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When faith in God's Word is lost, the soul has no guide, no safeguard. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 7. At the cross of Calvary, love and selfishness stood face to face. Here was their crowning manifestation. -- Desire of Ages, p. 57. So with all the promises of God's Word. In them He is speaking to us individually, speaking as directly as if we could listen to His voice. It is in these promises that Christ communicates to us His grace and power. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 9. If you would become acquainted with the Saviour, study the Holy Scriptures. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 12. The Word of God, like the character of its divine Author, presents mysteries that can never be fully comprehended by finite beings. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 14. And to all eternity men may be ever searching, ever learning, and yet they can never exhaust the treasures of His wisdom, His goodness, and His power. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 14. God invites us to prove for ourselves the reality of His Word, the truth of His promises. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 16. Through this simple act of believing God, the Holy Spirit has begotten a new life in your heart. You are as a child born into the family of God, and He loves you as He loves His Son. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 19. The creative energy that called the worlds into existence is in the word of God. The word imparts power; it begets life. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 20. In every command and in every promise of the Word of God is the power, the very life of God, by which the command may be fulfilled and the promise realized. He who by faith receives the Word is receiving the very life and character of God. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 21. Come to the water of life, and drink. Do not stay away and complain of thirst. The water of life is free to all. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 22. Every promise in God's Word is ours. . . . When assailed by temptation, look not to circumstances or to the weakness of self, but to the power of the Word. All its strength is yours. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 23. As you come to Him, believe that He accepts you, because He has promised. You can never perish while you do this--never. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 23. Every spire of grass, every opening bud and blooming flower, is a token of God's love, and should teach us a lesson of faith and trust in Him. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 25. Since the book of nature and the book of revelation bear the impress of the same master mind, they cannot but speak in harmony. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 27. The hand that sustains the worlds in space, the hand that holds in their orderly arrangement and tireless activity all things throughout the universe of God, is the hand that was nailed to the cross for us. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 28. We are His by creation, and doubly His by redemption. We derive our life from Him. He is the Creator and the Source of all life. He is the Author of the higher life which He desires the beings formed in His image to have. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 30. And since the Sabbath is a memorial of the work of creation, it is a token of the love and power of Christ. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 32. Parents love their children, but the love of God is larger, broader, deeper, than human love can possibly be. It is immeasurable. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 38. It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 38. Jesus, as a personal Saviour, came to the world. As a personal Saviour He ascended on high. As a personal Saviour He intercedes in the heavenly courts. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 40. Above the distractions of the earth He sits enthroned; all things are open to His divine survey; and from His great and calm eternity He orders that which His providence sees best. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 42. Love is the principle that underlies God's government in heaven and on earth, and this love must be interwoven in the life of the Christian. . . . The heart that is influenced by this holy principle will be carried above everything of a selfish nature. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 43. When we seek for appropriate language in which to describe the love of God, we find words too tame, too weak, too far beneath the theme, and we lay down our pen and say, "No, it cannot be described." . . . This love is past all language to describe. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 43. You may study that love for ages; yet you can never fully comprehend the length and the breadth, the depth and the height, of the love of God in giving His Son to die for the world. Eternity itself can never fully reveal it. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 43. God has adopted human nature in the person of His Son, and has carried the same into the highest heaven. . . . Heaven is enshrined in humanity, and humanity is enfolded in the bosom of Infinite Love. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 45. The Holy Spirit imparts love, joy, peace, strength, and consolation; it is as a well of water springing up unto everlasting life. The blessing is free to all. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 53. We need to know of an almighty arm that will hold us up, of an infinite Friend that pities us. We need to clasp a hand that is warm, to trust in a heart full of tenderness. And even so God has in His Word revealed Himself. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 54. Circumstances may separate us from every earthly friend; but no circumstance, no distance, can separate us from the heavenly Comforter. Wherever we are, wherever we may go, He is always at our right hand to support, sustain, uphold, and cheer. