Thoughts

We are not called to oppose others who are serving the Lord. It is a big, wide world, and there is plenty of room for all of us to get on with our work without stepping on one another’s toes...

The life God intends His people should live is not one of sight but of faith, not one for tomorrow but for today...

Whatever your burden, cast it in the prayer of faith on the Lord. Peculiar and heavy though it may be, His strength and grace and love will sustain you...

There is a subtle temptation, even in Christian service, to become great, to see one’s name in the magazines or hear it over the radio. But it is a great snare...

He cares for us. My soul, has not Jesus proved it? Did He not care for you when He embarked in the work of your salvation?...

In almost everyone’s life there are things which he never would have chosen, which he would like to be rid of, but which can never be changed...

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...