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
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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
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 20
Base things of the world and things which are despised hath God chosen. —1 Corinthians 1:28
In some of the great halls of Europe may be seen pictures not painted with the brush, but mosaics, which are made up of small pieces of stone, glass, or other material. The artist takes these little pieces, and, polishing and arranging them, he forms them into the grand and beautiful picture. Each individual part of the picture may be a little worthless piece of glass or marble or shell; but, with each in its place, …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 19
I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. Isaiah 48:10
Does not the word come like a soft shower, assuaging the fury of the flame? Yea, is it not an asbestos armor, against which the heat hath no power? Let affliction come—God has chosen me. Poverty, thou mayest stride in at my door—but God is in the house already, and He has chosen me. Sickness, thou mayest intrude, but I have a balsam ready—God has chosen me. Whatever befalls me in this vale of tears I know that He has “chosen” …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 18
Then spake Solomon . . . I have surely built thee an house to dwell in. —1 Kings 8:12, 13
Solomon, the prince of peace, alone could build the temple. If we would be soul-winners and build up the church, which is God’s temple, let us note this; not by discussion nor by argument, but by lifting up Christ shall we draw men unto Him. —J. Hudson Taylor
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 17
And the angel of the Lord said unto her [Hagar], Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. —Genesis 16:9
Submission is a great Christian law, but we find it early in Genesis, early in the history of mankind, and angel-given. —Selected
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 16
Jesus . . . went about doing good. —Acts 10:38
The finest of all fine arts is the art of doing good; and yet it is the least cultivated. —T. DeWitt Talmage
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 15
The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many. —Matthew 20:28
We are so to surrender ourselves to Christ that this great purpose of His coming shall claim and possess the whole life. We are to live, like God, to bless others. This is His will, His purpose concerning us. This is what His power waits to do for us. And this too, is the claim of His great love upon us.
Do not sigh a poor assent to …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 14
I will instruct thee, and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go; I will guide thee with mine eye. —Psalm 32:8
When God does the directing, our life is useful and full of promise, whatever it is doing; and discipline has its perfecting work. —H. E. Cobb
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 13
These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work. 1 Chronicles 4:23
Anywhere and everywhere we may dwell “with the King for His work.” We may be in a very unlikely or unfavorable place for this; it may be in a little country life, with little enough to be seen of the “goings” of the King around us; it may be among hedges of all sorts, hindrances in all directions; it may be, furthermore, with our hands full of all manner …
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