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 56. Temptation once resisted will give power to more firmly resist the second time; every new victory gained over self will smooth the way for higher and nobler triumphs. Every victory is a seed sown to eternal life. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 58. The love and suffering and death of the Son of God all testify to the terrible enormity of sin, and declare that there is no escape from its power, no hope of the higher life, but through the submission of the soul to Christ. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 60. Never feel that Christ is far away. He is always near. His loving presence surrounds you. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 62. Have confidence in Him as a prayer-hearing, prayer-answering God. He will reveal Himself to you as One who can help in every emergency. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 63. Jesus is our friend; all heaven is interested in our welfare; and our anxiety and fear grieve the Holy Spirit of God. . . . We may find rest and peace in God. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 63. 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 Faith I Live By, p. 64. Sin is an intruder, for whose presence no reason can be given. It is mysterious, unaccountable; to excuse it, is to defend it. Could excuse for it be found, or cause shown for its existence, it would cease to be sin. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 66. The infinite value of the sacrifice required for our redemption reveals the fact that sin is a tremendous evil. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 70. So surely as there never was a time when God was not, so surely there never was a moment when it was not the delight of the eternal mind to manifest His grace to humanity. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 76. The warfare against self is the greatest battle that was ever fought. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 87. His grace is sufficient to subdue sin. . . . His strength will help your weakness; He will lead you step by step. Place your hand in His, and let Him guide you. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 87. Faith is trusting in God--believing that He loves us, and knows what is for our best good. Thus, instead of our own way, it leads us to choose His way. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 90. In its great need the soul cries out for a power out of and above itself; and through the operation of the Holy Spirit the nobler powers of the mind are imbued with strength to break away from the bondage of sin. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 91. Grace is an attribute of God exercised toward undeserving human beings. We did not seek for it, but it was sent in search of us. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 94. Divine grace is the great element of saving power; without it all human effort is unavailing. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 94. Our precious Saviour has invited us to join ourselves to Him and unite our weakness with His strength, our ignorance with His wisdom, our unworthiness with His merit. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 96. The blood of Christ is the eternal antidote for sin. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 97. Men hate the sinner, while they love the sin. Christ hates the sin, but loves the sinner. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 98. Sin, so hateful to His sight, was heaped upon Him till He groaned beneath its weight. The despairing agony of the Son of God was so much greater than His physical pain, that the latter was hardly felt by Him. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 104. The heaviest burden that we bear is the burden of sin. . . . He will take the load from our weary shoulders. He will give us rest. The burden of care and sorrow also He will bear. He invites us to cast all our care upon Him; for He carries us upon His heart. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 105. Not by painful struggles or wearisome toil, not by gift or sacrifice, is righteousness obtained; but it is freely given to every soul who hungers and thirsts to receive it. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 109. What is justification by faith? It is the work of God in laying the glory of man in the dust, and doing for man that which it is not in his power to do for himself. When men see their own nothingness, they are prepared to be clothed with the righteousness of Christ. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 111. When we submit ourselves to Christ, the heart is united with His heart, the will is merged in His will, the mind becomes one with His mind, the thoughts are brought into captivity to Him; we live His life. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 113. Sanctification is not the work of a moment, an hour, a day, but of a lifetime. It is not gained by a happy flight of feeling, but is the result of constantly dying to sin, and constantly living for Christ. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 116. We shall often have to bow down and weep at the feet of Jesus because of our shortcomings and mistakes; but we are not to be discouraged. Even if we are overcome by the enemy, we are not cast off, not forsaken and rejected of God. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 118. All sin . . . may be overcome by the Holy Spirit's power. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 118. To love God supremely and our neighbor as ourselves is genuine sanctification. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 120. God invites us to prove for ourselves the reality of His Word, the truth of His promises. . . . His promises will be fulfilled. They have never failed; they never can fail. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 123. Our growth in grace, our joy, our usefulness--all depend upon our union with Christ. It is by communion with Him, daily, hourly--by abiding in Him--that we are to grow in grace. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 125. You are to give all--your heart, your will, your service--give yourself to Him to obey all His requirements; and you must take all--Christ, the fullness of all blessing, to abide in your heart, to be your strength, your righteousness, your everlasting helper --to give you power to obey. