Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - August 2
He entered into one of the ships . . . and . . . sat down. —Luke 5:3
When Jesus sits in the ship everything is in its right place. The cargo is in the hold, not in the heart. Cares and gains, fears and losses, yesterday’s failure and today's success do not thrust themselves in between us and His presence. The heart cleaves to Him. “Goodness and mercy shall follow me,” sang the psalmist. Alas, when the goodness and mercy come before us, and our blessings shut Jesus from view! Here is the …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - August 1
Continue in prayer. —Colossians 4:2
The greatest and the best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer. And the best usury that any man or woman brings back to God when He comes to reckon with them at the end of this world is a life of prayer. And those servants best put their Lord’s money to the exchangers who rise early and sit late, as long as they are in this world, ever finding out, and ever following after better and better …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 31
Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. —1 Corinthians 10:12
Angels fell in heaven, Adam in paradise, Peter in Christ's presence. —Theophilus Polwheile
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 30
The mother of Jesus saith unto Him, They have no wine. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come. His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it. —John 2:3-5
In asking for temporal blessings, true wisdom lies in putting the matter into the Lord’s hand, and leaving it there. He knows our sorrows, and, if He sees it is good for us that the water should be turned into wine, He will do it. It is not …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 29
Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. —Colossians 3:3
It is neither talent, nor power, nor gifts that do the work of God, but it is that which lies within the power of the humblest; it is the simple, earnest life hid with Christ in God. —F. W. Robertson
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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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