Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - November 1
Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. —John 8:9
Alone with Jesus! What a sweet and holy spot! What a blessed refuge to which the soul may betake itself from the charges of Satan, the accusations of the world, and the sorrows of life! Sweet spot for the heart to unfold itself, to tell its hidden tale in the ear of Infinite love, tenderness, and compassion!
Alone with Jesus! How different a front would Christianity present to the world if the Lord’s people were oftener there! What humility, …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - October 31
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him: the eyes of your understanding being enlightened. —Ephesians 1:17, 18
We were coming down a mountain in Switzerland one evening, when a black thunder-storm blotted out the day, and all things were suddenly plunged into darkness. We could only dimly see the narrow, dusty footpaths, and the gloomy sides that were swallowed up in deeper gloom. What, then, of the majesty all about us, heights, …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - October 30
He placed . . . cherubims, and a flaming sword . . . to keep the way of the tree of life. —Genesis 3:24
Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life. —Revelation 22:14
How remarkable and how beautiful it is that the last page of the Revelation should come bending round to touch the first page of Genesis. The history of man began with angels with frowning faces and flaming swords barring the way to the Tree of Life. It ends with the guard of cherubim …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - October 29
He riseth from supper, and laid aside His garments; and took a towel, and girded Himself. After that He poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith He was girded. —John 13:4, 5
Acts are common and mean because they are ordinarily expressive of the common and mean thoughts of men. Let us not accuse the acts that make up our daily life of meanness, but our ignoble souls that reveal themselves so unworthily through those acts. The same act …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - October 28
Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, He will give it you. —John 16:23
Prayer must be based upon promise, but, thank God, His promises are always broader than our prayers! No fear of building inverted pyramids here, for Jesus Christ is the foundation. —Frances Ridley Havergal
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - October 27
Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth. —Hebrews 12:6
Earthly prosperity is no sign of the special love of heaven: nor are sorrow and care any mark of God’s disfavor, but the reverse. God’s love is robust, and true, and eager—not for our comfort, but for our lasting blessedness; it is bent on achieving this, and it is strong enough to bear misrepresentation and rebuke in its attempts to attune our spirits to higher music. It therefore comes instructing us. Let us enter ourselves as pupils in the school of God’s love. Let us …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - October 26
Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. —Luke 2:10
It is true that these good tidings of great joy were to be “for all people,” but not first. The message falls on our own ears, and is first for our own souls.
Oh, ponder this well! Take all God’s truths home first to thine own heart. Ask in earnest prayer that the Spirit may write them with the pen of heaven on thine own conscience. Then wilt thou be a vessel fitted for …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - October 25
The eleven disciples went . . . into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them . . . Jesus came and spake unto them saying . . . Go ye and teach all nations. —Matthew28:16, 18, 19.
The considerable actions in the world have usually very small beginnings. Of a few letters, how many thousand words are made! Of ten figures, how many thousand numbers! A point is the beginning of all geometry. A little stone flung into a pond makes a little circle, then a greater, till it enlarges itself to both the sides. So from small …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - October 24
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. —Matthew 5:16
They say the world has an eagle eye for anything inconsistent, an eye sharp to discover the vagaries and inconsistencies in the defaulty and the unworthy. It has an eagle eye; but the eagle winks before the sun, and the burning iris of its eye shrinks abashed before the unsullied purity of noon. Let your light so shine before men, that others, awed and charmed by the consistency of …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - October 23
As my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. —1 Kings 2:38
There is something infinitely better than doing a great thing for God, and the infinitely better thing is to be where God wants us to be, to do what God wants us to do, and to have no will apart from His. —G. Campbell Morgan
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