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If we connect with God, the source of peace, and light, and truth, His Spirit will flow through us as a channel, to refresh and bless all around us. -- Our High Calling, p. 7. Infinite Love has cast up a pathway upon which the ransomed of the Lord may pass from earth to heaven. That path is the Son of God. -- Our High Calling, p. 11. Had God given us less we could not have been saved. But He gave to our world so abundantly that it could not be said that He could love us more. -- Our High Calling, p. 12. Everything that is connected with the purchase of the blood of Christ is of value in the sight of God. -- Our High Calling, p. 18. Oh, that all could behold our precious Saviour as He is, a Saviour. -- Our High Calling, p. 23. The hand that upholds the world, upholds and strengthens His weakest child. -- Our High Calling, p. 28. That He might save the souls of perishing human beings, He made a gift of such magnitude that it can never be said that God could have made His gift, His donation to the human family, greater. -- Our High Calling, p. 28. Treasure the truth above everything; sell it not for any price. -- Our High Calling, p. 34. Christ is the connecting link between God and man. The blood of Jesus Christ is the eloquent plea that speaks in behalf of sinners. -- Our High Calling, p. 38. If you believe in Christ as your personal Saviour, you receive every grace, every spiritual endowment, necessary for the perfecting of the Christian character. -- Our High Calling, p. 40. Whether we give ourselves to the Lord or not, we are His. ... We are the Lord's by creation, and we are His by redemption. -- Our High Calling, p. 42. But while we behold in the cross God's hatred of sin, we also behold His love for sinners, which is stronger than death. To the world the cross is the incontrovertible argument that God is truth and light and love. -- Our High Calling, p. 45. The Lord Jesus came to our world, not to reveal what a God could do, but what a man could do, through faith in God's power to help in every emergency. -- Our High Calling, p. 48. If through manifold temptations we are surprised or deceived into sin, He does not turn from us and leave us to perish. -- Our High Calling, p. 49. How broad this great truth is-- that God for Christ's dear sake, forgives us the moment we ask Him in living faith, believing that He is fully able! -- Our High Calling, p. 49. He places us close by His side, encircling us with His human arm, while with His divine arm He grasps the throne of the Infinite. -- Our High Calling, p. 50. The righteousness of Christ is placed on the debtor's account, and against his name on the balance sheet is written, Pardoned. Eternal Life. -- Our High Calling, p. 53. Your only safety and happiness are in making Christ your constant counselor. You can be happy in Him if you had not another friend in the wide world. -- Our High Calling, p. 64. Your heavenly Father means to teach you to find in Him the friendship and love and consolation that will satisfy your most earnest hopes and desires. -- Our High Calling, p. 64. I have seen that those who live for a purpose, seeking to benefit and bless their fellow men and to honor and glorify their Redeemer, are the truly happy ones on the earth. -- Our High Calling, p. 64. In thus blessing another with cheering, hopeful words, pointing him to the Burden Bearer, you may unexpectedly find peace, happiness, and consolation yourself. -- Our High Calling, p. 64. When the repenting sinner comes to Christ, conscious of his guilt and unworthiness, realizing that he is deserving of punishment, but relying on the mercy and love of Christ, he will not be turned away. -- Our High Calling, p. 78. Temptation is not sin; the sin lies in yielding. To the soul who trusts in Jesus, temptation means victory and greater strength. -- Our High Calling, p. 87. The closer we are to God, the safer we are, for Satan hates and fears the presence of God. -- Our High Calling, p. 96. We cannot draw nigh to God, and come to the same cross, without our hearts being blended together in perfect unity, answering the prayer of Christ that they may be one as He is one with the Father. -- Our High Calling, p. 96. The soul that loves God, loves to draw strength from Him by constant communion with Him. -- Our High Calling, p. 96. All heaven is looking upon you with deep interest. One soul for whom Christ has died is worth more than the whole world. -- Our High Calling, p. 98. When man places himself under the control of God, the will becomes firm and strong to do right, the heart is cleansed from selfishness, and filled with Christlike love. -- Our High Calling, p. 104. There is nothing that will so refine and elevate the character, and give vigor to every faculty, as the continual exercise of the mind to grasp and comprehend weighty and important truths. -- Our High Calling, p. 106. By constantly contemplating heavenly themes, our faith and love will grow stronger. Our prayers will be more and more acceptable to God, because they will be more and more mixed with faith and love. -- Our High Calling, p. 113. That faith which works by love and purifies the soul is not a matter of impulse. It ventures out upon the promises of God, firmly believing that what He has said, He is able also to perform. -- Our High Calling, p. 