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 125. Jesus does not call on us to follow Him, and then forsake us. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 126. The strength of those who, in faith, love and serve God, will be renewed day by day. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 126. God's forgiveness is not merely a judicial act by which He sets us free from condemnation. It is not only forgiveness for sin but reclaiming from sin. It is the outflow of redeeming love that transforms the heart. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 129. What greater joy could come to the sinner saved by the grace of Christ than to look upon the face of God and know Him as Father? -- The Faith I Live By, p. 130. In God's forgiveness the heart of the erring one is drawn close to the great heart of Infinite Love. The tide of divine compassion flows into the sinner's soul, and from him to the souls of others. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 131. In sorrow and affliction, when the outlook seems dark and the future perplexing, and we feel helpless and alone--these are the times when, in answer to the prayer of faith, the Holy Spirit brings comfort to the heart. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 141. The hour and place of prayer are sacred, because God is there. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 188. There is power in that prayer that is sent up from a heart convinced of its own weakness, yet earnestly longing for that strength that comes of God. The earnest, fervent prayer will be heard and answered. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 224. Whatever Christ asks us to renounce, He offers in its stead something better. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 237. True love is a high and holy principle, altogether different in character from that love which is awakened by impulse, and which suddenly dies when severely tested. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 277. God loves His children with infinite love. To Him the dearest object on earth is His church. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 281. Your duty cannot be shifted upon another. No one but yourself can do your work. If you withhold your light, someone must be left in darkness through your neglect. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 290. The Lord has a place for everyone in His great plan. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 290. In His Word, God has committed to men the knowledge necessary for salvation. The Holy Scriptures are to be accepted as an authoritative, infallible revelation of His will. They are the standard of character, the revealer of doctrines, and the test of experience. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 293. The only greatness is the greatness of humility. The only distinction is found in devotion to the service of others. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 297. Although there are evils existing in the church, and will be until the end of the world, the church in these last days is to be the light of the world that is polluted and demoralized by sin. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 305. We are standing upon the threshold of great and solemn events. Prophecies are fulfilling. Strange, eventful history is being recorded in the books of heaven. Everything in our world is in agitation. . . . Only a moment of time, as it were, yet remains. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 307. Long has God waited for the spirit of service to take possession of the whole church, so that every one shall be working for Him according to his ability. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 308. The closer we are to God, the safer we are, for Satan hates and fears the presence of God. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 312. The Lord permits His people to be subjected to the fiery ordeal of temptation, not because He takes pleasure in their distress and affliction, but because this process is essential to their final victory. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 317. You need not be surprised if with the hammer and the chisel of trial God cuts away your defects of character. He alone can accomplish this work. And be assured that He will not strike one useless blow. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 317. Neglect of prayer leads men to rely on their own strength, and opens the door to temptation. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 320. Before the final visitation of God's judgments upon the earth, there will be, among the people of the Lord, such a revival of primitive godliness as has not been witnessed since apostolic times. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 326. The tempter has no power to control the will or to force the soul to sin. He may distress, but he cannot contaminate. He can cause agony, but not defilement. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 327. We should study the Bible with humility of heart, never losing sight of our dependence upon God. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 331. Divine grace is needed at the beginning, divine grace at every step of advance, and divine grace alone can complete the work. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 334. Our only safety is in constant distrust of self, and dependence on Christ. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 336. The cross of Christ will be the science and the song of the redeemed through all eternity. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 361. Christ withheld no truths essential to our salvation. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 366. Heaven is a ceaseless approaching to God through Christ. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 367. As we walk with Jesus in this life, we may be filled with His love, satisfied with His presence. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 367. From the minutest atom to the greatest world, all things, animate and inanimate, in their unshadowed beauty and perfect joy, declare that God is love. -- The Faith I Live By, p. 371. |