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But like the stars in the vast circuit of their appointed path, God's purposes know no haste and no delay. -- Maranatha, p. 9. None but Christ can fashion anew the character that has been ruined by sin. -- Maranatha, p. 9. If you lose heaven, you lose everything; if you gain heaven, you gain everything. -- Maranatha, p. 13. God has not forsaken His people, and our strength lies in not forsaking Him. -- Maranatha, p. 25. Not one who is abiding in Christ will fail or fall. -- Maranatha, p. 28. In our life here, earthly, sin-restricted though it is, the greatest joy and the highest education are in service. And in the future state, untrammeled by the limitations of sinful humanity, it is in service that our greatest joy and our highest education will be found. -- Maranatha, p. 29. Every day you should learn something new from the Scriptures. Search them as for hid treasures, for they contain the words of eternal life. Pray for wisdom and understanding to comprehend these holy writings. -- Maranatha, p. 44. It should be remembered that the promises and threatenings of God are alike conditional. -- Maranatha, p. 61. Secular knowledge is power; but the knowledge of the Word, which has a transforming influence upon the human mind, is imperishable. -- Maranatha, p. 63. It is only through Christ that Satan's power is limited. This is a momentous truth that all should understand. . . . But the earnest prayer of faith will baffle his strongest efforts. -- Maranatha, p. 64. In the darkest hours, under circumstances the most forbidding, the Christian believer may keep his soul stayed upon the source of all light and power. Day by day, through faith in God, his hope and courage may be renewed. -- Maranatha, p. 66. There is a remedy for the sin-sick soul. That remedy is in Jesus. Precious Saviour! His grace is sufficient for the weakest; and the strongest must also have His grace or perish. -- Maranatha, p. 69. All that can satisfy the needs and longings of the human soul, for this world and for the world to come, is found in Christ. -- Maranatha, p. 72. We cannot earn salvation, but we are to seek for it with as much interest and perseverance as though we would abandon everything in the world for it. -- Maranatha, p. 72. We must depend wholly upon Christ for our strength. Self must die. We must acknowledge that all we have is from the exceeding riches of divine grace. -- Maranatha, p. 73. All the paternal love which has come down from generation to generation through the channel of human hearts, all the springs of tenderness which have opened in the souls of men, are but as a tiny rill to the boundless ocean when compared with the infinite, exhaustless love of God. -- Maranatha, p. 77. You may meditate upon it every day of your life; you may search the Scriptures diligently in order to understand it; you may summon every power and capability that God has given you, in the endeavor to comprehend the love and compassion of the heavenly Father; and yet there is an infinity beyond. -- Maranatha, p. 77. Christ came to reveal God to the world as a God of love, full of mercy, tenderness, and compassion. -- Maranatha, p. 77. Prayer is the breath of the soul, the channel of all blessings. -- Maranatha, p. 85. Prayer unites us one to another and to God. Prayer brings Jesus to our side, and gives new strength and fresh grace to the fainting, perplexed soul. -- Maranatha, p. 85. The gift is in the promise, and we may go about our work assured that what God has promised He is able to perform, and that the gift, which we already possess, will be realized when we need it most. -- Maranatha, p. 87. Sanctification is not the work of a moment, an hour, or a day. It is a continual growth in grace. -- Maranatha, p. 89. If it were possible for us to be admitted into heaven as we are, how many of us would be able to look upon God? -- Maranatha, p. 98. Love is the basis of godliness. Whatever the profession, no man has pure love to God unless he has unselfish love for his brother. -- Maranatha, p. 101. Christ came to demolish every wall of partition, to throw open every compartment of the temple, that every soul may have free access to God. His love is so broad, so deep, so full, that it penetrates everywhere. -- Maranatha, p. 101. All over the world men and women are looking wistfully to heaven. Prayers and tears and inquiries go up from souls longing for light, for grace, for the Holy Spirit. Many are on the verge of the kingdom, waiting only to be gathered in. -- Maranatha, p. 103. Oh, Christ is able, Christ is willing, Christ is longing, to save all who will come unto Him! -- Maranatha, p. 105. The darkness which is covering the earth is deepening, but those who walk humbly with God have nothing to fear. -- Maranatha, p. 107. Christ is waiting with longing desire for the manifestation of Himself in His church. When the character of the Saviour shall be perfectly reproduced in His people, then He will come to claim His own. It is the privilege of every Christian, not only to look for, but to hasten, the coming of our Lord. -- Maranatha, p. 112. Transformation of character is to be the testimony to the world of the indwelling love of Christ. -- Maranatha, p. 114. When the grace of God reigns within, the soul will be surrounded with an atmosphere of faith and courage and Christlike love, an atmosphere invigorating to the spiritual life of all who inhale it. -- Maranatha, p. 114. God gives us opportunity to impart grace, that He may refill us with increased grace. -- Maranatha, p. 114. We must behold God, and in beholding Him lose sight of self. -- Maranatha, p. 116. Not all can make large offerings, not all can do great works, magnificent deeds; but all can practice self-denial, all can reveal the unselfishness of the Saviour. -- Maranatha, p. 124. Christ's self-sacrificing love is revealed upon the cross. That man might be saved, He gave all that He had and then gave Himself. The cross of Christ appeals to the benevolence of every follower of the blessed Saviour. -- Maranatha, p. 124. We must individually hear Him speaking to the heart. When every other voice is hushed, and in quietness