Thoughts

Why should you be lean and famished, even though a famine may prevail, when all the promises of God are yours...

“What pleases Thee, Lord, pleases me” is a grand motto for rest and peace and quiet, and for the stop­ping of all repining about what we have not got...

The true effectiveness of our lives lies not in rushing madly about on self-appointed missions, but in Spirit-directed activity that is ascertained by patiently waiting on the Lord...

O God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, our only Saviour, the Prince of Peace; Give us seriously to lay to heart the great danger we are in by our unhappy divisions...

Commit yourself, O my soul, confidently to the Lord's leading. The way may appear all wrong to you, but it is the right way...

We must not think of love as an uncontrollable, unpredictable emotion. We are commanded to love, and this would be quite impossible if love were some elusive, sporadic sensation...

Would you resemble Jesus? Then study Him closely, study Him constantly. Study not faint, imperfect copies, but study the Divine-human Original – study Jesus only...

Sin causes us to be self-centered, shifting our hearts from God to self. The essence of salvation is an about-face from self- centeredness to God-centeredness...

We see before us in this chapter that God is working all things after the counsel of His own will, and that the fruition of His plan is in the fulness of time...

Love has no limits.Christlike love leaves no doubt in the mind of another that you will continue to love steadfastly...