Thoughts

To reap, sow. To succeed, serve. To laugh, make someone laugh. To prosper, be honest...

I seek at the beginning to get my heart into such a state that it has no will of its own in regard to a given matter. Nine-tenths of the trouble with people generally is just here ...

Here is a prophet in the bonds of melancholy. The light of his hope has been blown out. His soul has been convulsed ...

No right-minded Christian would wish to be useless, but usefulness may usurp the place of devotedness ...

I do not believe we have even begun to understand the wonderful power there is in being still. We are in such a hurry ...

A visitor at a school for the deaf was writing questions on the board for the children. Soon he wrote this sentence: “Why has God made me able to hear and speak, and made you deaf?” ...

We become, unconsciously, like that with which we are occupied. We are formed by our thoughts ...

The dew is a source of freshness. It is nature’s provision for renewing the face of the earth. It falls at night ...

Some of life’s storms— a great sorrow, a bitter disappointment, a crushing defeat— suddenly come upon us ...

Why did it come to Isaac the night he reached Beersheba? Because that was the night he reached rest ...