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
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 …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 23
Blessed is the man…that keepeth the Sabbath. —Isaiah 56:2
The Sabbath is the savings-bank of human life, into which we deposit one day in seven to be repaid in the autumn of life with compound interest. —Selected
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 22
…Sinners of whom I am chief…Now unto the King, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen. —1 Timothy 1:15, 17
Only those who have struck the deepest note of penitence can reach the highest note of praise. —A. J. Gordon
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 21
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling: for it is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure. —Philippians 2:12, 13
What a staggering weight of thought is excited by these words! Stay, my soul, and wonder that the Eternal God should stoop to work within thy narrow limits. Is it not a marvel indeed, that He, whom the heavens cannot contain, and in whose sight they are not clean, should trouble Himself to work on such material, so unpromising, and amidst circumstances …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 20
Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy. —Matthew 8:6
We, in this age of the church, are in the position of that sick servant at Capernaum. To the eye of sense we are separated from the Savior. We see Him not—we can touch Him not—the hand cannot steal amid the crowd to catch His garment hem—we cannot hear His loved footsteps as of old on our threshold; but faith penetrates the invisible; the messenger—prayer—meets Him in the streets of the New Jerusalem; and faith and prayer together, the twin delegates …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 19
Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe. —Psalm 119:117
Do not spoil the chime of this morning’s bells by ringing one half a peal! Do not say, “Hold thou me up,” and stop there, or add, “But all the same I shall stumble and fall!” Finish the peal with God's own music, the bright words of faith that He puts into your mouth: “Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe!” —Frances Ridley Havergal
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 18
Sow beside all waters. —Isaiah 32:20
Never mind whereabouts your work is. Never mind whether it be visible or not. Never mind whether your name is associated with it. You may never see the issues of your toils. You are working for eternity. If you cannot see results here in the hot working day, the cool evening hours are drawing near, when you may rest from your labors and then they will follow you. So do your duty, and trust God to give the seed you sow “a body as it hath …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 17
Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. —James 1:4
Are you where God would have you be? If not, come out, and at once, for you certainly ought not to be there. If you are, then be afraid to complain of circumstances which God has ordained on purpose to work out in you the very image and likeness of His Son. —Mark Guy Pearse
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - July 16
Ye shall not eat of it. —Genesis 3:3
The Sin of Paradise was eating the tree of knowledge before the tree of life. Life must ever be first. Knowing and not being, hearing and not doing, admiring and not possessing, all are light without life. —Selected