Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 30
He shall give His angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways. —Psalm 91:11
Count no duty too little, no round of life too small, no work too low, if it come in thy way, since God thinks so much of it as to send His angels to guard thee in it. —Mark Guy Pearse
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 29
This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. —1 John 5:4
The world conquers me when it succeeds in hindering me from seeing, loving, holding communion with, and serving my Father, God. I conquer it when I lay my hand upon it and force it to help me to get nearer Him, to get more like Him, to think oftener of Him, to do His will more gladly and more constantly. The one victory over the world is to bend it to serve me in the highest things—the attainment …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 28
Wait for the promise of the Father. —Acts 1:4
Tarry at a promise till God meets you there. He always returns by way of His promises. —Selected
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 27
Christ in you the hope of glory. —Colossians 1:27
Religion is not the simple fire-escape that you build in anticipation of a possible danger, upon the outside of your dwelling, and leave there until danger comes. You go to it some morning when a fire breaks out in your house, and the poor old thing that you built up there, and thought that you could use some day, is so rusty and broken, and the weather has so beaten upon it and the sun so turned its hinges, that it will not work. …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 26
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. —Psalm 90:12
Every day is a little life; and our whole life is but a day repeated: whence it is that old Jacob numbers his life by days; and Moses desires to be taught this point of holy arithmetic—to number not his years, but his days. Those, therefore, that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate. —Bishop Hall
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 25
The life which I now live in the flesh. —Galatians 2:20
I expect to pass through this world but once—therefore, if there be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. —Marcus Aurelius
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 24
And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do? —Genesis 18:17
Abraham, in communion with God, knew long before Lot, in Sodom, of the destruction of that city. Oh for more communion! —Selected
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 23
Be ye holy; for I am holy. —1 Peter 1:16
The highway of holiness is along the commonest road of life—along your very way. In wind and rain, no matter how it beats—it is only going hand in hand with Him. —Mark Guy Pearse
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 22
When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father, which is in secret. —Matthew 6:6
This is faith’s stronghold; here she weapons herself for the daily conflict. Silence in that closet of prayer bespeaks death throughout all the house. When that door is suffered to rust on its hinges, and that chamber is deserted, then the heart-house is soon retaken by Satan, and evil spirits come in and dwell there. —Theodore Cuyler
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 21
Serve the LORD with gladness; come before His presence with singing. —Psalm 100:2
God wants our life to be a song. He has written the music for us in His Word and in the duties that come to us in our places and relations in life. The things we ought to do are the notes set upon the staff. To make our life beautiful music we must be obedient and submissive. Any disobedience is the singing of a false note, and yields discord. —J. R. Miller