we wait before Him, the silence of the soul makes more distinct the voice of God. -- Maranatha, p. 125. We must labor, not in our own strength, but in the strength of our risen Lord. -- Maranatha, p. 127. There is nothing that the world needs so much as the manifestation through humanity of the Saviour's love. All heaven is waiting for men and women through whom God can reveal the power of Christianity. -- Maranatha, p. 128. God has not forsaken His people, and our strength lies in not forsaking Him. -- Maranatha, p. 174. Coldness and contempt may be harder to endure than martyrdom. -- Maranatha, p. 197. The Lord is coming. We hear the footsteps of an approaching God. -- Maranatha, p. 220. A character formed according to the divine likeness is the only treasure that we can take from this world to the next. -- Maranatha, p. 223. Strength of character consists of two things--power of will and power of self-control. -- Maranatha, p. 223. 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. This is what it means to be clothed with the garment of His righteousness. -- Maranatha, p. 225. Through the plan of redemption, God has provided means for subduing every sinful trait, and resisting every temptation, however strong. -- Maranatha, p. 225. The strongest temptation is no excuse for sin. However great the pressure brought to bear upon the soul, transgression is our own act. It is not in the power of earth or hell to compel any one to sin. -- Maranatha, p. 225. If you make God your strength, you may, under the most discouraging circumstances, attain a height and breadth of Christian perfection which you hardly think it possible to reach. -- Maranatha, p. 226. We shall often have to bow down to weep at the feet of Jesus, because of our shortcomings and mistakes; but we are not to be discouraged; we are to pray more fervently, believe more fully, and try again with more steadfastness to grow into the likeness of our Lord. -- Maranatha, p. 227. Those who live nearest to Jesus discern most clearly the frailty and sinfulness of humanity, and their only hope is in the merit of a crucified and risen Saviour. -- Maranatha, p. 235. Our only safety is in constant distrust of self, and dependence on Christ. -- Maranatha, p. 236. The message of the renewing power of God's grace will be carried to every country and clime, until the truth shall belt the world. -- Maranatha, p. 261. I want honor that is lasting, honor that is immortal, honor that will never perish; a crown that is richer than any crown that ever decked the brow of a monarch. -- Maranatha, p. 309. By giving His life for the life of men, He would restore in humanity the image of God. He would lift us up from the dust, reshape the character after the pattern of His own character, and make it beautiful with His own glory. -- Maranatha, p. 316. 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? -- Maranatha, p. 316. In the future life the mysteries that here have annoyed and disappointed us will be made plain. We shall see that our seemingly unanswered prayers and disappointed hopes have been among our greatest blessings. -- Maranatha, p. 321. If we were defective in character, we could not pass the gates that mercy has opened to the obedient; for justice stands at the entrance, and demands holiness in all who would see God. -- Maranatha, p. 326. What is done through the cooperation of men with God is a work that shall never perish, but endure through the eternal ages. -- Maranatha, p. 330. In this life our work for God often seems to be almost fruitless. Our efforts to do good may be earnest and persevering, yet we may not be permitted to witness their results. To us the effort may seem to be lost. But the Saviour assures us that our work is noted in heaven, and that the recompense cannot fail. -- Maranatha, p. 359. Every impulse of the Holy Spirit leading men to goodness and to God is noted in the books of heaven, and in the day of God everyone who has given himself as an instrument for the Holy Spirit's working will be permitted to behold what his life has wrought. -- Maranatha, p. 359. There (heaven) the grandest enterprises may be carried forward, the loftiest aspirations reached, the highest ambitions realized; and still there will arise new heights to surmount, new wonders to admire, new truths to comprehend, fresh objects to call forth the powers of mind and soul and body. -- Maranatha, p. 360. Language is altogether too feeble to attempt a description of heaven. . . . The most exalted language fails to describe the glory of heaven or the matchless depths of a Saviour's love. -- Maranatha, p. 361. And the tokens of His humiliation are His highest honor; through the eternal ages the wounds of Calvary will show forth His praise and declare His power. -- Maranatha, p. 362. The cross of Christ will be the science and the song of the redeemed through all eternity. . . . That the Maker of all worlds, the Arbiter of all destinies, should lay aside His glory and humiliate Himself from love to man will ever excite the wonder and adoration of the universe. -- Maranatha, p. 362. Since God is infinite, and in Him are all the treasures of wisdom, we may to all eternity be ever searching, ever learning, yet never exhaust the riches of His wisdom, His goodness, or His power. -- Maranatha, p. 365. With our finite comprehension we may consider most earnestly the shame and the glory, the life and the death, the justice and the mercy, that meet in the cross; yet with the utmost stretch of our mental powers we fail to grasp its full significance. -- Maranatha, p. 366. So long as the heavens and the earth endure, the Sabbath will continue as a sign of the Creator's power. -- Maranatha, p. 371. And the years of eternity, as they roll, will bring richer and still more glorious revelations of God and of Christ. As knowledge is progressive, so will love, reverence, and happiness increase. The more men learn of God, the greater will be their admiration of His character. -- Maranatha, p. 373. From Him who created all, flow life and light and gladness, throughout the realms of illimitable space. 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. -- Maranatha, p. 373. |