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The restoring, vital current from Christ heals the wounds that sin has made. -- This Day With God, p. 12. Great good may be accomplished by the sincere, humble worker who realizes that success does not depend on appearances, but on the One who has given him his commission. -- This Day With God, p. 26. You will be subject to the infirmities of humanity, and will no doubt make mistakes, but the compassionate, loving Saviour will pardon all your errors, because you ask Him, and because you love Jesus. -- This Day With God, p. 39. Those who walk in the fear of God, meditating upon His character, will daily become more and more like Christ. -- This Day With God, p. 40. Jesus is our friend. All heaven is interested in our welfare; and our anxiety and fear grieve the Holy Spirit of God. -- This Day With God, p. 42. No place should be given to that distrust of God which leads us to make a preparation against future want the chief pursuit of life, as though our happiness consisted in these earthly things, and we could gain them while ignoring the fact that God controls all things. -- This Day With God, p. 42. If the seeker after truth will compare Scripture with Scripture, he will find the key that unlocks the treasure house and gives him a true understanding of the Word of God. -- This Day With God, p. 43. Do not look on the dark side. Have faith in God. We are Christ's property, and let us remember that He loves us, and will be our Helper and our God. -- This Day With God, p. 44. Christ was crucified for me, and shall I complain if I am crucified with Christ? -- This Day With God, p. 57. We know not what is before us, and our only safety is in walking with Christ, our hand in His, our hearts filled with perfect trust. -- This Day With God, p. 57. We want to have fresh in our memory every tear the Lord has wiped from our eyes, every pain He has soothed, every anxiety removed, every fear dispelled, every want supplied, every mercy bestowed, and strengthen ourselves for all that is before us through the remainder of our pilgrimage. -- This Day With God, p. 58. The Christian's life is a strangely mingled scene of sorrows and joys, disappointments and hopes, fears and confidence. -- This Day With God, p. 62. He loves you, He cares for you, He is blessing you, and He will give you His peace and grace. . . . Gather to your soul the sweet promises of God. -- This Day With God, p. 63. God accepts your broken contrite heart. He offers you free pardon. He offers to adopt you into His family with His grace to help your weakness, and the dear Jesus will lead you on step by step, if you will only put your hand in His and let Him guide you. -- This Day With God, p. 63. We are to tell others of the love of Christ, and in order to do this, we must know by experience what it means to have this love in the heart. -- This Day With God, p. 64. We want good, strong minds that are not easily discouraged, minds that are educated to grapple with the difficulties we shall meet, and wrestle with and conquer hard problems. -- This Day With God, p. 65. The Lord inspires His consecrated workmen to work not from what they see but from what the Lord sees. -- This Day With God, p. 65. We need to strengthen our souls with hope, the twin sister of faith. -- This Day With God, p. 65. Uniformity is not the rule that is followed in the kingdom of nature. Neither is it the rule that is followed in the kingdom of grace. In different ways God works to attain one purpose--the saving of souls. By different methods the gracious Redeemer deals with different minds. -- This Day With God, p. 67. Christ taught the truth because He was the truth. His own thought, His character, His life experience, were embodied in His teaching. So with His servants: those who would teach the word are to make it their own by a personal experience. -- This Day With God, p. 72. If we will talk faith and hope and courage, our souls will be strengthened, and our hope and courage and faith will increase. -- This Day With God, p. 75. The first work for all Christians to do is to search the Scriptures with most earnest prayer, that they may have that faith that works by love, and purifies the soul from every thread of selfishness. -- This Day With God, p. 85. Look at the cross of Calvary. It is a standing pledge of the boundless love, the measureless mercy, of the heavenly Father. -- This Day With God, p. 88. The law of God is a reflection of His character. -- This Day With God, p. 90. The sun, gilding, tinting, and then glorifying the heavens with its blaze of light is a symbol of the Christian life. As the light of the sun is light and life and blessing to all that live, so should Christians, by their good works, by their cheerfulness and courage, be the light of the world. -- This Day With God, p. 92. God intends that we shall have an experimental knowledge of Christ, then we can be faithful witnesses for God, testifying of the grace of Christ in words and actions, by conscious and unconscious influence. -- This Day With God, p. 117. We must seek to be one with God. His interest must be our interest, His sentiments and designs ours. We know the love of God for sinners and the infinite sacrifice that has been made to save perishing souls; then let us unite with Christ in this great work. -- This Day With God, p. 117. Our unity and love for one another are the credentials by which we testify to the world that God has sent His Son to save sinners. -- This Day With God, p. 120. I want the assurance from day to day that Jesus is mine and I am His. -- This Day With God, p. 130. Faith looks through discouraging difficulties, and lays hold of the unseen, even Omnipotence, therefore it cannot be baffled. Faith, hope, and love are sisters, and their works blend perfectly to shine amid the moral darkness of the world. -- This Day With God, p. 131. Our God-given capabilities should not be made to serve selfish ends. We should always be willing to impart, letting others know all that we know; and we should rejoice, if they in their work develop an energy and an intelligence superior to that which we possess. -- This Day With God, p. 132. Life is not made up of great sacrifices and wonderful achievements, but of little things. -- This Day With God, p. 144. The only way to gain peace and joy is to have a living connection with Him who gave His life for us, who died that we might live, and who lives to unite His power with the efforts of those who are striving to overcome. -- This Day With God, p. 145. It is plainly written on the unrenewed heart and on a fallen world, All seek their own. Selfishness is the great law of our degenerate nature. Selfishness occupies the place in