Thoughts

We need the patience of Christ to keep us from over-helping others. We would help too much—or too soon...

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...

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...

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"...

Big assignments require big characters. God will give you a responsibility in proportion to the size of your character...

The believer is as helpless in himself as he is portionless in the world; and both lessons are only learned by experience...

Behold the infinite patience of Jesus! Even among His own disciples, how forbearingly He endured their blindness, their misconceptions and hardness of heart...

When my little son was about ten years old, his grandmother promised him a stamp collecting album for Christmas. Christmas came and went with no stamp album and no word from Grandma ...

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

Prayer that uses previously unanswered prayers as an excuse for laziness has already ceased to be a prayer of faith ...