Thoughts

Reader! How comforting to you amid the ebbings and flowings of your changing history — to know that the change is all with you, and not with your God!...

Prayer is not difficult to understand. It is difficult to do. When was the last time your heart so grieved for those you were interceding for that your entire body agonized along with your mind and heart?...

It is the sin, as it is the mortification, of the believer, to expect too much from the creature, and too little from the Lord...

“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...

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...