the soul where Christ should sit enthroned. -- This Day With God, p. 162. There is nothing that can so weaken the influence of the church, as the lack of love. -- This Day With God, p. 165. As we study this inexpressible love in the light of the cross of Calvary, we are filled with wonder, with amazement. . . . The gulf of perdition opened by sin is bridged by the cross of Calvary. Penitent, believing souls may see a forgiving Father reconciling us to Himself by that cross of Calvary. -- This Day With God, p. 176. Never for a moment should we allow Satan to think that his power to distress and annoy is greater than the power of Christ to uphold and strengthen. -- This Day With God, p. 177. Christ did not leave this world until He had made it possible for every soul to live a life of perfect faith and obedience, to have a perfect character. -- This Day With God, p. 204. When we are having a hard time, let us consider how much our salvation cost the God of the universe. -- This Day With God, p. 216. Christ directs, strengthens, ennobles, and sanctifies the faculties of the soul. It is through personal acquaintance with Him that we become qualified to represent His character to the world. -- This Day With God, p. 219. Walking with Christ means to believe that, though unseen, Christ is walking with you. -- This Day With God, p. 225. Love is the basis of godliness. No man has love to God, no matter what his profession may be, unless he has unselfish love for his brother. As we love God because He first loved us, we shall love all for whom Christ died. -- This Day With God, p. 239. Lord has lavished upon this earth the useful and the beautiful. The beautiful tinted flowers tell of His tenderness and love. They have a language of their own, reminding us of the Giver. -- This Day With God, p. 241. What love, what wonderful love, that God bears with the perversity of His people, and sends help to every soul that desires to do His will, and forsake sin! -- This Day With God, p. 247. His death on the cross of Calvary was the climax of His humiliation. His work as a redeemer is beyond finite conception. Only those who have died to self, whose lives are hid with Christ in God, can have any conception of the completeness of the offering made to save the fallen race. -- This Day With God, p. 270. We are not to speak one word or do one action that will lower in the minds of others the ideal they have of the One who died a death of shame on the cross that He might purchase the privilege of saving His enemies. -- This Day With God, p. 270. What if we should lose our soul? It would be better for us had we never been born. One soul is worth more than all the gold and silver that could be heaped up on this earth. -- This Day With God, p. 271. You can have a little heaven here below, if you will only get your eye fixed upon God--not looking at Christ half the time and at the world the other half. -- This Day With God, p. 271. Love for God and for one another unites the soul to Christ by the golden links of love. The soul is bound up with Him in sanctified, elevated union. -- This Day With God, p. 272. True sanctification unites believers to Christ and to one another in the bonds of tender sympathy. This union causes to flow continually into the heart rich currents of Christlike love, which flows forth again in love for one another. -- This Day With God, p. 272. The qualities which it is essential for all to possess are those which marked the completeness of Christ's character--His love, His patience, His unselfishness, and His goodness. -- This Day With God, p. 272. The moment we begin to feel self-sufficient and confident then we are in danger of a disgraceful failure. -- This Day With God, p. 277. Our only sure defense against besetting sins is prayer, daily and hourly prayer. . . . Prayer is the channel that conducts our gratitude and yearnings of soul for the divine blessing to the throne of God, to be returned to us in refreshing showers of divine grace. -- This Day With God, p. 277. We need to take hold of Christ, and to retain our hold of Him until we know that the power of His transforming grace is manifested in us. -- This Day With God, p. 285. He desires that, through the appropriation of His grace, humanity shall become partakers of the divine nature. -- This Day With God, p. 285. Supreme love for God and unselfish love for one another, these are the two great arms upon which hang all the law and the prophets. . . . The evidence of love for Christ is the manifestation of love for one another. Unselfish love for those around us is placed among the brightest evidences of true religion. -- This Day With God, p. 287. Contemplate Jesus your Saviour. Think how He humbled Himself. He was Commander in the heavenly courts, but He laid aside His crown, His kingly robe, and clothed His divinity with humanity, that humanity might touch humanity, and divinity lay hold upon divinity. -- This Day With God, p. 298. He feels every pang of anguish that His loved ones feel. Just rest in His arms, and know that He is your Saviour, and your very best Friend, and that He will never leave nor forsake you. -- This Day With God, p. 313. Your safety at the present time, when your mind is tortured with doubt, is not to trust in feeling, but in the living God. All He asks of you is to put your trust in Him, acknowledging Him as your faithful Saviour, who loves you, and has forgiven you all your mistakes and errors. -- This Day With God, p. 313. Prayer and faith are the arms by which the soul hangs upon the neck of infinite love, and grasps the hand of infinite power. -- This Day With God, p. 315. As we think of what He has done for us, our hearts should be filled with gratitude and love, and we should renounce all selfishness and sin. -- This Day With God, p. 315. The love of Jesus in the heart will always be revealed in tender compassion for the souls of those for whom Christ paid so dear a price. -- This Day With God, p. 327. A backslidden church is the sure result of a selfish church, a church that does not use her talents in the work of cooperating with Jesus to restore the moral image of God in man. -- This Day With God, p. 330. We must obtain that measure of the grace of Christ that will enable us to dwell together in love and unity in this life, else we can never dwell together in the life to come. . . . To Him we may look for grace and power to overcome every fault. -- This Day With God, p. 372. Our only hope in this life is to reach forth the hand of faith, and grasp the hand outstretched to save. . . . If we would look away from self to Jesus, making Him our Guide, the world would see in our churches a power that it does not now see. -- This Day With God, p. 373. |