Thoughts

Do you who read these words look at those long-continued vigils, those days of fasting and prayer, those nights of wakeful watching and intercessions, and do you say, “What a price to pay!"...

On a summer's evening I walked into a meeting for prayer. I had longed for such a meeting all the day, for I had thought of those words, "They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength"...

As the tempest grew in violence the disciple's terror increased, until, when it seemed that the mighty billows would break them utterly, they awake Him with that cry, made bitter by unbelief, "Carest Thou not that we perish?"...

O child of suffering, be thou patient. God has not passed thee over in His providence. Sit not down in despair. Hope on, hope ever...

Many people have a view of the Christian life that is excessively idealistic. They think it should be one uninterrupted series of mountaintop experiences...

"Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus!" The greatest test of an earthly soldier's courage is patient endurance!...

Behold the infinite patience of Jesus! Even among His own disciples, how forbearingly He endured their blindness, their misconceptions and hardness of heart...

Jesus was despised because of the UNWORLDLINESS OF HIS LIFE. His whole life was one ceaseless testimony against the ungodliness of this ungodly world...

We are to be rewarded, not only for work done, but for burdens borne...

There is a limit to our affliction. God sends it and then removes it ...