Thoughts

Jesus never spoke one unnecessarily harsh or severe word. The giving of a wise reproof requires much Christian prudence and delicate discretion...

In this passage God reproved the women of Isaiah’s day, not only for how they dressed but also for how they carried themselves...

Jesus literally "walked with God." As man, He was deeply conscious of the spiritual necessities of man; and as the God-man Mediator, He felt the need of looking up to the Strong One for strength...

Many a death-struggle has been made — to save a friend. A dying Savior gathers up His expiring breath — to plead for His foes!...

When we consult Christ’s tastes, instead of our own, we are not less ready to spend and be spent for Him, but we serve in another way...

It is always our peril to think that the visible field reveals all the factors in the campaign. We are bondslaves to our sight, and we are therefore its victims ...

In great minds, there is often a beautiful blending of majesty and humility, magnanimity and lowliness. The mightiest and holiest of all Beings that ever trod our world — was the meekest of all...

How truly did the Son of God identify Himself with the humanity and the curse He came to ransom and remove...

We must visit the altar of early loyalties, for we have lost our first love. We must seek to regain the constancy of our early communion with the Lord...

Each has some appointed work to perform, some little niche in the spiritual temple to occupy. Yours may be no splendid services, no flaming or brilliant actions to blaze and dazzle in the eye of man...