a great continent…If we cultivate that sense of detachment from the …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 7
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD. —Hosea 6:3
The Lord has brought us into the pathway of the knowledge of Him, and bids us pursue that path through all its strange meanderings until it opens out upon the plain where God’s throne is. Our life is a following on to know the Lord. We marvel at some of the experiences through which we are called to pass, but afterwards we see that they afforded us some new knowledge of our Lord…We have not to …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 6
He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk even as He walked. —1 John 2:6
The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ. —Selected
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 5
Ye servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD…The LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion. —Psalm 134:1, 3
If I would know the love of my friend, I must see what it can do in the winter. So with the divine love. It is very easy for me to worship in the summer sunshine, when the melodies of life are in the air and the fruits of life are on the tree. But let the song of …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 4
Thou openest Thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. —Psalm 145:16
Desire, it is a dainty word! It were much that He should satisfy the need, the want; but He goeth far beyond that. Pity is moved to meet our need; duty may sometimes look after our wants; but to satisfy the desire implies a tender watchfulness, a sweet and gracious knowledge of us, an eagerness of blessing. God is never satisfied until He has satisfied our desires. —Mark Guy Pearse
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 3
Love not the world. —1 John 2:15
Love it not, and yet love it. Love it with the love of Him who gave His Son to die for it. Love it with the love of Him who shed His blood for it. Love it with the love of angels, who rejoice in its conversion. Love it to do it good, giving your tears to its sufferings, your pity to its sorrows, your wealth to its wants, your prayers to its miseries, and to its fields of charity, and philanthropy, and Christian piety, …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 2
In whom all the building, fitly framed together, groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord. —Ephesians 2:21
The life-tabernacle is a wondrous building; there is room for workers of all kinds in the uprearing of its mysterious and glorious walls. If we cannot do the greatest work, we may do the least. Our heaven will come out of the realization of the fact that it was God's tabernacle we were building, and under God’s blessing that we were working. —Joseph Parker