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
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 1
Continue in prayer. —Colossians 4:2
Dost thou want nothing? Then I fear thou dost not know thy poverty. Hast thou no mercy to ask of God? Then may the Lord's mercy show thee thy misery. A prayerless soul is a Christless soul. Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus. —Charles H. Spurgeon
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 31
Christ is all, and in all. —Colossians 3:11
The service of Christ is the business of my life.
The will of Christ is the law of my life.
The presence of Christ is the joy of my life.
The glory of Christ is the crown of my life. —Selected
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 30
Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. —Romans 6:4
That is the life we are called upon to live, and that is the life it is our privilege to lead; for God never gives us a call without its being a privilege, and He never gives us the privilege to come up higher without stretching out to us His hand to lift us …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 29
The living God. —Daniel 6:20
How many times we find this expression in the Scriptures, and yet it is just this very thing that we are so prone to lose sight of! We know it is written “the living God;” but in our daily life there is scarcely anything we practically so much lose sight of as the fact that God is The Living God; that He is now whatever He was three or four thousand years since; that He has the same sovereign power, the same saving love towards those …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 28
Not as I will, but as Thou wilt. —Matthew 26:39
There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God. —Faber
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 27
Are there not twelve hours in the day? —John 11:9
The very fact of a Christian being here, and not in heaven, is a proof that some work awaits him. —William Arnot