119. If we educated our souls to have more faith, more love, greater patience, a more perfect trust in our heavenly Father, we would have more peace and happiness as we pass through the conflicts of this life. -- Our High Calling, p. 120. It is the fragrance of the merit of Christ that makes our good works acceptable to God, and it is grace that enables us to do the works for which He rewards us. Our works in and of themselves have no merit. -- Our High Calling, p. 122. The promise of God is sure, that strength shall be proportioned to our day. We may be confident for the future only in the strength that is given for the present necessities. -- Our High Calling, p. 125. Looking beyond yourself to a crucified Saviour, a risen and ascended Lord, who is, as your Advocate, making intercession for you, taking hold of Christ's power and efficiency, you can conquer. -- Our High Calling, p. 126. Prayer is both a duty and a privilege. We must have help which God alone can give, and that help will not come unasked. -- Our High Calling, p. 129. The Lord Jesus knows that it is not possible for us to resist the many temptations of Satan, only as we shall have divine power given us from God. He well knows that in our own human strength we should surely fail. -- Our High Calling, p. 131. It is possible for us to obtain victory after victory, and be the most happy people on the face of the earth. -- Our High Calling, p. 148. Each of God's requirements is an order to become wise, rich, and noble by uniting our weak strength with the power of the Infinite. -- Our High Calling, p. 149. There is no limit to the usefulness of one who, putting aside self, makes room for the working of the Holy Spirit upon his heart, and lives a life wholly consecrated to God. -- Our High Calling, p. 151. To reject the Holy Spirit, through whose power we conquer the forces of evil, is the sin that surpasses all others; for it cuts us off from the source of our power--from Christ and communion with Him. -- Our High Calling, p. 155. The light that fell from the open portals upon the head of our Saviour, will fall upon us as we pray for help to resist temptation. -- Our High Calling, p. 156. To have a new heart is to have a new mind, new purposes, new motives. What is the sign of a new heart?--A changed life. -- Our High Calling, p. 159. So the Christian, cut off from earthly dependence, may learn to rely wholly upon God, and may gain strength and courage from every conflict. -- Our High Calling, p. 166. The ax and the hammer and the chisel of trial and test are in the hands of One who is skillful, and are used not to destroy, not to bring to nothingness, but to work out the perfections of every soul. -- Our High Calling, p. 167. The words to which God and the angels listen with delight are words of appreciation for the great gift that has been made to the world in the only-begotten Son of God. -- Our High Calling, p. 168. The Majesty of heaven identifies His interests with those of the believers, however humble may be their circumstances. -- Our High Calling, p. 168. Unity in diversity is God's plan. Among the followers of Christ there is to be the blending of diverse elements, one adapted to the other, and each to do its special work for God. -- Our High Calling, p. 169. Prayer unites us with one another and with God. Prayer brings Jesus to our side, and gives new strength and fresh grace to the fainting, perplexed soul to overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil. -- Our High Calling, p. 177. The members of the church of God on this earth are as the different parts of a machine, all closely related to one another, and all closely related to and dependent on one great center. There is to be unity in diversity. -- Our High Calling, p. 182. As we receive daily and hourly the blessing of God, we can do no less to show our gratitude than to have a kindly, unselfish interest in those for whom Christ has died. -- Our High Calling, p. 183. Self and selfishness will be ever striving for the mastery. It is a fight we must have with ourselves, that self shall not have the victory. Through Christ you may triumph; through Christ you may conquer. -- Our High Calling, p. 184. What if the Lord should cease to bestow His gifts upon us? What a cry of wretchedness, suffering, and want would go up from the earth! -- Our High Calling, p. 192. The character of the Christian is to be a reproduction of the character of Christ. The same love, the same grace, the same unselfish benevolence, seen in His life, is to characterize the lives of His followers. -- Our High Calling, p. 198. Christ looks upon His people in their purity and perfection as the reward of all His sufferings, His humiliation, and His love, and the supplement of His glory--Christ the great center, from whom radiates all glory. -- Our High Calling, p. 203. The Bible is its own interpreter. With beautiful simplicity one portion connects itself with the truth of another portion, until the whole Bible is blended in one harmonious whole. -- Our High Calling, p. 207. The world is perishing for want of truth, pure, unadulterated truth. Christ is the truth. His words are truth. -- Our High Calling, p. 208. Truth is sacred and divine. It is stronger and more powerful than anything else in the formation of a character after the likeness of Christ. -- Our High Calling, p. 208. The words, "Give us this day our daily bread," refer not only to temporal food but to the spiritual food which brings everlasting life to the receiver. -- Our High Calling, p. 209. In those who feed constantly upon the Word, Christ is formed, the hope of glory. A neglect to read and study the Bible brings spiritual starvation. -- Our High Calling, p. 209. The Bible is a divine communication, and is as verily a message to the soul as though a voice from heaven were heard speaking to us. -- Our High Calling, p. 210. Conformity to the likeness of Christ's character, overcoming all sin and temptation, walking in the fear of God, setting the Lord continually before us, will bring peace and joy on earth, and ensure us pure happiness in heaven. -- Our High Calling, p. 214. Whether we have one year before us, or five, or ten, we are to be faithful to our trust today. We are to perform each day's duties as faithfully as though that day were to be our last. -- Our High Calling, p. 220. The hand of God is spread as a shield over all His creatures. No man can wound your rights without smiting that hand; you can wound no man's rights without smiting it. -- Our High Calling, p. 225. Life is not made up of great things alone; it is the little things that make the sum of life's happiness or miseries. It is the little things in life that reveal a person's real character. -- Our High Calling, p. 227. Our bodies are built up from what we eat and drink; and the character of our spiritual experience depends on what our minds feed upon and assimilate. -- Our High Calling, p. 233. If you would see the evidences that there is a God, look around you wherever your lot may be cast. He is speaking to your senses and impressing your soul through His created works. -- Our High Calling, p. 251. There are professing Christians who think it their duty to make every other Christian like themselves. This is man's plan, not the plan of God. -- Our High Calling, p. 254. The true Christian banishes all selfishness from his heart. How can he live for self as he thinks of Christ hanging on the cross, giving His life for the life of the world? -- Our High Calling, p. 287. God pronounces His blessing upon unselfish, unwearied diligence; and though we may have but one talent, and can make but a small investment, yet God will make the effort fruitful in results. -- Our High Calling, p. 290. Righteous words and deeds have a more powerful influence for good than all the sermons that can be preached. -- Our High Calling, p. 291. When the Refiner sees His image reflected in you perfectly, He will remove you from the furnace. You will not be left to be consumed or to endure the fiery ordeal any longer than is necessary for your purification. -- Our High Calling, p. 312. Jesus loves. Jesus pities, and He will receive you with all your burden of care and trouble if you will come to Him and lay your burden upon Him. He has promised He will never leave or forsake those who put their trust in Him. -- Our High Calling, p. 312. Oh, how easy for us to forget God, while He never forgets us; He visits us with His mercies every hour. -- Our High Calling, p. 314. He always knows much better than we do, just what is necessary for the good of His children, and He leads us as we would choose to be led if we could discern our own hearts and see our necessities and perils, as God sees them. -- Our High Calling, p. 316. If we will trust Him, and commit our ways to Him, He will direct our steps in the very path that will result in our obtaining the victory over every evil passion, and every trait of character that is unlike the character of our divine Pattern. -- Our High Calling, p. 316. As your burden grows heavier look up and by faith cling more firmly to the hand of Jesus, your mighty helper. -- Our High Calling, p. 317. Oh, it is in the future life we shall see the tangles and mysteries of life, that have so annoyed and disappointed our fond hopes, explained. We will see that the prayers and hopes for certain things which have been withheld have been among our greatest blessings. -- Our High Calling, p. 318. All trials, all afflictions, all peace, all safety, health, hope, life, and success are in God's hands, and He can control them all for the good of His children. -- Our High Calling, p. 318. But so often we turn away from Him and His promises, and tell our troubles to those who, like ourselves, are but mortal, with troubles which only Christ can bear. -- Our High Calling, p. 325. I see in Jesus everything that is lovely, everything that is holy, everything that is uplifting and pure. Then why should I want to open my eyes wide to see everything that is disagreeable? -- Our High Calling, p. 334. The love of Christ is so broad, so full of glory, that in comparison to it, everything that man esteems so great dwindles into insignificance. -- Our High Calling, p. 366. The very best preparation you can have for Christ's second appearing is to rest with firm faith in the great salvation brought to us at His first coming. You must believe in Christ as a personal Saviour. -- Our High Calling, p. 368. Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us of which we know nothing. Those who accept the one principle of making the service of God supreme, will find perplexities vanish, and a plain path before their feet. -- The Ministry of Healing, p. 481. |